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Meanbiznis

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Aug 6, 1997, 3:00:00 AM8/6/97
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I have never used anything but a Mac for newspaper design, but I'm now
starting my own Sunday and am forced to look at the bottom line. I'm
considering going pc, but I'm terrified of the results for layout and the
graphics department. I would appreciate any stories about newspaper
design/graphics using QuarkXpress, Freehand or any other graphics program
on a Windows platform. Also, any success or failure stories about
starting a newspaper will be read with great interest.

Thanks

Jane

meanb...@aol.com

Terrence Redding

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Aug 9, 1997, 3:00:00 AM8/9/97
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In article <bradshaw-070...@208.140.82.214>, brad...@io.com (Dale
Bradshaw) wrote:

In article <19970806180...@ladder01.news.aol.com>,
meanb...@aol.com (Meanbiznis) wrote:

one last thing, I'd disregard fears of the mac's demise in publishing, it
is still firmly entrenched, and the technology simply will not go away in
the timeframe of equipment you would buy in the next six months.

Hi this is Terry

I especially agree with the last point. Speed will continue to be more
important over time. The Wintel platform is going to loose the speed war
with the RISC processor. This year, with the advent of the 350Mhz PowerPC,
NT servers will start crossing over to Macs. That trend will continue as
over the next 12 months we see first 500 Mhz and then 700 Mhz RISC chips.

Next year your choices will be the same as they are today, but serious
production houses, whether Mac or PC will be drooling over RISC based
systems that can run either the Mac OS or NT. Intel, eat your heart out.
Bill Gates, you win again.... Terry


Eric Mills

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Aug 12, 1997, 3:00:00 AM8/12/97
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Meanbiznis,meanb...@aol.com,Internet writes:
I have never used anything but a Mac for newspaper design, but I'm now
starting my own Sunday and am forced to look at the bottom line. I'm
considering going pc, but I'm terrified of the results for layout and the
graphics department. I would appreciate any stories about newspaper
design/graphics using QuarkXpress, Freehand or any other graphics program
on a Windows platform. Also, any success or failure stories about
starting a newspaper will be read with great interest.

Thanks
Jane
meanb...@aol.com


After the third post of this message,
I'm beginning to suspect your real name is Jane Doe Troll.

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