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From: covertr@gtephx.UUCP (Richard E. Covert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Latest version of PageStream?
Summary: Softlogik Almost Wasn't!!
Keywords: Pagestream, publishing
Message-ID: <450cbb01.14a1f@gtephx.UUCP>
Date: 15 Aug 89 20:40:53 GMT
References: <1605@cod.NOSC.MIL>
Distribution: na
Organization: AG Communication Systems, Phoenix, Arizona
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In article <1605@cod.NOSC.MIL>, jensen@cod.NOSC.MIL (Layne K. Jensen) writes:
> I have the version of PageStream that was released toward the end of 1988,
> the first really "usable" version.  (I don't have the disk with me at the
> moment, so I can't give the numerical version number.)  I use it occasionally,
> but the more I do the more frustrated I become with the bugs.
> 
> Can someone tell me the number of the latest version?  I haven't received
> any word from SoftLogik about availability, but I recently saw a message
> on the network that made me think there may be a newer one.
> 
> I've been giving SoftLogik the benefit of the doubt since the days of the
> original Publishing Partner, but it's beginning to wear thin.  If there has
> been an upgrade sometime in the last six months or so, what are the terms?
> 

	A couple of things about Softlogik. First, SL is a very small company 
and they have always had a bad reputation when it comes to Publishing Partner
or PageStream (PgS). The last,offically released, version of PgS was 1.52.
SL is working on a version of PgS for the Amiga, but I don't know much about
it. My feeling is that PgS for the ST is pretty much dead. I use Calamus, which
has much better support. There are rumors of 'beta' versions, up to 1.59, being
tested. In fact, I read in ST REPORT about a custmoer out in San Diego who got 
1.59 by mistake. The folks at SL accussed him of piracy when he asked SL about
it.

	Another, I read an article about SL. It seems that a disgruntled (to put
it mildly (-( ) sent a mail bomb to SL after he was fired!! The SL people called
the Police, who disarmed it. I have to admire those police officers! I have no idea
why or who the former employee was.

	If you can get an account on GEnie you can get more info, and leave questions
to SL.
rec
.