The Seybold Report on Desktop Publishing articles from August 1996

The Seybold Report on Desktop Publishing archives from August 1996

Chronicling a new revolution. (Internet publishing supplanting desktop publishing as focus of Seybold Report on Desktop Publishing)(From the Editor) (Internet/Web/Online Service Information)(Editorial)
August 12, 1996... The desktop publishing revolution that we have chronicled over the past ten years continues to run its course, but--let's be honest--it no longer is the primary driver of innovation that it once was. There's a new revolution a-brewing, one that...

Ventura 7: Corel starts all over again. (Corel Systems Corp's reengineered DTP software) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
August 12, 1996... GIVE MICHAEL COWPLAND CREDIT: He loves a challenge. When the CEO of Corel bought Ventura from Xerox in 1993, he acquired a languishing product owned by 400,000 disenfranchised customers. The challenge: to win back their loyalty and restore...

Pitango Clickworks: multimedia authoring for designers. (Pitango Inc's Clickworks)(includes related articles on the history of Scitex Inc, system requirements for Clickworks) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
August 12, 1996... ONE MIGHT think Scitex is an unlikely source for a hot multimedia authoring tool, but the prepress powerhouse has formed a new subsidiary, called Pitango, whose product, Clickworks, is attracting serious attention. What does Scitex bring to...

JVC sues Quark over Xposure. (DTP software) (Industry Legal Issue)
August 12, 1996... JVC Labs, the software developer working on retouching software that Quark was supposed to market as Xposure, filed in July a multimillion-dollar suit against Quark, saying that Quark has breached its contract and given up on the product....

Texture is shipped, Mac version on the way. (FutureTense's Web authoring software)(Product Announcement)
August 12, 1996... Last week, FutureTense formally began shipments of Texture 1.0, the first page design program for Web publications to go beyond the limitations of HTML. Aimed at artists and designers, it requires no programming or scripting, yet can achieve...

ViaWeb: shortcut to opening a Web-based 'store.' (Company Business and Marketing)
August 12, 1996... Let's suppose you have a product that you want to sell via the World Wide Web. Perhaps you already know how you're going to draw potential customers to your site, and what you want to do is to set up shop and start taking orders as quickly as...

Fractal Detailer adds painting for 3D models. (from Fractal Design)(Product Announcement)
August 12, 1996... Fractal Design has added a painting tool for working with 3D models to its stable of graphics products. Called Detailer, it is being positioned as a companion tool to any 3D modeler to paint color, light and texture onto 3D objects. Steve...

French firm to unveil animation package. (PaceWorks introduces its Dancer animation software)(Product Announcement)
August 12, 1996... A French company with an R&D office in California is ready to introduce a 2D animation package with a simple user interface and features to enable precise synchronization. The product, called Dancer, is being introduced at Macworld by...

Akimbo trots out Web authoring tool. (Akimbo Systems Inc's Globetrotter) (includes related reader poll)(Product Announcement)
August 12, 1996... Doesn't it feel like 1986, when a new desktop publishing program appeared every month? This month's WYSIWYG HTML editor is Globetrotter from Akimbo, owners of the FullWrite compound document processor for Macs. FullWrite, you may remember, had...

Golive Web authoring debuts in Germany. (from Gonet Communications of Germany)(Product Announcement)
August 12, 1996... Yet another interesting Web authoring tool for the Macintosh surfaced at the Digital Media World Fair in Berlin, held June 18-20. Called Golive, the product was developed by Gonet Communication, of Hamburg, Germany. Gonet Communication was...

New horizons teams with Duke, Real Media. (New Horizons introduces its Info-Connect Web Publisher)(Product Announcement)
August 12, 1996... Product creates HTML pages directly from an editorial or classified system At the recent Nexpo newspaper show, New Horizons introduced Info-Connect Web Publisher, the result of a venture with Calliope, a software development company founded...

HexMac extends HexWeb capabilities. (HexWeb XT 2.0, HexBase 2.0 introduced)(Product Announcement)
August 12, 1996... The latest version of HexMac's Web publishing database, HexBase 2.0, was shown at Nexpo sporting several new features. HexMac has integrated Bitstream's TrueDoc technology to allow HexBase to produce dynamic HTML with real fonts. HexBase...

Polaroid adds two SprintScan models. (Polaroid Corp's SprintScan 35 Plus and SprintScan 35 LE slide scanners introduced)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
August 12, 1996... Polaroid has extended its SprintScan family of 35mm desktop scanners by introducing two new models, one below and one above the price and specifications of the original SprintScan 35. The SprintScan 35 Plus is the higher-end model, extending...

Seagate to make Jaz cartridges. (for Iomega Corp's 1GB Jaz drive) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
August 12, 1996... Seagate Technologies, one of the largest makers of Winchester disk drives, has begun making removable cartridges for Iomega's 1-GB Jaz drive. It expects to hit full volume production this fall. This should result in plentiful supplies of the...

