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Subject:Re: Is PageMaker Growing in Popularity? -Reply From:Mitch Berg <mberg -at- IS -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 28 Apr 1997 12:06:52 -0500
Mitch Berg wrote:
>
> Bill Sullivan wrote:
>
> > OK, so what's the fav for TOCs, indexes, and suchlike? FrameMaker?
> > MS Word?
>
> For doing industrial-strength bigdox, on a scale of 1 to 10, they stack
> up as follows:
> Frame: 9
> Word: 3
> Ventura: Haven't used it for a while. But I'd call it a 7
> Interleaf: Never used it. I know those who swear by it. I'll give it
> an 8 - docking it a point because I've never used it. (Life just ain't
> fair).
I forgot to mention that these ratings are merely my opinion, and that
your mileage may vary.
Sorry. Flame not. Carry on.
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