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Conference galvia::decwrite

Title:You can't go wrong with DECwrite
Moderator:GALVIA::HOGAN
Created:Mon Oct 22 1990
Last Modified:Tue Apr 15 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5487
Total number of notes:25317

5482.0. "Product Requirements" by TEAMLK::hottub.zko.dec.com::teamlk.zko.dec.com::BRAUN () Thu Jan 02 1997 21:24

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5482.1Win32 -- YES!LGP30::FLEISCHERwithout vision the people perish (DTN 381-0426 ZKO1-1)Wed Jan 08 1997 19:2816
5482.2How about Word PerfectBOSMCH::HALPERNTue Jan 14 1997 14:226
5482.3html, pdfATZIS3::50008::BACHNERMouse not found. Click OK to continueWed Jan 15 1997 18:4710
5482.4ruler in titlesH2SO4::GERSBACHEdwin Gersbach MCS SwitzerlandThu Jan 16 1997 08:341
5482.5Couple of wish list itemsASDG::KGOULDKen GouldFri Jan 31 1997 18:0913
I will second the Win32 porting and the HTML converters.

Update the open file, save file and print menus to the standard Windows
interfaces including allowing you to connect to network drives, and change the
printer without setting it as default printer in the print manager.

Add support for importing and exporting GIF and JPG files for graphics.

I am very glad to see that DECWrite is not totally dead.

Add a flowchart/org chart type editor that will make connecting things with
arrows etc. easy.
5482.6KANATA::TOMKINSThu Feb 06 1997 02:2817
    I want all the outstanding bugs fixed.
    I want the product to cease it's inflexible approach to printing, thus
    not requiring a PostScript printer to work.
    I do not want any more fonts with the product. It should only use the
    fonts available on the system, no specialty stuff.
    I want more intuitive interface for creating and modifying Styles.
    When I make changes to options, I want it to remember those changes,
    why should I have to tell it?
    
    I want it to exist on no more than 3 Floppy Disks and I want it to be
    shipped, as a special, with every PC shipping from Kanata for the next
    year as a freebie, with an included offer of an upgrade to the next
    major version for $35.00 USD. This last requirement will ensure secure
    funding for the continued maintenance and development of the product.
    
    Regards, Richard Tomkins, who made this same suggestion so long ago and
    still think the Product Management for DECwrite were all dunces.
5482.7AUSS::GARSONDECcharity Program OfficeTue Apr 15 1997 07:2912
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>Digital is close to entering into an agreement with a 3rd party that will
>take over DECwrite engineering.
    
    What's the status on this?
    
    Does that mean that we have sold/will sell the product or just have
    out-sourced/will out-source in some way the engineering?
    
    The reason that I am asking is that I had a customer ask why he could
    not order DECwrite any more. (I haven't verified that this is the case.)