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- From: kthompso@acs.ucalgary.ca (Kelly Thompson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software
- Subject: Re: WordPerfect Update (NOT!): No current volume - No NeXT V6.0
- Summary: WP hunk of junk
- Keywords: WP, junk, why bother
- Message-ID: <92Jul31.160542.13493@acs.ucalgary.ca>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 16:05:42 GMT
- References: <1992Jul30.060157.4089@gore.com> <1992Jul30.060915.4165@gore.com>
- Sender: news@acs.ucalgary.ca (USENET News System)
- Organization: The University of Calgary, Alberta
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- I just had to add my two cents here. My company has just finished a 40 page brochure
- and we had to use WordPerfect. Why? Because it was the only thing that did side by
- side columns (ie not newspaper flowing type columns). I wanted to use Pages or
- PasteUp, but of course neither were available on time. I've used Frame, and just
- wasn't willing to go out and buy it now when so many better things are just on the
- horizon.
-
- And indeed, I must concur, WordPerfect is possessed. Every once in a while, the
- format of the entire document would simple vanish. The two columns would
- disappear and all formatting would be destroyed. Cute. You learn to save often
- anyway. One of the ways I was guaranteed to do this was by cutting & pasting
- from a text file.
-
- On the biggest section of the brochure (had to break it down--WP just
- couldn't cope with a 40 page doc.) which was about 16 pages long, it took almost
- 1.5 seconds for the cursor to move over 1 letter after the arrow key was hit.
- This is on an '040 with 16 megs and nothing else running.
-
- There was one other thing as well. WP treats tabs, right-aligned tabs, centered tabs,
- and decimal tabs as different beasts. There was about 30 pages of program descriptions
- and times in the doc. I told the secretary who was responsible to type them out just to put
- tabs between each of the 6 columns of information and I would do the formatting at my
- end (she was using WP 5.1 on an old PC). Anyway, when I got the document over, I had
- to replace every one of her tabs with a centered tab or decimal aligned tab. That's 30
- pages at 2 or 300 hundred tabs per page.
-
- And to top it off, I added an ad (created in Illustrator) when the text was finally
- finished. I printed it out and everything was fine. But the file will no longer
- open under any circumstances. Thank goodness I printed it out once. (I was
- supposed to get it digital form to the printer, but they're using the paper--
- really classy 8( ).
-
- May that program burn in hell for the two weeks of agony it just caused.
-
- Kelly
-