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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Path: sparky!uunet!portal!kdenning
- From: kdenning@portal.hq.videocart.com (Karl Denninger)
- Subject: Re: framemaker
- Message-ID: <Bu7z37.98J@portal.hq.videocart.com>
- Summary: Don't do it! Drug abuse alert! :-)
- Organization: VideOcart Inc.
- References: <Bu7oqB.2w2@gator.rn.com>
- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 17:54:43 GMT
- Lines: 32
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- In article <Bu7oqB.2w2@gator.rn.com> larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
- >is anyone playing with framemaker?
- >
- >I'm in the process of loading it off the Dell distribution
- >tape - to see how it looks and feels -- TeX is also on the tape,
- >but I'm afraid it might take all my disk space on root -- unless
- >it (Tex) like framemaker gives you the option of where to install
- >it --
-
- Having used Frame, I can say this authoritatively:
-
- DON'T DO IT! :-)
-
- You'll be quite sorry if you do. Frame is the be-all and end-all of desktop
- publishing packages IMHO. If you load it, and use the demo, you'll likely
- fall in love and insist on having it -- which will set you back roughly
- $1k. :-)
-
- I was both ecstatic and morose when I saw that Dell had included the demo on
- the 2.2 release tape. It meant that I was going to have an excellent DTP
- package on Unix, but it also meant that I was going to be $1k poorer.
-
- The demo will do everything >except< save files. Therefore, you can really
- get yourself in up to your neck with this one.
-
- I've resisted temptation so far, but it is not easy. It really is as nice
- as I remember it from the Sun environment; enough to make me give up
- Pagemaker on the PC or MAC.
-
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