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

>To be fair, the copy-protection and stuff applies to LetraStudio,
>their typeface program.  I think they dropped it (or are dropping
>it?) and I've heard they're going to support Bitstream fonts as well.

Big deal. They dropped CP after their entire customer base screamed bloody
murder and after they realized nobody was buying the package. So now they're
going to support Bitstream fonts -- but what about Adobe fonts? And type 3
fonts? and anything other than they're overpriced fonts and a set of fonts
nobody in the Mac world really seems to be using?

And why buy Letrastudio when, for less money you can buy Typestyler and hack
on Type 1 and type 3 fonts? Or buy the new add-on to ATM that does most of
it even less? 

And there's a new utility announced that'll convert postscript fonts to
outlines, so you can put the outlines into Freehand or Illustrator without
restriction? 

Letraset tried to build a product that locked people into buying only their
software, using it only their way, with their fonts -- charged an arm and a
legg for it and copy protected it as well. This I should support?

(and, back to Ready, Set Go for  a sec, they took a good, inexpensive layout
program and enhanced it in the wrong ways with the wrong features and raise
the price where it was no longer really cheaper to choose it -- if gave away
all their advantagesa over PageMaker while they did it, while ruining
performance to the point where the program by 4.5 was significantly slower
than Pagemaker. Smart folks...)

>And one other thing in RSG's defense: I used PageMaker recently as was
>greatly inconvienced by its slowness and its inability to work with
>more than one document at a time.  Also, I simply couldn't believe the
>size of its files!

Interesting. I find that I can lay out in Pagemaker about 20-25% faster than
I could in RSG 4.5. PM's files are larger, but I can do stuff that I
couldn't with RSG, too. (and try 'save as' once in a while to clear out the
deleted material).

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