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Re: Ready for Release?!?!?!



Denis Bernard wrote:
> 
> Kai Cherry wrote:
> >
> > I want to start by saying I COMMEND THE EXECUTOR effort. A lot. However,
> > at $300 Executor has a *serious* productivity hole: weak font support.
> >
> > Now, I don't know who Ardi is tageting with this software, but I'll tell
> > you what: Without real printing and font support (forget network...for
> > now) I cannot think of one company (YES, I asked several, both Mac, Pc
> > and Mixed) that would buy it. They've seen it, they understand what it's
> > meant to do, but the same thing kept comming up: What about fonts? How
> > do we print?
> >
> > I think that Ardi should REALLY think about this. A lot. However, from
> > the recent tone of ctm@ardi.com's posts, I don't think they are *really
> > listening* anymore...but I'm telling you, in pro shops where we'd love
> > to be able to put The Suite (Pgemaker, Illy 5/6, Freehand 4/5,
> > QuarkXpress3.3x) on a PC (save on hardware, and it would be *perfect* if
> > a Mac goes down) it would be like, as my mentor used to say, "Breast on
> > Trees": Nice to look at, but what do you do with it?
> >
> > If you *know* how to support inits/fonts, it would be real wise to take
> > the extra two months to put this functionality in the shipping product.
> >
> > Anyone else here know what I'm saying? Am I alone in this far-fetched
> > belief?
> >
> > Kai Cherry
> > VP R&D/New Products and Services
> > Ultraplex Internet
> 
> Nope.  I'm waiting for the fonts and system 7 (truetype) to register.
> 
> Denis.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I agree completely. I'm on my desktop PC, at home, and I don't have an 
expensive Post script printer. I'd install Ghost-script, but I don't 
have the Mbytes, or the Know-how to install and configure it.

would the printing problem be fixed with a win 16/32 port??

steve...


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