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The Cornptrfcr Paper has done its usual excellent job on the biggest event of the yearfor Canadian Payroll programs: your annual survey. One slip, however — we are not "under new management. The original founder is still owner and president. gute a feat. PAY~ C , as far as we can determine, is the oldest Canadian microcomputer

payrollprogram around (more than 10 years). We have yet to encounter a company with less than 400 employees that can' t i mplement their payroll on PAY~ C fo r IBM compatibles. Payroll programs are essential in medium~ised businesses. With

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5) "Certain highWequency noise can travel through circuit paths, destroying integrated drcuits and printed arcuit board substrate s." Fact: PCB substrates are the nonconductive, fiberglass4ke materials on top of which conductive traces are run. The only thing which destroys these materials is heat — extreme heat caused by fire, or

lightning. 4) RMS (root-meanaquare) voltage (is] a kind of average that works when things follow the sin+wave form."

and online manual, we feel, for the first time, it worthwhile for companies with as few as three employees to use a program to calculate and track payroll. The interface has been engineered to be intuitbre for new c omputer u s er s a n d ef f i c i en t f o r experienced ones. The earlier-than-usual survey date surprised us at Maple Software, and the reviewer didn't get an opportunity to see our new release. Since the reviewer couldn' t sample PAY~ 6 .0, w e will send a fullfunction program to any of The Conrpufcr Paper'sreaders who refer to this issue and send arefundable $5.00 by May 1992. Please specify diskette format. Maple Software Ltd., 120 George Henry Blvd.; Suite 519, North York, Ontario, M2J 1G2. Tom Pike Marketing and Support Maple Software

Fact:RMS values may be derived for any periodic waveform. The only thing special about the sinewave is that it is common, and "true RMS" multimeters are calibrated to read correctly when the input is a sinewave.

Young Unclear on ACIKPC

In dosing, I would also hke to take this opportunity to set straight a few other misleading bits you have published.

I generally enjoy your publication, but last month's artides by Gordon Young (" What Bad Power Can Do to A Computer," and "AC Power Basics" ) were riddled with misinformation. S pecifically, I t ak e i ssue with t h e following quotes from Mr. Young's sr@des (in order of appearance): 1) "Power spikes, however brief, can destroy data in RAM or stored on disk and damage hardware — by crashing a disk head against a disk's magnetic medium, for

example." Fact: Power spikes cannot directly cause a head crash. While such failures do occur, they are the result of mechanical failures or collisions with foreign materials. 2) "The p ower supply filters can mistakenly think noise is a data signaL" Fact: Power supply filters are passive c omponents c a lle d c a p acitors a n d inductors. They cannot think anything. And, since the AC power lines supplying your computer have nothing to do with any kind of data signals, it would be ludicrous for anyone, thinking or not, to mistake anything on these lines for data.

5) "AC is standard in North America because it transmits best over long distances and does a good job running light bulbs and heaters." Fact: High voltage (low current) is what transmits best over long distances. AC is preferred because its voltage can be conveniently stepped up (for transmission) and down (for use) with transformers (which do not work with DC). As for running light bulbs and heaters, either form of power will sumice. In fact, DC might even be considered superior for lighting, as it does not flicker.

Noise on AC p ower l i nes may be "online" and "offiine." UPSes (in Gordon Young's article "Uninterruptible Power Supplies," March '92) are spurious. Mr. Young should have stuck to using SPS

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Interbase database engine products. According tothe company, upcoming Windows versions of Paradox, dBASE and Quattro Pro will include the Interbase local engine. Could these new developments be part of

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Ottawa Suslness and Oovernment Computer Show expands The annual business and government computer show held in the nation's capital every September is being expanded this year. More conferences,a larger software centre featuring developers who design applications specifically for the federal governm ent, and a series of free seminars with industry experts are on the menu for this 15th annual exhibition. More than 150 exhibitors — including WordPerfect, Symantec and Northwest D igital — are expected during the tw~ y show, tobe held September 80 and October 1 at Ottawa'5 Lansdowne Park. Contact Industrial Trade ac Consumer

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heavily into the pen-based computing sector. It is now selling the NCR Model Slwt5 range of pen-based computers as well Ias conducting needs analysis for potential peubased users, pilot programmes for thPcjse hnplementing pen systems 'for the first time, and project management of n ew information-gathering systems baakd around pen technology. Contact: Doug Smith at Rhltron on (416) 477-' 0460.

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A carpetstore ln a briefcaseT Just when you might have gotten used to thc idea of a sewing machine controlled by a PC (see March rssue), along comes a California company — known as Carpet Sculptures International (CSI) — loohng for franchisees who might be attracted to direct sales aad the concept of having "a carpet store in a briefcase." Actually, there are no carpets in the briefcase at all — merely a portable PC with hundreds of carpet designs on its hard disk and spedal software to allow customers to specify exactly what kind of carpet they want. The idea is that salespeople will drive their spedal CSI vans (containing some real carpet samples) to people's homes and then use CSI *s own custom software on a portable PC to let people see the widest possible array of carpet design "For the first time, consumers will be able to have a carpet salesperson show them a wide range of csxpets, styles and designs at the touch of a button and in the comfort of their own home or office," claims CSI president Volker Bauerle. "What's more, unlike a regular caxpet store that has only SO to 40 colors per style, our franchisees will be able to offer consumers 5,000 colors per style to choose from." If you fancy flogging computerized carpeting door-to-door„contact Tom Madden on (407) 241-2708.

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Toronto, ON~ new brochure isavanable that outlines the legal and ethical uses of software and the penalties for software piracy. Produced by the Canadian Alliance Against Software Theft (CAAST), It's Tisrc To Stop SoProarc Tlrcft is available free of charge to i n t e rested i n dividuals or organizations. To obtain a copy ofthe new brochure, contact CAAST at 415 Yenge Street, 10th Floor, Toronto, Ontario M5B 2E7. Tel: 416/59N$88; fax: 416/59L%84.

exfslng distributor and d eater network, and through distributor Ingram Micro. In a related announcement, IBM has announced the availability of Vision/1, a device that allows PS/1 computer monitors to accept standard broadcast, cable television, VCR, laser disc player and video camera input. IBM also announced a new CD-ROM drive aad a new SCSI (small computer system interface) adapter. IBM has also announced IBM Direct, a new option for customers to receive product iaformation directly from the

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Big Slue announced price reductions ranging from 19 percent to 42 percent on 44 of its 52 PS /2 models, incluhng cuts of up to 42 percent on its most popular models, the PS/2 Models 55 and 56. The company also announced that it will provide customers, at no additienal cost, with copies of OS/2 2.0 when they purchase PS/2 computers during 1992.

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Abbott Integration, a nevr wholesaler of customers will b e a b l e t o re c e i ve storage, peripheral aad upgrade solutions information and product literature, as well for the Apple Macintosh will soon be as referrals to dealer and retail locatioas. opening its doors in S.C.

Comprised mainly of exwmployees ef Adaxn Pexipherals' Richmond, B.C. ofiice, the company hopes to fill the void that was leftwhen Adam folded up shop sad moved operations to its Ontario office. According to spokesman Chris Hohaes, Apple andIBM now have an equal share in the computer hardware market, with 29 percent each. The balance is divided up ameag the MS-DOS compatibles and Unix workstations. That equatesto a lot of Macs and an excellent opportunity for us to sllpport them. Contacts Chris Holmes at 604r929-4989 or Noel Allen, 604t487-1746, for more infennahon.

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T HE COMPUTER PAPER APRIL'92 1 1 corporate vice presidents, word processing means never having to apologize for last minute corrections. To their secretaries it can mean trivial revisions that occupy the better part of a workday. The more sophisticated the software becomes, the greater our quest for perfection grows. Since we know the machine is incapable of mistakes, the possibility of a p e rfect document is always out there...somewhere. Too often we spend more time trying to find it than the document is worth. What's truly interesting about this quest for perfection i s t ha t w e a r e u s ing something non-human as a role model. Historically, you'd think we would have learned by now. If you' ve ever seen old film footage of feather&ad inventors flapping their arms in a desperate attempt to get .airborne, you know humans make rather poor (and silly looking) birds; and as far back as the 1950s time and motion studies told us that, compared to robots, human beings make very ineKdent assembly line workers. There's not much chance of humans themselves taking to flight, and probably little chance of us becoming mechanized assembly units, yet wecontinue to judge ourselves by nonhuman standards. No wonder we get frustrated when the accounting package we just purchased tells us we' re two dollars short. Even acknowledged experts in a field can feel the f rustration of computer competition. Until fairly recently, chess masters often declined an invitation to match wits with the machines, although many knew the early software was incapable of dealing with the classical offensive and defensive strategies of the game. Now that we' ve instructed some o f the m o r e sophisticated programs to watch for these moves, it's becoming a closer competition. Traditionally, creative playerscould save face by using innovative strategies to stump the computer's mathematical approach to chess. But because memory has become so inexpensive, and there are only a finite number of moves available on a chessboard, it's now conceivable to envision a computer whose memory contains every possible chess

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defeat as welL Again, we should have seen this coming. Even some of the first software packages available for chess contained a delay option enabling th e u se r t o s u p p ress the computer's instantaneous response. It' s ironic, but after designing the perfect electronic opponent for our entertainment pleasure, human players felt the need to make the machine wait a few seconds before making its move...just to make it appear somewhat human. Apparentlyno one wants to be considered a simpleton after spending an h our d evising the "perfect" move.

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For people easily frustrated, computers themselves are to blame. But the reality is that very few critical design flaws in the electronics world go uncorrected. Today' s marketplace is saturated with different brand names and overwhelmed with industry literature. Given the number of computer magazines and the level of awareness about the products, it's doubtful any unreliable computer could survive in the marketplace long enough to Rostrate a large number ofpeople. There are simply too many good systems out there to choose from. More often the hustrafion is due to the way we use the technology, not the way it's built. Unfortunately this distinction is lost somewhere when financial considerations and productivity issues are involved.

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means would they be mistaken as identical) with similar variables, control statements, procedures and function calls. Likewise, one could create a database system in FoxPro with no use of the programming language (this is a bit harder to do but still possible). It is the fruitful combination of programming language with database functions that provides the FoxPro 2 system with one source of its development power. FoxPro 2 is derived from FoxBase which is in turn a clone of dBASE III+. FoxPro 2 is a superset of dBASE IV implementing all of its commands (the few exceptions are easily emulated) and able to read its files directly (as well as dBASE III+). However, FoxPro 2 provides SQL and windowing features, popups, menuing, radio and push buttons, text/edit l i sts and o t her w i ndowing capalities that go well beyond the dBASE IV implementation in speed, features, and ease of development. FoxPro 2 provides its own types of index, memo, and compound index files whichare similar in function but much faster in operation t h a n t he i r dBA S E IV counterparts. FoxPro 2 currently only runs on PCs and LANs. However, Fox Software plans to have FoxPro 2 available for Windows, Unix, and Apple Macs. Since FoxBase already runs on Macs and in Unix these new versions will probably appear within the year.

Database design is crudal to understanding how FoxPro 2 expands the horizon of readAsrrite fikrs ln dBASE format. systems which can be run on a PC. This Publisher' Fox Software inc., 184 W. South understanding is important in downsizing Boundary, Perrysburg, OH 48551 efforts and general program/database Phone: (419) 874-0162 Fax: (419) development. The table below summarizes 8744878 two dimensions of what is really at least a Price Single user: List AS 705, Street four~ e n sional problem. $C540 The critical idea is this: when creadng LAN unlimited use: List SUS1205, database systems the effort required goes up Sheet gÃ00 exponentially with the size and complexity The FoxPro 2 Doveloismetvt Runtime license: List SUSSOO, of the system. Thus two separate and E llvlfollllQ l t Sheet g840 workable programs —say an order~try and FoxPro 2 provides a complete and Requires: A PC/XT with S12K and 8 MB of an invoidng system-are not equal in size disk on a hard drive and DOS 2.0 or to the combined program, which can take integrated development environment. From greater. A rec o mmended as much as four times longer to develop and the Command Window one creates and configuration would be a 888SX deliver. The key is that problems of data modifies databue tables, starts the program with 4 MB of memory and 20 MB and referential integrity are exponentially editor, launches programs for debugging or hard drive. FoxPro 2 will take related to the number of tables and fields in actual use, etc. {see figure at the top) . From the same Command Window one advantage of all the EMS memory the total system. you provide lt. The extended If one considers the increases in possible launches the development tools such as: version runs faster because of 82- relationships between two tables versus five I — the menu painter/generator, bit mode operations but requires a tables, one can get an intuition of the reality 2 — the screen painter/generator, 5 —the report formatter/generator, 386 processor with at least 2 MB of of exponential complexity. As a further 4 — the RUFBE (Relational Query By memory. The extended version ls example, it ha s been estimated that Example) dialog/generator, identical to the standard except for teeing referential integrity can add 5 — the label painter/generator, faster speed and larger operating 0-55% to the development time of a 6 — the program editor, capabilities (e.g., allows for 85000 database system alone. FoxPro 2's speed of memory variables instead of the development and operation lowers these 7 — the screen application generator, 8— the project manager. 3600 limit for the standard edition, requirements and hence widens the realm Readers familiar with the CLARION etc.). of possiMities. Heretofore, database software has been development system will recognize that these are all the tools required to develop a Othe speclmcetione in a losing race trying to stay up with the complete system. The painter/generator Maximum ¹ of records ln adatabase -1 billion sophistication, size, and complexity of tools are quite easy to use. They feature Maximumsize of a record - 4Kbytes programs demanded by end-users.With Maximum 8 cf Iekfs/record - 255 CASE software and database systems like quick~tart layouts to get one going; and intuitive point~dwlick mouse movements Maximum ¹ cf databases open at one time - 25 FoxPro 2, the tide may be turning to the or keystrokes for building the menu, dataMaximum number of files open at advantage of developers. Thus, before one time - 09 Maxhnum 8 of lines ln FoxPro 2, PC databases had practical limits entry screens or whatever is required. For example,in one of our projects, program - nolimit of 2540 tables and 20lk300 MB in sizeabout the middle cell in the table above. derks painted/created workmg prototypes Overview Now using FoxPro 2 clients can address of all the data~ntry screens and reports xPro 2 brings out the superhrtives so a pplications i n the out e r cel l s . they would be working with. This saved s ubstantial a m ounts o f d e sign a n d we might as well get the big ones out Users/developers will get good development time. The project manager is now: FoxPro 2 offers one of the best response times and, if combined with environments for PC database development CASE tools like Wallsoft's UI or Bytel's invaluable in keeping all parts of the system snd debugging. FoxPro 2's characterised Genifer, e v e n l o w e r de v e l opment organized and together. Developers will windowing feature is tops among PC times/costs. As we shall see below, on its soon get to know all the ins and outs of the l anguages fo r e a s e a n d s p e e d o f own FoxPro 2 provides a rich environment project manager. But the most f'requently used tools are for debugging — the Trace, development; most important of all, FoxPro with excellent tools for development. View, and Debug windows. 2 is the firstest PC database on the market, Used in tandem these windows mean particularly for singlemer applications. FoxPro 2 that code is quickly and easily debugged. Even in multiuser apphcations FoxPro 2 Database Ir Program Lrsniuaye is up to I S t i mes faster than AshtonFoxPro 2 i s b o t h a d a t abase and a This is very reassuring. In contrast with C or Tate/Borland's dBASE IV and eight times programming language. One can write PASCAL code, where memory model or pointer problems can wreak havoc on a faster than Borland's Paradox. in certain programs in FoxPro to calculate prime functions (see the August 1901 issue ofData numbers or do advanced statistics and not program schedule, FoxPro 2 is rock~lid. In sum, FoxPro 2 provides adevelopment BrrscdAdvisor for full details. Multiuser use any of the database features of the environment which for this reviewer is a joy databases were also tested in the March Sl, system. The resulting programs would to use. 1992 edition of PC Mrrgasirra FoxPro wins resemble PASCAL code (though by no on many of the speed teats.) In our own speed tests, FoxPro 2's Program Size and Man Years to Complete vs. Dalabase Size and Complexity prowess was confirmed. T h i s speed advantage cannot be taken too lightly Number of tables single user multiuser mulhtcomplex because FoxPro 2 provides a feature-rich Few tables 24 .1-.3 MY .5-2 KL 2- . 4 MY .6-2.5 KL .8 - 1 MY 2-10 KL database development environment and a Many Tables 54 0 .5-2 M Y 540 KL 7-2 MY 10-50 KL 1 - 5 MY 25-100 KL supersetof the dBASE command language. Large Tabkss 25-150 2- 1 0 MY 50400 KL 8-20 MY 80-500 KL 5-50 MY 100-2000 KL The blistering speed of data access in MY: man-years, KL thousandlines cfprogramcode FoxPro 2 allows the developer or user to

