The Seybold Report on Desktop Publishing articles from May 1991

The Seybold Report on Desktop Publishing archives from May 1991

The ACE alliance and the battle for the professional desktop. (Advanced Computing Environment)
May 13, 1991... The ACE Alliance And the Battle for The Professional Desktop IF YOU HAD HOPED that the desktop computer industry was settling down to a stable, predictable pattern of growth, no such luck. The major players are jockeying for position in the...

CorelDraw: type effects, art on a PC. (Corel Systems Corp.'s CorelDraw 2.0 computer graphics software)
May 13, 1991... CorelDraw: Type Effects, Art on a PC THERE ARE SEVERAL illustration packages for the Microsoft Windows environment, but we have been particularly impressed by CorelDraw's type-manipulation tools. It offers an impressive variety of special...

LaserTools eases emulation headache; PC desk accessory switches between PostScript. LaserJet modes. (Laser Tools Corp.'s Printer Control Panel desktop accessory software for microcomputers) (The Latest Word) (product announcement)
May 13, 1991... LaserTools eases emulation headache LaserTools (Berkeley, CA) has announced Printer Control Panel, a PC-based printer management utility. The $149 program automatically switches PostScript printers to LaserJet emulation and back again after the...

Delrina plans pen interface for PerForm. (Delrina Technology Inc.'s PerFORM Pro forms generation software) (The Latest Word)
May 13, 1991... Delrina plans pen interface for PerForm Delrina Technology has begun developing a version of its forms-processing package that supports the forthcoming Microsoft Pen Windows operating system. Delrina's PerForm Pro is a leading forms package...

Battle for the 'professional desktop:' you can't tell the players without a scorecard. (includes related articles on Microsoft Corp. and AT&T's Unix System Laboratories Inc.)
May 13, 1991... Battle for the 'Professional Desktop' JUST WHEN YOU think you have the computer industry players, strategies and alliances pretty well figured out, the jockeying for position starts up again. The Microsoft/IBM split becomes a real...

A perspective on CorelDraw 2.0; professional art effects from a PC. (Corel Systems Corp.'s computer graphics software)(includes related articles on CorelDraw's Mosaic file manager, how article was produced on a microcomputer and Trace conversion program) (Software Review)
May 13, 1991... A Perspective on CorelDraw 2.0: Professional Art Effects from a PC Wave goodbye to those days--but not the equipment. Even with an AT (upgraded to 2 MB) and a LaserJet II (or a dot-matrix printer), CorelDraw 2.0 gives PC users type...

Meeting of the minds: the second annual Seybold Conference and DemoCenter. (June 4-6, 1991)(Digital World)
May 13, 1991... The Meeting Of The Minds It is an extraordinary gathering of leaders meeting to talk about the future. Leaders from the computer, publishing, entertainment, consumer electronics, film, video, broadcast production, education, music and visual...

The conference. (June 4-6, 1991)(Digital World)
May 13, 1991... The Conference Tuesday, June 4 - Thursday, June 6 The three-day program establishes a common understanding of critically important digital technologies, examines the emerging marketplace for digital technology applications and probes...

The DemoCenter. (June 4-6, 1991)(Digital World)
May 13, 1991... The DemoCenter Tuesday, June 4 - Thursday, June 6 The DemoCenter is the place to put into practice the potential of the Digital World. Attendees are encouraged to plug in, play and ponder the future. Finally, all the concepts,...

Font converters for TrueType: efficient batch conversion, but some quality problems. (Altsys Corp.'s Metamorphosis Professional 2.0 computer font and ARES Inc.'s FontMonger utility program for TrueType fonts) (Software Review) (The Latest Word)
May 13, 1991... Font converters for TrueType If you still harbored any doubts that TrueType fonts would be plentiful, you may let them go now. In April, two Macintosh font-format conversion programs, Altsys's Metamorphosis Professional ($149.00) and Ares's...

Accessories for low-cost Macs. (Radius Inc.'s Full-Page Display monochrome monitor, Apple's StyleWriter computer printer, Adobe Systems Inc.'s TrueType font and Apple's Personal LaserWriter LS computer printer) (Hardware Review) (The Latest Word)
May 13, 1991... Accessories for low-cost Macs When we got our Macintosh LC in January, we immediately took it home to put it through its paces as a heavily used personal system and test bed for complementary hardware we expected to receive. Radius...

