[APBeta] AstroPlanner V2.0b90 feedback

[Paul Rodman]

On Aug 21, 2010, at 3:05 PM, Tony Barry wrote:

> The Answer is Pages.  I use it all the time, have pretty well given Word the Flick.
> 
> Nirvana is Pages ...
> 
> well, maybe not.  You also need a good bottle of ginger beer to really have nirvana :-)

Unfortunately, nirvana aside, Pages is just not designed with large complex documents in mind. 

If it was available for Mac OS X, then Adobe FrameMaker would be the ideal, but sadly it is not. I have also looked at Mellel, but it was somewhat confusing. Although MS Word is the Spawn of Satan, and really creaks and groans when pushed, it does do what I want it to do (as long as I turn off the 99% of bells/whistles that no-one in their right mind would use), and I'm somewhat familiar with it.

Paul R.

> On 22/08/2010, at 6:25 AM, Paul Rodman wrote:
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>> On Aug 21, 2010, at 11:17 AM, Igor Mikolic-Torreira wrote:
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>>> I want to point out that closing and saving documents now happens really fast with this version on Windows 7 64 bit (this was an old observation from a couple beta versions ago).  I didn't get a chance to try b89, but I'm pretty sure it was still slow with b88.
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>> Well I dunno what I did. I am just happy it's working for you :^)
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>>> It wasn't a big deal in any case, but I just wanted to highlight that this is now "fixed".  The only other changes on my system have been the "standard" Microsoft system updates that are pushed quasi-automatically.
>>> 
>>> So far b90 rocks for me.  I just entered a couple dozen observations from last night and planned tonight's observing (hoping for clear skies :) and b90 worked flawlessly.
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>> Yes, we are rapidly approaching nirvana here. I also managed to get MS Word to run without crashing on quit yesterday, so I no longer have a good excuse to avoid continuing the manual writing process.