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The most important success factors for competing retailers are said to be location, location, and location, in that order. In database systems, aRer providing a base set of features,they are speed, speed, and speed. FoxPro 2 with its Rushmore technology is the fastest PC database on the market. It clearly outperforms by at least a factor of eight the two most popular PC databases: dBASE IV an d P a r adox. T hi s speed

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as "astonishing." What it means to the enduser is systems that work better because response time is nearly instantaneous for all but the most unusual queries. Even in the ave that a query is done on a large database (10,000 records+) without a complete index, FoxPro 2 can take advantage of partial indexes and other processing techniques so that queries are still 20-50% faster than b e fore. F or developers, the speed advantage opens up a whole array of commands and options that were being ignored because response time was to o s l ow . T h i s m e a n s f a s ter development dmes and the abiTity to offer clients a richer set of program features. You know a product is very good when it

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Because OS/2 2.0 test on betaOS/2 systems. a mple of this is GeoWorks, which will not i r o l to Windows, is fmnow aRowa wal~lgaer For the future, IBM has promised that fit g r un in a DOS session (at least in the current p o OS/2 wiR continue to support new versions beta.) like communicafions screen b l a nker/key-of DOS and Windows, induding features Egg T he DOS utRities induded with OS/2 s oftware. If your word + IIS I I ~ < I RNIII I I e board lo ckout utRity, found in Windows S.l. These indude OLE 2 .0 match stand&one versions of DOS, in- p r o c essor decides to steal these apphcations are no (Object Linhng and Embedding) and S2+it duding such utilities as the Microsoft Quick the bulk of the CPU thne while saving a file, longer necessary and do not pose a prob- Wmdows applications, as well as advanced BASIC interpreter. DOS u«Rfties which were your download in the communications pro- lem. features such as multiprocessnot induded, such as the DOS 5 task switch- gram (cspeciaRy at higher baud rates) will ing and extensions to IBM's SAA to support er, were exduded mainly because superior abort or get numerous errors. Coaatiualoxas 08F/1 functionality. OS/2 utilities are induded. DOS users will One addition to OS/2 2.0 which surpass- OS/2 has now positioned itself in direct IBM has indicated that it will concinue to find the OS/2 command line extremely fig- es W nidows S.O is support for previous ver- competition to Microsoft on two frontswork on new OS/2 xcleases to match the, demiTiar, as most DOS commands are support- sions of WindowL In Wmdows S.O, if a 2.x M n d ows and DOS. Given that Windows S.l velopments in Windows. This is a very healthy ed — the major difFerences are extensions, apphcation waa required, the user exited h a s been delayed until Apxfl, 1992 or later situation, since both systems will compete to not basic functionality. and reran Wmdows in Standard or Real a n d does not address the concexns of Win- bxmg the latest developments to users. modes to pexmit the application to run. d o wa users as completely as OS/2 2.0 does, For users whohave the storage and memOSI2 does Wlnaiowsl Even then, prior applications tended to gen- I BM's new system is weR~aitioned to meet oxy to handle it, 08/2 2.0 is an exci«ing alterOne of the most sigxnficant developments in crate UAEs often, forcing the user to shut t h c requirements of highercnd DOS/Win- native to DOS extensions while stiR prcscxv. this release of OS/2 is its stamless support down Windows a~ and again, possibly los- dows users both at home and at the office. ing ahnost complete compatibfiity with DOS of Wmdows 2~ and Sox programs via «Win- ing data which was being worked on while I t is p r obable that there will be three and Wfndowa IBM has obviously seen this redows emulator. While IBM has been late in the old apixhcation ran. tiers of users-lowe d users with XTs and lease of OS/2 as the Liat hope fgxr stahixtg a implementing Wmdowa support which alIn OS/2 2.0, not only dots the OS pro- 80286 machines who will continue to use daim in the Intel operating system market, lows Wmdows applications to bc run along- vide better support for applications prior to D O S and Wmdowa, midrange (power) users and haa met the challenge quite aucceasMly side DOS and OS/2 windows, this facility Windows S.O, but as mentioned above UAEs who will use OS/2 2.0, and highcnd users in the new version of OS/2. The pxfce of'the has bccn promised for the final version are handled without having to abut the Win- who will go for multiuser systems such as system — less than the combined cost of Winwhich wfil be available to stores. dows emulator down. The merc«st in pro. U N I X and Network operating syatenis such dows and DOS 5,and which wfilundoubtedly Applications such aa Ami Pro, Word for ductivity and of your work is aub- as OS/2 LAN Services or NOVELL Netware. be hcavRy discounted by retaRers to bocttWindows, ObjectViaion, Turbo C++ for Win- stanti«Ry increased. A number of the largest software compa- ~akes it well worth the second look • dows and Windows S.O applets such as Winniea in the market have committed to pro. dows Write, Terminal, Cfock and Solitairt All &IN and 0$2 dudng S24it OS/2 versions of theh soft- Akout the author: Cont TuÃochis a eoseultast run fine in OS/2 and show pexfoxmance in- Of course, OS/2 2.0 provides fuR support ware, induding Lotus (1-24/G, Ami Pro), geith Masdate Sjwteocc Ltd. is siasgc factunsg creases compared to phin Wmdows. Be- for the lai t v ersions of OS/2. 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even set it up to automatically total bow much you spend on each long&stance call. It is fair to say that there is prob)Lbly more in PackRat than any of its closest competitors — although the slightly more complex interface it uses may make it a little bit harder to get at those extra features.

Ihreads Oreanlser When is a Filofax not a Filo&x? When it's a Windows application, of course. Br~itish software house Threadz has taken all the elements which have made luppble, pttperbased "personal organizers such as the Filo5sx so popular and incorporated them into a new Windows application known shnply as the Threadz Organiser. It in cludes an e le ctronic diary; a

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modem); a notepad thatcan make use of text, picture and even DDE information; and network support that allows you to schedule events for groups of users as well as keep track of vrhich shared resources (such as audio-visual equipment,and conference rooms) are in use by which person in a company. There are lots of applications which do some of these functions„but few whicg do them all. The most innovative thing trout Threadz Organiser is the way that it accurately m i m ic s t h e p a p e r-bLsed "personal organizer" onscreen — allowing you to easily navigate around it Using colored tabs to divide up sections and flipping f'rom one "page" to another. In fact, you can use it to print out pages w hich fi t a n y s t a ndard F i l oFai o r TimeManager system — so that you Pon't have to abandon your paper-based system if you don'tfeelthe need.

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The Grid computers are the size of a thick notebook, with one side cievoted to a screen where the user writes using a special pen — and the computer then recogiIazes the handwriting and converts it to text or instructions for executioxL Mobil said it wanted to computerhe a labor-intensive process called "doing charts." The company supplies lubrieayts to industries. Field engineers are to inspect the machinery in a faciTity, then detexmine

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computerizing their work. In should thus come as no surpriscE: that it was Japanese electronics giant Sony yhich pioneered the pen notebook market in All of these things are a reafity today in a 19N w ith its Sony Pahntop. It was ~e d t o number o f p e n-based com puting recognize the major 5,555 Jap )nese roducts — the most important of which is characters, used an industry-standard icrosoft's Pen W i n dows. Microsoft Motorola 68000 computer processor' (the chaixxnan and cofounder Bill Gates says he same one as the popupr Apple Madqtosh) is investing a great deal of resources in pen- a nd comes with o nl y R56K RA M o f based computing. "We have 100 people computer memory. worhng on it. I think pen computing wfil Sony also tried to incorporate the take off very rapidly," says Gates. The pen is beginnings of that other great Holy Grail of a great devic~ s e e (pen+ased computer easy-to-use computing — speech rkcogsystems) as the next generation of portable n itlon — into the Palmtop by provi~ g a built-in microphone and speaker for computers. Pen-based computers are intended to recording and playing back up to eight provide computational power to users who seconds o f s o u nd . R e c ording ' and

presently cannot, because of their job

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workers filling out endless forms and pen having them keyed into central computer systems when the workers arrive back at base, they can use pen4ased computers to easily fill in work orders, inspection reports and other detafied foxms and then use the computer to send their work back to base hnmediatcly via thc phone hne. In the United States, large firms are already starting to use pen4esed computers in the field. According to a recent repop on the Newsbytes news service, Mobil Oil has announced that 150 engineers in, the

"recognizing speech, however, is a far more

functions, use standard computers with keyboards. This market indudes delivery truck drivers, utility meter readers, police officers, poll takers, and others who resently use a dipboard in their normal usiness functionL

difiicult task than handwriting reco~tion and the development of pen- Iiascd c omputers. I t r e q u i res m uc h m o r e computer power,more memory and better software — all of which just aren't ready yct. And there are still those who belicVc that

According to large. U.S. computer maker

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based computing is a real step backwards. When the personal computer indusky has spent more than a decade getting users comfortable with QWERTY keyboardjc, why confuse thc issue by handing theItn old

introduction of pc;n-based systems into

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On the Iwevtxet for Pen4easeel Covnpeeters Almost nobody is daiming that pen4ased computers will replace desttop or even lap-

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Not surprisingly, prices have dropped significantly since the last time we looked at laser printers. For example, in our April 1989 issue, we quoted some street prices of popular laser printers as follows: NEC LC290 2MB Postacript++ $3800 NEC LC890 3MB Postactlpt $49&0 (I paid$8800 for mine in September 1987 — Ed) Okidata Laser 400512K $1400 Today, comparable units can bc; had for about half these prices. Computer prices, too, have dedined sharply. Here is a list of some of the systems we recommend for desktop publishing. If you can aff ord to,upgrade your hardware to the level described in the category that resembles your own situation. (Prices are

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KL (according to TI, upgrades for earlier IsficroLaser models will be available) and Dataproducts LZR 960 (the same unit is also available from mailwrder vendor Sojhume st Ha nkua~ that Fits under the name Real I'ech Laser). Hewlett-Packard also has announced PostScript Level 2 cartridges for its popular lIp and IIIp printers; other manuIacturers are scrambling to release models with Level 2 compatibility. Speahng of compatiMip, I r e m ain adamantly against any and all PostScript "clones." Despite a longstanding challenge to any company to demonstrate a PostScript clone able to print a page indisdnguishabple h'om an Adobe PostScriptyrinted one, not one has ever passed the test. Similarly, I remain skeptical about the predicted markc;t dominance of TrueType (the scalable font technology found in h6crosoft's upcoming Windows 5.1 and recent Macintosh system software). I believe that Adobe ~ e 1 fonts make a better standard, if only for the fact that they are available on a wider range of platforms and are well~upported at the high end through service bureaus. If you ever plan on using service bureaus or printing documents on PostScript printers, Type 1 fonts make better sense. Perhaps True Type's most glaring flaw is its omission of a font cache setting, such as thatfound in ATM, where you can configure an amount of RAM to hold fonts, enabling them to redraw faster. Because of this, ATM's screen display spc:c:d greatly increases if the cache size is increased. For example, at its default 90K setting, ATM and rueType both take 14 seconds to render a full page of 51-point Times. however, once TM's font cache is incrc;ased to 190K, it can display the same page in 5 seconds, or almost 500% faster than True Type!

Other Trench Almost all new printers sport the automalic port and smuhtiowsnitching feature that I raved about in my previous laseryrinter artides; I highly recommend that you make sure the printer you choose has this capability, espedally if you plan on sharing it between PCs and Macs. Also, the best units sport a RISC processor for faster imaging, a SCSI port for an optional bard drive and good memory expansion capabilities (you should probably have 2.5 to 4MB minimum, and be able to expand as your printing needs grow). Many printers coming on the market have print resolutions exceeding thc, 800 dpi level of lastgeneration units; some 800dpi models such as the new NEC Model 95, the Series III models from HP, and the IIf and IIg f'rom Apple, enhance type using res. olution enhancement technologies to create smoother letterforms. A few printers also have enhanced grayscale capabiTities; this produces more pleasing reproductions of photographs and other scanned imagery. I expect units with these advanced capabiTities to become increasingly popular as the era of unenhanced 300dpi output draws to an end. Finally, please consider the availaMity of recyded toner cartridges in your purchase considerations; HP printers, for example, use widely available Canon toner cartridges.

Summary It is too early to pick a price/feature leader among Level 2 printers, but most of the companies mentioned here have PostScript Level 2 models starting under US$2000. 5 DstapsnCuctsGap., 8184874000. Hnulsft-Packsnt,800.7524900. AEC Tschnologics, 508-2644000. Sojhusm and Hanlwasv thor Rts, 800-fs72-3018. Texas Insssuments, 800-S27-3SOO.

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his issue's cover illustration was created using Adobe Photoshop and Aldus FreeHand. The equipment used included a Macintosh IIfx with a 240MB hard drive,Microtek SOOZ color scanner, Radius DirectColor/GX 24-bit video cardand an Apple RGB monitor. I Srst took photos of a stack of old issues of Tks Coswpufsr Papsr,after arranging the brown paper "just so.' I also took photos of the embellished hand of one of my coworkers, Kim Fedor (who can, I suppose, now rightfully claim to be a "cover girl" ) . After th e p h o tos were developed (courtesy of Agfa Corp., which processed them "on the spot" at the Multimedia '92 show), I scanned the images using the Microtek scatmer and loaded the resulting obit color TIFF iles into Photoshop. There, I adjusted the brightness and color saturation, cropped and sharpened the images. Using Photoshop's Stamp tool, I cleaned up several imperfections in the sidewalk cement. The next step was to replace the existing cover of the magazme with a new image. Using the program's variety of selection tools, I selected the cover areas, being careful not to select the string that tied the bundle. These selected areas were saved as masks, which Photoshop calls "alpha channels." Because each mask. adds to the size of the Sle (already nearly 20MB in size), I chose to save themasks4nprogressinto a new Sle. After all the masks had been created, I used the Add function to merge them all into one "master" mask By choosing P h otoshop's "Load Selection" option, this mask allowed me to fill the cover area with a new image. After several experiments, I decided on a plain white fill. I also wanted to i n clude realistic shadows, so I made a separate series of masks for shadows of the suing and the brown paper. These were blurred with the Feather command to diffuse them for greater realism. I also used the program's Magic Eraser option (which "erases" your changes to a saved file) to restore some areas of the image that suffered from th e abovcmentioned Feathering procedure. After the front cover area was blanked to my satisfaction, I used the program's Text tool to lay out the headline text. Using the Skew, Distort and R o tate options, I positioned the text to match the perspective of the bundle of papers. I then "cut" the image to the Clipboard. Because I wanted it to look like it was "behind" the strings, I once again used the Load Selection option to select the area I had earlier savedPas a mask. By using the Paste Inside option, the contents of the

Clipboard were inserted only into the selected areas, i.e., into the blank white areas only. I used a similar technique to insert the image of the hand, which I had scanned as a grayscale TIFF so that it would look like it was printed on a black-and-white laser printer. Using the "Paste Controls" floating selection settings, I positioned the hand so that it overlaid the Desktop Publishing letters. A little touchwp with the brush tool, and the image was done. I saved the Sle as a TIFF, and loaded it into Aldus FreeHand,

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ment would look like on~reen before it was printed — you had to have a DTP system. There was simply no other way of doing the job. But these days, a good Windows word processing package is as good —if not better — at handling the day-t~ y d o cument production requirements of most users. It is only a select few who now really require the kind of precise and delicate control that something like PageMaker or Ventura Publisher offers. To find out how the two biggest companies in the DTP market — Xerox (developers of Ventura Publisher) and Aldus (developers of PageMaker) — plan to survive this much more competitive environment in the rest of the 1990s and what they are going to offer users in the process, we recently visited the U.S. headquarters of these firms in San Diego, CA and Seattle, WA. What they had to say may make surprising reading for anyone planning to buy a DTP system in the near future.

littl~sed Digital Research GEM graphic environment. Since then, the company has launched versions for Microsoft Windows S.O,the Apple Madntosh and OS/2 Presentation Manager, and has revamped considerably the existing GEM-based product. Of all these, the GEM and Windowskased versions of the products are by far the most important It is the Windowsbased version that has been getting all the attention lately. Earlier last year, Ventura announced that it would begin shipping a major revamp of the Windows product it announced in 1990. Known as Ventura PuMisher for Windows 4.0 (a clever trick, since there were never Versions 1.0 or 2.0 running under Windows), it is designed to compete headto-head with Aldus PageMaker 4.0 — but it also beats Quark Xpress (see box) to the Windows color DTP market. Like PageMaker 4.0, it indudes better textediting fadTities, a spellchecker, support for OLE (Object Linhng and Embedding) and cutmd-paste from the Windows Clipboard. The area where it scores over almost anything else but Quark's existing product for the Macintosh is its enhanced color support — which gives full use of Pantone's 700 spots]or and 8,000 processcolor palettes, obit color TIFF, PCX and EPS files — and the aMity to define some 65,000 process colors and 255 spot colors within a single document, To make all these new color features workable, Ventura has also designed a series of "color extensions" — designed to let you retouch, color~orrect and colorweparate your work on screen. Ventura Scan is used

to handle the color scanning, Ventura Pho toTouch to clean up the color image once ii has been scanned, Ventura Separator to cre ate professional~uality color separations o1 Venturayroduced documents and Ventura Color-Pro for professional color correction for output to DCS, Sdtex Cl', TIFF, TAR GA, BMP and DIB graphics file forrpats. All of this work is part of a rethink b) Ventura as to how it approachesthe colot DTP market. It may seem like the compan) has done all too much thinking and re thinhng since the original launch of the product in the latter half of the 1980s. But when you consider that Xerox went Rom merely licensing Ventura (which was a product developed by a bunch of ex-Digitaj Research programmers who decided to go it alone) back in 1987 to finally bkying the company in February 1990 — and then spin ning it off as a subsidiary later that year — i is no wonder that strategies have cPanged. According toLarry Jordan, the compa ny's senior director of product marketing a| its headquarters on the outskirts of San Diego, Ventura now looksat the f)TP mar ket as a something like a bright and entic. ing red hot~ b a lloon fioating against blue sky. As the DTP industry grew, the bal loon got bigger and bigger — and nothing was preventing it from getting any larger. The balloon was even big enough to ac. commodate two kinds of passengers: those that produced designmriented packages around graphicsbased tools, and Nose who developed d o cumentwriented ~ systems which started by working with text. Needless to say,Jordan considers Aldus to be in the graphics-based tool camp while Ventura sits on the text-based side of the

balloon's passenger compartment.

