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Date: Fri, 8 May 87 00:15:52 EDT
From: unipress!erika!gjb@rutgers.edu ( Greg Brail)

I have seen ads for PageMaker version 2.0 for the Mac. Apparently, it offers
support for kerning and some form of letterspacing, although I'm not sure how
well it does that. It also allows longer documents, and I think it has better
support for those long documents, like style sheets or something like that.

Here at UniPress, we're trying to use the Mac to save a lot of money on
typesetting. Since we produce some glitzy ads, we need really good quality
output. In addition, we produce newsletters, news releases, and technical fact
sheets, many using troff (up to now.)

Has anyone tried the new PageMaker? I'm wondering whether to buy it or
to get Word 3.0. I need something like PageMaker to do full-page, 
multi-column, newspaperlike layouts, but I also want to do long documents, 
like manuals. Automatic indexing wouldn't be bad either. Also, support for 
letterspacing would be real nice. I wouldn't mind tracked kerning either, 
but I don't think either program does that. Any suggestions?

Incidentally, if those of you in the New York/New Jersey area need quick
printing on a Linotronic 300 (1200 DPS), try Waldman Graphics in Pennsauken, 
NJ. You can send them your file via modem, and they will deliver or Federal 
Express it back to you the next day. I'm not affilated with them, by the way.

					-Greg

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