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"SYSTEM 7.0 SHIPS: PAGE 194 7.0 SHIPS: PAGE 194 © GETTING STARTED WITH 7.0: PAGE 269 X MACWORLD The Macintosh Magazine =8=————S~Ssés ly 1991 International $2.95 UPGRADE bs 6) Protect Your Investment a and Bu ild a Mor. ePowerfulMac | — 27 ACCELERATORS SYSTEM 7: WHY YOU NEED IT TYPE RENAISSANCE: seemed PART ONE 66 HARD DRIVES MW LAB i 1 v2 cal q . ' | What would w everybody use Application MacWrite II FileMaker Pro MacDraw Pro MacDraw I! HyperCard MacProject Il Claris CAD SmartForm Series MacPaint More compatible MacDraw Pro is part of the Claris® family. Which means it shares dic- tionaries, file translators and a com- mon look and feel with other Claris software. You also benefit from Claris support. *ON SCREEN PRESENTATION ° PRESENTATION SUPPORT More presentable Show your work on-screen, on overheads, or even on 35mm slides. Move slides from one file to another, and print handouts with multiple slides on each page. All available I MacDraw Pro Tw avruny 6] by San Cotor Fat.ws Library by Color Text a pied aba pry Pale-pur' F MacDraw EE pantone | Claris Colors MacDraw II Tm panrone (“Custom Palette EPSF PANTONE 171 CY TIFF GB Pantone 172 cv . i GB Pantone 173 cv Scanned Image MacPaint 2.0 GB pantone 174 cv MacWrite Quite blue | MacWrite II BB auite red << Microsoft Word 4.0 GB koe violet (10-15-10) = [sunburn (cm 0-56-49-0) paboe ted Imported . [Tom's bright green Graphic Test More sharing Tom's orange-yetlow Claris’ XTND turns MacDraw Pro [a More publishable MacWrite-style text handling gives you full formatting power in every paragraph of every text block. Com- posing text, scanned images and graphics is simple. into a “graphics hub” for all your applications. You can import virtu- ally all clip art files using the for- mats above and output your finished work in an EPSF file for precision publishing. More colorful Create custom palettes, choosing from millions of colors—including standard PANTONE® colors. You can also custom-name colors for JSaster, easier reference. rk be like if MacDraw Pro? More productive MacDraw Pro lets you concentrate on your work, and not on the software. When needed, context-sensitive help is always available. Well rounded Imagine drawing true Bézier curves without handles. (You can draw the figure above with just nine clit Try it.) There’ no easier way. More graphic You have three customizable ways to add highlights or shading to your graphics and presentations. You'll look more profession- al, both on screen and on paper. 20 New Produc More Rewarding Could your job use some exciting changes? Well, here’s our best idea yet: the new MacDraw?® Pro. We've taken the graphics tool you know and love—MacDraw II—and stuffed it with power and new features. More than 100 new features in all. Yet for all its graphic power, MacDraw Pro remains one of the most comfortable and accessible tools since the T-square. It’s the ideal, all-around graphics software for presenting, publishing, designing and illustrating! Allow us to illustrate. Curves. A hassle with most drawing programs; no big deal with MacDraw Pro. Just use your mouse to click out the gen- eral shape you want, and presto. If you need more precision, you can use standard Bézier handles to fine-tune what you've drawn. Colors. With MacDraw Pro you create your own custom palettes, and keep as many open as you wish. You can even name each color, so your “logo blue” is never confused with your “sky blue.” Text. It’s the Achilles’ heel of most graphics software — but not this one. You'll work with the same powerful formatting tools that our MacWrite® II software is famous for. The result: instead of inventing unheard of tools that do new things, we let you use familiar tools to do unheard of things. In other words, simply powerful software. But why read about it? Just visit your nearest Claris dealer. And draw your own conclusions. Upgrade for $99. Call 1-800-628-2100, ext. 95 MacDraw Pro ‘©1991 Claris Corporation. All rights reserved. In Canada, call 1-800-668-8948, ext 48. Claris, FileMaker, MacDraw, MacPaint, MacProject, MacWrite and SmartForm are registered trademarks of Claris Corporation, HyperCard isa registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc, licensed to Claris Corporation. Microsoft is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. PANTONE? is a registered trademark of Pantone, Ine. Upgrade offer good in US.A. only and expires 9/30/91, For more information, call 1-800-729-2292, ext. 30, MACWORLD On the Cover Choosing an upgrade strategy is more plicated than but our upgrade fea- ture, page 176, helps you find the best way m. to modernize your Mac. (Photo by Paul Franz-Moore.) In News RasterOps’ Corre Calibrator for 24-bit monitors, printers, and scanners, page 153, How to Contact Macworld .....................008. 12 MaCBUIBRIN 5: creer ciesncSen Soadte wos bate yet bione 1] Commentary/Jerry Borrell.................cc ceca eee 23 ‘Technology and publishing, part two [STON S texas axa caeacnncqumeentencmaatkanadaaran 39 By Cathy Abes The Iconoclast. By Steven Levy Aca Conspicuous Consumer...............0eeeeeee ees 141 By Deborah Branscum Information sources that help you explore the Mac NAING sccm shire aemaamsiaeamnas emmran stem eammeee tems eae 153 By Dan Littman and Tom Moran New Products ..............cccecseeeeeeeeeeees Bry How To/Quick Tips............. ccc cc cce eae ea ee ees 263 By Lon Poole How To/Getting Started with System 7............... 269 By Jim Heid How To/Insights on WordPerfect 2.01 ............... 281 By Charles Seiter Updates... 