The Seybold Report on Desktop Publishing articles from February 1990

The Seybold Report on Desktop Publishing archives from February 1990

Letterform distortion on the Macintosh. (in various text manipulation packages)
February 5, 1990... Letterform Distortion on the Macintosh FANCY HEADLINES are an important tool for advertising, package design and page layout--a vital weapon in the designer's armamentarium. Besides, they are fun to use. We took a look at four Macintosh...

The ISO standard for font information. (font attribute description)
February 5, 1990... The ISO Standard For Font Information THE FREEWHEELING market may not be ready to think about it, but some companies would like to see a stable standard for describing font information in a document. We are speaking here, not about the format...

Calendar of coming events, 1990. (addendum to the calendar of events published in Vol.4, No.5)
February 5, 1990... Calendar of Coming Events, 1990 Since we printed our 1990 calendar of events (see Vol. 4, No. 5, p. 30), we have learned of several more events that bear notice. They are listed below. We also have been advised that we printed the wrong...

Briefly...;Lasergraphics lowers price. (of its digital film recorder)
February 5, 1990... Briefly . . . Lasergraphics lowers price. Lasergraphics has lowered the price of its LFR digital film recorder by $1,000. The PC version carries a list price of $8,950; the Mac version (Quickdraw) is $8,750. An LFR configured to support both...

Ledger printer under $10K. (QMS 2200 Model B) (product announcement)
February 5, 1990... Ledger printer under $10K Ledger printer under $10K. QMS has announced the first under-$10,000 11" X 17" PostScript printer, the 2200 Model B. The machine features an Adobe PostScript interpreter based on a 16-MHz 68020 processor with a 4-MB...

PostScript-PCL switcher. (interface box from Applied Computer Sciences) (product announcement)
February 5, 1990... PostScript-PCL switcher PostScript-PCL switcher. Applied Computer Sciences has built an interface box that lets an HP LaserJet or compatible printer alternate between PCL and PostScript commands. The switchover is controlled by simple...

Graphic file translator. (XPort from Micrographx) (product announcement)
February 5, 1990... Graphic file translator Graphic file translator. Micrographx announced that it is shipping a program called XPort, which translates graphics files from one format to another. In the first release, XPort can handle CGM, AutoCad DXF, Digital...

Aldus subsidiary in France.
February 5, 1990... Aldus subsidiary in France Aldus subsidiary in France. Aldus France, a direct subsidiary of Aldus Europe, has been set up to promote and distribute Aldus's products in France. The general manager of Aldus France is Phillippe de Souza,...

Letterform distortion on the Mac: TypeStyler, LetraStudio, Smart Art, TypeAlign. (Software Review) (evaluation)
February 5, 1990... Letterform Distortion on the Mac: TypeStyler, LetraStudio, Smart Art, TypeAlign CREATING SPECIAL headlines has occupied a significant niche in the publishing equipment market for decades. There have been typesetting machines created...

TypeStyler: designer's tool. (Software Review) (evaluation)
February 5, 1990... TypeStyler: Designer's Tool Released last fall, TypeStyler has attracted a lot of interest because of its vast array of capabilities and its ease of use. It would clearly win the award for the flashiest product in this market, but it has a...

LetraStudio: freeform designer. (Software Review) (evaluation)
February 5, 1990... LetraStudio: Freeform Designer Although LetraStudio isn't new--and has been mentioned on occasion in these pages in the past--it has become much more attractive recently with the announcement by Letraset that it will support other fonts besides...

Smart Art: handy desk accessory. (Software Review) (evaluation)
February 5, 1990... Smart Art: Handy Desk Accessory Emerald City offers four different packages, all of which are desk accessories. The Smart Art series consists of three packages of capabilities that can be purchased separately or together. It includes Smart...

TypeAlign fits text to curves. (Software Review) (evaluation)
February 5, 1990... TypeAlign Fits Text to Curves The TypeAlign program adds a new dimension to the Emerald City stable: the ability to type text to fit irregular paths and to distort text freely by stretching handles. It also produces color. But like its Smart...

