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From: dynasoft!john@stag.UUCP (John Stanley)

[Harry Wallace Waddell wrote in comp.sys.atari.st...]

> The best information I have from a memo on Compu$erve is that the new release,
> v1.5, is currently being duplicated and prepared for ditrubution to those of
> us who ordered upgrades.(with current defined as 1/5/89). Now its one of
> those "checks in the mail propsitions".
> 
> The real question is, is this new version "properly" debugged to the point
> where it is robust enough for real work?

  I have the PageStream update, so it is at least 'real'.

  If you accept that the 'beta' version was 5% useable and the version 1.0
release was about 30% useable (as I do) then the new version (1.5) is
about 90% useable.  It still has a few kinks in it, and you have to delete
your old pagestream .INF file and recreate the configuration information
file from scratch or it will randomly flake out on you, but after you get
that out of the way it works pretty well.

  Note that I'm not saying it's perfect.  There's still lots of room for
improvement but it is =much= more like what I expected from them over a
year ago.  (They even got rid of the dot-matrix printer bug that made
version 1.0 unuseable for FX80 output...)

  They also have a font converter to take old Publishing Partner fonts and
convert them over to PageStream font format.  Again, it isn't perfect
either, but it does the job quite well on all but three of 15 fonts I have
so I guess I'd say it does the job.

  Other questions?

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