The Seybold Report on Desktop Publishing articles from February 1995

The Seybold Report on Desktop Publishing archives from February 1995

Encyclopedias on CD-ROM: the market advances. (Evaluation)
February 6, 1995... Cd-rom encyclopedias continue to be a showcase for electronic publishing, ranking among the most successful electronic publications, both technically and in terms of unit sales. Important progress has been made since we last reviewed them as a...

Desktop video production: usable quality, moderate prices. (includes related articles on Media Concept's QuickTime TV and on QuickTime: The Official Guide for Macintosh Users by Judith Stern and Robert Lettieri)
February 6, 1995... Video on the desktop has changed from an avant-garde technology to a practical communication tool over the past year. It is now a reasonable proposition to shoot, digitize, edit and output your own movies--in the factory or office, if not yet...

Microsoft Network embraces the Net: more hospitable to the Internet.
February 6, 1995... In our report on the Microsoft Network (see Vol. 9, No. 5), we suggested that it is probably too late for anyone (even Microsoft) to launch a new online service of the CompuServe-America Online variety. To survive, we argued, online services...

In defense of Bob (wag your tail, Rover). (Microsoft's GUI)
February 6, 1995... Anyone who has watched an uninitiated and uninstructed person try to cope with a Macintosh (let alone a Windows machine) knows that things that seem natural to those of us accustomed to working with these beasts do not seem nearly as natural to...

FreeHand 5.0: new home, new features. (MacroMedia's draw software)
February 6, 1995... Wasting no time after its acquisition of Altsys, Macromedia has announced that FreeHand is back in the drawing-program race. Version 5.0, announced at Macworld, matches all of Adobe Illustrator 5.5's features and has some extras of its own,...

Special on Illustrator for FreeHand users. (Adobe Illustrator 5.5) (Product Announcement) (Brief Article)
February 6, 1995... As Macromedia was announcing the release of version 5.0 of FreeHand (see preceding story), Adobe was reporting a special upgrade offer for Adobe Illustrator to registered owners of Macromedia FreeHand software. Until March 31, 1995, by...

HSC acquires Cool Tools plug-ins for Illustrator; 18 drawing aids developed by Intrepid. (HSC Software)
February 6, 1995... HSC Software has acquired a set of 18 vector-based plug-in filters for Illustrator for the Macintosh, developed by Intrepid Systems of Philadelphia. The set, which had been named Sree's Cool Tools after its developer, Sree Kotay, will be...

Color, 'collaboration,' catalogs and more: additional Macworld news.
February 6, 1995... In last month's report from Macworld (Vol. 9, No. 5, p. 28), we covered the highlights of the expo held in San Francisco Jan. 4-7: new drawing programs; an image-manipulation and special-effects package; a thermal-transfer printer; a low-cost...

Sony camera to use P1394 'FireWire.' (Texas Instruments' chipset) (Brief Article)
February 6, 1995... The emerging P1394 fast-serial-bus standard picked up another endorsement when Sony decided to use Texas Instruments' P1394 chipset in a future digital camera. The camera is to be targeted for the computer video market, Sony said. P1394,...

CeBit ready for 680,000 from 100 countries. (trade show) (Brief Article)
February 6, 1995... An estimated 680,000 visitors from 100 countries are expected to attend the annual CeBit show in Hannover, Germany, March 8-15, with a record 6,000 exhibitors signed up. The U.S. will have the largest foreign contingency, with 450 companies...

Willow Six goes after soft-copy proofing: calibrates display based on printing conditions, ambient lighting. (Willow Six Technologies' MonitorRightproof color calibration device) (Evaluation)
February 6, 1995... Despite the proliferation over the past few years of computer display calibration devices, some of which are even tied into color management software, the ability to make judgments about the color of images on a computer display--commonly known...

Spyglass's Enhanced Mosaic 2.0. (browser software) (Internet News) (Product Announcement) (Brief Article)
February 6, 1995... Spyglass has announced version 2.0 of its Enhanced Mosaic browser software, which includes support for commerce over the Internet. Mosiac 2.0 includes a standards-based security and payment-processing framework that Spyglass claims allows...

McGraw-Hill adds Internet catalog. (TitleBank) (Internet News) (Product Announcement) (Brief Article)
February 6, 1995... With more than 8,800 products, McGraw-Hill is one of the most active Internet publishers. To help users find what they want, the company has created the Titlebank catalog, which contains a complete list of publications from the Professional...

