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- From: smb@cs.nott.ac.uk (Simon Burrows)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: RISC OS 3 Impression...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.104236.21893@cs.nott.ac.uk>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 10:42:36 GMT
- References: <BxJsy9.5M0@cen.ex.ac.uk> <1992Nov11.170447.29002@news2.cis.umn.edu> <BxLL5H.724@cen.ex.ac.uk>
- Organization: Nottingham University
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- In article <BxLL5H.724@cen.ex.ac.uk> CDLatham@cen.ex.ac.uk (C.D.Latham) writes:
- >
- >That was the impression (sorry) that I got. There is a need for
- >better scientific publishing software for the Arc and this is one area
- >that the man from CC wished to address.
-
- Have you seen Techwriter from Icon Technology? It is *very* good, but quite
- expensive relative to most Arc software.
-
- >On a related topic, I also tackled the Minerva team, including their
- >managing director, about Graphbox and Graphbox-pro which have very
- >poor support for people wishing to produce technical documents. They
- >expressed a hope that something could be done in future releases but,
- >sadly, I left feeling unconvinced.
-
- I have heard people complaining in the past (I have no experience myself)
- that general support from this company is rather poor. Hopefully I am wrong
- and somebody will post with details of the superb support which they have
- received.
-
- >Arc software is second to none when it comes to almost all aspects of
- >producing publication quality documents except for scientific and
- >technical work where there is a huge deficiency.
-
- See comments above. Techwriter is a very capable package, and for people
- who do not need a page designer, but who are interested in writing letters,
- technical and scientific documents, Techwriter is much more likely to
- satisfy your needs than Impression II.
-
- Simon
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- Simon Burrows smb@cs.nott.ac.uk psyhsmb@unicorn.nott.ac.uk +44 533 712030
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