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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.apps:452 comp.windows.x.i386unix:3545 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps,comp.windows.x.i386unix Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!boulder!cnsnews!rintintin.Colorado.EDU!galbrait From: galbrait@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (GALBRAITH JOHN) Subject: Interviews (Doc) Message-ID: <CDA4p0.Htn@cnsnews.Colorado.EDU> Sender: usenet@cnsnews.Colorado.EDU (Al Marti) Nntp-Posting-Host: rintintin.colorado.edu Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1993 06:29:23 GMT Lines: 32 I have been trying to use Doc and Idraw from the Interviews package. (Thanks to Amancio.) It seems that Idraw is actually a pretty good program. I have used Corel Draw in Windoze quite a bit, and a lot of the features are similar. ($400 vs $0: 400/0 = infinite performance gain per dollar!) Doc, I am having some trouble with. Does anybody use it extensively? 1: Alignment (left, right, center, justify) seems real flakey. It works one minute, but not the next. It does really weird stuff, like hiding (or throwing away) new characters. 2: Page redraws. You click on a new page on the bottom menu bar, but have to get your window manager to tell it to redraw before you actually get to _see_ the new page. (I have to do a refresh in olvwm.) 3: The default window size is too big to fit in a 1024x768 screen. So, I fire it up as 'doc -geometry 500x737' to get it to fit. But then, the pages are too small, even on the final document hard copy!! 4: The font is too small to read on the screen. So you have to choose a bigger one. Of course, this changes the final document. Any way around this? Framemaker has a zoom feature... (Yeah, I know. Framemaker = $$$$$$$$, Doc = $0. But still.) 5: PLENTY of minor things that are hard to describe. Like not being able to enter text when/where you want. Importing text files. This packages seems so close to being so useful, but stops short. Does anybody else have these problems, or know of solutions? john galbrait@rintintin.colorado.edu