0... cece cece cece ee ee eee eeeeenes 293 WIEBE} BUY 2sccccravoprsrarcisnrstoonans ornare teranrerayreacoientan 299 BeStSOUBIS sssssrss aes anna aan wom cone xen wane 346 MACWORLD + JULY 1991 Macworld the Macintosh July Magazine ATURES cgaees ITE revitalize it. The right upgrade can Keeping Current............. By Brita Meng Don'tretire that aging Mac mean a much-needed boost in performance and capabilities. The High and the Mighty 7 By Robert C. Eckhardt High-ca world Lab analyzes 66 models of 300MB or higher drives to find this veces 184 ity hard drives are better and cheaper than ever. M; y Confessions of a System 7 User........... By Lon should you install it? For at least 18 good re: The Accelerated Course a By Adrian Mello erator boards to help you decide whether to trade in your Mac or accelerate it Type Renaissance By Alex Brown evolution of digital type and how it works ar's top choices. semaeay 194 Poole Now that Apple's long-overdue system upgrade is finally here, ons, the answer is an emphatic yes. 210 accel Maeworld Lab tests 2 Do you crave speedier 202 5 on Mac typography explores the his first in a four-part ser in theory and practice Type Renaissance A primer on digital typography—bow it evolved, how it works, and how to make it work for you, page 202. 1991 WordPerfect 2.0 ..........220 Word processor. Oasis 1D cc recta 221 Paint software. Stufflt Deluxe 20. ......... 222 File-compression utilities, Crystal Ball 2.0 . 226 Forecasting and risk-analy- sis software. DiskFit 2.0 and Network DiskFit 2.0 Backup utilities. 228 Miniad+ 3.0 231 2-D/3-D CAD program. Mitsubishi $C-7500 .......233 400-dpi color flatbed scanner. Paper Keyboard 1.2 .......234 Handwritten form-recogni- tion software. Now Utilities 2.03 Utility collection. Mac School 3.0 ..........242 School administration software, GracelAN VID... Mh Network-management software. Image Grabber 2.0 . . Screen-capture desk accessory. Window Shopping ....... 249 One Shot 1.0; TypeChart 1.0; ResumeMailer 1.01; digiMatic 1.0;Enchanted Journey; Trick or Treat; Real Estate Invest- ment Analysis 7.0; Manage Your Closet 1.0. 2 AnthroCart The best furniture you can buy for your equipment. Incredibly strong. Mobile. Flexible. Space saving. Lifetime warranty. Choose different sizes and colors. Add the accessories you want. Discover Anthro's exceptional service. 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Spencor wrements Cathy E, Abes itors/News Dan Littman, Tom Moran Associate Editor/Feature: Assistant Editor/Reviews Marjorie Baor Assistant Editor/Lab Mark Hurlow Assistant Editor/New Products Mary Margaret Lewis Production Editor Jo Ann Villalobos Senior Copy Editor Katherine L. Ulrich ity O'Meara tion Assistant Lisa Brazieal Editorial Assistants Carolyn Bickford, Suzanne Courtoau, Danny Loo, Tim Warner Editorial Administrative As ants Evan Cooper, Lyn Taylor Chief Sandy Butler Contributing Editors Robert C, Eckhardt, Erfert Fenton, Rob Hahn, Jim Hoid, Dave Kosiur, Stovon Lavy, Joe Matazzoni, Tom Negrino, David Pogue, Lon Poole, ‘Stove Roth, Charles Seiter, Franklin N. Tessler, Bruce F. Webster Editors Osmund Lind Worsen, Editor, Australian Macworld, tol, 02438-5133; Peter Worlock, Editor, Macworld (U.K. edition), tel, 01-831-9252; David Ushijima, Contributing Editor, Japan Assistant to the Editor Over ART anno D IGN Design Director Dennis McLeod Art Director Joanne Hoffman Senior Designer Leslie Barton Associate Art Director Sandra Koonig Assistant Art Di ‘or Kont Tayonaka Designer/Infor onal Graphics Ame Hurty Associate Designers Hae Yuon Kim, Matthow ©, Nielson Senior Design Associate Tim Johnson Design Associate Martha Katt a PRODUCTION Director of Manufacturing Anne Foley Production M Advertising Billing Coordinator So Fong Yip Advertising Traffic Coordinator Arlette Crostand . President/CEO and Publisher, Macworld Communications, Inc. 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Now allow us to introduce the newest All hard drives come bundled with your choice of two utility software packages and a 2-year warranty. be the spase on arty Nae *Disk Doubler not removable ble with 45MB member of our family; 20 inches of 8-bit and 24-bit color in high quality, 72 DPI monitors that end users will love, and budget watchers will adore. The new Ehman 2-page color monitors are as affordable as they are practical. Backed up by a one year warranty and our 30 day money back guarantee, the price tags once again demonstrate Ehman’s commitment to value on the most popular peripherals. The other members of the family are just as cost conscious. 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Spence Accounting/Operations Manager Pat Murphy Director of Human Resources Shelly Ginenthal Director of Information Systems Walter J. Clegg Accounting/Faciliti cr Michelle Reyes Founder David Bunnell Founding Editor Andrew Fluegelman 1943-1985 FAST PATH. FASTER PATH. Shiva This is about something no new product announcement should be without. Words that end in e-r: like newer, better and faster. Words that best describe FastPath’ 5, Shiva’s new generation of the lead- ing, most reliable LocalTalk-to- Ethernet gateway. FastPath 5 is better. It has a nec LocalTalk 1/0 processor a that can handle all the Bhernet traffic a LocalTalk net- - iin work can support and more. It has a larger memory, too; 512K to Store and route more FASTPATH SUPPORTS. types of Ethernet connections — Ethernet thick and thin, the Apple Ethernet Cable System ‘THE SHIVA NETWORK comes in handy when there are over 100 FastPaths on the line. But what if you're MANAGER ALLOWS YOU and 10BaséI. And for a TO CONFIGURE AND MANAGE ALL OF YOUR one of the thousands using SHIVA PRODUCTS limited time, Shiva is giving away a free copy of NFS/Share software with each new FastPath. NFS/ Share lets Macintosh users take eos F full advantage of NFS servers on their Ether- net network. Now, back to the oo best e-r word of all. Power. In the form of the Shiva Network Man- SEAMLESS CONNECTIONS information than the WITH APPLETALK PHASE 1 AND PHASE 2, TCP/IP, DEC- ager. A powerful pro- NET, SNMP, AND IPTALK most complicated net- rroroco.s. works can handle. Plus Shiva has given FastPath 5 support for more gram that lets you con- figure and manage your entire net- work from one location. Which FROM