The Seybold Report on Desktop Publishing articles from April 1989

The Seybold Report on Desktop Publishing archives from April 1989

Seybold Seminars '89: desktop highlights.
April 3, 1989... Seybold Seminars '89: Desktop Highlights EACH YEAR, the Seybold Seminars bring key players in the publishing industry together for a week of intensive discussions about the future of the industry. The event gives vendors and customers,...

Seybold Seminars '89: color, fonts and challenges to PostScript. (seminar activities)
April 3, 1989... Seybold Seminars '89: Color, Fonts and Challenges to PostScript THIS YEAR's Seybold Seminars event (march 13-17 in San Francisco) was the busiest in years. The industry shows no signs of slowing down. In fact, in a number of areas, an...

Highlights from Seminars demonstrations. (Seybold Seminars '89)
April 3, 1989... Highlights from Seminars Demonstrations The '89 Seminars exhibition area was a potpourri of new technologies spanning the entire publishing spectrum. Most of the new products will be distributed through nonretail channels and will therefore be...

Next to be sold through Businessland. (Next computer) (Businessland Inc.)
April 3, 1989... Next to be sold through Businessland On Thursday, March 30 (while this issue is at the printer), Next, Inc. and Businessland (the country's largest and most important personal computer retailer) will announce that Businessland will sell the...

IBM on OS-2 and Unix. (desktop strategy)
April 3, 1989... IBM on OS/2 and Unix At Esther Dyson's recent Personal Computing Forum, James Cannavino, the new president of IBM's Entry Systems Division (which makes the PCs), made it clear that he regards OS/2-Presentation Manager as the central focus of...

Price comparisons: Next vs. Mac vs. PC publishing systems. (Next workstation) (Apple Macintosh)
April 3, 1989... Price Comparisons: Next vs. Mac vs. PC Publishing Systems In order to get a better feeling for how the market is shaping up, we put together hypothetical Macintosh, PC and Next workstation-based publishing systems. Rather than price...

Workstation wars: Solbourne, Sun, Intel and Motorola. (Solbourne Computer Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., Intel Corp., Motorola Inc.) (product announcement)
April 3, 1989... Workstation wars: Solbourne, Sun, Intel and Motorola Solbourne Computer, which earlier this year released the first deskside Sun 4-compatible computers (see The Seybold Report on Publishing Systems, Vol. 18, No. 8), has added three desktop...

XyWrite filter for PageMaker. (XyQuest Inc.'s two-way filter) (product announcement)
April 3, 1989... XyWrite filter for PageMaker Two-way exchange of styles and text XyQuest has released a two-way filter for transferring XyWrite III Plus word processing files in and out of the Macintosh and PC versions of PageMaker 3.0. The filter,...

Princeton offers PostScript preview. (Princeton Publishing Labs's adapter card) (product announcement)
April 3, 1989... Princeton offers PostScript preview RIPS-based board drives display Princeton Publishing Labs, which sells the GrafixPro VGA controller card and the MultiView full-page gray-scale monitor, has entered the PostScript clone market with a...

QMS to show new color printer. (QMS Inc.'s product demonstration at spring Comdex 1989)
April 3, 1989... QMS to show new color printer Auto-adapts to multiple page description languages At the spring Comdex show later this month, QMS will show developers a new color thermal-transfer printer with a RIP that supports PostScript, PCL...

Mansfield to ship TableTools. (Mansfield Systems' WYSIWYG tables editor) (product announcement)
April 3, 1989... Mansfield to Ship TableTools Mansfield Systems, which is best known for its yet-to-be-released TechScriber technical document processing software for the Macintosh (see Vol. 2, No. 5 for our first impressions of th e product), has announced...

Novell buys Excelan. (Novell Inc.) (Excelan Inc.)
April 3, 1989... Novell buys Excelan Subject to shareholder approval by both firms, Novell will acquire Excelan by the end of June. Excelan makes a range of networking hardware and software products for Macintosh, PC, Vax and Unix platforms. The deal involves...

Applying a VGA face lift to your PC. (IBM's graphics standard)
April 3, 1989... Applying a VGA face lift to your PC Graphics have never been the PC's strong suit. Early graphics standards such as CGA, EGA and Hercules were adequate for displaying Lotus 1-2-3 bar graphs and such. But to get high resolution and a square...

Briefly.... (product announcements in the computer industry) (product announcement)
April 3, 1989... Briefly . . . Adobe ships hard disk with fonts. Adobe Systems has released the Adobe Font Folio, a 45-MB hard disk containing the entire Adobe Type Library (currently more than 300 typefaces). Priced at $9,600, the Adobe Font Folio works with...

Judge rules on Apple suit issues. (lawsuit against HP and Microsoft Corp.)
April 3, 1989... Judge rules on Apple suit issues Advantage Microsoft The issues in the Apple Computer "look and feel" suit against Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft have now been defined in two rulings by the trial judge. Apple won the first round....

Call for speakers. (speakers needed for Seybold Computer Publishing Conference and Exposition, September 20-23, 1989)
April 3, 1989... Call for Speakers The Seybold Computer Publishing Conference and Exposition (formerly the Desktop Publishing Conference) will be held at Moscone Center in San Francisco from Sept. 20-23, 1989. Speakers are needed for the seminar sessions,...