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Article #13706Re: Final Writer 5 Features
From: Chris Robertson
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 13:37
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 13:37
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>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. Yep, can only confirm that.. I wrote a 20 page mathematical paper full of eps graphics .. editing that was just so INCREDIBLY SLOW! >7) The postscript-interpreter for EPS-GFX doesn't use contained > preview-image-info (bitmaps). Rendering takes too long even on a > 040, esp. since it is sometimes rendered unnecessarily (e.g. when > simply moving an EPS-GFX). Hmm, I spent a LOT of time messing around with EPS gfx.. And I did get the preview to work eventually. I used a prog on the Aminet (called something like EpsLab !?) to add a preview image. Rendering time was still terrible though (030/25) - At one point I had to add an 8MB full page size eps, but printing that was just so _incredibly_ slow (like, it never finished!) that I just printed that page with ghostscript instead.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.th-darmstadt.de!odb!usenet From: chris@robertson.rhein-main.de (Chris Robertson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications Subject: Re: Final Writer 5 Features Date: 15 Apr 1996 13:37:01 GMT Organization: Individual Network - Rhein-Main Message-ID: <1058.6678T1171T724@robertson.rhein-main.de> References: <woody-0904961439260001@woody.softwood.com> <xbRj0MD30Aaez3@galdor.papa.north.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: robertson.rhein-main.de X-Newsreader: THOR 2.2 (Amiga;TCP/IP)