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- From: soft-logik@cup.portal.com (Kevin W Davidson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Pagestream Documentation Woes...
- Message-ID: <64125@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Sun, 16 Aug 92 11:04:33 PDT
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <1992Aug15.172827.23370@sarah.albany.edu>
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- >Well,
- >
- >I finally did it, I went out and bought PageStream 2.2HL. I've been following
- >the debates over which is better, ProPage and PageStream, so when I got it
- >yesterday I was amazed to see that PageStream's documentation was so small!
- >Compared to MS-DOS, Mac, Unix and NeXT DTP applications, the documentation
- >which came with PageStream is tiny. I use ventura for DOS at work and the
- >documentation for that program has to be twice if not three times the size of
- >PageStream's. Admittedly, Pagestream is a much better program than Ventura,
- >and it doesn't have the Billion different video configurations that MS-DOS
- >machines have, but this is silly. The main manual has pictures of PageStream
- >2.0, and there's only a 19 page Addendum to describe the differences between
- >v2.0 and v2.2. Needless to say, I'm a bit disappointed Soft-Logik, the progra
- m
- >is a very polished piece of software which deserves a better manual.
- >
- >Don't take this poorly S-L, I just think that you coulda made it a little
- >bigger, with a few more examples, tutorials or even some clip-art...
- >
- >Anybody have anything to say about the ProPage v3 manual??? I'm interest in
- >seeing if all REAL Amiga application's manuals are not up to the caliber the
- >actual programs are (except maybe DPaint which has always had a wonderful
- >manual).
- >
- >Teddy
- >
- > ////////
- > // twang@thor.albany.edu
- > // TWANG@ALBNYVMS.BITNET
- > // eddy Wang TW5232@ALBNYVMS.BITNET
- > // Computer Art and Animation at SUNY Albany
- > New Illusions Albany, NY "Increase the Peace...
- "
- >
-
- You're entitled to your opinions.
-
- To be specific, the PageStream 2.0 manual is 266 pages in length. It is heavily
- illustrated and personally, I think it's a first-rate manual (and have had
- others to say the same thing).
-
- I've used the Aldus Pagemaker manual and found could rarely find what I was
- looking for. I don't like having to thumb through 3 or 4 separate manuals
- (as the case with much PC software). So I think that the PageStream manual
- has quality and some others quantity.
-
- As for turorials, you will find that the PageStream explains how to do the
- various functions in a step-by-step turorial style.
-
- Finally, I like it that the PageStream manual explains how to do things in
- an orderly fashion (Working with text, working with Graphics, Page Layout...)
- rather than just taking you through a tour of the menus.
-
- PS. The Deluxe Paint IV manual has 290 pages, so we're 24 short.
-
- Kevin Davidson, Asst. Moderator AmigaZone Vendor Support - PORTAL
- <soft-logik@cup.portal.com>
- SOFT-LOGIK BBS (PCP MOSLO) (314) 894-0057
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