The Seybold Report on Desktop Publishing articles from March 1995

The Seybold Report on Desktop Publishing archives from March 1995

Software Partners marks up PDF documents. (Adobe Acrobat's Re:mark portable document format add-on)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
March 6, 1995... Software Partners, a developer of general business software, has announced Re:mark, an add-on tool for Adobe Acrobat for marking up and reviewing documents. Re:mark extends Acrobat with markup features such as freeform ink drawing,...

Getting the World Wide Web ready for business applications. (Quarterdeck's Web Server for Windows, O'Reilly & Assoc's WebSite server software) (includes related article on Web standards)
March 6, 1995... The World Wide Web has established itself as the best vehicle yet for many Internet applications, including publishing. But doing business on the Web has faced shortcomings that make many applications difficult or impossible to accomplish....

Scanning business cards: a time saver or waster? (Corex CardScan, Electronic Document Technology's BizCard Manager, Umax Technologies' BizCard Reader and CypherTech's CypherScan LE and 2000) (Hardware Review)(Evaluation) (Evaluation)
March 6, 1995... Although the ability to scan business cards is not new, the ability to do it somewhat accurately and consistently is. Scanning business cards is becoming a bona fide business. The Rolodex may be a thing of the past as more than a few companies...

Trends in the CD-ROM market: news from Intermedia '95. (includes related article on new CD-ROM titles, StarPress' Material World and Viridis' Eco East Africa)
March 6, 1995... The key trends may sound the same -- faster, cheaper and more versatile cd-rom drives -- but there was some other interesting news at the annual Intermedia show in San Francisco last month. It included the unveiling of Apple's videoconferencing...

Turn your Mac into a virtual meeting room; Apple wows Intermedia with QuickTime Conferencing. (operating system extension)(Product Announcement)
March 6, 1995... Need to discuss a job with distant colleagues? Don't fly, drive, take the elevator or pick up the phone. Instead, Apple wants you to have an electronic "face-to-face" virtual meeting through your Macintosh, over existing networks. QuickTime...

Quark to try its hand at image manipulation; Japanese-developed Xposure features object-oriented retouching, painting. (Quark Xposure image editor)(Product Announcement)
March 6, 1995... Quark is getting ready to offer an image-manipulation program to challenge Photoshop and the other market leaders. To be called Quark Xposure, it was announced at Macworld in Tokyo last month and will make its U.S. debut at the Seybold...

Live Picture price cut 75%; new target users; $995 in U.S. aimed at creative artists and designers; new version due out soon.(Live Picture's image processing package)
March 6, 1995... Live Picture, Inc. (formerly FITS Imaging), has slashed the price of its Live Picture software by 75% in a dramatic effort to reposition the product for a much broader market. The new price anticipates the company's plans to unveil a new...

Surety keeps electronic files secure; authentication technology proves documents haven't been altered.(Surety Technologies' Digital Notary System)(Product Announcement)
March 6, 1995... What can you be sure of in a digital world? People of good or evil intent can change pictures (with photo-retouching software), words, even the date and time that a file was apparently created or edited. Is your document in its original form or...

Bitstream adds fonts to Web documents: an odd direction for HTML? (TrueDoc font imaging technology licensed to Accent Software International for utility)
March 6, 1995... Bitstream plans to license its TrueDoc font imaging technology to developers of Internet publishing and viewing tools. In a recent demonstration, it was integrated into Spyglass's Enhanced NCSA Mosaic browser to show how documents published on...

Xpress to support ColorSync 2.0: also retains EfiColor through 1995. (Quark will add Apple's color management technology)
March 6, 1995... Quark is taking an aggressive step forward to provide better color management for Xpress users. It recently announced that it will be adding support for Apple's ColorSync 2.0 color management to Xpress (at least to the Mac version) some time in...

Oracle begins Internet initiative: multimedia, hypertext development tools. (World Wide Web Interface Kit, Oracle Media Objects and HTML converter for Oracle Book viewer)
March 6, 1995... Oracle continues to expand aggressively its software offerings in the direction of multimedia and online publishing. Its latest moves, announced last month at Intermedia, include tools for Internet connectivity and publishing and a set of...

Freedom of Press Level 2 released by ColorAge. (Freedom of Press Pro 3.3 PostScript enhancement)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 6, 1995... ColorAge has released Freedom of Press Pro 3.3 with PostScript Level 2 functionality and support for Agfa and Management Graphics film recorders and Encad and HP large-format plotters. Available only for dos, it sells for $1,495. Plotter...

