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- Path: netcom.com!rknop
- From: rknop@netcom.com (Robert Knop)
- Subject: PageStream 3.0i does bad math
- Message-ID: <rknopDowyo2.MFI@netcom.com>
- Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
- Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 06:43:14 GMT
- Sender: rknop@netcom12.netcom.com
-
- I don't know why I continue to try -- PageStream 3, despite its power, has
- been more of a continual headache than any computer program ought to be.
- Talk about giving the Amiga a name for kludginess! Not only is the program
- still vaporware 2 years after it's released, but it will never work in a
- pinch when you need it.
-
- Mistake: I upgraded to 3.0i. Should have stayed behind. A file which used
- to work, still works just fine in PageStream 3. But when it writes
- PostScript: it tries to take an illegal atan. No printer will print this
- damn postscript file. Previewing it with Post, it draws the whole thing,
- but then dies at the end on the atan. Same problem in GhostView on a Unix
- machine ("Unrecoverable Error 1.") In short, I'm hosed.
-
- It's a perfectly simple drawing-- four ovals filled with various patterns,
- ten or so lines, and five or six frameless text objects. And I need it for
- a paper that I'm submitting _right_now_, not to mention a job talk I have to
- give momentarily. I'd drawn it in PageStream, and now I'm regretting that,
- because to get the damn thing to print out I will have to re-install
- PageStream from scratch and work my way up to version 3.0h.
-
- On the whole, I think it's easier to start the figure over in another
- program.
-
- -Rob Knop
-
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- -Rob Knop (rknop@netcom.com) http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~rknop/
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