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- From: j_plewka@people-s.people.de (Joern Plewka)
- Subject: Re: FinalWriter for Windows 95
- Date: 09 Mar 1996 14:41:16 +0100
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- djarvis@u.washington.edu (David Jarvis) -> "FinalWriter for Windows 95"
- (03.03.1996)
- > Well it looks like Final Writer finally has True Type fonts, RTF
- > import/export, 20 different graphics formats imported, and print
- > previews. There's just one catch- all of those features are on their new
- > version for Windows '95! Oh, and the real kicker is that anyone who want
- > can get THE FULL version FOR FREE (minus the spell-checker, grammar checker,
- > and hyphenator).
- >
- > I wonder how much the next update to Final Writer will cost us Amiga
- > users who have been updating all along, obviously paying for the free FW'95?
-
- > I visited Softwood's web page (http://www.softwood.com) tonight and saw
- > all of this. I told them on e-mail that if these features weren't in the
- > FW update that Woody was talking about here, I wouldn't upgrade.
-
- > What bugs me about this is that Amiga users have been asking for the
- > graphics and import/export features all along, while we still supported
- > Softwood, recieving mostly cosmetic upgrades in return, but understanding
- > that there was only so many programmers and so much budget etc, and now
- > it looks like the dearth of programmers has been because for the last 2
- > 1/2 years they've been working on a W'95 version!
- >
- > Oh well. It remains for Woody to show us with the next FW upgrade that
- > he's developing for the Amiga like he's developing for Windows, and not
- > just throwing us make-up over an aging product.
-
- If the Win95 Version is much better than the Amiga version...they`ll run
- into trouble. Even if another company did it...it`s their name.
-
- On the other hand there will be an other usefull programm for PoC...which
- wasn`t done by gAIDS. That`s not wrong, IMHO. If it`s going to have success,
- people won`t aks for a Winword-Exel-Computer any longer. On the other hand
- they had better done a concept like stardivision...main focus to system
- independance.
-
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