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Article #406Re: Ami Pro Wordprocessing: Opinion?
From: Marc Ries
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1991 20:39
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1991 20:39
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In article <10790002@hpavla.avo.hp.com> rowland@hpavla.avo.hp.com (Fred Rowland) writes:
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>I've tried both Word for Windows and Ami Pro, and definitely prefer Ami Pro.
My opinions, your mileage may vary:
I have used AMI Pro for over a year. My main work has been involved with
desktop-type publishing of a newsletter.
In general, I like AMI Pro. I have W4W on order (Via a $99 offer) and will
be interested in the new Wordperfect for Windows due out in the next few
months ($129 upgrade from WP/DOS).
In general, I have found AMI Pro to be best for short publications. The
one long document I worked on (about 40 pages with graphics/tables, etc)
was a real (performance) dog to work on.
Legacy sounds interesting, because some of the features in Legacy are
features I would like to see in AMI Pro. I would especially like to
have:
* Support for non-rectangular frames
* The ability to link frames so that text flows from one to the other
* Support for user-defined "pages". If your document is not based on
an fixed page size (8.5x11, etc.), the index and table of contents
support is pretty useless. For example, my work is done on a legal
size sheet, folded in half, printed both sides, 2 "pages" per side.
There is no support for this type of non-standard page layout.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!trwind!venice!ries From: ries@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM (Marc Ries) Newsgroups: comp.text.desktop Subject: Re: Ami Pro Wordprocessing: Opinion? Message-ID: <1023@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM> Date: 1 Mar 91 20:39:37 GMT References: <130786@puff.encore.com> <10790002@hpavla.avo.hp.com> Reply-To: ries@venice.sedd.trw.com (Marc Ries) Organization: TRW Systems Engineering & Development Division, Redondo Beach, CA Lines: 27