Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!husc6!uwvax!oddjob!ncar!gatech!purdue!decwrl!sun!aeras!elxsi!gazelle!fisher From: fisher@gazelle..UUCP (Chuck Fisher) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: FullWrite Professional 1.0 Message-ID: <787@elxsi.UUCP> Date: 11 May 88 16:46:15 GMT References: <4715@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Sender: news@elxsi.UUCP Reply-To: fisher@gazelle.UUCP (Chuck Fisher) Organization: ELXSI Super Computers, San Jose Lines: 70 I have used the "Pre-Release" version of FullWrite Professional since receiving it last January. I just got my version 1.0 last week and here are some of my observations... The program is a definite memory hog, 1 MB is not enough if you plan to use the built-in graphics drawing capability. Running on a greater than 1 MB system you should UN-check the 1 MB size in the "Doc Setup" command dialog window. Otherwise you'll get "out of memory" warnings even though plenty of memory remains. Now for my "hot buttons"... FullWrite still does not support paragraph spaceing control except on a entire document basis! I complained about this on the Pre-Release version and it still hasn't been fixed. If you import a Word 3.0x document, get ready to have your paragraph spaceing ignored. (Of course it does alert you to the fact that "some formating information is ignored.") My second complaint is the production of tables. You can't use column rules or boxes unless you create the entire table in the "Picture" module. Painstaking, but it can be done. No wonder there's no example of generating a table in the entire two-volume documentation! On the positive side... I attended the Apple Business Forum held in San Francisco last week and was able to button-hole the product manager for FullWrite. I explained my displeasure and he told me that the paragraph spaceing problem was already fixed for the next release due out this fall. (The next two upgrades are free to original purchasers of FullWrite when it was of a more etheral nature.) When complaining about table production, the product manager said that a "table module" like the "picture" and "sidebar" module will also appear this fall. I breathed a sigh of relief... The product manager also commented on the memory aspects of FullWrite. He said that a new "basic" editor module one-fifth the size of the current one has already been written. Besides being more compact, it is also much faster. He was unsure if it would be included in the fall upgrade, however. Now back to some nice things about FullWrite... I really like the ability of "classifying" Figures, Tables, and the like. It's easy to reference them with them with "see Figure 1 on page 10" types of citation. Something Word still can't do! Also, the "picture" module is very MacDraw like. Although not as feature laden, it does have full text editing/styling capabilities, arrows, and bezier curves. I now can compose most digram within FullWrite rather than pasting from other applications. Guess I'll have to wait until fall before I'm Fully satisfied however. :-) Chuck