The Seybold Report on Desktop Publishing articles from April 1994

The Seybold Report on Desktop Publishing archives from April 1994

Using the Internet for publishing. (summary of feature article)
April 4, 1994... The Internet circles the world and provides high-bandwidth access to millions of computing desktops. Its users are savvy, mostly well-heeled and hungry for high-quality information. It should be a dream market for any publisher. But many...

Intermedia '94: multimedia is booming. (summary of feature article)
April 4, 1994... The publishing industry has long since taken cd-rom to its heart. No other distribution medium allows putting so much content, with so many rich options for animation, sound and other enhancements, on a disc that can be manufactured so cheaply....

Vista Printing System from NewGen: large-format PS color ink-jet printer. (NewGen Systems' PostScript-compatible printer) (Product Announcement)
April 4, 1994... NewGen Systems has introduced its large-format, PostScript-compatible color ink-jet printer and raster image processor (rip). Called the Vista Printing System, it is the first color product to be marketed by NewGen. The new printer can output...

Caere adds Portfolio for managing documents: integrated input and management for small collections of documents. (PageKeeper Portfolio software) (Product Announcement)
April 4, 1994... Caere has announced a new product in its line of document management software. PageKeeper Portfolio is a new version of its Personal PageKeeper electronic document management series, which we covered in Vol. 8, No. 1. PageKeeper Portfolio,...

Publishing on the Internet for fun and profit. (includes related articles on TCP/IP Internet communications protocol, the Interpedia public domain encyclopedia project on the Internet, observations on using Internet access software and printed and online resources about setting up Internet businesses)
April 4, 1994... It has been called "the mother of all networks." It connects several million computers and reaches virtually every nation on the earth. It provides reference archives, electronic mail, news, advice, opinions and gossip to all comers -- and most...

Progress in CD-ROM publishing: a look at new tools and titles.
April 4, 1994... Cd-rom publishing is booming. In 1993, the number of titles in print worldwide grew 54% and the installed base of cd-rom readers grew more than 155%. Those are just a couple of impressive statistics reported at the recent Intermedia conference...

Adobe acquires Aldus in $525 million stock deal; Warnock, Geschke get top roles. (Adobe Systems Inc.'s chairman John Warnock, president Chuck Geschke)
April 4, 1994... It is supremely logical, yet almost everyone was surprised: Adobe Systems and Aldus have agreed to merge the two companies through an exchange of common stock. The combined company will have almost a half-billion dollars in revenue, making it...

Apple pulls off switch to Power Macintoshes; future of the company rides on it.
April 4, 1994... It is admittedly pretty early to declare victory. There are certain to be problems and glitches as increasing numbers of users switch to the new risc-based PowerPC Macintoshes. But thus far, Apple has executed the most difficult transition ever...

EFI acquires ScanMatch from Savitar. (Electronics for Imaging Inc. obtains ScanMatch scanner calibration software)
April 4, 1994... Electronics for Imaging has acquired the ScanMatch scanner calibration software and technology from Savitar. It runs on Macintoshes and supports slide and reflective scanning. Terms weren't disclosed.

XSoft brings document management to PCs; 'information visualization' mixed with keyword retrieval. (Xerox Corp.'s software division releases Sonora package) (Product Announcement)
April 4, 1994... Today the XSoft division of Xerox announced a document management software package designed for general office use that features several innovations in document retrieval developed at Xerox's famed Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). The release...

HP introduces 600-dpi DeskJet, DeskWriters; color management enhances quality. (DeskJet/DeskWriter monochrome printer and DeskJet/DeskWriter 560C color ink-jet printer) (Product Announcement)
April 4, 1994... Hewlett-Packard, which has long viewed the ink-jet printer market as its own, recently introduced several new models intended to keep it that way. The HP DeskJet/DeskWriter 520 monochrome printer replaces the DeskJet/DeskWriter 500 and 510,...

Strata status: Vision and Virtual. (Strata's StrataVision 3D 3.0 graphics software and StrataVirtual graphics software) (Product Announcement)
April 4, 1994... Strata has cut the price of its 3d modeling, rendering and animation product, StrataVision 3D 3.0, to $695 (a reduction from $995). The product, which was released officially in January, is aimed at users in the "intrigued to intermediate"...

QMS supports Kanji on Crown printers: upgrade kits for Mac, Windows. (QMS' Kanji Print System 2025 or 3225 and Kanji Option Kits for QMS 860 and 860 Plus or 1725 and 1725 SLS printers) (Product Announcement)
April 4, 1994... QMS announced Kanji-language support for its Crown-based printers. Full-configured QMS 2025 and QMS 3225 Kanji print systems and option kits that allow current owners of QMS Crown printers to add Kanji-language support to their systems are now...

Personal Library offers Internet server. (Personal Library Software's PLServer) (Product Announcement)
April 4, 1994... Electronic publishing on the Internet has gained a potentially important new tool with the development by Personal Library Software of an Internet server. Documents are retrievable via full-text search through the increasingly popular Mosaic...

Corel bundles envisions scanner with Draw 4. (Envisions Solutions Technology's ENV-24 Pro Scanner paired with CorelDraw 4 graphics software)
April 4, 1994... Corel has announced that it will bundle CorelDraw 4 with Envisions Solutions Technology's ENV-24 Pro Scanner. The bundle will cost $1,450. The ENV-24 pro features 24-bit color and eight-bit gray scale and an optical resolution of 1,200x600 dpi,...