On Tue, 1 Aug 2000 3:19 AM, Robert B. Waltz <mailto:waltzmn@SKYPOINT.COM> wrote: >On 7/31/00, Chris Walker wrote: >And you still need occasional monolithic programs, like page >layout software. It's just that they can take advantage of other >tools. Take page layout software: PageMaker has a "story editor," >but it stinks. Agreed, up to a point. Bear in mind that it is meant to work with styles and with the actual layout pages. In that context, I think it is fine. Have you looked at its find and replace? That's very handy indeed! It's spell checking is not to be sneezed at either (same dictionaries and general approach as NW, so far as I can see). >Wouldn't it be great if Quark XPress could use >Nisus as its story editor? I'd love it! But only if they can >transfer style sheets. That's where the bottleneck comes in.... Of course, you can use Word and PageMaker -- and the style sheets translate. Unfortunately that is a prolific source of crashes in PM. You can use tags, though, out of ANY WP. In reality, you can use any WP as a story editor for PM. The stories are linked. Change and save them, then go back to PM, and with two key commands, update the links. Voila, your new text is in place. Graphics are the same. cheers, geoff -- Geoffrey Heard -- MarketNOW -- Marketing ideas for today. ----------------------------------------------------- FREE the 100,000 East Timorese held hostage in Indonesia. Campaign for Indonesia to pay reparations. ----------------------------------------------------- Sent by Cyberdog -----------------------------------------------------
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