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Re: Final Writer 5 Features

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From: Chris Robertson
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 13:39
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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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From: chris@robertson.rhein-main.de (Chris Robertson)
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Subject: Re: Final Writer 5 Features
Date: 15 Apr 1996 13:39:21 GMT
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