The ISO font standard: looking beyond the desktop. (includes related article on glyphs versus character sets and another on a possible truce between Apple/Microsoft and Adobe)
February 5, 1990... The ISO Font Standard: Looking Beyond the Desktop LONG BEFORE Apple and Microsoft dragged Adobe out into the open, there was sufficient momentum behind the idea of a single font standard to form a working group within the International...

First U.S. copyright for PostScript font. (The Latest Word) (column)
February 5, 1990... First U.S. copyright for PostScript font Adobe Systems announced that the U.S. Copyright Office has registered its copyright for a PostScript-language typeface program--that is, a font. This ruling is likely to have far-reaching--and, we...

Aldus to acquire Silicon Beach. (Silicon Beach Software) (The Latest Word) (column)
February 5, 1990... Aldus to acquire Silicon Beach Aldus and Silicon Beach have signed an agreement under which Aldus will acquire Silicon Beach. Aldus is currently engaged in "due diligence" and the transaction should close shortly. Silicon Beach's existing...

A standard Unix emerges. (The Latest Word) (column)
February 5, 1990... A Standard Unix Emerges Last year's Uniforum show left us doubting whether the Unix community would ever wake up to the needs of the broad office market. (See "Revenge of the Unix Nerds," Vol. 3, No. 7.) We saw a lemming-like mass migration...

DCS adds Ventura dbPublisher to line. (The Latest Word) (column)
February 5, 1990... DCS adds Ventura dbPublisher to line Digital Composition Systems, which sells the dbPublisher Professional database publishing program, has announced a new program called dbPublisher for Ventura. It automates the process of applying Ventura...

OSF eyes proposal from heavies. (Open Software Foundation) (The Latest Word) (column)
February 5, 1990... OSF eyes proposal from Unix heavies Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Locus and Transarc have submitted a proposal to the Open Software Foundation (OSF) to provide an integrated set of software components for distributed multivendor networked environments....

Style guide for online documentation. (The Latest Word) (column)
February 5, 1990... Style guide for online documentation The Wiley publishing company has produced a book, Designing and Writing Online Documentation, by William Horton, that discusses the peculiar requirements of documents intended for electronic distribution....

Motorola unveils the 68040. (This month in the computer industry) (column)
February 5, 1990... Motorola Unveils the 68040 Motorola recently unveiled its 68040 processor. The company had released the specifications for the chip last March; many analysts felt the early announcement was an attempt to steal some of Intel's thunder from the...

Microsoft releases OS/2 2.0 tool kit. (This month in the computer industry) (column)
February 5, 1990... Microsoft releases OS/2 2.0 tool kit. Microsoft has begun mailing our first copies of its Software Development Kit for OS/2 2.0, which is due for release later this year. The developer's kit includes sample code, 32-bit optimizing C compiler,...

HP claims fastest box. (fastest 68030 workstation) (This month in the computer industry) (column)
February 5, 1990... HP claims fastest box Hewlett-Packard has unveiled the fastest 68030 workstation to date. The new 300-series workstations are the first to be powered by he 50-MHz 68030 CPU from Motorola and claim a raw processing power of about 12 million...

Bernoulli Box for NetWare servers. (This month in the computer industry) (column)
February 5, 1990... Bernoulli Box for NetWare servers Iomega Corp. said that it will offer a Novell-certified device driver that lets a Bernoulli Box be used as a shared disk under NetWare. Current Bernoulli Boxes offer 44-MB removable disks in single- or...

Nonvolatile RAM storage in laptop unit. (This month in the computer industry) (column)
February 5, 1990... Nonvolatile RAM storage in laptop unit Psion PLC has announced a notebook-size computer that uses nonvolatile "flash memory" chips and a variant of MS-DOS that emulates a disk filing system using RAM. The laptop computer is expected on the...