#PageStream Follies
Soft-Logik corporation takes the prize for having more guts than any
other Amiga publisher for PageStream 2.1. This software is NON-functional.
They are not first, and probably won't be the last to write non-functioning
code and steal the hard earned money of Amiga owners in the process-but the
real icing on the cake is that the free demo version of program actually
works. It's rock solid and crash proof (though slow). The $200 release
version (2.1) is buggy, quirky, and crash prone-not to mention the little
fact that it can't print anything you get lucky enough to make with it. In
the last 7 or so hours I've been trying to use PageStream it has crashed
the computer no less than 12 times. It has never printed an entire page. I
have two pages in front of me that are completely blank (PageStream says
they are printed), I have 5 or 6 others on which less than 20 percent of
the page is printed-funny, it stopped printing right around the time of
that now, ever so familiar, red flashing box informing that the software
crashed the computer-and here I thought I'd given it the print command, not
the crash command. Contrast this with the demo version, which printed out a
5 page document for me without trouble-twice.
What clearly happened is the people at Soft-Logik released this
software without testing. This is negligence and utter stupidity on their
part-however it does seem to be standard operating procedure of Amiga
software publishers. The laws should be re-written, so that businesses
that behave in this way are put out of business fast, their assets stripped
and given to their victims, and the operators put in jail. I have no
sympathy for people who steal from me, I just don't understand them-I work
for a living.