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I finally made the switch between Ventura (3.0) and PageMaker and I must
say the difference is dramatic in several respects.

    * speed, first off. PageMaker under Windows is more than just a little
      faster than Ventura
    * size: two identical-looking documents, one in PageMaker, one
      in Ventura, PageMaker is a larger /document/ file, but Ventura
      by virtue of its creating duplicate images for internal consumption
      uses up much, much more disk space.
    * WYSIWYG: PageMaker Wins hands down.
    * Accuracy, Precision. I haven't been able to evaluate this yet
      but I don't think there will be a clear winner. In Ventura,
      I could always specify with high accuracy where an element should
      be, its size, margins, etc., to arbitrary precision (depending on
      the units I chose to specify position in). PageMaker doesn't seem
      to have the same (where can I type in exactly 15.4 mm for placement
      of a guideline?) flexibility (where can I type in the exact size
      of a line element?) I think this is my fault so far, and I'm sure
      I'll find out how to do this soon. The joke is, of course, that
      Ventura's output wasn't exactly what I had specified. I have 12 
      pages of photographic material, bled-to-edge, where I overlapped
      images 5mm outisde of the page. The images were EPS files. The
      output I got was images a random amount of space inside or outside
      the page boundaries. So much for accuracy. I worked on another
      project a week to get over-edge bleeding for a pattern-filled 
      EPS.

My only regret is that I didn't to all of this two months ago. What a drag!




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