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Ready for Release?!?!?!



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


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