New products debut at Macworld
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The 1991 Macworld conference introduces a variety of new products but many key vendors opt to attend without offering new products or skip the event entirely. Adobe Systems Inc introduces the $595 Adobe Illustrator 3.2, the latest graphics software package that supports Apple Events, Publish and Subscribe, and TrueType fonts as well as System 7.0's 32-bit addressing. Aldus Corp offers a coupon for a free copy of PrePrint 1.5, the $495 color separation program, with purchases of PageMaker 4.01. Paracomp Inc introduces its $395 multimedia presentation software called Paracomp Magic. Radius Corp's new Radius PrecisionColor 8 is a $795 color graphic board that drives many different displays. SuperMac Technology's upgradeable Thunder/8 and Thunder/24 are 8-bit and 24-bit color graphics cards costing $1,899 and $4,999 respectively. TeleTypesetting Co introduces the T-Script 3.0 set of software packages that convert PostScript files into TIFF files for printing PostScript files on non-PostScript printers. The package includes the $85 T-Script Basic, the $145 T-Script and the $495 T-Script Deluxe.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1991
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RadiusTV: home entertainment (and more) on the Mac
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Radius Inc introduces the $3,900 RadiusTV integrated video/graphics processor which allows full-motion video to coexist with other Apple Macintosh II video sources. It combines a graphics accelerator board, an external audio video processor and software based on the RadiusTV platform. Aimed mainly at the desktop publishing, business training and multimedia markets, RadiusTV enables full-motion video on the Macintosh monitor and represents a first step towards the integration of consumer electronic and computer technologies. RadiusTV is also the first system to convert the visual and audio portions of a video image to digital format, letting the user digitize sound from other sources at the same time. Still-video images can also be captured, optimized for the Macintosh, and converted into a PICT II file for subsequent image editing.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1990
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Agency FIT and The Kerning Palette
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Agency FIT, $79, from Monotype Typography, and The Kerning Palette, $195, from Clearface Inc, are excellent stand-alone kerning-pair editor programs for the Apple Macintosh. Kerning-pair tables are for adjusting the spacing between pairs of letters in a font. The Kerning Palette lets users produce kerning-pair tables as they work on live copy in QuarkXPress, and users can automatically save letter-spacing changes in either the QuarkXPress Preferences file, with the settings for a particular QuarkXPress document or in any open or closed screen-font suitcase. The software's documentation is extremely helpful. Agency FIT consists of two volumes containing 65 and 250 Adobe-compatible screen fonts, respectively. Agency Fit suffers slightly from uneven overall letter-spacing quality and incompatibility with some Monotype fonts.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1992
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