ONE LOCATION. FastPath 4? Shiva'’s made it easy to get a free upgrade kit (which includes software and a PROM, a $149 value), or a special offer on a trade-in if you act before September 30, 1991* Take advantage of our free upgrade, or our special trade-in. Just call 1-800-458-3550. Or 617-252-6300. You may find that by using the newer, faster, better gateway, your stature around the company will, well, get bigger. Shiva FastPathis Shiva Corporation, One Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142 “Trade-in offer is good tor any FastPath or competitive hardware products. The trade-in enables you to purchase a FastPath 5 at $1,299 until September 30, 1991. The tree PROM and soltware upgrade is limited to one per company —additional PROMs can be purchased in ten packs for $150. All product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective manulacturers, A BETTER IMAGE FOR DESKTOP SYSTEMS, Now Kodak delivers superior imagesetter results with Kodak Pagi-Set films and papers—and Kodak Precision imagesetter linearization software. Its an unbeatable combination: Kodak Pagi-Set HN and IR films and papers for superior density and image resolution with helium-neon and infrared imagesetters. And Kodak Precision software for calibrating your imagesetter—so halftones, screens and tints are dead-on. Pagi-Set products help make the most of the desktop publishing medium, whether you’ creating type, graphics, halftones or color separations—to paper page output, or plate-ready film negatives or positives. Kodak Precision software calibration tables are stored in the RIP, and the correct table is auto- matically chosen each time for accurate, Kodak predictable halftones or color separations, without spacer ot he 2 costly remakes. For details, talk to your sows supplier or dealer, or call 1 800 242-2424, Ext. 724. QVeV In Canada, call 1 800 465-6325, Ext. 3318. 36 USC 380 Type for this advertisement was set on Kodak Pagi-Set paper. © Eastman Kodak Company, 1991 Circle 377 on reader service card Macini special fits’ fon or Ps ea Other: i All this and it’s affordable, too. 58" MacTable. ages $359 46" MacTable...... . $329. 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Available in NISC and PAL version Circle 170 on reader service card 21-Inch Apple Monitor Sparks Protest A 21-inch color monitor that Apple is expected to announce in early June is being protested by some third-party monitor makers and international di tributors who say the monitor will hurt their bu ness and possibly reduce the number of distributors who carry Apple-related products i two-page monitor will be made by FIMI, a subsi of Philips Italy; will have reduced magnetic-field emissions; and will be bundled with an 8-bit graphics adapter, according to sources inside Apple and at third-party vendors briefed by Apple. “If they bring it out, then companies such as RasterOps, Radius, SuperMac, E-Machines, PCPC, and others will prob- ably find that their [large-screen] 8-bit sales will drop off completely,” said Randy Green, executive direc- tor of the Federation of International Distributors, a not-for-profit association in Boston. The monitor's features, combined with the Apple logo and a ru- mored low price, could be deadly for the third-party vendors, according to Green. Green and the third- party sources said that Apple had already made a concession by not bringing the monitor out in the United States. However, the monitor is expected to be available in Canada and Mexico, making a U.S. gray market possible. Quark and Scitex Settle ~ Quark and Scitex have settled a dispute that forced Scitex to stop marketing Visionary, a version of QuarkXPress that can read Quark files and send them to a Scitex prepress system. Quark, which developed Scitex, wanted Scitex’s permission to make Visionary capable of saving files in a format that QuarkXPress could read, but Scitex refused. The agreement calls for Scitex to take over Visionary and develop it as an add-on to QuarkXPress. The Vision- ary Xtension, as the new product will be called, will probably not allow QuarkXPress to open its files. What's True at Letraset FontStudio 2.0 can create ‘TrueType fonts and con- vert Type 1, Type 3, and LetraStudio fonts to True- ‘Type format. It can also interpolate between heavy and light weights to create intermediate weights, and automatically add hinting. It lists for $595. Letra- Studio 2.0 incorporates Pantone’s tools for precise matching of Pantone, RGB, and CMYK colors; antialiases the color channels as well as the black; imports Illustrator 3.0 outlines directly; and sup- MACWORLD = JULY 1991 v MACBULLETIN ports copying and pasting the “envelopes” that contain font-manipulation information from one block of text to another, as well as saving envelopes as templates. It can perform distortions on all four sides of a text block at one time, and screen-ren- dering speed is greatly increased. Pricing for LetraStudio 2.0 was not set at press time. Letraset is at 201/845-6100. Farallon Rewrites Sound Edit to Work with 6.0.7 Farallon Computing said recently that it has rewrit- ten its Sound Edit utility to enable its Sound Re- corder to work with Apple’s new Sound Input Man- ager in System 6.0.7. Apple designed Sound Input Manager to work with the microphones and other hardware included with the Macintosh LC and the Ilsi, but the software was incompatible with several third-party sound-editing utilities, according to Farallon. For upgrade information, contact Farallon at 415/596-9100. Apple Says Macintosh Shipments Up by 85 Percent The total number of Macintoshes shipped in Apple’s second fiscal quarter was up by about 85 percent over the same quarter a year ago, Apple said. Apple chairman John Sculley attributed the increase to the company’s strategy of lowering prices and gaining market share. Rush Hour One of the first announced utilities for managing the complexities of System 7.0 is Traffic