Global Village to use EINet. (Global Village Communication's OneWorld) (Internet News) (Brief Article)
February 6, 1995... Global Village Communication has licensed Enterprise Integration Network's MacWeb and WinWeb client software for use in its OneWorld Internet connectivity package. OneWorld, announced earlier this month, is designed for small to medium-size...

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's...Super Mosaic. (Luckman International) (Internet News) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
February 6, 1995... Luckman International has announced a consumer-oriented version of Mosaic called Super Mosaic. Based on Enhanced Mosaic from Spyglass, Inc., Super Mosaic is designed to be an easy-to-use solution for people who want to get on the Internet's...

Verity agents on the Internet. (Topic Information Server) (Internet News) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
February 6, 1995... Verity has introduced the Topic Information Server, a World Wide Web server with a search engine that combines hypertext and information agents. The combination enables users to link data with hypertext or search for items using information...

Secrets are out. (the Department of Energy files on OpenNet) (Internet News) (Brief Article)
February 6, 1995... Thousands of previously classified documents have found a home on the Internet. The Department of Energy has released such a list of documents to OpenNet, an Internet database accessed by entering the DOE's home page. Among the files...

Bank of America uses Netscape. (NetSite Commerce server software) (Internet News) (Brief Article) (Brief Article)
February 6, 1995... Bank of America has announced it will provide businesses with a secure way of doing electronic commerce on the Internet by using Netscape's NetSite Commerce server software, which includes Netscape's Secure Sockets Layer based on RSA Data...

Intel, AMD settle suits. (Brief Article)
February 6, 1995... The long-running dispute between Intel and Advanced Micro Devices has been settled out of court. The two firms agreed to drop all litigation (including appeals and antitrust cases) against each other, and promised not to start any new suits for...

Peripheral-bus battle looms. (Brief Article)
February 6, 1995... Now that pci has won the internal-bus war, the next computer-industry standards battle, we expect, will be over fast i/o. The contenders include: * Serial storage architecture (ssa). Developed by IBM, ssa has garnered support from 15...

Pentium price cuts. (Brief Article)
February 6, 1995... Electronic News reported that Intel will chop prices on its cpu lineup on Feb. 1 (just after this issue goes to press). Intel typically announces new prices each quarter, and did not deny the numbers that EN published. However, Intel did...

X Consortium, CI Labs cooperate. (Component Integration Laboratories) (Brief Article)
February 6, 1995... Component Integration Laboratories and the X Consortium have joined forces to try to achieve cross-platform interoperability between their respective standards, OpenDoc and Fresco. They are currently examining the technologies to determine...

Wacom ArtPad KT-0405. (drawing tablet) (Evaluation)
February 6, 1995... We recently had a chance to try Wacom's latest drawing tablet, the 4"x5" ArtPad KT-0405. It is aimed at part-time artists and office workers, with its smaller tablet size (which takes less desk space than full-size tablets), and it emphasizes...

Aether Madness.
February 6, 1995... Aether Madness, by Gary Wolf and Michael Stein, Peachpit Press, 297 pages, $22 Unlike most books of advice about the wired world, this one doesn't tell you how to get hooked up. Instead, it describes some of the best sites to visit once you...

HTML Manual of Style.
February 6, 1995... HTML Manual of Style, by Larry Aronson, ZD Press, 132 pages, $20 It's not difficult to put your own home page on the World Wide Web. All you need is a bit of http-server software, which you can download from the Net; or you might find space...

Mac update news service. (Design Tools Monthly newsletter, Design Tools Monthly Updater Disk) (Brief Article)
February 6, 1995... Design Tools Monthly is a newsletter devoted to bug fixes, upgrades and new products for the Macintosh. Editor Jay Nelson scans several trade publications (e.g., MacWeek, Wired, U&lc) and abstracts the news. Judging by the sample issue we saw,...

Microsoft Autoplay for Windows 95. (Brief Article)
February 6, 1995... Microsoft Autoplay for Windows 95. Microsoft has unveiled its own technology, called AutoPlay, for making cd-rom-based titles and games install and run automatically. AutoPlay will be included in the Windows 95 operating system. To run a title...

