The Seybold Report on Desktop Publishing articles from March 1996

The Seybold Report on Desktop Publishing archives from March 1996

Bell Labs has Java competitor. (code-named Inferno programming language) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 25, 1996... According to a report published in the San Jose (CA) Mercury-News, Bell Labs researcher Dennis Ritchie has revealed that the company is working on an alternative to Sun's Java programming language. The project, code-named Inferno, has been in...

PLS delivers PLWeb-CD. (Personal Library Software's publishing tools)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 25, 1996... Personal Library Software is delivering a publishing tool that allows users to initiate a full-text search across CD and Web-based documents via the same query. The query is submitted to a Web browser and simultaneously searches local and...

Fractal acquires Ray Dream. (Fractal Design to acquire Ray Dream) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 25, 1996... Graphics software heavyweight Fractal Design has signed a letter of intent to acquire Ray Dream, a developer of 3D illustration and animation software. Fractal will pay 3.25 million shares of its common stock, worth about $47 million. The...

SGI to acquire Cray Research. (Silicon Graphics) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 25, 1996... Silicon Graphics and Cray Research have entered into a merger agreement under which SGI will acquire the outstanding shares of Cray. The acquisition shows SGI's desire to expand its scalable architecture into the domain of large-scale,...

Kodak ink-jet has HP engine. (Kodak's Digital Science 1000PS printer uses HP DesignJet 755CM engine)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 25, 1996... Kodak's new Digital Science 1000 PS large-format ink-jet printer combines the HP DesignJet 755CM's engine with a color-management suite comprising ICC profiles, PostScript Level 2 color-rendering dictionaries, Kodak Precision device color...

Passive ISDN card for $200. (Motorola designs low-cost ISDN cards) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 25, 1996... Motorola has issued a "reference design" for a low-cost ISDN card. (A reference design is intended not to be a product, but to show OEMs how to use Motorola chips in their products.) The card does not have much in the way of electronics on it,...

Canon lowers Bubble Jet prices. (on BJC-4100, BJC-610 color printers) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
March 25, 1996... Effective March 1, Canon has lowered the prices of its BJC-4100 and BJC-610 color Bubble Jet printers. The estimated prices are $329 for the 4100 (a $50 reduction) and $469 for the 610 (an $80 reduction).

Topic is veritably everywhere: CD-ROM, the Web, Intranets, etc. (Verity's Topic search engine marketed to saturate everywhere) (includes related article on Verity alliances) (Product Information)
March 25, 1996... AS MORE DOCUMENTS of all kinds become available in electronic form, the value of finding the right documents and the right information at the right time has become incalculable. Full-text indexing is one obvious way searchers can find needles...

Polaroid unveils camera: million pixels for $3,000. (PDC-2000 digital camera)(Product Announcement)
March 25, 1996... Hand-held device automates functions Polaroid has entered the hand-held digital camera market with an innovative model that offers an attractive combination of ease of use, quality and low price. Called the PDC-2000, it captures a million...

Sony enters hand-held camera market at $2,000. (Sony Electronics' DKC-ID1 digital camera, DKR-700 digital recorder)(Product Announcement)
March 25, 1996... 768x576 resolution, LCD viewfinder Sony Electronics vaulted into the hand-held digital camera market with a $2,000 model featuring a resolution of 768x576 and a color LCD viewfinder that allows the user either to view the target or to display...

New HP Color LaserJets sport enhanced engine. (Color LaserJet 5, 5M printers)(Product Announcement)
March 25, 1996... Lower costs; 1,200-dpi equivalent output Despite the lack of success with its previous model (the Color LaserJet), HP has announced a second generation of color laser printers. The Color LaserJet 5 and 5M feature HP's Image Resolution...

HP announces low-cost 300-dpi color scanner. (Scanjet 4P desktop color scanner)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
March 25, 1996... Single-pass scanner for $500 At an analyst briefing in Santa Barbara in February, HP unveiled its latest desktop color scanner, the Scanjet 4P. This 24-bit single-pass color (8-bit gray-scale) scanner offers 300-dpi optical resolution --...

Web consortium proposes style sheets. (World Wide Web Consortium, vendor-neutral style sheets for HTML documents) (Technology Information)
March 25, 1996... Publishers to be able to attach formatting hints to Web documents In a move that could help restore some of the separation of form and content in Web documents, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has published a draft specification for...

Java books arrive. (O'Reilly's Java in a Nutshell series) (Technology Information)(Brief Article)
March 25, 1996... For those interested in the Java programming language, O'Reilly has released the first of a planned series of books, called Java in a Nutshell, an allusion to the definitive Nutshell series of Unix reference works from O'Reilly. The price is...

Delighted with SiteMill. (Adobe Systems' Web site administration tool) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
March 25, 1996... Ever since we first saw a demo of Adobe SiteMill, we've been anxious to get our hands on it. Our interest has been partly journalistic and partly selfish: We have long suspected that our own Web site could use a good housecleaning. Last week,...

MTroplis is released. (MFactory's multimedia software shipped)(Correction Notice)
March 25, 1996... In our Feb. 19 issue, we incorrectly stated that MFactory's MTroplis 1.0, a tool for creating cross-platform multimedia titles, hadn't been shipped. In fact, the product was released in January. We regret the error.

Font Box fixes, organizes Mac fonts. (Insider Software's Font Box font utility) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
March 25, 1996... Sold on CD-ROM or downloaded from the Net; floppy only by request We recently ran across a Macintosh font utility that service bureaus and art departments ought to know about: Font Box, by Insider Software. It scans all the font files on your...

Writer's Edge takes thesaurus to next level. (IdeaFisher Systems' Writer's Edge) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
March 25, 1996... Free-associate to lose writer's block Thesauruses are in every writer's kit. Good word processors include them along with spelling checkers and word-count routines. But most word books stick to synonyms and antonyms. Sometimes that's not...

LinkStar automates Web site hosting. (Site Launcher Web publishing, Internet access software) (Product Information)
March 25, 1996... It's getting harder to be an Internet access provider. Not only has AT&T entered the game with an offer of free connect time, but also the level of service that users expect is rising. Take LinkStar's Site Launcher, for example. Site...