| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 888.1 | | NRMACU::BAILEY | | Wed Jun 06 1990 06:17 | 5 |
| I would also appreciate recommendations for commercial word-processing
programs - I'm still using my elderly BBC Micro for all my correspondence as
I haven't found a suitable program for the ST yet.
Chris.
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| 888.2 | | SMURF::COUTU | He who will not risk, cannot win. | Wed Jun 06 1990 11:24 | 4 |
| Are you interested in Desktop Publishing programs as well or only
word processors?
Dan
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| 888.3 | Word processors | MPGS::RADOFF | | Wed Jun 06 1990 14:07 | 3 |
| Word processors...
Steve
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| 888.4 | my votes... | CSC32::B_NOTTINGHAM | Bill Nottingham, DECNET-VAX Customer Support | Wed Jun 06 1990 19:51 | 4 |
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I would recommend the following:
public domain......STWRITER Elite
Commercial.........Word Up V3.0
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| 888.5 | | NRMACU::BAILEY | | Thu Jun 07 1990 05:44 | 8 |
| I'm also interested only in word processors - I need to produce letters,
reports, etc. which are text only. However, recommendations for DTP packages
would be interesting.
Could we have a brief review of the packages recommended - I've never even
heard of Word Up!
Chris.
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| 888.6 | DTPs and WPs | BAGELS::FELDMAN | Jerry Feldman DTN 227-3279 | Thu Jun 07 1990 12:57 | 22 |
| I am certainly not an expert on DTP packages, but I have at home
(actually the BCS owns) Timeworks Publisher, Pagestream, Calamus, and
Fleet Street Publisher. I have not used Fleet Street at all. Timeworks
is the only other one that works well on a color monitor, and we use it
to produce out newsletters. It is professional and easy to use.
Pagestream does work on a color monitor, but is hard to read the text.
It does a good job. The BCS Amiga group newsletter uses Pagestream on
the Amiga, and Mary Ryan, the editor likes it. Calamus requires a
monochrome monitor. It is very professional, and uses vector fonts
which means it's output is similar to PostScript output.
For a WP package, I would recommend ST Elite for a PD WP. I use
Timeworks' Word Writer ST. It is relatively inexpensive (Under $50
retail). Most of the DTP packages use WWST binary files directly which
is a plus. On the professional side, Word Perfect is available for the
ST, but is difficult to use.
If you live in Eastern Mass, the BCS Atari group is having a Beginners
Clinic for the July meeting. We will probably have most of the products
at the meeting.
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| 888.7 | now I use decwrite at work for letters | NORGE::CHAD | Ich glaube Ich t�te Ich h�tte | Fri Jun 08 1990 13:12 | 5 |
| I use(d) word perfect on the ST. I don;t think it was that difficult to use.
DEC employees can/could get it for abour $99. Call WordPerfect Corp in
Orem URT to see if tey are still doing it. It really is a pro program
Chad
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| 888.8 | DEC discount? Any others? | AISG::MISKINIS | | Sat Jun 09 1990 15:10 | 9 |
| WOW, I knew 'students' could get it for $99, but I didn't know DEC
people recieved a discount as well...
I've seen it selling for $295 on the shelf!
Does anyone out there know of any other DEC discounts for atari
hardware/software?
_John_
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| 888.9 | STformat | OPG::CHRIS | Capacity! What Capacity ? | Mon Jun 11 1990 09:06 | 4 |
| If you can get back issues of STformat magazine, some PD DTP and Text
word processors have been made available.
Chris
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