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From: dorourke@polyslo.UUCP (David M. O'Rourke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: FullWrite on shelves
Message-ID: <2317@polyslo.UUCP>
Date: 9 May 88 16:34:04 GMT
References: <158@amcad.UUCP> <52428@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: dorourke@polyslo.UUCP (David O'Rourke)
Organization: Cal Poly State University -- San Luis Obispo
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Keywords: fullwrite nonvapor

In article <52428@sun.uucp> chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>I think so, so far. I picked up my copy at ComputerWare for about $260. I
>haven't played with it a lot yet, but I have pored through documentation and
>done a little prodding and pushing, and I think I'm going to really like
>Fullwrite. 

  I agree I've been using the Pre-Release version since I got it, I liked
it better than word, even with the bugs.

>It's definitely not perfect, but it has the power of Word 3.0. It's also a
>very intuitive program. As you read through the manual, you start to realize
>just how intuitive it is (in many ways, you don't need to read the manual.
>For a program of this power, that says something).

   It kind of grows on you, as you learn the program it keeps getting better.

>There are some areas that I've flagged as things to be aware of. Some of
>these are plusses, some minuses. This isn't in any particular order (yet):
>
>	think!) used to import stuff like EPS files into stationery. I
>	really don't understand what they do, how, or why. I'm hoping that
>	the examples shipped with the program explain it, since the manual
>	ignores them. This looks to be, also, the only way to get postscript
>	code into your documents. Hope I'm wrong on that one.

   It's there to support background pictures.  You can have FullWrite print
a picture on every page, or just the first page.  It's a simple way to add
fancy boarders or letter head to a document,  and since it's a picture you
don't have to worry about where it is in relation to text.

>+ They've implemented something called a variable. A more generalized flavor
>	of the various page/date/time icons in Word headers. you can define
>	your own, too (I'm not sure why yet, though). One that I find
>	missing is the # of words (variables exist for pages and
>	characters).

   Variables are wonderful, when you insert a variable in several places
in the document, and then you want to change what the variable says, you
don't have to do a search and replace, you can just change it in the
variable dialog, and boom, all references to that variable are automatically
updated.  Try it it's real nice.

>- Startup is rather slow, and it brings up a copyright message every time.
>	Not really bad, but it stays up long enough to be irritating, and I
>	almost get the feeling AT has a wait loop in the initialization code
>	for the startup screen. If that's true, I hope someone finds a patch
>	for it. If not, there's a lot of initialization going down.

   I agree, anyone at Ashton-Tate reading this.

  I love FullWrite!  I have found it to be more than very useful in the
past 5 months, and now the release version is out.  Thank god!

David M. O'Rourke

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