'This fundamental philosophtcal foun. dation has connnued to color thy develop ment of both companies' products," say Jordan. "Aldus has been adding (to the maximum number of) pages while Ventura has been adding graphics and color." De. spite this amiable feature-based competi• tion, Jordan says that he considered that there was room for both kinds of passengers aboard the ever~ a n ding DTP balloon. That is, until 1991 came along. Jordan says that was when the passengers aboard the good airship DTP began fighting with one another — while at the same time con. tinuing to battle competitors &nm above and below. "In 1991, word-processing companies began to realize that their natural, evolution tuN to be to indude DTP features — so they have started shipping products with those types of features, he says. "The trouble is that DTP is more than just the integration of text and graphics. And our 'balloon' is getting squeezed Rom the bottom wi these WP products, and also potu the top traditional printing/electronic publishin outfits like Atex and Scitex are trying t make alliances and move downmarket usin nonproprietary PC-based f'ront~ ends an their existing backwnd systems. Our littl red balloon is getting squashed."

THE COMPUTER PAPER APRIL '92 51 Jordan says that DTP companies need to Bgure out how to face these dual challenges — while at the same dme expand the scope of their own products. "We face a number of simultaneous battles in 1992~gainst new products like Lotus Ami Pro 2.0 and Word for Windows 2.0 — so we need to allow people to have both authoring tools and production tools in their DTP applications„" he suggests. "Users need a production tool which combines automation with precision to effect quality results — so that it is possible for a writer to write a story and insert format codes so that it will automatically create a proper4ooking fmal published document. Jordan abo suggests that everyone in the DTP market needs to daim their specialty and stick to it. "Desktop publishing is moving as quickly as possible into niches.Qmrk, for example,

Quark concentrated on high-end features for magazine and newspaper users. PageNlaker, the first DTP product, still tries to be all things to all people. Ventura is designed for doing structured documents of any length. realized that it couldn't compete directly against PageMaker so the developers concentrated on bigh~ d f eatures for magazine and newspaper users — who also happen to be the people who tend to review such products. "It was a master stroke because now a lot of these same reviewers are using the product to produce their own publications. PageMaker, on the other hand, was the first DTP product and still tries to be all things to all

people — it is facing a hard market position to solve. Ventura, meanwhile, is designed for doing structured documents of any length — induding complex items such as equations and color graphics. We looked at the resources we have, made some dedsions about what markets we can be most successful in and settled on longer structured documents — with automation, precision and quality. Automation is good for peopleparticularly book publishers, educational in-

stitutions, government bodies and so on. You won't necessarily use our products to design complex brochures with lots of color bleeds and oddly rotated text — but that' s okay withus. The market for a 'long document'wriented product is about 100 times that of the designer's tooL' Ventura has also made a heavy investment recently on getting its product running on all the major hardware and operating environments — induding Windows S.O, Presentation Manager and the Apple Madntosh — so that you can decide on Ventura first and then figure out which hardware or OS you want to run it on. "We are also investigating development for Unix — but we wonder how viable that market is in the nearcerm," says Jordan. 'When we come to the Unix platform we want to be successful and l rave a product which will offer something extra." Continrrrdd ow page 52

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As a software supplier, Aldus is finding cross-platform computing (the abiTity for its major applications to run on more than one hardware or operating system platform) to be increasingly asked for. "In the 1990s, it is an open~tems environment that is demanded — people want to be ableto exchange documents in an open And he suggests that PageMaker has been environment," he adds. They also want to a major catalyst to cro ttb r m computing be able to support one product across a in firms where Macintoshes were brought in number of platforms-and we have learned that the only way you can be successful with exdusively to provide DTP functions. "Most large corporation had PCs while a presentation product hke Persuasion, for Macs came in for DTP, but now people are example, is to support both platforms. It trying to leverage that investment," explains will become a critical market issue. Both and growth will depend on ih I Brainerd. hardly know of any Macintosh developer who isn't bringing their product to the PC." Not surprisingly, users may be concemed that software developed to r un across a number of platforms will not perform particularly well on any of t hem. There is an understandable concern that a "lowest common denominator" philosophy will emerge in the softwareAevelopment world. Brainerd rejects this idea strongly. "That is absolute bull," he dedares. "You cannot compromise the development advantages of the individual platform. Your competitors would exploit that. You must take advantage of the unique environment offered by the platform you are using. You have to remain true to the envirotunent you

One of its key planks for the future, however, is also maintaining strong development on multiple hardware and software platforms. According to Aldus founder Paul Brainerd,users are demanding choice. "In general, a cross. platform strategy has become more and m ore i mportant to them," he says.

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The first was a graphical user interface which could allow the publishing system to offer true What You See Is What You Get (WSIWYG) capamities. Back in late 1984, the only real candidates for that were the Apple Madntosh (which was on the verge of becoming usable as a business machine with the introduction of the 1 MB Macintosh Plus with enhanced ROM and storage capabilities), the nascent Microsoft Windows and Digital Research GEM (Graphic Environment Manager) offeri ng. Of all theses only the Macintosh was a real product. As Brainerd relates in this interview, however, the Macintosh alone was not the key. The existence of Apple's ground4reakfng LaserWriter laser pxinter and the development of Adobe Postscript were the other two essential catalysts to the creation of desktop publishing.

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But, at the price ($40,000 or The BJC printers provide highguality so), not many of us can afford such "color output on plain cut sheet paper, envelopes, w ithout c o m promise." C a no n a l s o transparencies (perfect for overhead manufactures a large-format, color-inkjet rojector+ased presentations) and — for the printer capable of printing poster-size or est print quality — clay-coated paper, a wall-size prints with similarly breathtaking sample pack of which is induded with each quali~ t a s i milarly gasp-inducing price. printer. The printers are equipped with Clearly, Canon is a leader in color output four independent ink cartridges — cyan, technology. And so it was with great magenta, yellow and black — that are easily a nticipation t h a t w e u n p a cked t h e replaceable. company's new BJC800 color inkjet printer that offers tabloid~ize fullwolor output with Canon Technology high~uality 560 dpi resolution — for about Canon's bubble jet technology differs from $5,495. traditional ink jet technology in that it does not use piezoelectric elements to eject ink, The BJC-800 (which we first caught a Rather, each nozzle contains a tiny heater glimpse of at the I'acific Rim Computer Bc that produces several hundred temperature Communication Show inJanuary, 1992) has rises and pulses per second to form tiny a Centronics 8-bit parallel interface and is bubbles that force the ejection of ultra@ne compatible with IBM personal computers or droplets. Canon's specially formulated inks compatibles. Its sibling, the B JC-820 virtually eliminate th e p ossibility of ($5,695), comes equipped with a SCSI smudging and provide an almost unlimited interface for compatibility with Apple's range of colors. Macintosh computers as well as a parallel port, an d c o mes wit h a M a c i n tosh Paper Handling "QuickDraw printer driver. According to The printers have a multipurpose automatic sheet feeder that handles up to 11" x 17" Joe Gagnon at Tomorrow's Graphics in Vancouver, the BJG820 ships with the Mac documents, including letter-size, driver, but the Windows driver may be a nd ledger-size, in a d d i tion t o f f l o ordered separately. envelopes and letter-size transparencies. The BJCs also have the option of Paper trays hold 100 letter-size sheets and emulating an Epson 2550 50 ledger-size sheets. The printers are operated via a flve-key control panel (On The BJ400 we examined shipped witha Line, Form Feed, Exit, Menu, Enter and Windows 5.0 printer driver that worked well s election k e ys) . Fou r - l evel m e n u in our tests, although we found that print construction provides speedy access to times were much faster when the Windows numerous functions, such as font selection Print Manager was disabled. Even so, a 556K and font type, self-test printing, print head TIFF file took over half an hour to print cleaning, character spacing, printing type from PageMaker 4.0. Object-oriented and interf'ace selection. g raphics, such a s t h ose created b y The BJC-800 and BJC-820 printers CorelDRAW or FreeHand, printed much measure 20.5" W x 16" D x 6.7" H. Each more quickly. weighs only 22 lbs. and they are covered by According to Canon's technical support a one-year warranty. (which, incidentally, was most helpful in getting us through some initial setup The cost per page for tabloid~ize, fulldifficulties), the driver is not currently color output is a fraction of that of other certified to work properly under Windows color output devices such as color laser, 5.1 or OS/2 2.0. In our tests, the Canon thermal transfer or dy e sublimation software — similar to nearly every device printers. We did notice that the color driver we' ve seen — did not work correctly fidelity is only fair, however. Colors at the under OS/2, with problems ranging from blue end of the spectrum tended to be far the subtle to the bizarre. too dark. We also observed a small but For example, while the driver installed noticeable amount of visible banding. The into OS/2's "Windows emulator" without BJC's lowland competitor, the CMYmnly incident and printed images in color, we Hewlett-Packard DeskJet C performs better experienced system crashes when printing in both of these areas. Because it lacks a large files (so much for OS/ 2's muchtrue black, however, it does not produce vaunted imperviousness to crashes), and output that is as rich looking; nor does it incorrect line feeds when printing in 180 x support tabloids paper. 180Api mode. In addition, TIFF images We think theWindowsdriver still needs printed with a strangely reddish cast to the some work The driver has several different colors — all problems that did not occur options, induding resolution settings of 560 under "genuine" Windows. In short, this x 560 or fractions thereof, pattern or driver doesn't work well under OS/2 2.0. diffusion dithering patterns. The diffusion O nce w e s w itched t o "genuine setting appears to have a (very subtle) flaw Windows, print quality and reliability in it that causes horizontal dotted lines in a improved considerably. 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The direcdona in the manual for installing the color kit were that gtbbetish technicians speak to each other and the picbe foundsomewhere between the program snd the printer. tures were very detailed line drawings with no sense of depth or breadth. The drawings While I' ve found the easiest printer to work with is the Hewlett@'ackard laser prmt- were little help because it was diSicult to er, for a 2at-pin dot mauix printer, the Fujit- distinguish what parts were aigniScant to su PC Printpartner or DL1200 was easier to the operation and what parts were not. A set work with than other spin p rinters I' veenof instructions were in thc box the color kit countered, induding the E p son brand came in, but though they were better, they plmtet'L were such bad photocopies it was diSicult to The printer is billed as a space saver, read the text and the drawings. I'm a mechanically oriented person. I' ve and I suppose it ia, but I didn't think the space it saves is as signiScant as its upright replaced an ignition switch on our car, design, which seems to make handling and wired the automatic sprinkler system at our working with the printer and paper easier. house, and installed hard disk drives in our Much in appearance like a large toaster, computers. It literally took me an hour and the DL1200 is geared toward home or small a half of frustradon to install the color kit. businesses, hence the emphasis on space- Once it was installed, I realized it was a job saving design. However, it only comes in the that could have been done in 15 minutes wide~ a g e design, which is what adds to tops with decent instructions. I could do it the longcoaster look and takes more space. again in Sve minutes, now that I understand While I didn't Snd it saved that much space, what to do. I did Snd it was easier to reach, as I didn' t Once the color kit was installed, howev have to reach over a broad top to put paper er, it worked Sawlessly. I used it with Drawin or to reach the controls. Perfect, an objectmriented graphics proMost of what I found easter about the gram made by Wordperfect Corporation. It Fujitsu was in the way it's designed. The Srat took some dme to set up DrawPerfect to thing I noticed is that the power switch and talk to the DL1200, however. I had to reconthe parallel post are located on the sight Sgure DrawPcrfect by going back to the inside, not in back Ske on other printers. This stallation program disks to talk to a 'GSS Output Device," and the installation added made it easier to connect to my computer. I also nodced that the controls for the device drivers to my CONFIG.SIS Sle that DL1200 are in f'ront on the right side on a took up e xtra random access memory panel that comes out across the bottom (RAM). f'rout of the printer, so they too were eaiily Fbjitsu says the printer will also print colaccesmble. or output from PC Paintbrush under MiThe way the Fujitsu printer handles pa- crosoft Windows with the Epson L Q2550 per is also a pleasure. A standup shelf holds emulation. Fujitsu includes a special printer driver on the DLmenu program disk in a paper upright when its inserted and a load/unload button on the f'ront allows the subdirectory called WINS. In that subdirecpaper to be loaded automadcally, but also tory in a READ.ME Sle are the complete inunloads it upon another push of the same structions on how to install a Windows button. It didn't waste any paper by grab- printer driver. bing a sheet and prindng a test page every Again, setting up the printer for use in time I turned it on, or feeding through a Windows was a dmeconsuming task, but the blank sheet of paper like some of the Epson instructions in the READ.ME Sle are dear. printers. I'vc dealt with so many printers However, once the printer was set up, it perthat hog paper that way, its gotten to be a formed Sawlesaly, both in color and in Contintfdtf on pfsgff58

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software drivcr, not on the printer. situation like invhations to a coerorker's I liked that it didn't pxint pastel colors, bhthday celebxadon, or abanner for the like most color impact printers I' ve seen. janitor who's redring. But I haven't seen But it was slow, which ia to be expected, es- anyspin color printer output I would feel pecially considering how much it was doing. comfortable using in a business situation. I I did our Sunily Cbristmas letter on it and did Snd it fun to play with the color, howevthe only problem had to do with the yellow, which had some of thc black smeared into Fujitau talks a lot about a sofhsare proit. In the drawing, the yellow was the color gram it indudes with the DL sexies printers of a piece of string, and the black streaks called DLmenu. While the software can be added to the illusion it waa really string. installed as memoxy resident (it uses about However, I don't think a pure yellow is poa. 50 kilobytes of random access memory) aud sible, espedally on an with a black can used inside a program by pressing

brush. The printer printed very doacly the „border. more complex colors that were on t he screen. My conduaion is how dose the color is to what is on the screen is based on the

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for a slightly unusual system of mequing built into the printer. To uae the menu on . the front of the printer, a piece of paper must be used. The reason is the DL1200 prints the printer setdngs on the paper. Those settings are changed then by pressing a kcy on the f'rout of the printer to move the print head from one of the setdngs printed on the paper to another until the one deahed ia reached. I didn't Snd the paer method of setdng the printer particularcumberaomc, but some people might. However, the DLmenu progxvan has its Alt+Left ahi8+D keys, my experience with Emitadons. Thc only way I know of to get printers ia the sofhaare usually ovcrrides any consistent results from ap is to conSgaetdnga made on the prhxter anyway. ure the software to the printer, which usualDLmcnu seems to be a software answer ly meansgoing hack through the installation to install a new so&ware driver. Ft5itsu xaya the DLmenu program allows the user to aet the printer in a friendlier environment than the menu on the front of the printer so fonts, emulations and commands built into the printer can beaccessed. I tried the program and didn't hke it, mostly because I think it has not an ugly, - but a homely, user interiace. I found DI menu to be technically oriented and not vexyfriendly. However, once Ifound the on-

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product — which it was. Menus are now where you would expect them to be and the command structure of VP Windows 4.0 makes a great deal more sense. In fact, VP Windows 4.0 now looks more like its archival PageMaker than it does the GEM version of the product. The main VP Windows 4.0 screen uses both horizontal and vertical scroll bars, and offers a default text-tool box that contains a

point,a &arne creator, paragraph handler,

text~diting tool, table~cation tool, text&am+creation tool — as well as facilities for drawing boxes (with square and rounded edges), drcles and straight Hnes. The puDZown menu titles — File, Edit, View, Chapter, Frame, Paragraph, Text, Graphic, T a b le s a n d E x t e n sionscomplement the operation of the textwool box. The Extensions menu is probably unique to Windows-based DTP applications. It ofFers you the chance to "launch" any one of a number of major new color extensions which Ventura has added to this new ansinging, all-dancing edition of Ventura Publisher.

