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- From: "S. Duhaime" <smd3@ix.netcom.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.emulators.mac.executor
- Subject: Re: Ready for Release?!?!?!
- Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 18:15:54 -0400
- Organization: Student @ John Stark High School
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- 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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