Controller, which will monitor AppleEvents—communication between applications—and enable users to intervene by, for example, redirecting an IAC call to a different application. Traffic Controller will also let users ex- amine a log of publish-and-subscribe relationships; keep several iterations of intertwined files and roll them back to earlier versions; and provide informa- tion about network AppleEvents for network ad- ministrators. Single-user Traffic Controller will list for $129, and the network version for $249. For more information, contact Tactic Software at 305/378-4110. Toshi Shows Speedy CD ROM Player va America Information Systems has announced the TXM-3300A, a fast CD ROM player with an ay- erage access time of 325ms. Unlike most CD ROM players, the drive has improved seals to prevent (continues) W v rs MAC BULLET | N mmm contamination by dust, and it automatically cleans the read lens for greater reliability. The TXM-3300A, slated to ship in July, comes in versions with inter- face kits for IBM PCs and compatibles or Macs. The Macintosh version will have a suggested list price of $895. For more information, contact Toshiba at 714/583-3000. Ethernet Hits New Low at $199 Kodak Gives Away C Start-up vendor Sonic Systems says it has begun shipping two series of Ethernet boards for Macs at a cost of $199 each, considerably less expensive than other Ethernet devices. The Ether TnT series all have a thin Ethernet interface, and the Ether TwT series of 10BaseT boards connect via twisted-pair cable. All the boards are compatible with AppleTalk Phase 1 and Phase 2 protocols, which means they can communicate using those protocols over Ethernet and connect more easily to AppleTalk networks. The company said it ships both series in versions that work in the Macintosh SE, SE/30, LC, and all Macin- tosh Il machines. The $199 price is a firm figure, since the company sells direct. For more informa- tion, contact Sonic Systems at 408/725-1400. Tool Eastman Kodal releasing a public domain utility for decompressing color images compressed with the company’s Colorsqueeze, a $179 application. ‘The utility is available on most online service: Kodak is also developing a system to convert im- ages from photographic film to digital format and save them on a CD ROM. Kodak is at 716/726-3437. HP Drops Price of DeskWriter Again Hewlett-Packard recently cut the suggested retail price of its popular DeskWriter ink-jet printer for the Mac from $995 to $729. The cut came not long after Apple introduced its low-cost StyleWriter and Personal LaserWriter LS. For more information, contact HP at 800/752-0900. AppleTalk’s New Voice Like most network-management tools, TalkManage can watch activity on a network; decode packet headers; and record traffic levels, transmission er- rors, and similar information, and display the in- formation in real time on a histogram. But it also has some unusual features. Currently shipping version 1.4 can send a message on its own or use QuickMail to inform someone when a network event triggers an alarm—for example, informing the net administrator when a device disappears from the net. TalkManage generates a map of a network (in 1.4 the map is resizable) and provides tools for analyzing network layout and designing more-efficient networks. From within TalkManage you can also configure most AppleTalk routers, in- cluding those from Cayman Systems and Shiva. Version 2.0 will provide similar tools for Ether- Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI) recent nets, including configuring a VAX-based Ethernet using DEC’s DECmcc; will be able to send mes- sages with Microsoft Mail; and will support the Simple Network Management Protocol, which Ap- ple has finally settled on as its AppleTalk standard. Pricing depends on network configuration. For more information, contact Distributed Technologies at 617/684-0060. ment? that it will likely discontinue any development of its highly re- garded IRIS 3-D graphics software for the Macintosh. In early April Silicon Graphics signed a technology agreement with Microsoft to integrate SGI's IRIS Graphics Library into Microsoft's applications and system software. At the same time, Compaq Com- puter and SG announced a strategic relationship and Compaq acquired 13 percent of SGI's stock. iscontinue Mac D Apple II Board for the Mac LC Shipping Apple said it has begun shipping the Apple Il emu- lation board designed for the Macintosh LC. The Apple Ile Card was designed to let schools and others buy Mac LCs without losing the benefit of the Apple Il software they already have. The board is compatible with most of the thousands of Apple II applications, according to Apple, and can support an external Apple Il 5'/-inch floppy drive and an Apple joystick. The card's suggested retail price is $199. For more information, contact your Apple dealer. The Future of Fax The TR-29.2 committee of the Telecommunication Industry Association is establishing a new fax- modem standard, Class 2, which moves responsi- bility for timing control from the computer to the fax chip. The committee may also require fax-mo- dem chips to detect when the computer's serial port overflows and loses data. Committee member Tom Evslin, whose company Solutions markets Macintosh fax-modem software, says the Mac’s tiny 3-byte serial port buffer is especially vulnerable to data loss, and that on-chip detection would let fax modems run reliably in the background. Class 3 modems, which are years away, will free up the computer from imaging tasks—for example, con- verting QuickDraw or PostScript to a fax bitmap. iskExpress Ready for System 7 Version 2.07 of the disk-optimization utility Di: Express II is designed to cooperate with System 7’s complexity. It can defragment a volume that several people on a network are sharing with FileShare, without disturbing users’ access privileges; notice and optimize around blocks marked as unusable by Sys- tem 7; and operate in virtual memory and large RAM environments. It will list for $89.95. For more information, call ALSoft at 713/353-4090. 