The Seybold Report on Desktop Publishing articles from November 1992

The Seybold Report on Desktop Publishing archives from November 1992

Seybold San Francisco '92: overview and color issues. (summary of feature article)
November 2, 1992... NOWADAYS, THE DIFFERENCE between a desktop system and a high-end dedicated system is more one of market orientation than quality. The SSF event therefore covers the full spectrum of products and prices. This year's event gave us an...

Status report on the revolution. (desktop publishing industry) (summary of feature article)
November 2, 1992... SEVEN YEARS AGO, we witnessed the beginning of a revolution as the computer industry and publishing industry merged in a collision that turned the publishing industry upside down, spawned desktop publishing and forever changed computing....

The challenge of color imaging. (Photo CD technology) (summary of feature article)
November 2, 1992... ALTHOUGH THE INDUSTRY has been experimenting with the use of desktop tools for placing color photographs into documents, we are now just on the verge of mass-market technologies that play well across the entire publishing spectrum. Photo CD,...

Five years ago. (Nov. 2, 1987)
November 2, 1992... Volume 2, No. 3 (Nov. 2, 1987) In this issue, we continued our coverage of the 1987 Desktop Publishing Conference held earlier in the month. We covered a variety of topics, including workable networked publishing systems, desktop...

Seybold San Francisco '92: overview of the industry and progress in color. (desktop publishing industry) (includes related article on Seybold San Francisco '93)
November 2, 1992... THE PUBLISHING WORLD continues to change, and to participate in shaping those changes is among the most exciting challenges of our time. Wrestling with change is at the heart of our annual fall conference, and this year's Seybold San...

The desktop revolution turns seven: a progress report from SSF '92. (Seybold San Francisco conference) (includes related articles on Apple's desktop publishing products and printer R.R. Donnelley)
November 2, 1992... The following article consists of an expanded version of Jonathan Seybold's speech to the opening session of the Seybold San Francisco conference, supplemented with illustrations and examples drawn from discussions that took place in the...

New generation of technology turns the publishing world on its ear, again.
November 2, 1992... The publishing world is beginning to realize the implications of a Digital World. While desktop publishing provided a wake-up call of sorts for traditional publishers, the merging of computer and broad communications technology and skills...

The challenge of color imaging.
November 2, 1992... Color Management: The Plot Thickens TO ANYONE FOLLOWING the publishing market, it is readily apparent that color imaging is an area of intense, rapid technological development and an area that presents many challenges and opportunities....

Beyond screening: other PostScript quality issues. (PostScript page description language)
November 2, 1992... IF WE GOT ONE key message from the PostScript Color Screening Shootout, it is that it is indeed possible to produce high-quality color using PostScript devices. The tests files were immensely complicated and designed to show problems when...

Color screening shootout results. (Seybold San Francisco 1992, desktop publishing)
November 2, 1992... The Color Screening Shootout that took place in conjunction with Seybold San Francisco '92 ended with a report from our panel of experts in a lively session on Thursday, Sept. 24. A full review of the project and the panel's comments appears...

Photo CD captivates audience. (Eastman Kodak Co.'s Photo CD Access imaging software demonstration at Seybold San Francisco 1992)
November 2, 1992... IN OUR OCTOBER ISSUE, anticipating the excitement Photo CD would generate in the market, we presented an in-depth look at the technology and its application in professional imaging, publishing and the graphic arts. When we wrote that article...

New digital tools: changing roles and relationships.
November 2, 1992... THE DIGITAL IMAGING technologies that are increasingly becoming a driving force in the publishing industry (as well as in the office and elsewhere) are having a dramatic effect on the working roles and business relationships of those involved...

Color output. (color image processing and printing products)
November 2, 1992... ColorAge, Inc. (CAI) shows direction ColorAge, Inc., formerly known as Custom Applications, Inc. (but still CAI to those who prefer acronyms), made its debut under its new name at Seybold San Francisco. The name change was made to...

Microsoft's Windows for Workgroups debuts. (The Latest Word) (Product Announcement)
November 2, 1992... Simple but powerful networking, MAPI, OLE 2.0 Microsoft recently briefed a group of analysts about its workgroup strategy and its new product, Windows for Workgroups. What it has devised should be of great interest to publishers who have...

Monotype amnesty for service bureaus: upgrading while becoming legal. (Monotype Typography's licensing program for Classic Fonts and Adobe Systems Inc.'s products) (The Latest Word)
November 2, 1992... Upgrade while becoming legal Saying that it wants to take into consideration "the economic and operational challenges unique to service bureaus," Monotype Typography announced a two-part program for service bureaus (including in-plant...

Commentary: Apple engineers its way to success. (Apple Macintosh Powerbook and Apple Macintosh Powerbook Duo portable computers) (The Latest Word)
November 2, 1992... We were recently invited to Apple Computer for a typical analysts' briefing, where we spend a half day being shown new computing hardware going to market (see article at right). We were so impressed by the level of ingenuity and prowess in...

Apple's new products. (Apple Macintosh Powerbook 160 and 180 portable computers, Apple Macintosh Powerbook Duo and Duo Dock, Apple Macintosh IIvx microcomputer) (The Latest Word) (Product Announcement)
November 2, 1992... Powerbooks. As noted in our commentary at left, Apple has a new set of Powerbooks whose main features are a shadow-mask, gray-scale display with brightness and contrast adjustment, and a video-out port. The video port supports all Apple and...

