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- From: dmeyer@tiac.net (David Meyer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Final Writer 5 Features
- Date: 13 Apr 1996 14:54:03 GMT
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- Carsten Labinsky (galdor@papa.north.de) wrote:
- :
- : While some topics of the list sound important (like tables...;), I
- : still think that FW is far from being professional... sorry. :-(
- : While I'm hardly trying to write my dissertation with FW4, I had to
- : find out that it is nearly unusable for larger texts.
-
- Please define "professional".
- FW, like most WYSIWYG WP/DTP packages, becomes a little clumsy when
- used for larger documents. Particularly when you try to edit the earlier
- part of a large document. This is somewhat true of any editor with even
- the most minimal page formating features, like word wrap or page break,
- but the WYSIWYG programs suffer more and those with a multitude of
- features suffer even more. Using Sections helps - the program sees
- multiple, shorter, virtual documents.
-
- <FW6 wish-list snipped>
-
- : I hardly doubt that FW5 will be worth the update fee (for me, of
- : course). While I still think that FW is still the best available
- : Wordprocessor for the Ami (the best of two... ;), it is not worth
- : the fantasy price of ~250,- DM (that's what I paid for FW4).
- : I really hoped that SoftWood would finally wake up and make much
- : more major improvements to FW5 (the improvements from FW1 to FW4
- : are a joke: three version numbers for minor changes, IMO).
-
- An upgrade fee of DM250? What's a DM worth these days?
- There are three types of changes from FW4 to FW5. Some are
- roll-backs to an FW3-style implimentation. Some are the sort of tweaks
- that we saw many of in FW2-FW4. Some are major enhancements. There are at
- least as many major enhancements here as there were between FW1 and FW4.
- IMHO. And don't think for a minute that an enhancement that is not major
- is not significant. Those roll-backs most assuredly are significant.
-
- : Much of the energy and money at Softwood seem to have flown to the
- : Wind*ws-Port of FW. I really did not want *my* money to go that
- : way when I decided to *buy* your software: I wanted to support
- : one of the remaining sw-companies on the amiga and contribute
- : to the creation of professional ami-soft.
-
- You have misunderstood the situation with FW'95.
-
- : Even on the PC-Platform I would get a more functional PRG for my
- : money, e.g St*rWr*ter for OS*2.
-
- I haven't seen the program you mention. Major WPs for the PC are
- selling for well over US100 - unless bundled in much more expensive
- packages. FW costs much less. -Upgrades- cost nearly US100. You may say
- they offer more for the price. I would counter with the observation that
- most of that "more" consists of features most people would never think of
- using.
- Let's wait until May 10th before we start our FW6 wish lists. Get
- FW5 in our hands first before we start pleading for more. Woody & crew
- were pretty good about the FW5 lists posted here.
-