0 MACWORLD » JULY 1991 Redefining the Paint Category PixelPaint Pro defined the category of Professional Color Paint. Now, version 2.0 extends the Paint category into artistic image processing. Demanding designwork requiring image compositing, 8-bit masking, transparency and antialiasing or special effects such as embossing, patterning, tinting or controlled warping is dramatically simplified. Photographs can be turned into spectacular art with a few commands or brushstrokes. And precision controls and full color separations mean your designs come out looking the way you expect them to look. ©1991 SuperMac Technology, PixelPaint Professional is a registered trademark ‘of SuperMac Technology. SuperMac is a trademark of SuperMac Technology. Image created entirely in PixelPaint Professional 2.0 by Claire Barry. Circle 118 on reader service card | Paint Takes On A New Perspective. While Better Simulating Traditional Paint And, if you enjoy working with physical media, Pro 2.0 has the tools you've been searching for! PixelPaper™, which simulates textured surfaces such as linen, charcoal paper or even concrete, and pressure sensitive brushes, charcoals, pastels and airbrushes, combine to create outstanding, natural, painterly effects on a computer. In autoscrollable documents up to 4000 x 4000 pixels. All with the flexibility of Macintosh®assisted design—Pro 2.0's object-oriented paint tools allow you to continue manipulating your strokes before applying them to your image. SS SUPERMIAC With Second Generation Interface Breakthroughs A second generation in Paint, Pro 2.0 is easier to use than ever before because the interface has been redesigned with the designer's needs in mind. Floating palettes and multiple documents allow you to immediately access and apply tools without climbing through a jungle gym of menus. And, with Balloon Help under System 7.0, Pro verbally tells you what each tool will do. p= Buy PixelPaint Professional 2.0 now and receive a CookBook tutorial ($19.95 value) free when you return your registration card. Call 1-800-624-8999 (x. 210B) for more information about Pro 2.0. Remember the first day you got your hands on a Mac? Remember how excited you felt when you saw all the things it could do? This may refresh your memory. Introducing WordPerfect? 2.0. Every once in a while a new product comes along that sparks the same kind of excitement you may have experienced with your first Macintosh (you stayed up half the night, right?). As we’ve shown new WordPerfect? 2.0 to Macintosh users around the country, we've seen a very similar reaction. First eyes open wider. Then heads start to nod. Followed by grins that stretch dimple to dimple. Here are some of the more graphic improvements. We built a graphics and drawing package right into the program. With WordPerfect 2.0, you don’t have to leave your document to incorporate graphics. You can create, edit, size, scale and crop fees: graphic figures just by clicking “graphics” or “draw” on the pull- down menu. The palette includes all of the standard drawing tools, plus Bezier curves, polygons and a free rotation tool. WordPerfect 2.0 also lets you create text boxes. Inside your text boxes you can change font size and attributes. Then you can drag your text box wherever you want in your document and the rest of your CUIMEEETCE text will wrap around it automatically. Beslan A Language > The list of new features could fill a page. Or up to 24 columns. By clicking and dragging icons on the new WordPerfect ruler, you can create columns (newspaper or parallel) and Determines then adjust the column settings, align text, set tabs, change Merge. line spacing, move margins.and do a number of other Index Ete... formatting changes to your document. Want to add a border to text, paragraph, column, or page? Easy. WordPerfect 2.0 gives you 36 different border styles from which to choose. Like working with Styles? WordPerfect not only lets you use them, you can also share your styles with other people on your network. We've also added new features like a Macro Editor, Tables of Authorities, and Line Numbering. And we've made enhancements to Merge, Search and Replace, and Macros. Of course, what counts is how you feel. See WordPerfect 2.0 up and running at your dealer. Better yet, buy a copy of WordPerfect 2.0 and load it onto your Mac. But when you try WordPerfect 2.0 for the first time, one word of warning. Don’t plan on going to bed early. For more information, call us at (800) 526-5034, Graphic > WordPerfect 1 North Technology Way, Orem, Utah 84057 : © OR PORATION Tel: (G01) 2255000 FAK: (1) 22:5077 WordPerfect isa registered trademark of WordPerfect Corporation within the United States and other countries, All other brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies, ©1991 WordPerfect Corporation. Curtis Clip: Postion copy perfectly! fade in US. Prete Waranty ¥6¢4 Retail $6.95 Improve VDT Safety Conditions Six simple steps you can take. At Curtis, we've been saying it for years. In San Francisco, and eliminate constant refocusing from desktop to it's the law. 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P Manufacturing Company Inc. 30 Fitzgerald Drive, Jaffrey, NH 03452 Circle 20 on reader service card PHOTOGRAPHS BY ORAKE SOREY COMMENTARY = What's Happening to Deskiop Publishing Part Two: WORKING WITH PHOTOGRAPHY AND PREPRESS COLOR BY JERRY BORRELL ooking instructions for using color in desk- top publishing. 1. Obtain graphics file from a color scanner. (For this recipe use a 90MB file scanned on a Scitex system.) 2. Launch Adobe Photoshop in order to look at the file on screen. 3. Open the file (assuming you're lucky enough to have the file in a format Photoshop can read). 