"William Sommerwerck" writes:

"Frank Stearns" wrote in message
nacquisition...

I used VP for a couple of client projects. Can't remember if it was Corel or
not.
I initially liked what I saw and was looking forward to using it -- until
things
started going wrong in small and large ways at every turn. Made me crazy as
hell,
and the usual issues with support. "Oh, yes, sorry; that is a known problem;"
or,
"don't know about that;" and the classic "Please reinstall" with the classic
response, "I've done that 10 times, no change..."

Oddly, I never had problems -- except for figuring out column balance.

You probably had a Corel version. Corel added needed features, but also
eliminated the modular document format, which is unbelievable.

That's probably the case -- I don't recall seeing a "modular doc format" item. From
the sound of it, perhaps this was something like FM's "book" feature". And it would
be the height of stupidity were FM ever to delete the book system. Fortunately,
they've only made it better.

I worked around most of the VP bugs, but the killer was the placement of tables and
figures. Settings for "place here" or "float to next page" did not work. At random,
those items wound up at the end of the file, many pages away, sometimes in random
order. Maddening.

Frank
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