DTP ON AMIGA
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¾DTP ON AMIGA!!!!

¹Becouse  I'm studying layout and that
kind of things, I often work with DTP,
both  on Mac and PC.  And at home I've
my  incredible  Amiga 500.  I have got
the  chanse to test Page Maker on Mac,
PC  and ofcoz Amiga (PageStream).  And
here's my review.

¢First of all some configurations.

¹Mac  :   Quadra  with  20 meg (!) mem,
plus a big HD.

PC  :   486/33.   6 meg mem plus a big
HD.

Amiga :  500 and 1200.  Two drives.  1
meg in 500, and 2 in 1200.

Let's  take  a  look  at  the diffrent
programs:

¾MAC PAGEMAKER 4.0
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¹Worked  well.   Rather like the Amiga.
Loads  of  diffrent  fonts and styles.
More  than  one  document open at same
time.   And  it's  rather  fast.   You
can't  rotate  a  picture  (You can do
this   in   Quark  Express,  but  this
program is boring...).

¾PC PAGEMAKER ?.? WINDOWS
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¹Well...   There  was  some ugly fonts,
but I think there will be better fonts
on the market.  The program could only
have one document open.  There were no
¶çedf,888,0f0,aaf,f8f,ff0,fff¹cool   styles,   just   bold,  italic,
underlined  and the usually stuff.  It
was  slow when I used the HD, and when
I  used  the  diskdrive...   Shit!  It
took ages to load a little ASCII text!
The  program has a built-in converter,
but   the   converter   couldn't  even
convert a Write document to pure ASCII
- my text was destroyed and characters
were swapped, changed and deleted.BAD!
When  you  rotate  a  text,  you can't
change it.  You have to rotate it back
first.

¾AMIGA PAGESTREAM 2.2
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¹I  will be honest.  It was rather slow
on  the  A500  with  1  meg,  but I'll
understand  that.  But on the A1200 it
was  fast.   You  can  open  loads  of
documents  (if  you  have  the memory,
witch  my  A500  didn't  have), rotate
pictures, texts (and you can even edit
them   after   rotating!).   Loads  of
diffrens styles, like shadow, outline,
the  usaully stuff (bold, italic etc),
mirror   and   more.    PageStream  is
running in interlace, so it will flick
if  you  don't got a multisync monitor
and flicker-fixer.

I  have  succed  to crash all of these
program, so none of them is bugfree.

What  I mean is, that Amiga is as good
as  Mac at DTP, maybe even better.  PC
suxx  (as  usually...   hehe...),  and
it's  not  becoz  I  think PC is crap,
it's just suxx.
¾by: Groggy/242