VDSL takes on cables. (NEC will develop very-high-speed digital subscriber line chipset)(This Month in the Industry) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
August 12, 1996... NEC recently announced that it will develop a chipset for VDSL (very-high-speed-digital subscriber line) telephone service. Unlike ADSL (see Vol 10:9), wich operates at speeds up to 6 Mbps over copper wires up to 8 km long, VDSL will run up to...

PowerPC claims speed lead. (IBM announcement on fastest PowerPC 604e processor)(This Month in the Industry) (Product Information)(Brief Article)
August 12, 1996... IBM reported that it now has a 225-MHZ version of the PowerPC 604e processor. (For comparison, Intel's Pentium Pro chip now tops out at 200 MHZ.) IBM also said it expects to hit 300 MHZ next year. Motorola, which usually joins IBM in making...

Low speed videoconferencing. (Silicon Vision develops new video camera and camera-computer interface)(This Month in the Industry) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
August 12, 1996... Most videoconferencing setups require high-bandwidth communications. But start-up Silicon Vision has attacked the problem with a redesigned video camera and camera-computer interface. The result, according to a story in Electronic News, is...

Up next: gigabit Ethernet. (formation of the Gigabit Ethernet Alliance) (Technology Information)(Brief Article)
August 12, 1996... Now that 100-megabit-per-second (Mbps) Fast Ethernet is well established, its time to look toward the next speed level. Last month, a group of chip makers and networking vendors formed the Gigabit Ethernet Alliance. Members of the Alliance...

Internet fax can slash rates. (NetCentric Corp fax alternative)(Internet News) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
August 12, 1996... Taking its cue from the explosion of Internet phone technologies, NetCentric Corp. is working to use the Internet as a cheap alternative to long-distance fax services. The firm plans to team with local Internet service providers, allowing users...

DEC offers alternative. (Alta Vista is first product of new Internet software division)(Internet News) (Product Information)(Brief Article)
August 12, 1996... Digital Equipment has formed a software division to market Internet-related software, starting with AltaVista, the search engine developed by Digital and used at its Web-crawling site. AltaVista is offered in personal, workgroup and enterprise...

Sun will add digital verification to Java applets. (planned upgrade of Java Developers' Toolkit)(Internet News)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
August 12, 1996... Sun Microsystems, responding to concerns about the security of its Java programming language, plans to update the Java Developers' Toolkit to support digital signatures. The encrypted signatures, which will accompany applets when they are...

Task force considers sale of Internet addresses. (proposal from Internet Engineering Task Force)(Internet News) (Internet/Web/Online Service Information)(Brief Article)
August 12, 1996... Developers and entrepreneurs are snatching up Internet addresses at an alarming rate, leading the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to consider allowing the market to set prices for new addresses. Currently, the only cost of registering an...

Macromedia licenses TrueDoc. (announcement by Bitstream)(Internet News) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
August 12, 1996... Bitstream has landed another major licensee of its TrueDoc font technology in Macromedia, which plans to incorporate it into future products.

PCDocs teams with InContext, Jetform on authoring system. (SpiderDocs Web authoring software introduced, distribution deal with Macnica Inc to sell Japanese version of InContext's WebAnalyzer)(Internet News)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
August 12, 1996... Document management vendor PC Docs has announced a new Web publishing package, called SpiderDocs. The package, which combines the Docs Open document management system with the InContext Spider authoring tool and the JetForm electronic forms...

EFF, software firms offer online privacy standard. (ETrust formed by Electronic Frontier Foundation, CyberSource and Portland Software)(Internet News) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
August 12, 1996... The Electronic Frontier Foundation, along with several online businesses, has formed ETrust, a "voluntary private rating system" to monitor the privacy and security of online transactions. The system, formed in conjunction with Portland...

Vignette buys Cnet tools. (purchases Prism from Cnet Inc)(Internet News) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
August 12, 1996... Vignette Corp., a start-up founded last fall in Austin, TX, could be a Web management software firm to watch. Vignette just purchased PRISM, the content management and page-generation system developed by Cnet. Cnet made an undisclosed...

Turning TVs into monitor. (WebTV Networks Inc plans Internet appliance variation)(Internet News) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
August 12, 1996... WebTV Networks, Inc., has developed a variant on the much-touted Internet appliance. Its hardware will give TV screens a sharper picture, making them better suited for activities such as Web browsing. The hardware, which both Sony and Philips...

HP to offer Web-based printer control. (Web-enabled version of JetAdmin planned)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
August 12, 1996... HP bets that intranets will boost distributed printing This month even our printer stories are about the Internet. Hewlett-Packard has formed an Internet Solutions Operation in Boise, ID, home of the LaserJet group, and is promising a...

Extensis acquires Fetch. (product acquisition from Adobe Systems Inc) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
August 12, 1996... Extensis Corporation has acquired the rights to Adobe Fetch, the digital media database application that enables users to manage, locate and retrieve digital content. Extensis is the well-known maker of application-enhancement software...