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For the sake of demonstration, imagine you're about to
create a 50-page document. Or, it yours is a more demanding world,
make that a 500-page document. Now, for added realism, imagine it
was due yesterday.
Fortunately, what can be a tortuous process on other computers is
simple and straightforward on a NeXT Computer. You begin to
appreciate that as soon as you look at the screen.
The MegaPixel Display has a super-high resolution, so the page you see
there looks remarkably like the page you'll ultimately hold in your
hand. And your workspace is huge--with plenty of room to see a full
page and keep your tools open alongside.
But your document isn't going to write itself. To get started,
just double-click the FrameMaker icon, ask for a "blank page"
and start typing. (Text that already exists in another computer
format can be easily transferred.)
FrameMaker works very much like the word processor you're always used
to--except it goes much further. The spell checker is a good
example. Instead of merely finding misspelled words, FrameMaker will
find the extra spaces that creep into your documents, or punctuation you
accidentally typed twice.
As your document gets longer, you don't feel like you're losing
control. Quite the contrary. You're automatically building
tables of contents, indexes and lists of illustrations.
Cross-referencing is automatic, too, sop when you make changes, all your
references update themselves. And even if your document grows to
hundreds of pages (or beyond), there's no frustrating loss of speed.
In read the rest of this brochure, you'll find that quickness is a
recurring theme with the NeXT Computer. Not just because the machine
itself is faster, but because it eliminates so many of the extra steps
required on ordinary computers.
In fact, it is in the spirit of increased speed that we move on to the
next section. After all, you have a deadline.
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