Helpful Harry wrote:
> In article <ipo%g.80656$073.43248@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Bob Levine
> <robjlevin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>
>>Helpful Harry wrote:
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>>>If one fool's answer to everything was not basically "don't use
>>>'RageMaker', but InDesign", then maybe I might have wanted to stay for
>>>more than half-a-dozen messages and therefore try to find some
>>>workaround for ONE newsgroup out of the 100+ I subscribe to not wanting
>>>quotes of previous messages.
>>
>>You're obviously one of the minions of PM users that are still upset
>>that Adobe abandoned the program. Why you don't understand that it was
>>Aldus that realized that new program was the only way to move ahead is
>>mind bongling to me.
>>
>>If Adobe had called InDesign PM 8, 9, CS, or CS2 would you calling those
>>who recommend an upgrade fools?
>>
>>If you took the time to look around the PM forums, you'd see that almost
>>every post is answered by a FORMER PM user. I try to help, but the
>>bottom line is that the answer is almost always that silly workarounds
>>can be avoided by upgrading to InDesign.
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>
> All completely irrelevant.
No, it's not. When someone posts that they're trying to run PM 6.5 on
WinXP that's all I need to hear. It's simply unsup****ted and a complete
waste of time to troubleshoot.
When someone asks why their transparent graphic has a white background
in PM, I'm going to tell them PM doesn't sup****t transparency but ID
does. Either upgrade or learn to draw clipping paths. What's that? You
want the nice feathered edge. Sorry, no dice.
When they post about the annual re****t with 125 tables that need to be
im****ted from Excel, I'm going to suggest InDesign. Or do you actually
think that Adobe Table is a satisfactory tool when you have deadline
approaching?
Sometimes upgrading isn't just the best answer, it's about the only
answer. One of these days you're going to need a new computer. What are
you going to do then? The new Macs won't sup****t classic at all and
running PM under it on the older Macs is a crapshoot, too.
I'm sure Vista will be the end of PM on the Windows side.
> If someone asks a question in a PageMaker forum then they want a
> PageMaker answer, not simply some idiot that tells them just to buy
> InDesign ... that's NOT helping.
There you go again. Anyone suggesting an upgrade is an idiot. Why is that?
> It's not completely different. When you're in forum you don't go
around
> calling the main topic of that forum by silly names ... if you don't
> like the product, you stay out of the forum for it, otherwise you ARE a
> troll (at best!).
Again, I wasn't referring to the PM forum, but the ID forum. Please pay
attention.
> Yes, I call it "Quack Xpress", but only in here. If I went into a Quark
> forum I wouldn't use that them ... common decency, common sense, common
> courtesy.
>>>There's also no real reason that there can't be a InDesign and other
>>>Adobe newsgroup in the Usenet listings, even Microsoft has lots of
>>>them.
No reason? You sound like the people that complain that Word has a
feature and so should InDesign. What makes you the authority on this?
Who cares what MS uses for sup****t? Adobe has chosen a web interface
that has a mirrored NNTP access. So what's the problem?
Bob
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