Re: Quick Comparison of Ventura & Framemaker

[Rick Kirkham <rkirkham -at- seagullscientific -dot- com>]

Your comparison of Ventura and Framemaker is inaccurate in at least some
ways. Below I've deleted from your list the items whose accuracy I don't
know. The ones that remain are those I know are wrong. Framemaker DOES have
the feature your table says it does not have. (And its had it going back
several versions.)

Subject: Quick Comparison of Ventura & Framemaker
From: priest -at- sfu -dot- ca
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 10:15:23
X-Message-Number: 86

I'm appalled by the misinformation that's been published in this list.  I 
hope the following corrects it.  It is sourced from 
http://www.coreluser.com/html/vent_table.html 
  
                                   VENTURA 8         FRAMEMAKER 5.5

Fills (solid, patterns and...      gradients,PS,     none
                                   bitmap, vector,
                                   fractal generated

TEXT EDITING/FORMATTING:
Justification (l/r/c/full plus..   decimal, final    none
                                   line control
Copy attrs between paras           through tags      through clipboard
["THROUGH TAGS" APPLIES TO FRAMEMAKER TOO.]

Rotate paragraphs                  yes               no

TYPOGRAPHIC CONTROL:
Text fills                         fills as above    solid only

GRAPHIC HANDLING:
Adjust image resolution indiv.     yes               no
Lock objects                       yes               no
Attach graphics above/below text   through anchored  yes
                                   frame?    

TABLES:
Fill                               as above          limited

UI:
Zoom                               2-1250%           25-400%
[I'VE ZOOMED TO 1600% A FEW TIMES IN FRAMEMAKER.]

Library (exchange styles, gfx      yes               no
 between docs)     


Hint: Windows has very poor memory management, and Ventura is sensitive to 
it. You may need to tweak your system to get it to be stable.  The 
newsgroup will help.  You also need good video drivers and plenty of 
memory.  Recent patches (the demos seem to have them already applied) have 
greatly reduced the problems mentioned in reviews.

[THIS ALL SOUNDS PRETTY OMINOUS. BY THE WAY, WINDOW HASN'T HAD "POOR" MEMORY
MANAGEMENT SINCE WINDOWS 3.1.]

Ignore the crashprone commentary; the service packs fix many of the 
problems, and patching windows helps a lot, too.

[ANOTHER CONFIDENCE BUILDER!]