Illustrator
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Kathleen,
I, um, well, I _like_ Word. I _was_ an RSG4 fan for awhile, jumped on the
Xpress bandwagon for a very short while, and am now in love, once again, with
PageMaker 3.0. But I'll _never_ abandon Word. The unspoken truth in your
message is, I think, that it's the effort put into the mastering of a new
program that proves costly. I'm at the point now where I simply don't have
the resources to spend that amount of time and effort (case in point – after
my initial gee whiz at FreeHand, I went through the manual, picked out the
bits that I needed, and haven't picked the manuals up again. There's probably
a lot more to FreeHand than I see when I crank it up, but my frustration
factor and time/effort factors maxed out early on, so it will probably be a
dust gatherer…).
-Biff-
If I could jump in here, I too agree with the sentiment of Kathleen's
message. Freehand has initially made me appreciate Illustrator the more. I'm
hesitant to learn the drawing tricks of Freehand because I've had so many
problems with inconsistencies in Freehand. I've twice now had to redo things
in Illustrator that were inexplicably off in Freehand. (Line weight
inconsistencies and other things.) I use Xpress all the time tho. Again
because I find it a consistent performer and with a few QuickKeys very easy
to use. I use Pgmkr alot too and must admit that it handles the printer fonts
better in my limited Lino experience but I have let RSG 4 just sit.
Charles,
I just returned from another demo of Illustrator '88 and I'm glowing as much
now as when I saw it last week. On a side by side comparison with FreeHand
(under MultiFinder), I-88 is simpler to use and more elegant. It _does_ lack
some of the text handling that really should be there which is there very
thing that makes me think that perhaps Kathleen is right – both programs may
be necessary to get the job done. I haven't yet seen the seperation utility
or the "Draw Over" utility (which will convert MacDraw files into Illustrator
files) but I'm very impressed with the specs on each – particularly the
seperator utility which (I believe) will even print test color strips. I'm
anxiously awaiting my next communique from Adobe (I _did_ a Colophon in the
mail today, which will suffice for the present, I suppose…).
-Biff-