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Date: November, 1987

Keywords: pagemaker 4th dimension pagemaker unpublished freehand aldus
microsoft write 

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Audio Tutorial for PageMaker:  Personal Training Systems offers
self-paced tutorials for PageMaker 2.0 and other Macintosh-compatible
software programs, including Microsoft's Excel, Works, and Word.  Each
package comes with audio tape, practice disk, and reference card.  The
tutorials are available for beginning, intermediate and advanced users
and sell for $49.95.  For more information, contact Personal Training
Systems, P.O. Box 54240, San Jose, CA  95154, (408)559-8635.  (Aldus
Newsletter, Aug/Sept 87,  The Desktop Publisher)
      Dear User Groups:  The demo version of 4th Dimension is being
shipped today.  Hope you like it.  Everyone thinking of buying a
database should try it!!!  If you need more manuals, just let us know. 
Thanks,  Guy Kawasaki, Acius Developer.  (Ap pleLink, 30-Oct-87) 
     A new low-end word processing program called Microsoft Write has
been released by Microsoft Corp. Write is a subset of Word and includes
the same short menus in Word though some of the dialog boxes have been
simplified.   Write requires 512K of memory and is fully com ible with
Apple's new Multifinder operating system.  The program has on-line
help, the capability to draw horizontal and vertical lines, multiple
columns and an 80,000-word spelling checker.  Write has  the same file
format as Word &  users can up-grade to Micro soft Word for a cost of
$220.00.  The price for Write is $175.00 and was to ship Nov. 2. 
Sounds like competition for T/Maker's Write Now.  (In foWorld, Oct. 26)
     
     Another version of PageMaker ?:  I thought we just got one, but
Aldus Corp. is supposed to be forthcoming with a new version.  Its
expected features: style sheets, spot color printing, automatic text
flow among pages, support for longer documents and arbitrary text
runaround using a ''polygon editing tool'' that outlines irregularly
shaped objects first, bundled templates, submenus, and controls to ma
late the gray levels of  images.  Mac version to be called 3.0.
  (InfoWorld, Oct. 26)               kb 
     Aldus will unveil Freehand, a Mac graphics program described as
having all the features of Adobe Illustrator plus drawing tools such as
those in MacPaint and MacDraft and special effects features similar to
those in Cricket Draw.  No date announced.  (InfoWorld, Oct. 26)
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