Text Editing But we are getting ahead of ourselves. For anyone who hasever had to do a lotof daytoday work with either Ventura or earlier versions of PageMaker, one of the biggest headaches was in having to make repetitive changes to a block of text or trying to do on-screen p r oofing o f a cor r e c ted document. To combat this difficulty, Aldus added Spellchecking and Search-and-Replace functions to PageMaker 4.0 for Windows. In VP 4.0 for Windows, Ventura has followed suit. Both are now buil t -in t o VP f o r Windows — alongwith a useful Undo/Redo feature which makes it much simpler to immediately correct stupid errors. Also like Aldus, Ventura noticed an increasing demand by users to be able to rotate text — whether it is for photo credits, book spine or brochure work, or simply

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Color Extensions But Ventura didn't stop there. Realizing that providing color support within Ventura Publisher wasn't much use without a number of andllary tools to control and manipulate color work, the company launched a number of color "extensions" to VP at the same time as it announced VP for Windows 4.0. All of these extensions are installed as optional addwns to VP for Windows and can be accessed via the Extensions menu. The Srst of these is Ventura Scan. It is designed to be used with a wide range of p opular b l a ck-and-white a n d c o l o r scanners — allowing you to do on-screen

preview scans for color correction or image correcfion. Images scanned using Ventura Scan are stored in TIFF format — so that they can be employed in virtually any other Windows package which accepts graphics. The product is designed primarily, however, to a llow scanning directly from V P f o r Windows — and the only major difference between it and the software which comes bundled with your scanner is that it offers much tighter integration with VP and that it offers better colorworrection controh. Once you' ve scanned4n the image with Ventura Scan, you might then want to do some retouching work on it. For thi s purpose, Ventura provides an extension called Ventura PhotoTouch — which offers

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pixel4ypixel changes. Despite providing these strong' ,"user" extensions, Ventura seems to be aware that it is going to n ee d t o c o nvince the professional publishing and p i i n ting community of the worthiness of its color extensions if they are ever to be successful. For that reason, it has designed Ventura ColorPro — a stand&one color~orrection and separation tool for l oose iimages directed at t h e h i g h-end e l ectronic publishing market. It will produce color separations in all formats compatigle with the vast majority of printers — induding the toped Linoironic and Scitex systems. This is the product you would use if you want to convert on~creen RGB coloi)s to the CMYK color standards employed in p rofessional p r i n t ing , m a k e c o l o r corrections to compensate for scanner deficiencies or ink impurities, or conduct "softylate" proofing of pages (where you g et a n o n - screen p r e view o f an y combination of printing plates). For the vast majoiity of users who need to print separated color film directly from Ventura, however, it is one Snal extension roduct — Ventura Separator — thI tt most ly would be the tool of choice. It allows color separations to be made of VP pages — with all text, graph ics and continuous-tone images in position. You can also use it to preview all images and color corrections, and import image4tpedflc settings c a rrie d o v e r f r o m ' o t h er applications.

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Although it may seem horn this brief look at Ventura Publisher for Windows 4.0 that a lot of the power in the product lies in its optional extensions, it is probably more fair to say that the extensions give the u ser m uc h g r e a ter f l e x i bility a n d potential — without making the average DTP user pay for it. There is now very little to choose Som between Ventura Publisher for Windows and Aldus PageMaker for Windows. Ventura still handles long documents better and

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the object when changes are made. Neither program can nudge objects around with the arrow keys, which would be nice, particularly in ModelShop since it doesn t have MiniCad's snap-to cursor to position accurately. Screen redrawing in both programs leaves lots to be desired. The arrow ctn'sor is mainly used during redraw, instead of the watch, so you don't know whether your computer hasreceived your command and is stfil thinking about it, or p our command didn't get through, or maybe it wasn't valid. A clumsy solution is to click and hold on the menu bar. If the menus don't drop,you can narrow itdown to a long thought or a screen f'r~e. When (and if)the menus do drop down you can know that the redraw is finished and you can continue worhng.

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Spaclai Faafurae MiniCad has a special feature: a database that is linked to objects in the drawing. If you add or deletedoors or furniture, for example, the spreadsheet can keep track of the number of items and costs by roop and in totaL Also included is MiniPascal, a macro language explained in the second half of the manuaL This is not necessary to use MiniCad, but becomes a useful addition as you become more fluent wit h t h e p r o gram~ You automate your common actions by creating custom macros which appear on a palette handy for double clicking. You ibuild macros by multiple choicefrom a conpnand list, and an explanation of each command in the lists pops up when the command is selected. Unfortunately the command list contains spelling errors which the error checker does not notice, resulting in macros that don't work (until you msjnuaHy proofread them). Both programs have an info bar at the bottom that shows xa y, and z locations and lengths, and which accepts keyboard entry for exact sizing of objects on creation, but only MiniCad allows the length of an object to be changed directly to a new length by entering it on the keyboard, while. at the same time specifying which end of the object (or both) will grow. This is very useful when changes to a drawittg are required. For example, if the change in an object's length were from Sr/an to 4n/nn". resizing by percent would r equire a calculator, and the result might be only approximately correct. MiniCad's definition of renderittg is a feature which creates a new set of shaded surface objects that lie on the wireframe. This picture is actually 2-D and d'oesn't rotate. It can be dragged off the opginal, and other views can then be rendered and dragged ofF on the same page as we1L It is this rendering that can be assigned fill patterns, to achieve a shaded effect for Macs or printers limited to black and white. MiniCad has line~dth control, arrows and patterns, aH of which ModelShop lacks. On the otherhand, ModelShop can make shadows (not in black and white). ModelShop lets you define nmperous working planes. This allows you to create and arrange objects relative to different surfaces. For example, it would be sensible to set each floor surface as one plane. and measure from that for countess, but perhaps make a ceiling plane friar wall cabinets to measure fronL Also, each wall angle must have a working plane because ModelShop limits door, window, or other hole creation to the creation plane of the wall. (If you drew a wall in plan view, it would not accept a window hole,) MiniCad ofFers more ways to select an object: dichng on it in wireframe or solid view, marqueeing (drawing a selection rectangle a r o u nd ) a ll of tt , or option-marqueeing a corner.ModelShop uses marqueeing a. corner of an object to select it. (A surface in hidden surface

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monitor. This does not always work.) On color monitors ModelShop uses red to show selection. This isa very nice feature, dearly indicating what is selected even on a busy screen. On black~dmhite screens the selected object has black squares at the corners. ModelShop marks the first four corners of the box. MiniCad marks the four corners plus halfway points of an enclosing rectangle that stays 2-D. This is harder to associate with the correct object in a corner view, as the squares may be floating at some distancefrom the object.

Manual There are places where MiniCad's tutorial manual has not kept up with wording changes in the program, not even in the R ead Me u p d ate. Fo r e x ample, t h e described command "Enter Symbol" is actually Edit Symbol," the dialog box that is supposed to be called "Record Setup" is actually titled "Format Setup, and the one called "View Held" is actually "Edit HelcL' These errors can be intimidating to a beginner working through the tutorial. Although the tutorial directs you to use the "Dimension V" command I could not find it either in the menu bar or the manuaL MiniCad's manual is very poor. The index has entries that are out of order, and many things are missing, including names MiniCad itself uses. Error Output and M iniCad Startup ar e t w o f i l e s t h a t mysteriously appeared, and I found no reference to this effect either in the index or the manual. The index to ModelShop'a manual is much more complete, and refers you to all the pages that discuss the entry, even in the tutorial, as opposed to MiniCad's, which has only one reference per entry. It's morc an alphabetical table of contents than an index.

Shortcomings in MinlCad Some keyboard command equivalentsare missing in MiniCad, such as the textformatting commands (bold, italic, etc.), and Move Backwards and Move Forwards, which are sometimes needed repeatedly to shuffie an object to the right position in a layer. There is no Again command at all, and Undo is often unavailable. There is no indication in MlniCad's Fill menu (for choosing a surface pattern) which pattern ia the current one. Painting programs commonly draw a dark box around the active selection. There is no command to move between open windows, though more than one window can be open. Redrawing is much slower in MiniCatL I timed both programs at redrawing thc same 18 shaded solids, when the view was

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Unfortunately, in black and white and on compact Macs (except SESO); you must use braw-type rendering (or wireframe). However, even with SMB RAM, draw-type rendering of th e t u t orial m odel was sometimes refused due to lack of memory using the ModelShop II Compact version, even with Multifinder turned off.

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reproducing the crash, and all the day' s work was lost.

Not Rocornngonded Unfortunately, I can't recommend either of these programs, because they both have a CeaririedaderaPage 65

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AUTOEXEC and CONPIG files of both. To keep things simple I limited it to a disk cache and a mouse driver. First I tested how much conventional

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its icon, but the MS-DOS shell also allows the user to set up a menu window. This allows a program to be run directly without having to opc:n one or more subdirectory folders to find its icon. D R-DOS's shell comes with a f a i r selection of program and document icons to choose from, whereas the MSQOS shell comes with only one type of program and document icon. Only the MS-DOS shell allows the user to choose the graphic or text mode they wish to run in, and choose the shell's color scheme. In Graphics mode the MS-DOS shell runs a bit faster.

running a default installation. DR%OS had 619K wItile MS.DOS had 621K Though the difference may seem small, it can nuke the difference between your program running or crashing with an outwf~emory error. In both cases the available conventional memory was greater than that provided by p revious versions o f D O S . T h i s i s accomplished by loading much of the operating system m high memory, which is that 64K that is just above the 640K of conventional memory. The fun came when I attempted to ueeze as much conventional memory out o each of the DOSes as I could. Both allow the user to relocate device drivers and TSRs in high memory, thus freeing more of that all-important conventional memory. Digital Research daims that by doing this, one can free up to 62'yK of conventional memory on a 586 computer. I spent the better part of a Saturday afternoon trying to do this and failing miserably. Try as I might, I couldn' t t either PC KWIK or the mouse driver to

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temporary directory on the hard drive, then copy it to th» target disk in one pass. They have also added a MOVE command for moving a file to a new location and deleting the file from its orightal location. Both of these enhancements are very handy to have.

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While at first sight MS-DOS's EDH' appears to be superior to DR-DOS's EDITOR, the The Two Sollttsdes rice one pays in disk space is too great. MSn the world of Disk Operadng Systems OS's editor requires that the Quick Basic (DOS) there are two fiavors available to interpreter be present; if you delete the t he user: M S-DOS, p u blished b y interpreter the editor will not work Microsoft, and DR-DOS, published by The combined size of the editor and the Digital Research. (PC-DOS is MS-DOS Quick Basic interpreter, minus the help produced under license by IBM.) Both files, is 255,'799 bytesl This is totally absurd; companies have released new versions, and it looks like someone took the easy way out both contain significant improvements over by writing a small routine to call Quick the previous versions. So which is bettered Basic's internal editor. Fine if you actually Read and find out. plan to use Quck Basic, but it is a wasteM use of disk spacefor the rest of us. Enhanced Fealssres Better to delete the editor and Quick Both versions of DOS have added new Basic and pick up a good shareware editor commands an d e n h a n ced e x i sting like QEDIT or TED. DR-DOS's editor on commands. Both have added datawecovery the other hand is a trim 21,819 bytes. It is of utilities, improved editors, improved that family of editors that share the directory and file manipulation commands, WordStar command set, and is a serviceable command-line h e lp , t a s k switching, text editor. command-line e d iting, an d s e curity features. DR-DOS has also added a few The Shells more bells and whistles such as disk Both DOSes come with a shell, which optimization, data compression, postscript shields the average user from the Gprompt support, and file link for transfemng files In both cases thc shells operate in graphics between two computers. mode, and the MS-DOS shell can operate in One very useful enhancement DR-DOS text inode. The abiTity to operate in text has made is one-pass disk copying. DRmode means that the shell can run fast on a DOS's Diskcopy command will read the slow machine such as an XT. e ntire s o u r c e di s k in t o ei th e r Both shells allow documents to be e xtended/expanded m e m o r y o r a associated to an application program, which

Coanauccf fcmspngs 64 lot of bugs that cause frustration and triple the overall time required to produce a drawing (if you can succeed at all). Tecbnical support for ModelShop was quite friendly. someone spent over an hour collecting my list of bug~to be corrected in future versions, I suppose. However, the paying consumer of these programs should not become an unsuspecting beta tester. Tech support admitted that the program, especially the compact version, was rushed t o market p r e maturely t o m e e t a n annoilnced timetable. One question bothers me: Why have other reviews of these programs not mentioned their seriouslyfiawed nature? Sllllllllarlf Both ModelShop and M i n i Cad show

fraction of the effort of traditional 2-D drawhlg programs. One 5-D drawing can yield labeled perspective prints to explain and selt your idea; then you can p r in t p l ans and elevations of all required surfaces for p roduction w o r k , com p l et e wi t h dimensions. If a change is required, only one drawing needs to be alterc;d. ModelShop is a much faster program, but needs lots of RAM, and a 6 8 0 50 machine to avoid the compact version. If you are working in black and white or output to a blacked-white printer, its lack of patterns gives the advantage to MiniCad if you want shaded objects. MiniCad also makes it easier to be accurate. It's worth continuing the search for the right program. Watch this space for reviews of the rest of the relatively inexpensive 5-D

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Digital Research has bundled several utility programs with DR-DOS 6.0. These indude PC KWIK disk cache, SUPERSTOR onMefly disk compressor (a disk stacker), DISKOPT disk optimizer, and FILELINK fil~ sf e r program. Though Digital Research daims that PC KWIK is one of the fastest data caches in the industry... delivers up to four dmes thc; rformance of the cache supplied with MSOS 5.0," I didn't sense any difference between it snd SMARTDRV, MS-DOS's disk cache. To DISKOPT goes the title of the slowest chsk optimizer in the PC world. This thing is positively gladaL SUPERSTOR works quite well; though not as fast as Stacker, it comes close. Testing it on a 20MB hard drive, I set aside a 2MB uncompressed partition and SUPERSTOR c reated a 5 5 M B p a r t i tion f r o m t h e remaining 18MB. A word of caution that applies to all on-the-fiy disk compressors: never use a disk optimizer that was not provided with the compressor. Doing so could siice~dW ce your data beyond all hope of recoveryi So the user is forced to ut up with DISKOPT if they decide to use

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betwc:en two computers via a serial cable. While usable, you would be far better off buying a copy ofLAPLINK if you make a habit o f t r a n sferring f i le s b e tween computers.

I suspect that DRI)OS has compatibility problems with the Zenith hardware or BIOS. Checking Digital Research's forum on CompuServe, I found that other people were struggling with this same problein. I downloaded detailed instructions on how to actually get the drivers and TSRs to load high, but they were of the "eye of newt, head of toad" variety. I decided not to bother, since I was interested in what the average user, using only the manual, could accomplish. Preparing for the worst, I reinstalled MSDOS, crackedopen the manual, and loaded the config 61e into the editor. First of all, the section on memoiy management in the MS-DOS manual is far clearer and far more informative than that in the DR-DOS manual. Within a quarter of an hour I had figured out what to do, then made the needed change;s. I rebooted, then ran the memory m a p pr o g r am : 62 8 K of conventional memory. It worked, and 628K is exactly what Microsoft claims that MSDOS 5.0 can free.

