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Subject:Re: Survey on Doc Software From:Romay Jean Sitze <rositze -at- NMSU -dot- EDU> Date:Fri, 23 Sep 1994 08:38:46 -0600
Having worked with both FrameMaker and Ventura, I'd pick FrameMaker 4 over
Ventura any day. It has some great tools and seems much more versatile.
On
Thu, 22 Sep 1994, John Russell wrote:
> > My heartiest thanks to everyone who responded to my inquiry about
> > software and hardware for producing large manuals.
> >
> > The recommendations came out about like this:
> >
> > FrameMaker 75%
> > Interleaf 13
> > BookMaster 8
> > WordPerfect 3
> > Other 1
> What? Ventura is not on the list???
> Are there any Ventura users out there???
> (If there are, it's obvious they're not willing to recommend the product!)
> If you're a Ventura user (regardless of whether or not you recommend the
> product) send me mail. I'd like to know how many Ventura users read this
> list.
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