4. Buy a larger hard drive. (Photoshop keeps a “scratch copy” of the image you have opened, requiring that you have disk space available that equals the size of the original file.) 5. Wait 35 minutes for the file to open. 6. Convert the file from CMYK mode to RGB mode in order to see it in color (this opera- tion requires another 50 minutes). 7. Once the file is in RGB format, move the on-screen image (wait 3 minutes for it to redraw). 8. Save the file as, say, a PICT file (wait 15 minutes). 9. Now you can begin work. Allow 50 minutes (or more) for Photoshop op- erations such as applying a filter to the image, or 25 minutes to compress the image with Radius’s Impresslt. Warning! These instructions apply only to ideal situations and may prove more difficult in practice. How It All Got Started A few months ago, assistant managing editor Luis Camus retrieved two test files from our color-separation house, Luis Camus working with files that are shipped via ISDN to Mac- world Japan. Ninety-megabyte files have presented some problems. Balzer/Shopes. One was a 90MB file produced by scanning a 4-by-5-inch transparency, which was enlarged to fill the first two pages of our March hard drive article. The other was a 7MB file of another image that ran with the same article. I had eagerly installed ImpressIt on our international file server and was preparing to compress the 90MB file MACWORLD * JULY 1991 to a size that would be practical for Macworld Japan president David Ushijima to download in Tokyo via our ISDN link. It was Friday afternoon, the start of a pretty spring evening in San Francisco, and we had some new products to play with before taking off. By 9 p.m. San Francisco time Luis and I were both call- ing our respective dates to explain that we had run into a few problems. So began our glorious venture into the world of four- color electronic pub- lishing. I made a call to David in Tokyo and explained that we should wait a little longer before he tried downloading the im- age files for output on the kanji PostScript imagesetter in Tokyo. How We Got This Far This spring was an expectant time for us. Since May of 1989 Macworld has used desktop publishing technology. There is a bustle of behind-the-scenes activity required to put each issue of the magazine together. Every article is designed on the Macintosh, but type, illustrations, mechanical color, and (continues) 2B SIX REASONS WHY LA CI HARD DRIVES ARE THE BEST YOU CAN BUY. Quantum mechanisms are the best. That's why we use them in La Cie hard drives. A Quantum Difference. Quantum drive mechanisms offer blazing- fast effective access time as low as 8 milliseconds* No other drive mechanisms in their class (Mac*- compatible) run faster, which is why they are in La Cie drives** Tsunami, Silverlining, La Cie and the La Cie Ltd. logo are trademarks of La Cie, Ltd, a Plus Development Company. All other trade- marks are the property of their respective owners. All prices, specifications, terms, and descriptions of products and services herein are subject to change without notice of recourse. La Ce, id. 19552 SW 90th Court, Tualatin, OR 97062. 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In fact, we're happy to let critics and customers have the last word about La Cie drives. Because they tend to be words like these: ¥EEK —MacUser “,,.the cream of the crop.”—Macworld “Of all the drives tested we recommend La Cie’s drive.”—MacUser “This is an excellent drive and Silverlining is great!”—D. Jordan Burbank, CA La Cie offers internal and external hard drives from 40MB to 1.2 Te Gigabytes. Choose from the award-winning Tsunami, Cirrus ZFP | AS, LOW: family and Internal drives. Plus, La Cie now offers the Bacster, hard $299. drive that attaches directly to the back of a Macintosh Plus or SE. —= To order or for more information, call toll-free 800-999-0143, ext. 55 LACIE LIMITED ‘PLUS DEVELOPMENT COMPANY Circle 199 on reader service card * a5 * AFFORDABLE SAVE $1066 LEASE $108/mo. + Friendly Knowledgeable Staff * 1000's of Products In Stock Circle 109 on reader service €@ COMMENTARY THT! - ANN ‘Sanjay Sakhuja (standing) and Eric Hudson of Digital Pre-Press International working with the Scitex SmartScan. four-color and continuous-tone image separations are produced by different service bureaus. These prepress pro- cesses are joined in a final step to produce the film that we send to Brown Printing, in Waseca, Minnesota. In February we began to unite all these prepress processes and to produce film on an Agfa Compu- graphics SelectSet 5000. We had sev- eral reasons to push ahead with our use of the technology. First, we sup- port other Macworld magazines around the world, and those publi- cations can take advantage of our digital page separations (see Part One, Commentary, in the June issue). Our ISDN and Switch 56 network capabil- ity offers more-reliable phone con- nections and higher transmission speeds than standard transmission lines do, making it practical to down- load large story files to these foreign publications. also hope to reduce costs, speed production, and simplify pro- s such as accounting, by reduc- ing the number of suppliers with whom we have to work, and gain greater control over the entire pro- cess duction process. Finally, we feel an obligation to use the technology that we write about, rather than merely recording our ob- servations of others’ work. It helps keep Macworld articles useful. So if prepress on the Macintosh was actu- ally becoming practical, we felt it was time to take the plunge. Talks with Our Suppliers As you might imagine, magazine edi- tors become jaundiced by talking with developers—all of whom say they are MACWORLD + JULY 1991 Leslie Barton of the Macworld design de ‘ment placing 8-bit versions of scanned photo- graphs in PageMal going to ship new products tomor- row. But as consumers of professional services from graphics arts suppliers, we demonstrated considerably more naiveté. When we began, we met with a multitude of prepress-service sup- pliers to