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From: <ames!ucbcad!amber.berkeley.edu!oed>
Date: Fri, 29 May 87 17:00:35 pdt
Organization: University of California, Berkeley

Did you see the Feb. 10 issue of PC Mag where they reviewed both Ventura,
Pagemaker, et. al.?  Very informative issue--although you need to note that
Xerox and Aldus have recently made available newer versions of both.

I will soon be using Pagemaker on a IBM Model 30 in June in our office 
(co-workers liked the "intuitiveness" of the page and commands) and Ventura
on a community project.  From hacking around in both I prefer Ventura much
more.  I like the flexibility and sophistication (kerning and leading) of
Ventura, the style sheets, text automatically wrapping around graphics, 
etc. etc. (stuff you can read in PC Mag).  What I didn't like was the 
relatively slow time it takes to redraw the screen (which it does each
time something is modified), and the fact that a three-column page is
treated as a page with three frames.  Regarding Pagemaker, I found it
cumbersome at times (found it sometimes easier to junk a page and start
all over) and not as flexible for longer documents.  I don't mind using
it for flyers or short documents, but this first version I found somewhat
limiting.

Debbie Fong

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