Macromedia launches Authorware 3.0; multimedia developers' tool gets better text support, integration with Director.(Product Announcement)
March 6, 1995... Macromedia has announced Authorware 3.0, an upgrade to its popular multimedia authoring tool that makes it much more suitable for text-intensive documents, such as electronic catalogs or reference titles. Authorware's increased text support...

HP rolls out the LaserJet 5P and 5MP; inexpensive, feature-packed laser printers for home or office.(Product Announcement)
March 6, 1995... Whenever Hewlett-Packard introduces a new printer, it's news. For some time now HP has set the standard for desktop printers in virtually all but the lowest of the low end of the market. Printer introductions, on the other hand, have gotten...

Corel on licensing binge. (receives rights to Alpha Software's Fulcrum text program and Microstar's Near & Far text marking tool)(Brief Article)
March 6, 1995... In recent months, Corel has made several licensing deals that indicate it intends to remain a serious player in the document processing software market. It licensed first Fulcrum's full-text retrieval engine, then the Windows database...

Tektronix releases more Phaser color printers: one step closer to mainstream color. (Phaser 240 thermal transfer, Phaser 340 solid ink printers)(Product Announcement)
March 6, 1995... Tektronix has announced the Phaser 340, a fast, solid-ink-based color printer that pushes it ahead by at least a nose (or perhaps more) in the ongoing race to bring color to mainstream office printing. It also has announced another...

No CD-ROM drive? Try pix on a floppy; Seattle Film Works scans film onto 1.44MB disk; alternative to Photo CD? (PhotoWorks and PhotoWorks Plus image editor, Commix's Floppy Shots and other PC photo processing technology)(Product Announcement)
March 6, 1995... For all those people whose pc lacks a cd-rom drive, Seattle FilmWorks has an alternative to Photo CD. For $13.90, SFW will develop and print a 24-exposure roll of film, scan the images and compress them onto a 3 1/2" floppy disk. What's more,...

Folio, Lotus integrate Views, Notes: marrying electronic publishing to collaborative groupware databases. (Folio Fusion meshes Folio infobases with Notes databases)(Brief Article)
March 6, 1995... Satisfying large customers that invest heavily in both Lotus Notes and Folio Views, Lotus and Folio have collaborated to create Folio Fusion, a suite of tools for integrating Folio infobases with Lotus Notes databases. Although there is...

Chinon plans to enter digital camera market; release planned for third quarter. (Chinon America's Electronic Still Camera)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement) (Brief Article)
March 6, 1995... Chinon America has announced that it will produce and market a 24- bit digital still camera designed to work with pcs and Macintoshes. The Chinon Electronic Still Camera will offer three resolution modes, with the highest supporting 640x480...

Dycam upgrades digital camera software.(Brief Article)
March 6, 1995... Dycam has upgraded the software used with its digital cameras. The new version has a greater gamma range, improving the display of shadowed images. New editing tools make it easier to adjust brightness, contrast and sharpness. Graphical online...

FlexCap gives video capture a new twist: another use for your PC's drive bay. (VideoLabs digital video camera)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
March 6, 1995... Once upon a time, a computer drive bay was used exclusively for storage media. Floppy and hard disk drives were followed by drives for tapes, cd-roms, magneto-optical media and so forth. Nikon changed that mindset a couple of years ago with...

Polaroid previews low-cost photo scanner: fall debut, sub-$1,000 price likely.(Brief Article)
March 6, 1995... At the PMA show last month, Polaroid was test-marketing a small scanner that would work with the output of its cameras. The unit is quite compact -- physically it is about the size of a card file box -- and the largest picture it can accept is...

Apple LaserWiter 16/600 PS Fax. (Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
March 6, 1995... Sending back the LaserWriter 16/600 PS printer that Apple loaned us is going to be hard. Although our shop runs mainly on Windows pcs and a Novell file server, we've learned to like this LaserWriter. It provides excellent functionality at the...

Cleaning your Windows. (Quarterdeck's Clean Sweep) (Software Review)(Evaluation)(Brief Article)
March 6, 1995... Uninstalling a Windows program can be a chancy thing. Not only do you have to track down all the code and data files, but you also have to find and expunge the references to those files in the various Windows control files: win.ini and its kin....

Mosaic In a Box. (Spry Internet and World Wide Web software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 6, 1995... Individuals looking for an easy way to get onto the Internet should check out Spry's Mosaic In a Box, a one-disk solution for getting local access to the Internet and the World Wide Web. Mosaic In a Box includes software for creating local...