discuss who would work with us on color publishing. When we asked for film output, the crowd thinned considerably. Since placement of continuous- tone (CT) scans was crucial, we had to select a partner who had the high- est-quality scanning equipment avail- able. One of our suppliers already had Crosfield and Scitex scanners. But as a large business, this supplier seemed less than attentive to our need to push the technology forward, and mainly interested in building a business that would serve the existing customer base and expand into a new market. One of the contenders, Sanjay Sakhuja at Digital Pre-Press Interna- tional (DPI), agreed to buy a high-end scanner that would match in quality fa CG Set 5000 imagesetters that his com- pany already owns. He also cooper- ated by adding a direct connection to our digital (SDN) network, enabling us to transmit files and images be- tween Macworla d DPI at 64,000- bits-per-second. This makes Sakhuja’s computers appear on our network as if they were actually in our building Sakhuja was uncertain whether to purchase a Scitex or a DaiNippon screen scanner; in the end he che the Scitex SmartScan because it’s faster to load with transparencies (since it uses a flatbed rather than a drum) and is semiconductor-based, (continues) In the past, patience has been a necessity for getting PostScript® quality graphics and text ona LaserJet IP, Il, IID, or TIP laser printer. Introducing PacificPage XL™ for Macintosh - it will change the way you look at PostScript emulation products, both in performance and price. PacificPage XL for Macintosh provides the newest version of the PacificPage P*E cartridge, our PacificTalk interface module, and a high speed accelerator board that installs into the printer’s memory slot. Included on the accel- erator board is an Intel i960™ KB RISC micro- processor and 2 MB of memory which produces output 2 to 8 times faster and at a lower price than competitive cartridge solutions. PacificPage XL for Macintosh supports Adobe Type 1 and 3 outline fonts and utilizes forMacintooh TINT files to start of prnter engine, PostScript cartridge Macias over Appltats: Pactchage Teche ea ParticTatk are trademark of Fate 1960 isa trademar of Hewlett Packard’Go PostScript and Adobe are Products, Ine Seu oe empties sl ‘tnd Resolution Enhar sien incement are registered trademarks. ‘Switzerland Tel (41) 22-412650, Fax (41) 22-410682. © 1991 Pacific Data | in Caridge PostScript solutions for LaserJet printers paren exactly set records for speed. the Resolution Enhancement feature of the LaserJet IIT printer family for the sharpest 300 dpi output available. And, PacificPage XL for Macintosh comes with a lifetime warranty and a money back guarantee of satisfaction. If you're looking for a change of pace in PostScript solutions for the HP LaserJet III printers, call your nearest dealer or contact Pacific Data Products Inc., PACIFIC Diego, California DATA PRODUCTS 92121, U.S.A., (619) 597-4651, Fax (619) 552-0889. cere used with the HP Laserjet I, and all times were measured on the ademas of Ld. Copyright 1987, es HP, Lace ‘eademarks of Adobe Systems Inc. EUROPEAN HEADQUARTERS: MACINTOSH Circle 111 on reader service card. COMMENTARY John Warnock (left) and John Knolt's develop- ment of Photoshop will determine whether that product will allow the Mac to support profes- sional prepress color work. and thus more easily updated as technology changes. With this device he can scan 35mm, 125mm, 3 by 4, 4 by 5, and 8 by 10 transparencies, as well as entire groups of transparencies on one plate, At its highest resolution, the scanner digitizes at 5000 lines pe rdi transparency’s size. This is where we transparency—r ss of the obtain all of the information that makes up a color file (at 8 bits per pixel, on each of 3 scans for red, blue, and green; files are then processed into CMYK by the scanner's firmware). That amount of data is required to describe the color values in a trans- parency in order to print high-quality film for sepa Once the transparencies are digi- tized, low-r ions. ‘solution versions of the original scans are available on our network for designers, such as Macworld’s Leslie Barton, who place the images as Desktop Color Separa- tion (DCS) files in Aldus PageMaker for positioning, scaling, cropping, and other effects. Once the page design has been completed, the PageMaker file is transmitted to DPI, where khuja’s staff uses Aldus PrePrint to make color p: PrePrint processes the separations, it > separations. As Aldus automatically pulls in high-resolution image files stored on a file server at DPI to replace the low-res files de- noted by DCS tags on the PageMaker page files. Sakhuja’s staff then outputs the final color page separations on the Agfa SelectSet Who Does Color Retouching? Until now, our color retouching work has been performed by only one of MACWORLD + JULY 1991 our suppliers, using a Scitex Assem- bly station at costs of up to $250 per hour. Many publishers and designers working with color want to avoid these costs. The color-separation houses that have kept color publishing looking good over the years sense that the days of charging $250 per hour are nearly over. But not entirely, since those of us rushing to bring prepress technologies in-house often lack the skills and equipment in the near term to compete with the quality that ser- vice bureaus produce on high-end Scite: and Crosfield-based systems. We cannot compete in part be- cause until recently, our artists and designers have not needed to be con- cerned with some aspects of their trade, such as the impact that ma- nipulating 2 r on the quality of film produced bit ir s on-screen has through analog devices. But they will probably develop the cil- ame ity in adapting to in-house prepress color work that they showed when we replaced traditional design and typography processes with Aldus PageMaker Not Ready for Prime Time The real problems