Re: "Dick Stevens' book."

[Erie Patsellis <erie@shelbyvilledesign.com>]

I agree, Pagemaker isn't the same since Adobe bought Aldus (hopefully 
that statement isn't showing my age). I can remember using framemaker on 
a NEXTCube, now that's vintage, though it was stable as hell, and 
display postscript that worked properly.


erie



Judy Seigel wrote:
> Eric wrote:
>
> > When will I read it again? Perhaps after I get done playing with 
> > Lightroom
> > and beating Adobe up for not allowing NON maximized PSD files to be 
> > imported
> > or that there is no way to export a text file of those files that 
> > don't get
> > imported for any number of reasons.  I also have a boat load of 
> > images just
> > waiting to be processed.
> Oh boy Eric, if you want to beat up on Adobe, I'm with you.  I can't 
> begin to describe the ways they lied and stole and screwed up.... tho 
> that was Pagemaker, and some of it probably wasn't lies, just 
> stupidity.  But every assurance they gave me about the (expensive) 
> upgrade making PDFs easier, then about how and what programs would 
> make those PDFs, then about which versions of, eg acrobat, would work 
> with which version of PM -- my head spins. Finally one of their wonder 
> boys assured me that if I installed Pagemaker in system 10 it would 
> work out of classic in 9.2, which screwed up the entire computer so 
> much I can't use the program even with a reinstall... and did you ever 
> see the pages in a PDF turn to blur? I have. (And that's not the half 
> of it.)
>
> Little did I realize that "Analog Woman in Digital Hell" (Post-Factory 
> #1) was the honeymoon.  I can't say of course that I forgive you 
> entirely and forget the 500 thou... but I can definitely relate. (And 
> there is the theory that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend.")
>
> cheers,
>
>
> Judy