[softwarelist] Re: OPro for Mac OSX: yes please!(was Hearsay 2.24)
- From: Jack Evans <jack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 11:46:09 +0000 (GMT)
On 30 Nov, Roger Foden <roger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 29/11/2012 23:29, David Pilling wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Forwarded from Jeremy Brayshaw...
> >
> >
> > Well, I will certainly be racing you to be head of that queue! I've
> > been = longing for a DTP package on the Mac for years - there is
> > nothing that = comes even close to OPro in terms of facilities (or
> > ease of use) I've = tried lots of Mac DTP progs, but none do what
> > OvPro does!
> >
> > Jeremy.
> >
> >
> > Jeremy Brayshaw
> >
> >
> My apologies: previous mail sent before finishing it!!
> Hi,
> As a convert to Mac for three years now I began by using OvPro under
> VRPC and 'shadowing' this using Pages (part of iWork) on the Mac. The
> Pages workflow seemed very awkward compared with OvPro and the latter
> was far easier and faster to use.
> That was only at the start - with use comes familiarity and I now use
> Pages by preference. It is a proper DTP program using page layout.
> There is, however, one aspect of OvPro (and RISC OS) the Mac cannot
> match: altering the aspect ratio of text is not possible on Mac
> (unless one can afford Quark Express) but is a 'standard' facility of
> the RISC OS Font Manager. This single aspect alone would commend a Mac
> OvPro to me.
> I also have lots of documents produced by Ovation Pro which need VRPC
> and OvPro for me to read.
> However David, the Mac 'Pages' is available for only £14.99 from the
> App Store. Could you compete?
> Kind regards Roger
Another POV. As another even older Mac user I have tried to get to grips
with Pages to produce complicated DTP output such as heavyweight
hardbacks with multiple colour pages but don't consider that it can match
the combination of OPro, Artworks and Photodesk for simplicity and ease
of use.
Price doesn't enter into it.
Regards
Jack
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