Returning to the fold. I feel safe. Today I was able achieve what I wanted in a conversion of a booklet to Nisus. With what I consider a clever use canvas, shapes and wraps I was able to do every thing I wanted without the complications in Pages 09, Indesign or Word. I have facing pages and page frames just to mention two essentials easy manipulation of graphics. I can also copy and paste formatted text from Pages and Indesign and Word. With a little attention saving Styles have a booklet that could well have originated in Nisus. The result feels very secure. I have just realized the Nisus support and the Nisus program has lasted at lease 25 years! Longer than any other program! I was even able to open one of those old Nisus 1(1989) documents and was surprised that the WP layer opened formatted and old graphics layer convert to a canvas with all graphics intact. Nothing seems to have been lost! I have used it since Nisus 1 1989.
Thank you.
Sure Nisus had a major convulsion when Apple changed its system program and went Intel. The original Nisus had an amazing graphics/blank layer as well as a word processing layer and was able to impose pages correctly for printing booklets. It was the great economical and fast alternative to Pagemaker.
I am very pleased I can make Nisus my work program again.
I am now very uneasy with my Adobe CS4, currently it is working again with Maverick but has been unpredictable and is unsupported. The "exciting" new Pages is a major "dumb down" and critical things I use have been removed from it. MS Word is just to complicated to get my head around and I still have bad dreams of that horrid genie that popped up on the screen and would not go away. Sorry if this is long winded but it is an appreciation of your Nisus program.
Fun fun, fun, dumiya! Welcome back. Apple has been behaving in odd ways with its own programs -- it totally rewrote and dumbed down Final Cut some years ago but I am told it has since built up the new Final Cut into something more like the old Final Cut. Its high level image management and processing program, Aperture, crawls along with point upgrades/updates at very lengthy intervals and in my view, the current version, which allows multiple libraries, is a lash up. You would think a company with Apple's resources could rewrite without losing capability and leaving users to wait for years for a return to the level of functionality they knew before the rewrite. Or that with a new program, such as Aperture, they could add multiple library functionality without it looking like Zaphod Beeblebrox's second head in the TV series.
Two weeks ago I published a book on Amazon through CreateSpace. It’s 186 pages and forty-five chapters long, with dozens of floating images, with or without caption, and tables. I did it all in .rtfd. Converting the book into black and white was very easy: I just opened the package and converted all of the images using GraphicConverter. I expected some trouble with the images. Yet surprisingly it went through the process with only e rounding error in the page size: height was 0.02 inches short.
