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Subject:Re: Recomendations for dtp software for windoze From:Richard Dimock <red -at- ELSEGUNDOCA -dot- ATTGIS -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 29 Jun 1995 11:22:41 PDT
D,
The text editor in Ventura is basic, and can be used. But any WP pgm
is far easier to use.
I used Ventura 3 years ago on a large tech manual. I found it was
far easier to write in a WP pgm than to create text within Ventura.
Ventura is (at that time anyway) set up to import text from most WP
sw, and then do the dtp thing with the imported text.
This was fine for the first draft to review, but then changing the
text usually required bouncing back out to the WP and then re-importing
the new text, and massaging the dtp again.
******
Then there's Interleaf for PCs. That may be the way for you to go.
You already know Ileaf/UNIX, so the transition is probably easy.
I know not the price, nor the features, but the Ileaf people would
be **HAPPY** to give details. As would many techwrlers.
Dick Dimock, Artfully Senior Information Somethingorother
AT&T Global Information Solutions
El Segundo, CA Overlooking the very, very secure L.A. Airport.
Fly? ME? I'll wait a bit.