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Both DOSes have compatibility problems, though one must remember that this is not uncommon in a new release of any operating system. Both DOSes provide utilities to help resolve these compatibility p roblems, t h o u g h so m e rem a i n unresolvable. MS-DOS 5.0 will not work on origins14ssue IBM XTs and ATs unless the BIOS chip is upgraded. DR-DOS has some software compatility problems that I was unable to correct. Neither myself nor a colleague were able to get GeoWorks to run o n DR-DOS; LAPLINK I I I d o e s n o t text, DXF, and database in comma, tab, recognize DR-DOS's MODE command Merge, DIP, and SYLK formats. Export when doing a remote install, and DR-DOS is formats list the same plus Encapsulated incompatible with the Zenith UM memory PostScript. emulator. Reportedly, Windows 5.1 is also ModelShop II ver. 1. 1 c o mes with incompatible. QuickPICS, an animation program for r ecording tours o f y ou r m o d el . A l l Conduslon animations in ModelShop II ver. 1.0 are Unfortunately, DR-DOS doesn't live up to linear. Smooth acceleration had to be its billing. Though DR-DOS does have a few dropped from this version, but is in advantages over MS-DOS, it falls short in the development. Import lists PICT, Claris critical area of memory management. CAD, and DXF and background PICT. Whereas both the memory-management Export lists PICI', Claris CAD, DXF, Swivel difficulues and compatibility problems S-D and animation. could likely be solved with more time and Test machinery consisted mainly of an effort, it is too much to expc,ct the average SE50 with 5 and 8MB RAM, with and user to expend that time and effort. MSwithout a Radius Color Pivot, Systems 6.0.7 DOS proved to be the easiest to use out of a nd 7 .0 , u n d e r b o t h F i n d e r a n d the box, and met its memory-management Multifinder. • claim@ Granted, DR-DOS provides a good collection of utilities — stiH, you would be Yonder is the pcvsidsat n f Cortes 1tfUC better offwith MS-DOS and a good (MccintcsIi UsersGasp) end runs Ycncfor's collection of utilities such as PC Tools or GnsPhic DesignsPsm his hmscia thefmarts o f Norton's Utilities. • Cortes Island, B.C. For furthe iafonaanoa

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where you can rotate the but may want to format our sheets onwhole chart on its axis screen in color and print in blacked-white. herc is not to add tons of gg and have it at an angle Finally, there is a "slide show" feature. new chart types, but to (during the rotation, you You can design some quite complex slidesIlanaging scenarios make charts easier to s ee a wi re- f r a m e with lots of color, graphics and a full range Spreadsheets have always been about doing r epresentation of t h e of typefaces and sizes — and then have "whatW" calculations on a whole variety of may have been able to g raph b e in g m o v e d different 'transition effects" between the permutations. You know the sort of thing: create Excel charts fairly t hrough u p to 56 0 slides. Among these transition efFects Excel "If I can borrow the money to get this batch - ~~ " + - y - ~ c degrees). includes wipes, fades, vertical blinds, of CD Walkmans for a bulk discount of 50 t o spend a l ong t i m e Another important horizontal blinds and an opening his. per cent, will I make more in getting a part o f Mi cr o soft's bigger profit margin than I lose in paying they looked any good. i mprovements to t h e Transition and Cowexlstence interest to the bank?" To get around this Despite everything h6crosoft has put into presentation functions in After a lot ofpfaffing around, you probiera, Microsoft has E xcel are th e f i t t o Excel, it must still live in a world where the usually end up with a number of different t urned a gain t o th e page" f e a tures — now numberaone spreadsheet is Lotus 1-2-5. To scenarios — a really good one, a realistic one 'echo iocy Th' offered for use on nonget around that, Excel offers "LotusClassic" and a heavily pessimistic one. Although they chart wizard shows you PostScript printers. You keystroke compatibility along with support often share the same sets of data, you may what your chart will look decide how big you want for all Lotus file formats — including the well set up each scenario as a separate like before you create it your page. The page can Impress (FM) file format and .WKS threesheet s at least give it over to a difFerent and lets you orient your even be a wall of sheets 8 dimensional sheets. part of the spreadsheet. graphs so that they look pages high by 8 gages The most impressive nod to 1-2-8 But with Excel 4, you don't have to do e xactly r i gh t b e f o r e w ide. There's a p r i n t compatibility, however, is what Microsoft that any more. h6crosoft has designed what committing them to the screen. The neatest c e lls in black and white" feature for the vast calls the LMI (Lotus Macro Interpreter)it calls a "scenario manager." You can stick part of this process is in doing 3-D charts, m ajority of us who have nonwolor printers, which can execute Lotus 1-2-5 macros with working with the same set of data — and directly in Excel without any modification. then just apply different sets of data to it The idea, of course, is that Microsoft can with the scenario manager. now say "there's no longer any reason not You could, forexample, have a best to switch." But in looking to the longer gle adit Formela Fermat Qata /aliene Merce ®adore italo scenario where interest rates for borrowing term, h6crosoft has even arranged things so AI INSTRUCTIONS are low, infiation is low and VAT is cut, then that you can nm I-M macros directly now, a second one where interest rates go up, and over time build Excel-written macros Colic eKx enses Model mfiation increases a bit and VAT stays the into parts of the 1-2-5 macro before same. I could go on, but you get the general translating the whole thing eventually into idea "native"Excel macro code. You can even Copy CalrC elide in lhr Family Dote hhdlnrectmcdt'Accomjitihne Ccctioce,'th Using the scenario manager, you can, Pena Ctrl+It clcclcte Nocto celcclctc the Pcymcnt Schcdclc. call the Excel macro language fiom a Lotus Clear . Dcl within a m i n u te — build a s c e n ario macro. 'Dclclh.s:.. comparison which shows you exactly what ASe te Yearnef To ASe tnecrh.. arne • rt case • cosa • of you would earn in the best, most-realistic Conclusion Ncmhen.. te and worstyossible cases, all side-by~ide in '. ASSnmcnl.. There's a great deal in Excel 4 to like — and le their own sheet. Font.. le a lot more to get your mind around than Border:.t" even a review of this length allows. On first Paaeme " Presentation mspection, all the features look good — very Charting in Excel has long been a relatively good, in fact. It looks like Microsoft has strong point and Microsoft has made a another winner on its hands. • point of building even further on that in

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Admitting that it has been disappointed in sales of the Macintosh Classic II announced last fall, and vowing to c ontinue an aggressive pricing strategy, Apple Canada has announced price cuts on three icwend models of its Macintosh computer line. Apple would not comment on rumors that two of the models might be nearing the end of their liveL Apple Canada cut suggested retail prices on all models of the Macintosh Classic, Classic I, and LC. The Classic, with two

feels Hall is a highly credible witness. Apple

The court has said that a trial could start as early as June of this year. Microsoft's stock was oif about 4.5 points in trading following release of the damage rettuest, while Apple stock was up 0.75.

has other evidence it plans to present at the trial as well, and the final damages the company seeks "...could very well be more," Escher said.

Contact: Chrht Eschar, Apple, tel 408-9744i412, fax 408-974-2202;Sarah Charf, Microsoft, 2088824080.

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megabytes (MB) of memory and a 40 MB hard disk drive, was reduced from C41,729 to C$1,449. The Classic II in the same configuration was marked down from

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response to shnilar reductions by Apple in the United States. He added that the deepest cuts, on the Qassfc 11, refiected the fitct that Apple was disappohtted in sales of the Qassic 11 and decided to reposition it as

a loweryriced machine. "The sales, to be perfectly candid, did not materialize" at the

old price, Wright said. Wright said company policy prevented him commenting on rumors that Apple

Apple Aeite For t4,37 Iilllon ln Domo@os From Iwicroeoft R EDMOND, WA SHI N GT ON , FE B 1 2 (NB) — "Unsupportable and speculative is how Microsoft characterizes Apple'srerptest for $4.57 billion in damages in Apple's suit in which it accuses Microsoft of stealing its graphical interface designs for use in Windows. According to Microsoft, Apple is seeking profits it dahns to have lost in the amount

of $5.02 billion becaus~ of the presence of Microsoft Windows in the marketplace. Apple is also reportedly seeking another $1.55 billion it says it lost because of Microsoft products sold tbat operate in the Windows graphical environment. The $4.57 bill ion figure comes from a study done by economics professor Robert Hall of the Hoover Institute at Stanford University. Hall daimed that Apple had lost a total of $4.57 billion in revenue because of Microsoft Windows and Hewlett-Packard's

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plans to discontinue all computers using the Motorola 68000 processor within the next couple of months. The original Classic aud the LC both use that chip, while the Qasslc II has a Motorola 68050 processor. The cuts also refiected stiff competition in the personal computer industry in recent months, Wright said. A number of other companies, including IBM and Digital Etluipment, have recently chopped prices on some personal computer models A pple C anada cu t p r i ce s o n i t s Macintosh IIci and I Isi machines last October. Contact: Franca Mlreglla, Apple Canada, tel 418518-5511, fax 416418-5871.

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Cosliaueffnna Irugx69 Matchmakers of Toronto, the third annual e vent i s s c h eduled f o r t he Re g i s Constellation Hotel in Toronto, March 25 a nd 26. Further i n f ormation i s available from Alwyn Mitchell at Software Matchmakers, 416-7564221 or fax 416-7564099. Major American trade s how producer T h e I nterface G r o u p operator of the mammoth C o m d ex show — is coming to Canada with a matched set o f eve n t s in July. PC/Canada and LAN Expo '92 will nm concurrently at the Metro Toronto Convention CentreJuly 28 to 50. Both shows are aimed at coxIxoxxne buyers and end users, the organizers said. Along with exhibits, there will be extensive conference programs. The LAN Dealers'

nadian Oov't Report arns Of Skills Shortacle

OTTAWA, O N T A RIO , ~ 11 ( NB) — Canada does n o t h a v e enough skilled sofhrare workers, and that fact could cripple not only the country's software industry, but other economic sectors as well, says a report prepared for the federal Department of E mployment and Immigration. Entitled "Software and National Competitiveness," the report says software industry growth is projected at 20 percent per year, but Canadian universities are producing fe wer and f e wer c omputer science graduates. M eanwhile, in-house software workers Assodation (LANDA) of Toronto wm l work (t h o se in t h e in f o r m ation systems w ith Intexface to produce the conference d e p artments of companies outside the program for LAN Expo. cornputer industry as well as government F urther information on PC/Canada and a n d other organizations) make up about L AN Expo is amilable from The Interface t w o birds < of the totaL Growth there is only Group at 617~ 88, f a x 617449 2674. t five percent per year, but the big problem is that workers' skills are becoming Contact: A l w y n Mi t c hell, S o f tware outdated and they are not being upgraded Matchmakexa, 416-75M221, fax 416-758-2099; through retraining. "It's not going too far over the top to say Charyl Oelgreco, Tiie Interface Grcwp, B17~ 8988, fax 617~ 2 6 7 4. Canada is in danger of becoming a thirdworld nation if we don't step up to these issues," said Anne McKague, national education chairman of the Canadian Infoxatation Processing Society (CIPS), at a TORONTO, ONTARIO, FEB 14 (NB)Toronto press conference held to release Member fi rm s of t h e T o r o nto Stock the report. Exchange, Canada's largest, have voted to "Humanwesource issues and problems move entirely to automated trading. Stocks ... act in a vexy disturbing way to constrain will cease to be traded on the exchange the capacity of the Canadian economy to floor by the end of March, 1995, after 114 compete hi the information age," said Roy years of floor trading. WoodbxMge, president of the Canadian The management of the exchange Advanced Technology Assodation (CATA). announced early in January that member The report says that while softwarefirms would be asked to approve the related jobs pay better than most white-

Toronto Stock Exchange Votes To Go Electronic

Seybold Seminars: Prtepress ToEvolve Into Pre-Publishiny BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, FEB 20

(NB) — By the year 2000, prepress, or the

process of preparing materials for hardcopy printing, will evolve into "prepublishing," an industry aligned with a wuiety of hard and soft output options, say the results of a new study by theTssodation for Suppliers of Printing and Pubashing Technologies (NPES), presented at the Seybold SeminarL As pxmting techniques move away'fxom such uaditional methods as offset, gravure, flexography, and letterpress, ress is expanding its role into creation an design activities, while readying itself for emexging forms of media, stated Louis A. Laurent, president of the NPES, in delivexmg the suxvey results. Manipulation of text and graphic elements and page assembly are increasingly a combined activity as it becomes more important to realize the implications of a manipulation

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Laurent. While prepress has already been impacted by high speed laser printers, electronic publishing systems, and color copiers, it will also start to support CD4tOM publishing, on4ne databases, multimedia, and broadcast networks over the coming decade, he predicted. The new area of

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outlook for 21 specimc prepress product

categories. ResuYts showed that, by 1995, sales of one third of the categories will increase, and sales in another thirId will decrease. The remaining products are expected to hold steady. Throughout the period, sales of high-end input/output scanners and color workstations will~ slide, while sales of direct to plate imagers will xfse, the survey snned. The effects of these changes on the industry will vary by segment, Laurent noted. For example,

trade typogxaphers will have to expand into other areas as the significance of type dedineL Also, commercial printerswill be impacted by competition from quick printers, he said, «nd corporations will perform m or e o f t h e i r i n f o r mation development, pr odu c t i on, ~ and, . dissemination on an in-house basiL

Seybold Seminars: Awards for Excellence

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS FEB 21 (NB) — ¹ne new products cut through keen competition to win prizes last night at the Seybold Seminars' first annual Awards for Excellence ceremony. In addition, three products and services outside Seybold's change. collar positions, young Canadians have a criteria for new products landed honorable Options and f'utures will still be traded negative image of the profession, seeing it mentionL Ranging from a scanner to an on an open floor, exchange spokesman as peopled with "computer nerds." An effort imagesetter, to a management and tracking ' Steve Key told NewsbyteL Whedter part of is needed to improve the image of sofbsare system, the entries beat out a field the existing floor will be used for this jobs among young peopleto encourage of about 50 other andyicked rivals in the purpose has not yet been decided, he said. them to enter the field, the report says. field of computer publishing. I ' m really Woodbxidge also critidzed the student- impressed with the quality we' ve seen, said Jim Gallagher, executive vfcepresident of the exchange, told Newsbytes the TSE's guidance staff in the school system, which Jonathan Seybold, company president, directors believe the move is the best way to he described as "largely dominated by speaMng to a crowd that gathered for the compete with the larger exchanges in the e lderly social-science graduates, f o r ceremony after the last seminar sessions of United States. The New York exchanges steemig students away from the field. the day were over. Under the rules of the trade the stocks of m ajor C a nadian But the report also recognizes that much n ew contest, t o q u a l if y f o r a w a r d companies heavily, he said, and they', rather of th e r e sponsibility fo r u p g r ading consideration, a product must make a than the smaller exchanges in Montreal and employees' skills lies with employers. Paul signifiamt conuibution in some way, either V ancouver, a r e the T SE ' s ma j o r Kennedy, president of r esearch firm by benefiting users or advancing the competitors. International Data Corporation Canada, computer publishing industry. Also, to "We have to stay a little ahead and be a which helped prepare the report, said that make it into this year's judging, a product little better in order to compete, Gallagher especially in t h e c u r r ent r e cession, m ust have b een p u b licly shown t o said. 'The board wants us to be the primary businesses are not paying enough attention customers between May and September, place to trade Canadian bluechip stocks ... to strategic planning, and humanwesource 1 991. T o m a k e i t in t o t h e 1 9 9 5 that is an increashigly competitive business. development is one of those issues. competition, vendors still have time to go. R oughly $50 people work o n t h e The report also calls for expansion of The product must be publicly shown to Toronto Stock Exchange trading floor now. post-secondary programs in computer customers between September, 1991 and Of these, about 250 are traders who work science, an assessment of high-school September, 1992. About 60 items met this for the member firms. After the floor computer sdence programs, development year's criteria, and a panel of nine Seybold doses, Gallagher said, at least some of those of an industry strategy for recruitment, and editors worked long into the night assesshig people will continue trading stocks, but a greater focus on training and retraining the entries, stated Michael Shaughnessy, from computer terminals rather than on within the industry. vice president of Seybold, during the the floor. About another 100 people are The report aho suggested Canada may ceremony. At the event, the editors took employed by theexchange to provide need to make it easier for people with turns presenting prizes for these new clerical services on the floor. The TSE sokwarerelated xkims to enter the countxy, pfodlicts hopes to find other jobs for as many of and that the software industry should look • ISGI'S RAMS displaywd production these people as possible over the coming for other sources of workers, such as management system, incorporating talented people now working in other database techniques, a d t r a cking, year, Gallagher said. The exchange's Computer Assisted component integration, and storage. Trading System (CATS) was among the first In June, a national roundtable meeting • The Howtek Scanmaster D4000, a drum such systems in the world, and has been i s to b e h e l d i n T o r o n t o s o t h a t scanner for reflective and transparent art. resold t o s e veral o t he r e x c h anges. representatives of business, government, The D4000 offerscolor space conversion Currently, about half the stocks traded in and academia can discuss the issues further. as well as resolution of up to 4,000 dpi, Toronto are listed on the CATS system. Key noted Seyboid editor Dave Gertler. said, and about 80 percent of all tmles that CtNxfacl: JohnENaa,Nalanai Public Relaiona • QuarkCopydesk and Dispatch. a text go through the exchange have some ter EmploymentandImmilxethn Canada, tel editor and tracking module for the electronic conxpoxxent. 4184N4180, fax 4161- 1094. editorial workgroup market.

