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baumgart@esquire.dpw.com (Steve Baumgarten) writes:

>I'm interested in hearing about DesignStudio as well, especially from
>former Ready,Set,Go users.

I'm a former RSG user. The best upgrade I ever did was upgrade to PageMaker.
I can lay out an issue of OtherRealms in about 40% of the time that it took
under RSG 4.5. Pagemaker also doesn't crash and burn or corrupt data files,
and if I have a problem, Aldus will at least talk to me about it rather than
change the subject.

>LetraSet's "Bug fixes? What bug fixes?" policy has been a real
>problem; Microsoft products may have earned a reputation for being
>troublesome, but at least Excel doesn't bomb if you use the RAM cache.

My favorite RSG 4.5 bug is that if you use RSG 4.5 and Superclock (actually,
anything that goes in and puts stuff on the menubar like superclock does)
RSG will corrupt memory. This one caused me no end of problems. Letraset's
response was that the problems I was seeing weren't possible (I'm not
kidding, that was their official position). Later, after I gave up and
switched, someone else tracked it down to an interaction between RSG and
SuperClock (which I use). Letraset's official response was "don't use
menubar clocks". When told we wanted to use menubar clocks, Letraset's
response was "spend $50 on a real clock."

I switched to PageMaker instead. It works just fine in the enviroment I want
to use, rather than the environment some corporate support person feels is
appropriate and professional enough for their program.

I was a very happy RSG 3.0 user. I was a happy RSG 4.0 user. I'm now an
exceptionally happy ex-RSG user who loves PageMaker. I plan on keeping it
that way. Their 'support' is ludicrous and they keep coming up with these
wonderful ideas -- things like copy protection of their fonts, building a
program that requires their proprietary fonts -- that really make me want to
deal with the company. 

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