The Seybold Report on Desktop Publishing articles from August 1990

The Seybold Report on Desktop Publishing archives from August 1990

Digital World '90: the merging of technologies. (Digital World Conference 1990)
August 13, 1990... HAVING BARELY PASSED the turning point in its embrace of the general-purpose computer market, the publishing industry is suddenly aware that it is not alone. In fact, as computers become the accepted medium by which all information is...

Quark Xpress 3.0: designer's tool. (new version of Quark Inc.'s desktop publishing software)
August 13, 1990... ANNOUNCED LAST MARCH at the Seybold Seminars, Quark Xpress has been anxiously awaited by users for several months. It has undergone a long period of testing, first in a series of beta-test versions and then at several hundred service bureaus....

Apple courts personal printer market: offers 4-ppm Personal LaserWriters SC and NT. (pages per minute) (product announcement)
August 13, 1990... Offers 41pm Personal LaserWriters SC and NT Just after we went to preSS with our July issue, Apple finally announced its long-awaited (and long-rumored) low-cost LaserWriters. just as the Laser-Writer II line is a modular family built...

Upgrade for the IINTX. (Apple LaserWriter IINTX laser printer) (product announcement)
August 13, 1990... Upgrade for the IINTX. The 8-ppm LaserWriter IINT and IINTX will still be offered, at prices of $4,499 and $5,999 respectively. The NTX has been upgraded with a new ROM that contains PostScript version 51.8. Improvements in 51.8 include...

Competition. (Apple's laser printer competition)
August 13, 1990... Competition. We have noted before that Apple now has real competition in its lucrative printer business. For example, GCC just announced an Adobe PostScript printer for the Mac market priced at $2,399. A Laserjet IIP with 2 MB of memory, the...

HSD brings 1,500-dpi scanner to Macworld: 8-bit gray-scale scanner for Mac market. (HSD U.S. Inc.'s Scan-X Professional 1,500 dots per inch scanner.) (product announcement)
August 13, 1990... 8-bitgray-seale scanner for Mac market HSD U.S., a manufacturer of peripherals for Sun Microsystems, Next and Apple Macintosh computers, introduced a 1,500-dpi gray-scale scanner at Macworld last week. The Scan-X Professional is based on...

Making sense of the Digital World. (Digital World Conference 1990)
August 13, 1990... IT IS ALWAYS difficult to summarize a successful conference in a written report. The most important things-the interaction, the discussions spawned by the presentations, the flow of ideas, the new inspirations-do not lend themselves to easy...

Apple's software gallery. (display of Macintosh multimedia applications) (product announcement)
August 13, 1990... Apple sponsored a daring and effective demonstration of digital technology for the Macintosh. it filled a large room with Macintoshes and a variety of multimedia applications, and then left them unattended for visitors to try themselves. In...

Next, Inc.: a glimpse through the mist. (prototypes of Next products)
August 13, 1990... The phrase "A glimpse through the mist" usually means a glimpse into the past. However, in the case of Next, we think it means a glimpse into the future. There were things happening in Next's demonstration area at Digital World that we had...

Quark Xpress 3.0: layout-driven designer's tool. (includes related overview article)
August 13, 1990... WE SOMETIMES classify publishing applications according to where they fall along a style spectrum, with layout-driven pieces (display ads, brochures, magazines) at one end and highly structured technical documents (like mil-spec manuals) at...

Producing an article with Quark Xpress. (desktop publishing software)
August 13, 1990... Structure. We began the production run by establishing our basic preferences for units of measure, overall page area and so forth. one preference told Xpress to create an automatic text container on every page. Most important from our point...

Adobe advances Illustrator, ATM: editable PostScript likely to result. (Adobe Systems' Illustrator 3.0 and Adobe Type Manager 2.0) (product announcement)
August 13, 1990... Perhaps prodded by the specter of competition from Microsoft, Adobe Systems continues to push its technology ahead at an impressive rate. The latest evidence is found in a dramatically improved version of Illustrator and a substantially...