Conleel: Steve Kay, TorontoSleek Exchange,

mechanicals, film and flat files, are being handled with digital files. The filature herxdds digital transmission throughout the

• Ofoto, scanning/image processing seRwam from Light Source that suppBes cropping and scahng, image rotation, and calibration of the scanner with the target

output device, among other feature). • Adobe MultiMaster, software that extends the Type 1 Spedfication by letting users create variations in style, size and weight froxn a shlgle font • Quck'IIme, the multimedia extension to

Apple's System 7.

• Linotype-Hell's PostScript RIP 60, a modular, standalone RIP designed to provide high~ ty a n d fast turnaround on theLinotronic 650 drum recorder. • EH Cache and Elii Color, software from a company that strongly promotes color portabiTity. • Dolev internal~ im ag e setters from Scitex. The Dolev 400 is aimed at the middle segment of the market, and the Dolev 800 at the high end, said editor Molly Joss. Slated for release in the second half of this year, the Dolev 800 uses a patented prism in the center of the drum instead of a mirror, minimizing the dispersion of light. Honorable mehtions went to these products and services: • IBM's ScreenReader with Book Manager, a system designed for the vision impaired. • Hyphen and The Evening Standard: .Information S t ation, a n e w sroom application based on Hyphen products that's being dexncmstrated on the Seybold floor. • X change, a c o mpany t hat a dvises

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extensions. The new Seybold awards program originated out of an ekort to certify that items exhibited as new products are truly n e w , J o n a t han S eybold told t h e a u d i ence a t t h e . ceremony. Me wanted to be able to say, 'This is a new product, no question about it,'" he noted. After reviewing prospective 'hew products, and cenifying some 90 of them, Seybold dedded to honor the best. In determining criteria for the awards, the company considered setting up product categories but rejected the idea,

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lack,said Unger. Soft Copy, for example,', wQl allow figures and diagrams to be floated and independent. In print text, you usually uy to figure an image so it's near th e p o int o f f i r st reference, yet at the same time it accurately covers the scope of the entire refck'ence. This is often dif6cult to do, because the material referenced can stretch on for

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Aldus Intros Ubrary Of Artistic Effects For Windows application, the effects can be used as plug. in filters that can be integrated into r aphics p r ograms such a s A l d u s hotoStyler 1.1 or Fractal Design Painter 1.0. Gallery Effects can open and save — ;! files in t h e T I F F ,

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capable of playing standard IScentfmetershed CD-ROM discs. Sony calls the CDROM XA a "personal infomaatfon device. The unit, introduced at the Seventh Intenaational Conference and Exposition on Multimedia and CD-ROM, measures 7 x 6", sports a 4.5-inch monochrome LCD

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small Qeerty keyboard. It plays both CDROMs and audio compact discs on a built4n speaker. There is also a stereo headphone

jack. Sony's Takashi Sugiyama, project manager, says the unit will be introduced this fall in the US. market, where PCs have c arved out the l a rgest chunk of t h e operating system pie. No price was ghren. Mark Frankel, vice president of the

Personal Information Products Division of Sony Corporation of America,the U.S. division arm of Sony, stated: "In two or three years, the defmition of computers will be radically different from how we view them today." This ncw player is designed to usher in that new age, according to Sony. Late last year, Sony introduced the Data Discman, a tiny player for miniature CDR OM discs, dubbed i t s "multimedia

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crosoft, meanwhile;, announced a multimedia viewer-authoring tool for development of applications for Windowsbased MPC and the Sony multimedia player, or XA system. The software is

optimized for the Sony CD-ROMXA phyer,

says Chris Doarel of Microsoft, but the key is that a smgle disk create;d with the software will run on both MPC and the Sony player platforms. He added that it supports fulltext searching. A beta version will be out early this spring for the Sony multimedia players Centaeti Sony Corp., 201-6604432.

CO-ROM/INultimeclia Conference: News Of Note SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, MAR ll (NB) — Several other i t ems of n e ws surfaced at this year's show. Richard Thackray, president of the Interactive Multimedia Assodation, says that I ntel h a s a g r ee d t o op e n up it s specifications to digital video in order to stimulate multhnedia end~ s u p port and confid'ence. Draft rccommcndaafono have also been reached by member companies on a standard for digital audio. Members of the organization include SM, Microsoft,

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Apple To Incorporate Kodak PhotoCD Into QuickTime

L o tus Plans Iwultimedla Additions To Business Applications

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announced t he two companies p l a n to i nclude Kodak ' s d igi t a l - i m a g i n g technology, also known as PhotoCD, into its next release of

photofinishing retail outlets. Kodak added that by January, 1995, Kodak

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Q ui c k T i m e m ul t i m e d i a extensions fer System 7. Apple 'the says introduction of Q uic k T i m e ki suppor t fer ' K od a k s t echnology w i l l m ake i t t h e f i r s t company to integrate PhotoCDs in t o a computer operating system. While the companies did not disclose the terms of the agreement, Apple said it intends to license the PhotoCD technology &em Kodak and make it directly C

accessible in QuickTime. Roger Heinen, vice president and general manager,

Madntoah Software Architecture division, said this is possible because, QukkTime ia the only architecture which can support all industry-standard i m agewompresaion schemes in a seamless fiishigen." Kodak's Georgia McCabe, director of markedng and strategist fer the company, says the PhotoCD system produces a writeable compact disc (CD) that steres color images in a digital format while maintaining the resolution of photographic fihn. Kodak maintains the PhotoCD system has overcome the i m age~ u ality and expense problems that have prevented the widespread use ef images in desktop

application a. The PhotoCD images can be accessed by a computer through a compact discreadonly memory XAwompatiblc chive, such aa the AppleCD SC Plus CD-ROM, or on a television through Kodak's PhotoCD player

or a Phiiips CD-I player. Kodak says photefinishing services for PhotoCD hnaps will be swd4ble worldwide beghming this summer, and by year~d, will be a vailable a t o ver 1 0 0,000

annotated with voice, graphics and text. T he live demonstration at t he CD- R O M c on f e r e n c e included a "home movie of g r a ndma m ade wi th P ho t o C D pictures, with r u n n i n g c ommen t a r y from her little granddaughter. On the same stage was

Apple, which drew gasps f rom the au d i e n c e

during

demonstration of hew i n tegration of PhotoCD on the Mac would work. Madntosh users can click on a PhotoCD icon to access "thumbnail" versions of images stored on PhotoCD discs. Each hnage appears in miniature aa a tiny icon. Apple says QtuckTime will translate them from PhotoCD to PICT format on the fiy.

product, says it is ready to oifer multimedia products for business users in 1992. Lotus plans to take advantage of the introduction of sound, graphics, and video available by the addition of multimedia to thc IBM and compatible personal computer (PC) and use those tools in its business applications. The companysays one ef the first multimedia products planned is M ultimedia Smarthelp fo r 1 - 2-5 f o r Windows. Called "annotation," multimedia files containing digital text, sound, pictures, and movies housed in container applications will allow users to link, embed, or attach messages to files as needed. "Annotation will allow users to employ the electronic version of a yellow sticky pad. Yeu will be able to stick multimedia data, typed text, sound, pictures and mevies onto the m i ddl e o f a file to ex c h a nge infermation with co-workers," said Rob L ippincott, di r e c to r of p rodu c t development for Lotus' Multimedia Product

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skills as needed on work in progress, is hailed b y t h e c o m p any a s a n e t her multhnedia possibility, «nd one Lotus says it will incorporate in its multimedia products. Lippincott said: "Typically, computer users today turn to their documentation only as a last resort. They opt instead to consult their organization's software guru when they need help. Multimedia just-intime learning will save businesses dme and

money bygiving every PC user an expert resident in their software-that can deliver the right information exactly when it is needed." Lotus offidala expect muldmedia might take thne to catch on, but say it will come to be a common tool in the business world. Five years ago phone mail waa just a new compound woad. Now the technology is

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Lotus says the addition of multimedia to business applications wil l f a c i litate communication, help in learning how to * use software, and offer the abili ty to put together better and mo re in terestmg everywhere. The same thing will happen preacntationL with multimedia on a PC, particularly with major companies like Lotus moving in this The hnagcs then can bc integrated directly The delivery of t h ese multimedia into appEcations. This capamity will allew annotations on a network will be possible direction. users t o c r e a t e m u l t i media t i t l e s, with enhanced versions of Lotus' compact & Paul, for presentations, or publications that combine disc CD/Networker network server sofbore Contact: Nancy Scott, Mcsmnchey video, animatien, and photographicguality and CDAelivercd software applicatiens, Lotus, ial 817462-4514, fax 817482-7938. still images, Apple said. Lotus maintains. At f irst multimedia

announced a new SCSI (SmallComputer Systems Interface) card, the CoreiSCSI LSM00, which Cerel says is the first to offer a feature called "intelligent termination. SCSI cards are subject te data loss if one of the devices connected te the card is taken off the connection or terminated, and the other is still connected. Thi • can

The companyoffers a "Blockbuster Bundle" that includes the CD@ROM drive„a SCSI card, and the software and dip art librariea on CDs. The SCSI card offered in its bonus bundle has been the LS2000, an eight-bit card that d oes no t o f fer i n t elligent termination. However, Corel representatives say the company will offer users a choice in the bleckbuster bundle and users who

happen if, for example, the computer is

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delivery on the network is expected to be limited t o l e a r n in g an d a n n otation capabilities, but Lotus says advances in softwarcwnly delivery of compressed video and hardware advances on networks will allow aB the multimedia types to be shared. "Just4x~ e , " a term normally used in

destination format. The program supports the use of a mouse, and uses dialogue boxes to present options to th c u ser. File conversion can also be done by entering commands from the DOS cotmnand line. ConvertPerfect runs on IBM and cempatiblea, as well as PS/1 and PS/2 machines, and needs only 584 kilobytes

moved from one location to another. Fixing

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the computer and manually adjusting ROM, W O R M dr i v es, t a p e d r i v e s, switches on the card, a Corel representative rewriteable dries, and multifimction diiveL (KB) ofavailable RAM and one floppy said. Both come with C orel C D -Audio for drive. ConvertPerfect has a suggested list Intel5gent termination built into the Windows, a video to explain installation, priceof$49 in the US. and $59 ln Canada LSS000 card makes the card smart and "Sitback" seftwarc for automatic induding IBM DCA/RTF, Microsoft Word It is available through local software dealers, new enough to recogniae one end haa been backups. Corel also offers an eight-bit for Windows, Ami Professional, Multhnate, o r can b e p u r c hased directly f r om terminated and terminate the other end. Microchannel CorelSCSI. All three cards Navy DIF,and WordPerfect 4.2 and 5.0. WordPerfect Corporation by calling 800come with a t h ree-year warranty, the When the connection is reestablished the Accordingto Todd Ashman, director of 5214566. card knows that aa welL Corel says its SCSI company added. WordPerfect DOS marketing, thc program The Hebrew-language module allows card is the f i rst t o o f fe r i n t elligent The retail price of the LS3000 is $525, ia a result of requests from customers for an bilingual text entry in columns, tables, and teitnination. Registered users can upgrade for $200. No accurate con v ersion pro g r am. text boxes. Insertion of either English or The company plans to have the card information was available on pridng for the ConvertPerfect is a great tool for redudng Hebrew canbe done lefty-right or rightwo- available in April. It is a 164it card with a LSS000 Blockbuster Bundle, but the current documentwonversion efforts aa customers left. Included are screen fonts; keyboard data transfer rate of 6.5 megabytes (MB) Blockbuster Bundle ia $1,295. Registered make the move (to WordPerfect)," said dfivers; soft fonts for the Hewlett-Packard per second in synchronous and 5 MB per users can get i t f o r $ 5 95 , C orel Ashman. series 11 and 111 laser printers, Epson 24pin second in asynchronous mode. The LSS000 representatives said. The program allows the user to select printers, PostScript and PScompatibles; and also has the capability of operating in buaMere information on thc SCSI cards ia just one flic, or an entire directory, for plhl'tci' drivers. and Windows werd~oceaaing file formats to andfrom WordPedcct 5.1. The company said that ConvcrtPerfect supports more than forty file formats,

conversion. A selection of filea using wHd Also induded in the $149 package are cards is also supported. Once the filcs have Hebrew kcycals (stickwn key labels). been selected, ConvcrtPerfect atttomafically detects the source file font. Aa an option,

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Michelangelo Is Rare But, Where Found, Hits Hard WASHINGTON, DC, MAR 6 (NB) — March 6th was the day the computer world had been dreadhigforweeks; the day which any IBM~ompatible computers infected with the Michelangelo virus had their hard disks wiped of all data. By late March 5th, Reuters was already reporting incidents in the Far East across the International Date Line, and in scattered companies in the rest of the world whose compute.rs had the date set incorrectly and thus activated the virus early. The Michelangelo virus is a variant of the "Stoned" booteector virus, which is set to activate each March 6 on the Renaissance artist's birthday and wipe a disk's fileallocation table and directory, rendering the disk contents unusable. David Lee, a virus research scientist and product manager for RG Software, maker of

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Although some mainstream news media are reporting that the Miichelangelo virus attack was more hype than actual, thousands, perhaps hundreds of t h o usands, of computers were affected and the evidence clearly indicate;s that the problem would have been much worse if responsible persons hadn't repeated warnings loudly and often. 27ic Washington Postreported on Sunday that the one advanced counuy where virus attacks were reported as being unusually high was South Africa, which was also one place where the virus didn't receive much early publicity. UPI reports that as many as 1,000 computers in South Airtca suffered data loss on March 6. Percentage-wise this is a much larger number of systems than were estimated to VISpy, told Newsbytes early in February have been affected here in the U.S. or other that he had received many reports of countries where there was widespread infections by the Michelangelo virus in the publicity. This could certainly lead to the computer community surrounding nearby conduslon that warnings in other countries Arizona State University. In one case a prompted individuals and companies to professor who was demonstrating that his e radicate the virus before it di d an y computer could not be infected set the damage. dock date ahead to March 6 and the virus Certainly the massive run on anti-viral software reported by publishers and promptly activated and wiped out his disk When viewing stories about computer software vendors indicates that an allwut viruses, espedally reports which minimize attack was waged against the Michelangelo their numbers and effect, readers should virus, and, despite that, there were many remember that not only are companies reports of data loss which were due to the reluctant to admit to having a virus but virus. Symantec alone reports giving away almost noone reports when they discover a about a quarter-million free copies of virus and eliminate it before damage is software which just searches out and caused. destroys the Michelangelo virus, and other San Jose, California-based Dataquest, a companies such as RG Software report a computer research Srm, has reported that large number o f c a ll s f ro m p e o ple up to 65 percent of all business PCs in firms downloading their similar f re e a n tiit recently surveyed have suffered virus Michelangelo utilities f'rom bulletin boards. attacks, with nearly 10 percent loss John McAfee, a publisher of antiWirus of dataon 25 or more hard or Soppy disks. software, estimated that about 1,000

computers were hit in the U.S.— a tiny Sraction of the total number of susceptible IBMwompatible computers (only computers running the MS-DOS operating system can be affected by this particular virus). As one software expert said, 'Taking steps to prevent data destruction by computer viruses is like coohng to prevent

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(cunningly called Font/DA Mover) in and out of the system changes the fonts' ID numbers as needed to avoid numbering confiicts.Hence, a font may or may not have the ID n u mber it was originally assigned. (Apple's System '1 more-or-less d oes away with the need for Font/ D A Mover, and climates the renumbering problems that it creates.) Apple eventually realized the error of its ways and increased the number of fonts to 16,000 by creating a new font resource called NFNT (new font numbering table) that can be used in place of the FONT resource. NFNT re s ources also offer enhanced support for the various styles