Looseleaf comparisons from Color Resource. (Color Desktop Publishing Annual specifications for desktop publishing) (The Latest Word) (Brief Article)
November 2, 1992... Annual book plus update subscription The Color Resource has published the first Color Desktop Publishing Annual, a thick looseleaf volume of comparative specifications for a wide range of desktop publishing products. The book contains...

Pages' innovative system nearly ready. (Pages Software Pages by Pages document processing software) (The Latest Word) (Product Announcement)
November 2, 1992... Impressive user interface; 4 Design Models to be shipped with system Pages Software, which provided impressive demonstrations of its concepts 18 months ago, is nearly ready for beta testing of its Pages by Pages system for production of...

Ventura-to-Frame filters hit the market. (Ventura Publisher, Frame Technology's FrameMaker; Rosetta Stone Software's VP Interpreter) (The Latest Word)(Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
November 2, 1992... Two companies have recently introduced software that let FrameMarker import Ventura Publisher documents. One is Rosetta Stone Software, whose VP Interpreter turns Ventura files into Frame's general-purpose Maker Interchange Format (MIF). VP...

Right firm, wrong photo. (Management Graphics' Sapphire slide recorder) (Correction Notice)
November 2, 1992... Last month we inadvertently used the wrong photo of Management Graphics' new Sapphire slide recorder. This is the correct photo of the desktop device.

Production note.
November 2, 1992... For research and cross-referencing, editors used Odessey Development's Isys text retrieval software to access a Seybold Report database. Word for Windows 2.0a was used to convert all source files from both the Mac and the PC and to generate...

Torque shows parallel RIP. (Torque Systems' RipServer PostScript raster image processor computer system) (The Latest Word)(Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
November 2, 1992... Torque Systems, which debuted its distributed multiprocessing software last February at the Seybold show in Boston (see Vol. 6, No. 7, p. 37), now has several applications running: a PostScript RIP, a set of Photoshop filters and 3D...

LaserTools scales type for WordPerfect: WP 5 utility bundles ATM, fonts. (Laser Tools Corp.'s PrimeType font scaler; Adobe Type Manager) (The Latest Word)(Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
November 2, 1992... WP 5 utility bundles ATM, fonts LaserTools Corporation has begun shipping PrimeType, an on-the-fly font scaler for WordPerfect 5.0 and 5.1 (DOS) and WordPerfect for Windows. Both the standalone and network versions of WordPerfect are...

VL-bus standard adopted by PC makers: supplement venerable AT-bus. (approval by members of Video Electronics Standards Association) (The Latest Word)
November 2, 1992... Supplements venerable AT-bus Members of the Video Electronics Standards Association recently approved the formal definition of a high-speed auxiliary data bus for microcomputers called the VL-bus. The VESA is a nonprofit organization...

Sun joins Fortune 500. (Sun Microsystems Inc.) (The Latest Word) (Brief Article)
November 2, 1992... For the first time, Sun Microsystems appeared in Fortune magazine's listing of the "Global 500" largest corporations in the world. It ranked 425th. Sun was ranked as the second-most-profitable company, as a percentage of assets and sales,...

Design pack. (Microsoft Corp.'s Microsoft Publisher Design Pack and CD-ROM Edition add-on software) (The Latest Word)(Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
November 2, 1992... Microsoft has two addons for its low-end Microsoft Publisher product line: the Microsoft Publisher Design Pack and the CD-ROM Edition 1.0. The Design Pack contains more than 100 pieces of clip art, five True-Type headline fonts from...

A rose is a rose. (Macintosh Corp. renamed Sixty-Eight Thousand Inc.) (The Latest Word) (Brief Article)
November 2, 1992... Recently, Macintosh Corporation, a public Utah corporation that owns a California subsidiary named Sixty-Eight Thousand Inc., announced that it would reincorporate itself as a Nevada corporation named Sixty-Eight Thousand Inc. Got that? ...

PostScript screening book. (Adobe Press' PostScript Screening: Adobe Accurate Screens) (The Latest Word) (Brief Article)
November 2, 1992... Adobe Press has published PostScript Screening: Adobe Accurate Screens, by Peter Fink. The 192-page book explains PostScript screening technology in a prepress and print production context. It is priced at $24.95 ($31.95 in Canada) and is...

TIFF to be updated. (Aldus Corp.'s Tagged Image File Format 6.0 specification) (The Latest Word) (Brief Article)
November 2, 1992... Aldus is working on Version 6.0 of the Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) and has released specifications of the upgrade to developers. The upgrade will add support for JPEG compression and process color (CMYK descriptions of color files)....

Radius adds DSP card for Rocket. (PhotoBooster digital signal processing accelerator for Radius Inc.'s Rocket graphics coprocessor) (The Latest Word)(Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
November 2, 1992... Radius has joined the DSP bandwagon that we described last month (see Vol. 7, No. 2, p. 42). At the Seybold San Francisco show, it announced a DSP card called PhotoBooster that plugs into the Radius Rocket accelerator card. The daughtercard...

Canon develops counterfeit protection. (Counterfeit Tracing Code System and Bank Note Recognition System) (The Latest Word) (Brief Article)
November 2, 1992... Canon announced that it has developed two new ways to combat the illegal copying of currency, securities and other official documents. The first is the Counterfeit Tracing Code System, which adds a non-visible code to every copy. The code...

Digital Delivery offers CD-ROM lock. (DataMaster Encryptor and Digital Key data security software, Direct Delivery order software for compact disk read-only memory systems) (The Latest Word) (Product Announcement)
November 2, 1992... Unlock multiple products with one key Digital Delivery, Inc. has announced a technology that allows customers to use a single password to unlock several software products at once on an encrypted CD-ROM. It is designed to be more...