Xerox unveils Mac Ventura Publisher: Sun version to follow in 1991. (Macintosh version of Xerox's Ventura Publisher 3.0) (product announcement)
August 13, 1990... Sun version to follow in 1991 Ventura Software finally took the wraps off the long-awaited Macintosh version of its Ventura Publisher software at Macworld in Boston. The new version is the fourth operating system platform-and the first non-PC...

Solutions converts Mac, Windows 3.0. (Solutions Inc. routines convert graphics between Microsoft Windows 3.0 and Apple Macintosh formats)
August 13, 1990... Solutions, Inc., has developed routines for converting graphics between Macintosh and Windows 3.0 formats. These routines, which run on the Mac, have been licensed to Microsoft for use in PowerPoint; they are available for license to other...

Video production arrives on desktop: a Macworld preview.
August 13, 1990... A Macworld preview The top circles of the broadcast video world are looking at the migration of publishing and printing tools to the desktop and thinking, This may be happening to us." We believe they are right. The analogy between the...

Sun marches toward desktop market: tiny, powerful workstation, broader distribution. (Sun Microsystems' SPARCStation IPC)
August 13, 1990... Tiny, powerful workstation broader distribution After some detours over the past COUple of years, Sun Microsystems is once again focused on moving Unix workstations beyond the specialized scientific/engineering market and into the broader...

Apple and Outbound: accord over portables. (Outbound Systems Inc.'s Macintosh Portable clone)
August 13, 1990... Gentleman's agreement- reached Apple Computer has reached a "gentleman's agreement" with Outbound Systems in which Apple has agreed not to pursue any legal action regarding Outbound's possible infringement of Apple's patented technology. The...

Verity ports Topic software to Mac; to cooperate with Oracle in marketing for desktop platforms. (Verity Inc.'s Topic data base management software) (product announcement)
August 13, 1990... To cooperate with Oracle in marketing for desktop platforms Moving quickly to establish itself as a leader in text-retrieval technology, Verity has ported its software to yet another platform and established another cooperative marketing...

PageMaker clone coming soon; developed by UK display-ad composition vendor. (Serif Ltd.'s PagePlus desktop publishing software)
August 13, 1990... Developed by UK display-ad composition vender Serif Ltd., the UK finn that developed a display-advertising composition system for GB Techniques, has announced PagePlus, a new desktop publishing program that, in Serif's words, "looks just...

Altsys Type-3-to-Type-1 converter upgraded; Metamorphosis 1.5 adds hinting, converts fonts from anywhere. (PostScript font conversion software package) (product announcement)
August 13, 1990... Altsys, the developer of Fontographer, has released an upgrade to Metamorphosis, a program that converts "all existing PostScript fonts" in Adobe's Type 3 format into Type 1 format and vice versa. Metamorphosis generates outlines that can be...

Ex-Apple executives form new firm; General Magic working on new pointing device.
August 13, 1990... General Magie working on new pointing device Bill Atkinson, Andy Hertzfeld and Marc Porat, long-time Apple employees, have left to form an Apple spinout company called General Magic, Inc. The new company is reportedly working on some type...

Vendor directory to be revised; last chance for the 1990 directory. (Seybold Vendor Directory)
August 13, 1990... Last chance for the 1990 directory The Seybold Vendor Directory--a free publication for subscribers-is being revised for a new edition to be published in October. Vendors that have moved, that intend to move or whose address or phone...

Blown disk blues. (broken Jasmine Technologies Inc. disks must be serviced by other sources since Jasmine went bankrupt)
August 13, 1990... Jasmine was once one of the most aggressive players in the Macintosh add-on market. Alas, the firm filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 1 1 earlier this year. For any owner of a jasmine hard disk, this was bad news indeed: the Jasmine extended...

Lessons in document interchange at NIST: a look at current options. (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
August 13, 1990... A look at current options Few issues were resolved at the recent "Document Processing" workshop sponsored by the National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST), but the day-long session clarified some of the confusion regarding...