Trapping program for EPS files: Macintosh software from PCC. (Professional Software Technology Inc. developing trapping program for Encapsulated PostScript files) (The Latest Word) (product announcement)
May 13, 1991... Trapping program for EPS files Professional Computer Center of Langhorne, PA, has developed a trapping program for EPS files. It runs on a Macintosh with 8 MB of memory. Targeted primarily at Scitex shops, it is designed to check and...

Kodak turns to Canon for digital color; offers two color copier/printers. (Kodak's ColorEdge 1525 and ColorEdge 1550) (The Latest Word) (product announcement)
May 13, 1991... Kodak turns to Canon for digital color Kodak recently introduced several new color copiers, including two digital models developed by Canon, one of which doubles as a color printer. The color machines are part of Kodak's strategy to become a...

Adobe interpreter ported to Peerless OS: operating system for print controllers. (Adobe Systems Inc.'s PostScript interpreter for PeerlessPage printer software) (The Latest Word)
May 13, 1991... Adobe interpreter ported to Peerless OS Adobe Systems has announced plans to port its PostScript interpreter to the i960 version of Peerless's printer operating system, PeerlessPage. The Peerless OS is designed to isolate printer language...

Toyo color picker for Japanese inks. (Toyo Ink Manufacturing Company Ltd. develops color picker software) (The Latest Word)
May 13, 1991... Toyo color picker for Japanese inks Toyo Ink Manufacturing, a leading supplier of printing inks in Japan, has developed an electronic color picker for Japanese desktop computers. The software includes 1,050 digitized color swatches, matched to...

Aldus ships update for Mac PageMaker. (PageMaker 4.01 desktop publishing software for the Apple Macintosh microcomputer) (The Latest Word)
May 13, 1991... Aldus ships update for Mac PageMaker Aldus is now shipping PageMaker 4.01 for the Macintosh, an update that brings the Mac version up to the level of the Windows version, introduced in February. PageMaker 4.01 fixes 4.0 bugs and optimizes...

Atari aims anew at 'professional' market: new hardware, host of software. (Atari Computer Corp.) (The Latest Word)
May 13, 1991... Atari aims anew at 'professional' market Atari Computer, which has been striving for years to increase its share of the publishing market, is making a new attempt based on new hardware, additional software modules and high-resoltuion output...

LaserJet family grows with LX-based IIIP; HP's latest has IIP engine with faster processor, HP PCL 5. (HP's laser printer) (The Latest Word) (product announcement)
May 13, 1991... LaserJet family grows with LX-based IIIP Hewlett-Packard has announced the HP LaserJet IIP, its second 4-ppm printer. The $1,595 IIIP is based on the same engine as the $1,295 IIP (the Canon LX), but it has a faster processor speed and a PCL 5...

HP adds plain-paper fax to LaserJet; option supports 300 dpi, PCL fonts. (HP LaserJet Fax facsimile transceiver, dots per inch, printer control language) (The Latest Word) (product announcement)
May 13, 1991... HP adds plain-paper fax to LaserJet Hewlett-Packard joined the world of plain-paper facsimile this month with its announcement of the HP LaserJet Fax. The $1,895 device is a Group III-compatible unit for use in conjunction with any HP LaserJet...

Third-party PCL compatibles released; Phoenix and Lincoln ship interpreters, controllers to OEMs. (Phoenix Technologies Inc., A.J. Lincoln and Company Inc.'s LincJet III emulator) (The Latest Word) (product announcement)
May 13, 1991... Third-party PCL compatibles released Phoenix Technologies has announced that it is now shipping its PhoenixPage PCL 5 interpreter to OEMs. Phoenix says the interpreter supports all imaging capabilities of Hewlett-Packard's PCL 5 page...

Barco, ETAP combine on high-res Windows: 24-bit color at 1,280 x 1,024 on a 20" calibrated screen. (Barco Inc. and ETAP develop Microsoft Windows graphical user interface-compliant display)
May 13, 1991... Barco, ETAP combine on high-res Windows Barco and ETAP Information Technology have joined forces to introduce a high-resolution, calibrated 24-bit color display system for PCs running Microsoft Windows. At the CeBIT show in Germany, the two...