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- From: michael@resonex.com (Michael Bryan)
- Subject: Re: WordPerfect vs Island Write
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.081007.24895@resonex.com>
- Organization: Resonex Inc., Sunnyvale CA
- References: <2931296610.1.p00103@mail.psi.net> <430147@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 08:10:07 GMT
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- In article <430147@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com> stanb@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com (Stan Bischof) writes:
- >In comp.sys.hp, "John Morey" <p00103@mail.psi.net> writes:
- >
- >>What to buy??? Was just needing some feelings on wordprocessors for HP
- >>workstations. Please let me know what you think about the wordprocessors
- >>that are available for the HP's.
- >
- >Do you need WYSIWYG? If so I would look at Framemaker if you have 700
- >series platform.
-
- Or on a 300 series as well. We ran a demo version of Framemaker, and it
- worked wonderfully.
-
- >Are you sensitive to white backgrounds? If so forget Island since it
- >has hard-coded blinding-white background.
-
- I would change that to "Forget IslandWrite." Period, no qualifiers as
- to what you need. Unless, of course, you *want* a product which has an
- awkward user interface, hard-to-read font rendering, unstable mouse-cursor
- positioning, occassional lockups and crashes, and other various problems.
-
- In almost every respect during my moderate use of the two products,
- Frame beat IslandWrite hands down. Unfortunately, I discovered this
- *after* somebody else decided to buy IslandWrite, and now I'm having
- a hard time convincing management to fork over another $1300. :-(
-
- That's my $0.02 worth. I haven't used any other Word Processor under
- HP-UX, so I can't comment on them. (Well, I *could*, but it would be
- rather pointless. ;-)
-
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