Re: A Word Viewer for mac

From: Robert B. Waltz (waltzmn@SKYPOINT.COM)
Date: Fri Aug 04 2000 - 05:54:24 AEST


On 8/3/00, Christian M. M. Brady wrote:

>On 8/3/00 2:56 AM, "Kirk McElhearn" <kirk@MCELHEARN.COM> wrote:
>
>> On 3/08/00, at 1:56, Erik Richard Sørensen kml.ers@MAIL1.STOFANET.DK said:
>>
>>> Hmm..Well, - I downloaded it the day it was released on the
>>> Versiontracker and tried it. - And I must say that I was unable to make
>>> it work. Everytime I tried it, - it simply froze the system, and I had
>>> to make a forced restart. After allocating 15mb of RAM I could open it,
>>> but it wouldn't make any translations whether to nor from MSWD 6 or 98.
>>
>> I had quite the opposite experience.  It worked fine, and, I must say, it
>> is a unique program.  Even though I have Word, I can see that it would be
>> useful for the times  I want to translate tables from a Word doc to a
>> Nisus doc.
>>
>> Kirk
>
>Sounds to me like something Jerzy should see about packaging with NW6. What
>say ye?

I confess that I haven't tried it, because I didn't feel like paying
the shareware fee (I own the full version of MacLink). But I don't
see how this helps much. The problem is to get the files into Nisus,
with formatting. Wouldn't it be better to bundle the key MacLink
translators?

Also, given the number of complaints about how it works, it sounds
like a bad idea. If a reviewer tries it, and it doesn't work, that
will colour his experiences. It doesn't *matter* that the product
isn't produced by Nisus Software. What matters, to the reviewer,
is that it doesn't work. :-)

--
Bob Waltz
waltzmn@skypoint.com

"The one thing we learn from history --
   is that no one ever learns from history."



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