DayStar investor: anon. (DayStar Digital) (Brief Article)
February 6, 1995... DayStar investor: anon. DayStar Digital said that it has obtained an $8 million investment package, a combination of debt and equity, from a high-tech company that requested anonymity. All DayStar would say was that its investor's interest was...

Corel drops prices. (of Draw 3.0 and 4.0, Ventura 4.2, PhotoPaint 5.0 Plus, Ventura 5.0 upgrade) (Brief Article) (Brief Article)
February 6, 1995... Corel drops prices. Corel has cut the prices of much of its line: cd versions of Draw 3, $99; Draw 4, $195; Ventura 4.2, $99; PhotoPaint 5 Plus, $99 and the Ventura 5 upgrade, $99. To increase the base of cd users, Corel has priced diskette...

Coolscan price cut. (Nikon's scanner) (Brief Article)
February 6, 1995... Coolscan price cut. Nikon recently slashed by 31% the price of its 35mm Coolscan scanner. The new suggested retail prices of $1,600 for the internal model and $1,800 for the external model became effective Jan. 1.

PageTools for Windows. (Extensis' PageMaker Additions) (Brief Article)
February 6, 1995... PageTools for Windows. Extensis announced that it will deliver the Windows version of PageTools in February. PageTools for the Macintosh, a set of ten PageMaker Additions, was reviewed last August (see Vol. 8, No. 12, p. 22). The Windows...

MathEdit 3.0. (K-Talk Communications) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
February 6, 1995... MathEdit 3.0. K-Talk Communications has updated MathEdit for Windows. Version 3.0 isn't simply a port of the older dos product, but was redesigned to run fast under Windows, K-Talk said. Equations can be numbered (and automatically renumbered)...

Netscape moves. (new address) (Brief Article)
February 6, 1995... Netscape moves. Note the new address. Netscape Communications, 501 East Middlefield Road, Mountain View, CA 94043; phone (415) 528-2619, fax (415) 528-4120.

Streamline 3.1 for Power Mac. (Adobe Systems) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
February 6, 1995... Streamline 3.1 for Power Mac. Adobe has announced version 3.1 of Streamline for the Power Mac, its raster-to-vector conversion program. The main advantage is speed where, Adobe says, it runs three times the speed of a 68040 processor found in a...

HP cuts DeskJet prices. (Brief Article)
February 6, 1995... HP cuts DeskJet prices. Hewlett-Packard has reduced the prices of its DeskJet 1200C and 1200C/PS printers, effective Jan. 1. The 1200C dropped from $1,700 to $1,250, while the PostScript 1200C/PS fell from $2,480 to $2,000. HP said it expected...

1,200-dpi Xante printer for $3,495. (Accel-a-Writer 812) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
February 6, 1995... 1,200-dpi Xante printer for $3,495. Xante has introduced a 1,200x1,200-dpi, 8.5"x14" laser printer for $3,495. Called the Accel-a-Writer 812, it is based on the 8-ppm Canon LBP-EX engine and uses a 33-mhz AMD 29030 risc processor with 16 mb of...

Dataproducts adds Typhoon 16. (network laser printer) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
February 6, 1995... Dataproducts adds Typhoon 16. Dataproducts has added the Typhoon 16 to its network laser printer line. The fifth Typhoon, it features 600-dpi resolution, an 11"x17" full-bleed image area, 16-ppm print speed, a 10.5-sec. time to output the first...

Canon BubbleJet for $399. (BJC-4000 color ink jet printer) (Brief Article)
February 6, 1995... Canon BubbleJet for $399. Canon has lowered the price of its BJC-4000 color ink-jet printer to $399, with a likely street price of $350. Canon also announced the development of a new color print film in which the printer prints on the back...

Summagraphics ships color plotter. (SummaJet 2) (Brief Article)
February 6, 1995... Summagraphics ships color plotter. Summagraphics has begun volume shipments of its SummaJet 2 color ink-jet plotters. Starting at $2,800, the four-model family features refillable and interchangeable print cartridges. Summagraphics also...

Corel's Photo Library features 20,000 photos: high-res color photos on 200 CDs. (Product Announcement) (Product Announcement)
February 6, 1995... Looking for that perfect photograph? You may have to look no further than Corel's Stock Photo Library. The newest addition to its Professional Photos product line, the library includes 20,000 high-resolution color graphics housed on 200...