Classic_-_Concepts@cup.portal.com (05/19/91)
> I just bought Pro Page for business correspondence. Excellent program! > There is only one problem with it: I'm amazed. My gripe and grumble list is about 8 pages long. But then if I were only using it for business correspondence, perhaps I wouldn't grumble. I am, however, using it for desktop publishing. It really saddens me that a market of such finicky folks (Amigans are finicky about many, many things--I like that--setting high standards for software, user interfaces, compatibility, etc.) are so accepting of the current state of the art of desktop publishing on Amiga computers. I still can't get enough productivity out of Pro Page to use it for my clients' jobs, and I use it on a regular basis (I've had it since it came out It still takes me 6 hours to do with Pro Page what I can accomplish (without cursing and tearing my hair out) in 2 hours with Pagemaker. Just things like sizing graphics boxes is so simple and intuitive in Pagemaker and so painful (I resort to dragging out the calculator, or doing hit-and-miss, change-and guess-and-change again) with Pro Page. Seriously folks. Am I the only one doing desktop publishing on the Amiga commercially who has used dtp software extensively on other computers? Is this a case of people not knowing what they're missing? Still baffled about this particular topic, Julie (LadyHawke)
fhwri%CONNCOLL.BITNET@yalevm.ycc.yale.edu (05/20/91)
> Seriously folks. Am I the only one doing desktop publishing on the Amiga > commercially who has used dtp software extensively on other computers? Is > this a case of people not knowing what they're missing? > > Still baffled about this particular topic, > Julie (LadyHawke) > I know whereof you speak; I personally deepsixed my ProPage files when I got ahold of Pagestream. I have seen ProPage 2.0, and it still isn't as good as Pagestream (IMHO). I have also used Pagemaker, and, yes, it IS a lot faster than either Amiga program, but then no Mac program can output outline fonts to any nonlaser printer, and I have a HP Deskjet which produces terrific results with either ProPage or Pagestream. --Rick Wrigley fhwri@conncoll.bitnet
jea@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu (Joanne Albano) (05/20/91)
Open letter to LadyHawk You are complaining about the shortcomings of ProPage relative to Pagemaker. It would be useful if you could make a summary about such shortcomings to the general public. I do not use ProPage professionally and I have no ability to try PageMaker but if it were general knowledge about what useful features exist in other software products we could all pa apply pressure to have the AMIGA software improved. I think since the AMIGA software is not well regarded in the DTP industry most potential users do not buy it and so it goes. To stop the circle a constructive comparison could be most helpful. Joanne