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In article <1992Oct27.210520.996@news.media.mit.edu> wave@waits.media.mit.edu (Michael B. Johnson) writes:
>Anwar Mohammed writes
>> 
>> Hi folks,
>> 
>> I do some volunteer work publishing newsletters.  I may also be
>> designing some brochures soon. Using Framemaker for these 
>> purposes is painful. I've used Pagemaker on Macs, to date.
>> The latest NeXTWorld had good reviews of the various software 
>> packages.
>> 
>> PasteUp sounds ideal, but their academic pricing scheme is priced 
>> way out of my price range.  The combined academic pricing of 
>> executor (which I'll be buying anyway) and either Pagemaker 
>> or QuarkXpress is lower.
>
>Academic pricing?  What academic pricing?  I'm a big fan of buying software,  
>and own real copies bought with my own money of Create, Frame, Microphone, 
>Simon Says, Diagram!, Concurrence, Virtuoso, and a few other packages.  I was  
>all set to plunk down some cash for PasteUp until I found out that they have NO  
>academic pricing.  Come on guys, get real.  Better to sell a couple hundred (or
>a couple thousand) academic copies at $100 to $200, than none at all.  As it
>is I'll use Frame until Pages comes out...

I agree.  I don't think they need to go as far as Lighthouse's incredible pricing
scheme, but I'd be willing to pay around $200 for a quality page layout package with 
no hardcopy docs (ie. no more than around 15-20% of my miserly student budget).
I'll be willing to pay list for PasteUp 2.0 or 3.0 when I graduate.  Customer
loyalty, remeber?

However, lest I sound like another academic whiner, I'll just keep looking 
for a more cost-effective solution.

>
>
>> 
>> Unfortunately, NeXTworld provides little info on how to contact the
>> other companies soon to be shipping page layout programs (Pages, 
>> Archetype).  How do I get in touch with these people?
>
>The Pages folk are on the net.  The Archetype folks are local (I think they're
>in Waltham).  I have numbers at home.  If no one posts by tommorrow, I'll
>bring them in and post the info.

Thanks!

>
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-anwar
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