Hearst's multimedia newsstand. (Hearst New Media & Technology Div's Multimedia Newsstand service)(Brief Article)
March 6, 1995... The first fruit of Hearst's New Media & Technology Division is "The Multimedia Newsstand," an interactive shopping and entertainment service specializing in magazine subscriptions, videotapes and audio cds. Alfred Sikes, division president and...

Lotus Notes and the Web. (InterNotes Web Server)(Brief Article)
March 6, 1995... Lotus is working to integrate its Notes document and business process management technology with the Web's hypertext document viewing technology. Eventually, the intersection of these technologies could prove interesting as a way for business...

PC server from Cykic. (Cykic Software's Hype-It 1000 World Wide Web software)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
March 6, 1995... Cykic Software has released Hype-It 1000, a software package for creating and managing a Web server on a pc. A Hype-It server supports up to 30 simultaneous connections. Hype-It sets up and maintains databases for e-mail messages, user...

Microsoft picks Fulcrum. (Fulcrum Technologies' SearchServer text package used in Microsoft Network)(Brief Article)
March 6, 1995... Microsoft has selected Fulcrum Technologies' SearchServer text-retrieval software for use in the Microsoft Network. Content providers can use SearchServer to index their material so that users can perform full-text, content-based searches.

Commerce kits. (Electronic Publishing Resources' Internet security developer's kit)(Brief Article)
March 6, 1995... InfoWorld has reported that Electronic Publishing Resources, a Santa Clara start-up, is working on a developer's kit for managing secure transactions on the Internet. By year-end, EPR plans to offer technology for protecting intellectual...

WordPerfect, Delphi use Netscape. (Netscape Communications' Netscape Navigator included in WordPerfect Internet Publisher for Windows and Delphi Internet Services)(Brief Article)
March 6, 1995... Novell has licensed Netscape Communications' Web browser for inclusion in several of its product lines. The first Novell product to feature Netscape Navigator will be WordPerfect Internet Publisher for Windows, which was announced shortly after...

Ventana signs with Spyglass. (Ventana Communications Group obtains rights to bundle Spyglass's Enhanced Mosaic package with its Internet books as Ventana Mosaic)(Brief Article)
March 6, 1995... Ventana Communications Group has licensed Spyglass's Enhanced Mosaic for distribution with its Internet-related publications. The software, to be dubbed Ventana Mosaic, will enable users of Ventana's cd-rom titles to follow hyperlinks directly...

Apple sues Intel, Microsoft. (copyright infringement complaint relating to San Francisco Canyon Co's development of QuickTime for Windows)
March 6, 1995... Apple has filed a copyright infringement suit against a small contract programming house, San Francisco Canyon Company, and two of its customers, Intel and Microsoft. The suit claims that key portions of Apple's source code to QuickTime for...

Intel announces P6. (successor to the Pentium)(Brief Article)
March 6, 1995... On February 16, Intel formally announced the P6 microprocessor, the next-generation cpu chip that promises to be two to three times as powerful as the Pentium. P6-based computers should arrive on the market in less than a year. The new chip...

Judge rejects Microsoft ruling. (U.S. District Judge Stanley Sporkin torpedos consent decree between Justice Dept and Microsoft)(Brief Article)
March 6, 1995... On Feb. 15, U.S. District Court Judge Stanley Sporkin rejected the consent decree signed by Microsoft that would have ended the federal antitrust investigation against the world's largest software company. Sporkin raised questions about whether...

Adaptec adds ATM. (network adapter cards)(Brief Article)
March 6, 1995... Adaptec, which is best known as a maker of scsi controllers, has entered the asynchronous transfer mode (atm) network card business. The lineup includes models for the pci bus, Sun's S-Bus and even IBM's MicroChannel Architecture. Pci-bus cards...

Another FireWire ally. (Fujifilm Microdevices supports P1394 serial bus in chips)(Brief Article)
March 6, 1995... Fujifilm Microdevices has said that it will make chips to support the P1394 serial bus (also known as FireWire). Fujifilm manufactures ccd arrays, image compression chips and pcmcia memory- card components -- all of which are crucial...

Play shows still-pix grabber for PCs; bundle includes Matisse, Morph versions. (Snappy frame capture device includes Gryphon's Morph 2.4 and Fauve's Matisse)
March 6, 1995... Play is offering a still-frame video grabber for pcs. Called Snappy, it is priced at $200. The digitizing hardware plugs into the pc's parallel port, and can in turn be fed video from any ntsc source, such as a vcr or camcorder. (Play's...