Re: Software recommendation

[Romay Jean Sitze <rositze -at- NMSU -dot- EDU>]

Kimberley, I could be mistaken entirely, but I had a different impression
about the purpose of WP Presentations.  I thought it was more of a
presentation graphics package on the lines of Microsoft's PowerPoint or
Corel's ShowTime.  If so, it would be great for putting together simple
slide shows or creating transparencies, but isn't a comprehensive desktop
publishing package.

Once again, I would suggest that as a desktop publishing program, it would
be hard to beat FrameMaker.  I don't know if filters are yet available to
move from WordPerfect directly into FrameMaker.  We didn't have it on the
system where I was working last fall.  To import WordPerfect files I had
to convert WordPerfect 6 files to WP 5.1 and then import.  This meant a
bit more fine-tuning in FrameMaker, but it worked reasonably well for most
things.

On Thu, 12 Jan 1995, Kimberley Lackey wrote:

> Technical writers,

> Can someone recommend to me a desktop publishing program that is compatable
> with WordPerfect?  Do you recommend WordPerfect Presentations?  I am sure most
> desktop publishing programs are compatable to one extent or another so I am
> interested in the dtp program that you would prefer whether it be WP
 Presentat-
> ions or some other program.

> Thank You.

> Kimberley Lackey 97372509 -at- wsuvm1



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