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- From: Fred Salerno <salernof@gate.net>
- To: "Clifford T. Matthews" <ctm@ardi.com>
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- Subject: Re: PageMaker, E/NS
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- I can also Test 5.0 extensively. Ill probably do this next week or so.
- Ill let you know if it works well.
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- On 28 Dec 1995, Clifford T. Matthews wrote:
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- > >>>>> "Maren" == Maren Leyla Cooke <maren@bloom.harvard.edu> writes:
- > In article <9512281737.AA26840@bloom.harvard.edu> Maren Leyla Cooke <maren@bloom.harvard.edu> writes:
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- >
- > Maren> Does anyone have comments on the current viability and
- > Maren> speed of PageMaker under Executor? I am currently running
- > Maren> PageMaker 6.0 (now Adobe rather than Aldus, go figure) on a
- > Maren> (borrowed, with inconvenience to its owner) Mac Quadra 950,
- > Maren> but could revert to 5.0 if that were absolutely necessary
- > Maren> to get it going on NeXTstep machines. So far I've tried
- > Maren> running PM6.0 under E/NS 1.99p6 (the latest available on
- > Maren> vorlon.mit.edu, and ardi.com has been inaccessible), and it
- > Maren> crashes Executor. Are there indications of how various
- > Maren> versions of PM will work under Executor 2.0 (and current
- > Maren> estimates of availability-time)?
- >
- > E/NS 1.99p9 is the most recent, but you have to go to the BleedingEdge
- > directory to find it. Specifically:
- >
- > ftp://vorlon.mit.edu/pub/ardi/BleedingEdge/NEXTSTEP/fat199p9.tar.gz
- >
- > will patch 1.99p6 up to 1.99p6. So far we haven't mentioned Executor's
- > renewed availability to the NEXTSTEP community. Once 1.99q is out, we'll
- > do that (1.99q will have a real NEXTSTEP installer). I don't
- > specifically remember any mods that will make PageMaker go better
- > under 1.99p9 than 1.99p6, but I suspect there are some.
- >
- > We do not yet have PM6 for testing. We have temporarily stopped
- > buying new software for testing so that we can use the money for
- > MACWORLD Expo and cutting the Executor 2 CD-ROMs. We do have PM 5.0
- > and PM 4.2. We personally haven't done much testing of either, and
- > won't, until E2 is in beta. However, one of our customers bought a
- > site license in order to run PM 4.2. I believe they already had the
- > copies of PM 4.2 and that's why they are running that version instead
- > of PM 5.0.
- >
- >
- > Maren> With a book layout to do under a very short
- > Maren> publication deadline, I'm eager to know whether working on
- > Maren> a NeXTstation (turbo mono) and/or a NEC/Versa T486 laptop
- > Maren> (running NeXTstep) are options. Any thoughts on how
- > Maren> speed/ease relative to the Mac might be affected would be
- > Maren> welcome.
- >
- > My guess is you won't find many NEXTSTEP users who use Executor
- > currently, since we haven't posted any messages on comp.sys.next.* in
- > a long time, so it's quite possible that much of the remaining
- > NEXTSTEP community has given up on us.
- >
- > Maren> For background, I'm a (registered) E/NS user from way
- > Maren> back when, but haven't used it in a long time -- since the
- > Maren> days of rather klutzy and unprintable Word. Working in a
- > Maren> Mac-filled world, I'm looking forward to enhanced
- > Maren> compatibility-capabilities under 2.0!
- >
- > We've certainly made great strides in 1995. We're hoping to get
- > enough interest at MACWORLD Expo to actually allow us to pick up the
- > pace for 1996.
- >
- > Maren> Thanks muchly, -- Maren (maren@ossian.harvard.edu)
- >
- > --Cliff
- > ctm@ardi.com
- >
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