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earlier versions did not support the NFNT resource. To solve ID confiicts, you am use a program such as Font Harmony (bundled with 5th Generaticm Systems' Suitcase II) or Font/DA Utility (included with Alsoft's MasterJuggler), or get new versions of the screen fonts that have had NFNT resources added to them by their manufacturera Flgtire 4. A scaled screen font before and alter Adobe, for example, makes their entire ATM (as seen on-screen). library of updated NFNT~upporting screen fonts f'reely available for the downloading True italics and boldface fonts are Som the major online services. Your local displayed, not just artificially skewed or service bureau may also be able to supply fattened oneL Unlike the way that some PC you with a set. If anybody knows about font programs circumvent Windows' normal ID confiicts, they dol font-handling routines (see FaceLift, Another way to avoid font conflicts when below), every program I' ve ever seep you send a file to a service bureau is to send running on a Mac benefits S om ATM. them a preAownloaded PostScript file that I has been "printedwodisk" Display PostScrlpt On the NeXT To print a PostScript file to disk from The problems introduced by the Mac's virtually any Mac program, simply press and system of QuickDraw screen fonts and hold Command-K when you dick OK in the PostScript printer fonts do not completely print dialog until the system reports that it disappear when ATM is used, although it is creating a PostScript file on your disk, or dramatically improves the system's font use Command-F to save a file without Laser display. To get a true correspondence Prep appended to it. When it's done, you' ll between the screen and the priuter, w< finTa file in the current application's folder need to use the same commands — in the or the System folder called PostScript0. same language — for both devices. /he best (The next one would be called PostScriptl implementation of such a system is Adobe'.s and so on.) Display PostScript, sometimes abbreviated This file contains all the PostScxipt code DPS. (Apple has announced that a f'uture necessary to print the file, including the release of its operating system will~ include various font desaiptionL All a service bureau Display P o stScript-like c a p abilities needs to do is send it to their Lino (or other i ncIuding th e a b i l ity t o r o t at e a n d imagesetter) using a downloading utgity. manipulate on~een text.) Although NeXT is not the only platform ATM For the iwac running DPS (high~ d workstations from The Macintosh version of Adobe Type DEC, IBM and various other Unbt ~vendors Manager (induded See with new Macs and use the system, and workstations Som SUN soon to be part of Apple's system soSware) Microsystems can also have oni.screen adds system-level support for screen and PostScript via the NeWS display driver), the printer output of Type 1 scalable outline NeXT machines are the only ones,' to have fonts. It benefits substantially from the DPS built in "from the ground up," as an Mac's well-integrated font management intrinsic part of the system. An interview routines, to allow virtually all Mac programs with Aciobc: in Vok 1 No. 2 of ¹ X T WorQ to create smooth on-screen fonts (see magazine details how DPS came to the

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bitmap image can have multiple colors. These are primarily used by video-titling programs. By using a technique called antialiasing, these fonts can help eliminate the jaggies that plague most screen displays. Net Bashazville 9 paint &zit (stazsIezd vamzszi) (Antieliased fonts are also available in some PC and Mac products, including the i!i!-. 'Rgure 6. Anfi- amazing Ctystal Fonts technology found in Naas Baslsez1ille 10 point k nt (ehezsdazcI vazsion) ::i i„.: :allased screen ATI's 8514/Ultra graphics card for the PC, wim rapidly dhninish. fonts can w hich p r o duces t h e e q u i valent o f New Baskerville 12 point hnt(standard version) Iiotis tIve Amigo Does It SROOx2400 resolution l It is worth noting, The top Amiga DTP tides — Professional however, that Crystal Fonts "steal" some of 'New Seakeriiile 9 pajint feel (msticdi vn.timreieu) Page and PageStream — both support the normally available colors. This may outhne fontsand produce excement printed cause TIFFs placed in DTP programs to output and on~ e n displayL look strange. Nets Ih4a-tw'ITIe le rsnitlt feint (miti+liasas1 t+imrin) In versions prior to 2.0, Pagestream's Letrastudio and FontStudio for the Mac fonts were amateurish, lachng true italics also anti~ & di s play text. In Sict, and other subtletieL Instead of italic letters, NeW SgLekfmitlt 1'e Pa)it>I ft>tII. fattti-®34Sefl «+~it)tt) a little- o w n feature of the Macintosh PageStream simply skewed an upright letter operating system is its built-in support for at an angle (see Figure 5). and-aliased screen fonts such as those Later versions of PageStream (R.RI is the c reated b y F o n t Studio. T h e s e c a n latest) are able to use standanl Adobe Type dramatically improve the display of small 1 type6ices. These, and Professional Page's depending on the round~ errors induced NLQ fonts. It comes with a library of outhjie point sizes on color Mag e e F igure 6.) Compugraphic fonts, are much better. by the size percentage). The new drivers fonts on one of the Fred Fish PD disks so Some particularly good Color Fonts for The A m i ga's W o r kbench-level also allow the setting of various print wellknown to most Amiga ownerL the Amiga are 8'om a company called Kara Preferences printer drivers (used by most densities and graphicsehading algorithms. The worst fonts, in this writer's opinion, Some Kara fontsare even designed to be other programs) dan't use a system of faut However, better system fonts are are the ones that ship with the Amiga. animated, so that letters can spin onto the substitution, but rather print the same necessary to maximize the benefits of these Apparently optimized for low-resolution page of an animated video presentation in bitmaps that appear on the screen to the enhanced drivers. Amiga owners should video display, they are not appropriate for best Amiga fashion. printer. Not good. To put it bluntly', the look for third-party fonts to add to their Standard Amiga fonts are kept in a publishing tasks. standard Amiga system4evel system. The Amiga has an optional special font speciSc directory (called a drawer in Amiga is poor compared to any other GUI on the Some that I like are the Granite and format called Color Fonts, where the parlance). In this drawer are numerous market today. Fortunately, Commodore has Marble fonts on the ProWrite disk These built hooks into AmigaDOS LO that may fonts appear to be clones of the Mac's allow a future system software release to Geneva and New York fonts, and print welL utiTize on~een outHne fonts. ProWrite can also mix graphics with the Until then, however, there are several built-in NLQ fonts of many dot-matrix ways Amlga owners can improve their print printers, for exceptionally good print quality. For piinting bitmaps, the best is a quality. This feat is — to the best of my commercial product called Fine Print, knowledge — only possible with one other which is an improved Amiga printer drivcr. program: 1st Word Plus for the Aiari ST or 'A less effective solution, but still an IBM@'C. Times Roman Times Italic Skewed Times Roman Improvement over early Amiga system A shareware PostScript interpreter software, is to use the Workbench 1.5 or called Post is also available that, according Figure 5. True itagcs vs mt8lclally skewed letterfonns. newer printer drivers, which scale the to Greg Bastow of Sprite Computers, bitmaps (with varying degrees of success, produces output comparable to a printer' s

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other drawers, each named for a specific typeface. The names typically are those of gemstones, just as Mac bitmap fonts are customarily named for cities of the worlcL In these font drawers are arbitrary sized bitmap fonts identified by their point size. (A point, for those of you

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Amiga bitmap fonts can be edited with an induded font editor program or with the ( m uc h b e t t er ) c o m m ercially avaasble Calhgrapher. As mentioned in the July 1990 issue of 7hr Cesaputer Paper, a PostScript printer d r iver called Postdriver is aho commerdally available.

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Speedo, Compugraphic Intellifont, or Nimbus Q fonts f'rom The Company. It also supports the full range of HP s oft f o n t s , ge n e r atin g t he m beforehand or on-the-fly. It also generates matching Windows screen fonts, and is the only one of the font managers for the PC that doesn' t flicker distractingly while you' re

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version 2.0 of Letraset's FontStudio. Another good reason is TrueType's intelligent hinting system, whicI I can potentially be used to allow fonts 'to be rendered differently,depending on what size they are (note that no currently released True Type fonts exploit this aMity). This is more in keeping with traditional type designs, where larger font sizes often have more delicate thin strokes and serifs. Adobe PostScript's hinting system is currently incapable of this; however, Ist the March 1991 Seybold publishing conference hi Boston, Adobe announced its own new typoweight manipulation technology',called '

Multiple Masters. The company says that it

will not convert its entire type hbrary',to the new format, but will release selected faces in Courier MS-DOS itself is a character-based Multiple Masters fosmat. Courier,BOLD environment, supporting only a e Magazine calls "abysmally slow.' Multiple Masters is essentially an 384K ..... Q+ m onospaced system font, with n o Although the screen fonts it creates enhancement to the Type 1 font format. underlying font management system. are a g l u t to n f o r d i s k s p ace, S pecial Multiple Master fonts (/ d o b e Therefore, all PC font management SuperPrint performs well, despite the currently has two: "Minion and "M)rriad") 8 Qse Pre-built or Resident BitmaP Fonts systems are th' d-p~ a d d mns Some fact that its induded Nimbus Q fonts have instructions built into the font that PC environments like Windows S.l, are, in the words of PC Magusine in its allow multiple weights of a font to be O 1983-1ggo AdobeSystems incorporated. PC/GEOS and OS/2 2.0 indude built' April 16, 1991 issue, "noticeably generated f'rom a single face. One of the All Rights Reserved. Patents Pending. inferior to the output of ATM and touted benefits of this ability is to allow a Faceliit font to "masquerade" as another when PC'lGEOS (GeoWorits Ensemisle) included in an electronic documentReviewed in the January 1991 and March Other Font Menalers another forthcoming product (cu*ently Figure 7. Ino easing ATM's font cache speeds 1992 issues of The Cosaputer Paper, the In addition to the previously mentioned k nown a s "Carousel" ) from A d o be. unified screen an d p r i n te r i m a ging up screen fontrendering. font managers, a few more products are Microsoft has also announced similar plans provided by PC/GEOS's font manager available that may be useful for some users. for TrueType, with its "TrueType font Although u s er s o f Pag e M a ker, Publisher's Powerpak has optional (hke the embedding. (See story, page72 —EcL produce very good printouts (see Figure 2), complete with a piint spooler so that you FreeHand, Lotus 1-24 for Windows (all of program, each pack costs US$79.95) Also, Microsoft and Apple insist that can continue to work while it does. A small which ship with ATM), Word for Windows, scalable foreign alphabets including TrueType's socalled quadratic curves (that but well-rounded selection of Nimbus Q Windows Wiite and Paint benefit I'rom their Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, two variations of define the type outlines) render faster than fonts is included, comprising nine typefaces enhanced fonts, the most unfortunate thing the International Phonetic Alphabet and PostScript's Bezier curves, although; at least about FaceLift and ATM is the fact thatin a range of serif, sans serif, script and four variations each of Korean and Thai in my tests, ATM is considerably fatter in for various reasons — they don't work with decorative faces. c haracters. U sers a l so r e p or t t h a t drawing on~een than TrueTyp~ t l e a st all Windows programs. Ventura Publisher Publisher's Powerpak produces superior Although early versions of PC/GEOS 28% faster, and in some cases, up to five S.O for Windows, CorelDRAW, MicroGraf'x output to other font managers on dotdid not support PostScript, the program times as fastl Also, the TrueType fonts today supports virtually al l p o p ular Designer and a n u m b e r of other matrix printers. shipped with Apple's System 7 sufFers from printerL Of course, PC/GROS fonts only applications don't properly allow these font M oreFonts (US$149.95) i s a f o n t spacmg problems at small sizes. w ork i n PC / G E O S p r o g r ams, a n d addmns to do their magic (a patch for m anager that works with many D O S Nevertheless, with True Type availkble to unfortunately, the only ones are those in Ventura Publisher called VPWINI.EXE is programs (First Publisher, MultiMate, MS Mac and Windows S.l users, the lowest available in Library ll of CompuServe's Word, Ventura P u blisher, W i ndows, the Ensemble package. So far. common denominator offont technologyVentura Forum or by calling Ventura). Wordperfect, XyWrite) and any application the lowly bitmap — can at last be put out to A sales representative at the computer Sltstreem Faceoft that supports PCLS scalable fonts. Although p asture. W h e t her T r u e Type o f f e r s store where I bought ATM advised me that it, too, has secondwate font renderings, it 5 ATII for WlnsIows advantages over other commercial font If you use Windows S.O, you' ve probably by using Corel's WFNBOSS program (a new does indude a variety of special dfects like managers depends largely on whether you noticed that it doesn't actually print very and improved version is included with S-D outlines, gradient fiHs, rig~ , b r ick or have a significant investment in othe font CorelDRAW version 2.0) to convert the well to non-PostScript printers, or do a w ood grain p a t t erns t o a d o r n t h e formats. Although several "TrueImage" particularly good WVSHAG display. (Both PostScript font outlines to CorelDRAW letterfoima p rinters have b een a n n ounced a n d problems will become nonissues with the format, I could utilize the fonts, even released, containing built-in for though the ATM program at that point is TrlleTFise release of Windows S.l, with its built-in True Type, such compatibility is — jn the True Type support.) B o t h Bitstream's no longer nee'ded.Sigh. Between ATM and Microsoft and Apple are exchanging words of Tony Bove, editor of the Boasand FaceLift and Adobe Type Manager solve FaceLift, though, I'd give the nod to ATM technologies they call TrueType that will Rhodes Report on Desktop Publishing and these problems, with a few wrinkles of their as the superior product. (Version 2.0 of allow PCs running under Windows S.l and MuMsaafio-a bogus issue." OS/2 includes direct support for Adobe Macs running under System 6.05 or later to owil. TrueType will work on almost any Both programs allow extra fonts to be Type 1 outline fonts — essentially a built-in have scalable outline fonts for screens and printer (early+MS PS410s reportedly had added tofurther enhance your typographic version of AThL) printers. With the advent of ATM, the a bug that caused them to be unable to WFNBOSS has a problem converting options, and both enhance — to varying question comes to mind: why bother? print TrueType), and Apple daims that it any of th e 1 5 0 f o n t s i n cluded with degrees — screen and printer output. Perhaps the best reason is the fact that will be compatible with all Adobe PoltScript Bitstream's Facelift inexphcaTky indudes CorelDRAW to Type 1 format for use with TrueType is, for ail intents and purposes, printers, including the company's earlier P ostScript p r i n ters. A l t hough f o n t s system software. Apple has already released LaserWriters. The latest printer dtivers fiom three script faces (Brush Script, Formal Script and Park Avenue) i n i t s well- converted one at a time will work with T rueType for t h e M a c w it h i t s n e w Apple haveenhanced support for Tnie Ty pe Adobe T y p e M a n a ger , t h e y d o n ' t StyleWriter and Personal LaserWriter LS and faster printing. These drivers are f'reely rendered but otherwise unspectacular selection of standard fonts (Swiss/Helvetica; automatically download to PostScript printers, and made it available with a core available from most Apple dealers. Dutch/Times; Cooper Black, a typewriter- devices as they should. An explanation of set of four fonts to the national online the problem and its fix can be found in a like Monospace face). information services CompuServe and How GEIN Does It The Bitstream outlines generate good- file called COREL.ZIP in Library 6 of Gxnie. Anyone with a subscription to one of GEM (Graphics Environment Manager), CompuServe's DTP Forum. looking screen fonts and downloadable these services and the time and indination built into the Atari ST series computers, and An accessory program called Adobe printer fonts for PostScript snd LaserJet to download the 500K f il e can h ave available as a disk-based aden fpr IBM series printerL Dot matrix output, however, T ypeAlign f o r AT M / W i n d ows a n d Already, there are hundreds of compatibles, uses a font and graphics AFM/Mac users has been released that resembles a screen dump. FaceLift is, freely available TrueType fonts on these output scheme called GDOS (Graphic therefore, not well~ted for use with a S00. allows Type 1 type to be placed on any line services, many of them converted from ~ Device Output System). dpi DeskJet or SQ4lpi Canon Bubble Jet or curve, and rotated, manipulated and 1 faces. GDOS, like the M ac, uses higherdistorted to your heart's content. The printer, as these units don't support A t l e ast t h r e e c o m p anies h a v e resolution printer fonts and corresponding , results can then be pasted into most other announced Type 1 to T r u eType font screen fonts, but unlike the Mac's system of downloadable HPWL or Postgcript font@ Adobe Type Manager (ATM), on the progxainL conversion utiTities. The price leader looks dynamically loading resources on demand Although PC and Mac Adobe Type 1 to be FontMonger, a US$99 utiTity (Mac and (providing a i4rtuaily unlimited number of other hand, improves the screen display and print-outs, even o n t h e a b o ve- PostScript font formats are different, it is Windows versions are available) &om Ares fonts — just the thing for really dreadful Software, the o r i ginal developers of looking publications), GDOS loads them ail mentioned printers. I successfully printed possible to convert Mac fonts to the PC format. A c o mpany called M egatype at boot time, when GEM initializes. full pages of text using several of the FontStudio. In addition to conversions Software has released a f'reely available The various screen and printer fonts, PostScript fonts induded with ATM on an between font formats, the program provides program called MACTOIBMARC on GEnie a number of transformation facilities, available resolutions and output devices, as HP LaserJetwompatible prmter with only and other networks. I found it in — of all induding the creation of fiactions, custom well as GEMSYS path information are all 512K of RAM. The Adobe faces may be laces — GEnie's Atari ST file area, as file scaled to virtually any size, and print s mall c a p s , ev e n t he c omp l e t e listed in a text file called ASSIGN.M that 1798S. beautifully. Note that i n creasing the r earrangemen t o f ch ar a c te r k ey can be examined or edited with virtuhBy any assignments. Metamorphosis Professional word processor. 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Unfortunately, this "all~twnce method of loading fonts significantly limits th損 number of fonts. Just how much depends on several factors, including the output device's resolution and available RAM. Obviously, more GDOS fonts wiU fit in the RAM of a 4cnegabyte Atati Mega ST than a 64OKPC. Generally, GEM'a GDOS can load between threeand fiv e 90dpi screen and 9pin fonts on a 512K system, a dozen or two of these on a system with plenty of RAM, but only a few i d p i fonts A few years ago, I designed a SOIhdpi music notation font for GDOS that was so big, that the computer needed 4 megabytes

of RAM just to be able to display itl Like the Mac, GDOS will "scale a font up or down to t he r e q uested s i ze , i f an exa c t l y corresponding printer font isn't available. As you might expect, this invariably produces inferior4ooking type. Symptoms range from excessive'jaggies" to severe ugliness (typically bothl). But again like the Mac, GDOS can p r o duce very good printouts, especially on dot~ t r ix printers when the correct fonts are prese.nt in the system. It also supports both bitmapped and object-oriented vector graphics, which always print at the highest resolution available on the output device. Because of

this, several popular publishing programs, including Ventura Software's Ventura P ublisher, L o g i tech'a F i n esse a n d TimeWorks' Publish It! use GDOS, with impressive results. O ther D T P pa c k a ges, s uc h a s PageStream and its predecessor, Publishing Panner, chose to use their own proprietary font scheme, with bitmaps on~ e e n and outline fonts for the printer. As mentioned, this would be fine if the fonts were artfully rendered. Third-party fonts may be, but until recently, the naduded ones weren' t.

