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Re: Word 5 Wishes - Word SUX!

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From: John Wilkins
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 1991 23:05
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jmp@frame.UUCP (Jeff Papineau) writes:

>In reply to your question, the most elegant way to put landscape and portrait
>pages in the same document is to use FrameMaker. 
>FrameMaker is a technical publishing program that will replace PageMaker, 
>Microsoft Word, and MacDraw, for much less than the combined costs of all 
>three of those "wimpy" programs. It's intuitive, and full featured, and 
>you can bet it is a product designed by its users, so it has a true future.

>FRAMEMAKER will be the CORPORATE STANDARD of the WORLD. Just ask ADOBE.

>For real Power Users, there is simply no other choice. Forget Ventura, 
>and the other long document solutions. 
>No other pacage offers so much, and is as easy to learn and use:

>Page layout within an authoring system, full Postscript functionality, 
>Math editor, Hyper-Text, and many other features. 
>And in the new version coming April '91, Tables, and Conditional Text.

>IMAGINE: One document master for several differing versions of the same
>document. Tailor each document for the audience, verbosity, platform, etc.
>More power than most mortals will ever need. 

>GET A CLUE. Buy FrameMaker.
>MICROSOFT and CLARIS stay in business, and lead the market, because people
>use what they have heard of, not what is best for the job at hand.

>FINALLY, the best thing about this program is that Unix/SUN, DEC, and Mac, 
>and soon Windows 3.0 will have one interchange format: MIF. 
>Maker Interchange Format. Share formated text and graphics across all 
>platforms known to mankind. True platform independance.

>The future is here, and it's name is FRAMEMAKER.
>For ordering info call:

>Frame Technology,
>San Jose, CA.

If this isn't an ad, I'll eat my FoxBase manuals. While it may be what
the poster says (and I believe it is), can we have a disclaimer as to
the relationship of this guy to Frame?

-- 
John Wilkins, Manager, Publishing & Advertising, Monash University
Melbourne, Australia - Internet: john@publications.ccc.monash.edu.au
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From: typ125m@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (John Wilkins)
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Subject: Re: Word 5 Wishes - Word SUX!
Message-ID: <1991Jan17.230535.4356@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
Date: 17 Jan 91 23:05:35 GMT
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