OOOS Snags Like most other bitmapped font managers, GDOS skews upright fonts instead of

providing true italics. The solution is easy, though. Just define an italic font as a standard typeface. Thus, to choose Dutch Italic, you would pick an un4talicized face as you would any other standard unstylized font. This one just happens to be a true italic font. A better a l t ernative to t h e A t a r i implementation of GDOS (which noticeably slows down the system), is also available: G+Plus by Codehead Software. It offers better speed, but is compatible with GDOS. Remember, though, these SOO dpi bitmapped fonts and images are huge bitmaps. The disadvantage of GDOS is that it is very RAM and disk space intensive, requiring huge amounts of disk space to store its large bitmap fonts.

Outline Fonts To alleviate this problem, Atari has shipped a new version of GDOS that includes a fontscaling module. Using outline font shapes (compatible with the IBM version of the software PostScript interpreter UltraScript), GDOS/Sm does not require bitmaps to be loaded Rom disk, but instead creates large fonts "on the fly" f'rom much less memoryand disk space-intensive mathematical font outlines. GDOS/fsm is said to retain compatiMity with bitmapped GDOS fonts, too, although this compatibility apparently doesn't mean that earlier GDOS programs will automatically be GDOS/fsm-aware. Testers report that many early GDOS applications have trouble with the new format. It is up to software developers to update their applications to function correctly with the new outline fonts.

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DMC Calamus is currently the leading desktop publishing program for the Atari Sl'/TT. Originally written in Germany, it is d istributed and supported i n N o r t h America by Ditek International. Calamus features scalaMe outline fonts for both onscreen diaphty and pdnted output for true WYSIWYG. Calamus' moat impressive feature is the speed at which it prints to the Atari laser printer ( o r t o a s u i tably interfiLced imagesetter at resolutions up to 2450<pi). It can output a full page of complex graphics at SOOApi in less than half a minute, which dramatically outpaces any PostScript4ased system. Although previous versions could not handle process color, the newest yersion (dubbed Calamus SL) includes spot and process color~eparafion alities. Many additional Calamus fonts are available from wellknown font houses like Compugraphic, URW, and smaller vendors, and at least two font editors are available for creating Calamus fonts. (Gregg Rodgers' Genus f on t e d i t or ca n e ve n sa v e Compugraphic fonts without their se copy protection. Tch, tch.) Some of superior quality (including one of the nicest Garamonds I' ve ever seen) are produced locally by Todd Johnson and Gregg Rodgers of Cherry Fonts. Conversion programs are also available to cpnvert Calamus fonts to and from Pageatream format.

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THE COMPUTER PAPER APR(L '92 87 Phhfish magazine. Most issues feature plenty of good advice on design, fonts and publishing software tips and nicks. So man y d e t a il s m u s t b e l ef t unmentioned in this shert article. If you enjoy this subject, let us know) Now that I' ve got h u n dreds of megabytes of P ostScript fonts e n C D - ROM a t m y fingertips, I can safely sa)n there ks help for font fanatics.

Postscript screen fonts to standard Amiga bitmap/Professional Page metric file formats. Abo converts Mac or IBM printer fonts into a downloadable Postscript fermat. ShadowMaker by L ScV Productions of Moncton, NB. Adds anti-aliasing and background shadows to standard Amiga fonts. FontEdltor is a PD offering on Fred Fish

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The Amiga has the best selection of screen fonts, especially those by Kara. Its AnimFonts (three volumes are available) are ideal for animations and multimedia presentations. Volume 1 handwrites" itself onto the screen; volume 2 glints in the light as it rotates onto the screen. Volume 5 sparkles into view. Kara is at (215) 57881y'y.

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For the Commodore e412eIrkexkFent by Inkw'ell Systems. In 1984, this was one of the first cominercial ble d font editors available. FiexiFont use8 the then statemfMe~ F k e xidraw Light Pen system Char Edit/64. A PD offering for editing bitmaps on the C64 by Ontario teacher Garry Kiziak

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he first method described here will help dot~ t rix printer users produce b etter-looking D e l u x e M us i c Construction Set (DMCS) printouts; the second method allows DMCS output to PostScript printers. I) Make a backup of the Deluxe Music Construction Set (DMCS) disk. The

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Mac printout without the Sonata font, the Amiga version's output i s somewhat inferior, due mostly to the lower (640 x 200) bitmap resolution of the character shapes. Any current model Macintosh is able to read disks created by an AmigS — if you first save files onto an Amiga floppy formatted as an MS-DOS disk (BridgeCard, D OS-to-DOS an d C r ossDOS can a l l accomplish this). Save a few Amiga DMCS song files, then use any SuperDriveequipped Mac to read MS-DOS disksand convert the files to a Madntosh disk. To convert the files, you can use a program

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open it up, and locate the area of the motherboard containing the RAM. If there are any empty RAM sockets in the same area, you are in luck. Just write down the number on the RAMs or SIMM s (see below),and order more from your dealer. Taking care to insert them with the same orientation as the existing chips or memory modules (i.e., note the little notch on one end of every chip), just pop in the new RAM. Some machines also require one or m ore switches o r j u m p er s o n t h e motherboard to be set to inform the computer of the addition, although most machines have a SETUP program for performing the configuration. The best advice, though, is to have your dealer do the upgrade. Most dealers charge only about $75 per megabyte, and will install it for you in a few minutes. GeneraUy, when using SIPs or SIMMs, expansion steps go in the following order: 1, 2, 4, 8 megabytes etc. The manual for the Kaypro 586 in our office,for example, advises: "There are eight sockets for memoxy. The eight sockets hold 2 banks of 4 SIPs each. All four sockets in each bank must be filled. If installed, both banks must be of the same type (256K x 9 or 1MB x 9) and speed (100ns or 80ns) of memory. On board memory can be 1MB, 2MB, 4MB or SMB. You may expand onlyin groups of 4 SIPs." There are exceptions. Some machines can also accomodate other configurations by using the older 256K SIMMs (i.e., a Mac EEPROM — electrically era s able II can use four 256K SIMMs and four 1MB programmable R O M i s co n s idered SIMMs to produce a total of 5MB, which nonvolatile memory, which persists even fills the same 8 slots that would produce when you turn off the power. Unlike other SMB if all 1MB SIMMs were used). Consult forms of ROM, though, it may be easily your computer's manual to find out which erased on demand and electrically reconfigurations it can accept. programmed. EEPROM is used, among other places, in many PostScript laser SIP — Single inline package. SIPs are printers to hold default settings such as memory modules that may or may not whether it prints a test page on power-up, physically resemble a SIMM, although the which paper tray to use, etc. idea is the same. SIPs are sometimes soldered i n pl a c e and ar e not Flash Memory — a type of static memory interchangeable with Simfs. developed by Intel that requires very little electrical current to maintain. Used in S RAM — static RAM . M u c h m o r e several new laptops. expensive and faster than DRAM, SRAMs do not need to have their contents continually Parity RAM — the ninth DRAM chip on a ref'reshed, resulting in much lower power SIMM is used to check the integrity of the requirements for batterywperated laptop other eight. Parity checking is not used in computers, etc. SRAM can operate at speeds the SIMMs found i n m ost Macintosh of 25ns or less. SRAM and DRAM chips are computers (only the IIci and IIsi require 9- not interchangeable. Most on-board cache chip SIMMs, reportedly to meet system systems in highwnd machines are SRAM, requirements for certain government and can usually be expanded in 52K contracts.) Most Macs can, however, use 9- increments up to a maximum of 256K chip SIMMs in lieu of Mhip ones. See also SIMM. VRAM — video RAM. Many PC video cards havethe option to add more RAMPROM — programmable ROM. Similar often special higher-speed memory on a to an EPROM, but not erasable. PROMs are SIMM. With more VRAM, your video card less expensive than EPROMs, but can only may be able to display more colors or be "blown" once. higher resolutions. Consult your video card's manual to find out if your video card Pseudo-static RAM — consumes more can accept more VRAhL Some Macintoshes power than true static RAM — see Static such asthe LC and Ouadra have video RAM RiM. expansion slots built onto the motherboard of the computer itself. SIMM — single inline memory module. A common form of plug-in RAM expansion, In a future issue, I' ll describe the SIMMs are usually referred to by memory s oftware side o f t h e e q u ation, wi th capacity, (most dealers only sell 1MB descriptions o f e x t e n ded m e m o ry, SIMMs, although 256K, 1MB, 4MB, and expanded memory andeverything elseI can 16MB ver'sions are currently available, and remember about the subject. sizes up to 64MB in the works), speed (typically, the fastest machines need SIMMs In closing, here's another thought Gom rated at 70 or 80 nanoseconds; slower Dave Small: "I asked my wife why are there computers won't benefit from SIMMs faster so few women into computers?She said than 120ns), and the shape of the SIMM 'The real question is: why are men so into itself. The smallest and best SIMMs are computers' I mean, I use a toaster„but I referred to as low-profile. Check with your don't go to a toaster user group.'" manual and/or dealer for your computer's requirements. Higherwnd machines need Thanksto Chris Yuzik of Cardz, Astrid at faster RAM than earlier PCs, but despite Universal, Ron Grant at GXR Systems and what somedealers may tell you, you can use Ken Tung at CompuMax for knowing all fast RAM in a slow machine. (See also- the right answers to "deliberately dumb" DRAM.) questions. The d o - i t-yourself m e t h o d f or Dave Small and his wife Sandy can be expanding yourmachine is to power down, reached at (205) 7284050. •

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n a modern home office, with i t s computer and other electronic devices, you are executive, secretary, mailroom derk, receptionist and custodian all rolled into one. You use a whole range of tools to perform all hnds of jobs. Your home of5ce itself is not, as it's ail too often called, "a tool of the trade,' any more than a stadium is a baseball bat. It's an "environment"one that should help you use your tools conveniently to get all those jobs done smoothly. That's why a good deagn is vital. Here are a dozen of the best tips I knowstreamlined versions of guidelines covered in my new HOME OFHCE BOOK — to see that you get what you need.

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You' ll always need more room than you think, and you' ll always 611 up whatever space you' ve got. You' ll find that your space is nibbled away bythe very work you do there — not to mention the hx machine or t he scanner o r t h a t w o nderful n e w combination phone, answering machine and food processor.And remember that when you vrork at home, you have no central filing system, no corporate library, n o supply closet down th e h a ll , n o mailroom in the basement, no maintenance staK You handle it all. You store it alL Take it as an article of faith: in home offices, Bigger Is Better.

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office. Ifyou make the right o n es, y ou' re i in business. If you make the wrong ones, you' ve got problems — and so ~has everybody who lives ~th y ou. Because my n e w oi5ce, for example, qsed to be the garage, we no longer have a place to put a car. To us, that's no big d eal. T o y o u> ot' to someone in your family, it might be.

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double-hung windows. It's already wired for electricity, and it could be insulated ~d sheetrocked in just a couple of days. For years, I thought it would make a gr $at office. I'd have lots of room, lots of light and lots of privacy. Then I thought more about the way I work. I often go back to the computer after supper or late at night. I realized that the thought of bundling up and traipsing 150 feet through the ccI18, dark drifts of a N e w E n gland winter wouldn't becondudve to evening work An unattached oi5ce might be great for people who work regular hours or live in a gentler c limate, but i t ' s no t f o r m e . I n m y circumstances, the outbuilding is Bad Space.

The rule of Bad Space is simple. Never establish your home oi5ce in a location — no matter how great it may be in other waysthat will often be uncomfortable. This sounds simple, but it's not, because Bad Space is invatiably tempting space. It o&en beckons with a lot of square footage in a part of the house where no one will bother you. But Bad Space is also too cold, too hot, too damp, too bright or too dark. Usually it's a combination of several of these unattractive traits. The key to avoiding most Bad Space is making sure that your potential office location w o u l d m a ke rea s onably comfortable living space. After all, you' re going to want to spend a lot of time there. There's another kind of Bad Space, though — the kmd that looks good in every other way, but just doesn't suit your style or work habits. For example, I' ve got an. outbuilding in my back yard. It's big and

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Develop a prolrasn Once you find the right space, the key to a good home office design is analyking carehtily what you' ll be worhng at and what your working style is. The obvious place to start is with your body. Are you left- or nghthanded? Are you tall or small? Are you disabled in any way? Along the same lines, this is also the thne to consider your work habits, the~jobs you' ll be doing and — generally, at leastwhat kinds of equipment you' ll be using.

For example, do you habitually spread

papers around you, or do you work more neatly 6'om files or individual documents? Do you hke to get up and prowl arouttd as you think over knotty problems? Will you be working mainly on your keyboard, o» will you be doing alot of hand work? Do you need a second work station — a dr&ting table, maybe, or a light table to c heck slides? What office equipment will you install right away and how much room M it tike up? Do you expectto be buying more soon? Will you be receiving clients? If so, how many at a time? This sort of detailed self~ y s is is vital. Without it, you approach your potential home office space with only the vaguest notion of how to arrange it. With it, you' ve got what architects call a "program" — a list of carefully considered personal priorities that you can apply to that space to create the best possible home oi5ce for you.

Se careful about built-Ins The most obvious way to suit yourself is to build your own work surfaces orto ~have them built to your spedfications. Careful, though. Your first home office will atmost inevitably be something of a laboratory. As you work at home for a while, you' ll

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THE COMPUTERPAPER APRIL '92 95 about tasks when you' re unsupported by secretaries and some of the other structures of 'big ofiice life. If you*ve bugt everything in, it's hard to make adjustmentL In your first home offlce, consider staying flexible. Use the most versatile, adjustable, non-builtdn furniture you can 6nd and afford.And keep track of every

drawback, every inconvenience, every niggling pain in the neck. Your thne will come, and when you dobu6d in,you'llnot only get what you want, you'll ge t precious little that you don' t.

Conslchr • table The tables offered by furniture systems manufacturers aren't much different than their basic desks. But th~'re usually bigger and they' re often adjustable. That's why I Itke them so much. I' ve found that for my style of work a big 6at surface set at keyboard height does the trick. It holds computer equipment. a printer, a phone, a lamp or two and a few f ile t r ays — with room l e f t o v e r f o r dipboards, loose files and my inevitable toss

of papers. I work mainly on the keyboard, and I' ve found that when I need to take notes by hand (during phoae calls, for example) or when I just need to break a momentary writer's block by pushing a pen

for a change, scribbling on a lower than noxmal surface is no big problem. And with an adjustable unit, I could always rxdse the

in the design of a new home office. Be sure to give it careful thought. It will save you plenty of headaches.

Do a walit4e u gh O nce you' ve decided on a design — or think you have — test it one more thne by "walking through' your work routines. If you can actually set up your furniture or some mockups, fine, but I' ve found it almost as helpful to stt down in &ont of the plans I' ve drawn a nd i m agine m y w a y t h r o ugh t h i s procedure. It's important, though, that you physically go through the motions of reaching, turning, and working. 'Is everything s m o oth? A r e loc a t ions convenient? Do relative positions make sense? Have you covered all your needs? ljghting? Work sudaces? Filing and storage space? Bookshelves? Equipmcnt? If you' re like me, you' ll run into at least a few problems. Once, I discovered that a filecabinet tucked under my main work surface kept me f'rom scootmg far enough to my left to conveniently operate my printer. So I modi6ed the design to xnove the file cabinet. The last time around, I atixed that I'd certainly kick my computer if I just set it on edge under my desk, so I designed in another desk support behind which the machine could operate in safety.

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Most computer set~ps waste predous desk space. If we' re using an IBM done or a Mac 11, most of us stack our monitor on top of our CPU, with the keyboard out in 6'ont. This works all right for computing, but it hogs working room that xuost of us could put to much better use. There's no reason in the world why your CPU has to sit on top of your desk, nor is there any law that says you can't stand it on edge. Consider tucking yours out of the way under your work surface, with your monitor

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