that slow down the process of bringing color prepri work in-house are the woeful inad- equacies of today’s hardware and software, When you watch a Mac take 30 minutes to open a file, you realize that Macintosh hardware and software are inadequate at present to the task of color prepress. But if we want to use the technology we'll have to suf- fer through the transition. Problems first arise because of the size of the files. I'm using a Rodime Cobra 650 and a Storage Dimensions MacinStor 650 drive to open test files. Our image files generally run 7MB to 15MB in size, but full-page images can be as large as 45MB. When I try to open the 90MB two-pag Photoshop responds with a dialog box spread, saying that there is insufficient dis space—an impossibility. I discovered that both drives, because of manufac- turer formatting, may not allocate physical space large enough to store a single file as large as 90MB unless 1 reformat the drive. Then I can store (continues) SORRY, CLARIS. BUT IT'S DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN. THE NEW em, THE NEW CANVAS™ 3.0 r ie a Another new model year. And Canvas is still miles ahead. Lucky you. With brand new models of both the world’s top-ranked drawing pro- grams to choose from. Simultaneously. And MacDraw® Pro isn’t a bad try. In fact, it reminds us of another drawing pro- gram we've always had the utmost respect for: Canvas 2.1. Unfortunately for Claris, our new Canvas 3.0 includes enough major en- hancements to leave their latest effort idling somewhere back in the dust. Again. Let's take a look under the hoods. Canvas 3.0 gives you more high-end text handling features. Like binding to curves. Slanted margins. Text-wrapping outside —and/or inside — irregular objects, and full kerning & tracking control. Even con- version of PostScript Type 1 fonts to customizable Bézier outlines. MacDraw Pro doesn't. Canvas 3.0 gives you more technical drawing features. Like custom dy- MACORAW® PRO namic hatching. Custom parallel lines & curves. Custom dashed lines, curves & borders. Automatic dimension lines. Area & perimeter calculations. And a Smart Mouse™ drawing aide. MacDraw Pro doesn't. Canvas 3.0 gives you more design/illus- tration features. Including unparalleled Bézier curve editing power--from multi- point selection & editing to automatic ob- ject conversion, combining and blending. Magnetic guidelines. Center line auto trac- ing of scanned images. And full bitmap editing in 24-bit color. MacDraw Pro doesn't. Canvas 3.0 also gives you new built-in translators for important multi-platform CANVAS 30 PRECISION DRAWING POWER FROM S2Qe@-vnefece SOFTWARE formats like CGM, IGES and DXF™. And Open Architecture tech- nology — allowing new tools, effects and translators to be added with ease at any time. MacDraw Pro doesn't. You are what you drive. Like Canvas 2.1 before it, the new Canvas 3.0 was devel- oped in direct response to the wish lists of thousands of drawing professionals. Its heritage of performance is proven. Its Price is right. And its ease of use is leg- endary. Which leaves just one last ques- tion. If what you draw is important to you, why settle for Claris's sedate sedan when you can get your hands on a dream ma- chine? BUY VERSION 2.1 NOW AND SAVE! Buy Canvas 2.1 between January 1, 1991 and August 31, 1991 and receive a free upgrade to Canvas 3.0! 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MACWORLD + JULY 1991 6 Turn your receivables into COMMENTARY ike Boich (at the wheel) and Storm Technologies’ Adriaan Ligtenberg—in a race to ‘supply image-compression technology to pro- fessional publishers. multiple large files on one driv The real hardware problem is the Mac: the 68030 chip's inadequate power for image processing (particu- larly since it does double-duty running the operating system); the inadequate technology for processing large blocks of data within the computer system; for writing images out of memory and onto the the inadequate technolo, . Thirty minutes for Photoshop to apply one filter to an image? This is simply not real-world. And those of us looking at accelerators that use the 68040 microprocessor—the micro- processor that will be the heart of Apple's new high-end Macintosh—do not believe that the 040 chip will solve these problems. Nor will simply add- ing 24-bit color to the system board of a next-generation computer. If Apple and the Macintosh are to ers in the desktop publishing be f market's next evolutionary step, that of color prepress on the desktop, then Apple is going to ha sider the kind of computing hors e to recon- power that it supplies its customers. Image Processing In terms of software, we have been blessed in the Mac universe with Adobe Photoshop. This product is known to most of us as a universal can opener for images because we use it to open files saved in different formats, but it has some other uses. Macworld readers, for example, voted Photoshop their favorite for both color paint and image processing. It is in these two capacities that artists and designers are coming to depend upon Photo- (continues) Even before the Macintosh Clas- sice & its new companions came along to wow the reviewers with heroic price/performance ratios, UltraPaint was keeping them plenty busy. “As advertised, Deneba’s UltraPaint...really does set new Macintosh graphics stan- dards”, wrote Ernest Mau of CompuServe. “..Many more B&W paint features than SuperPaint, almost all of PixelPaint’s color tools, a superset of MacDraw II's object-oriented features, and the gray-scale prowess of Digital Darkroom. All this comes in a single program for less than half the price...”, wrote David Pogue in MacWorld. Perhaps Chris Prior of MacUser UK summed it up best when he wrote that “UltraPaint...could prove to be the ideal software package for those looking for a powerful, all- around draw and paint program.” And it’s true. UltraPaint really does offer you the THE NEW LOW-COST MACS~-FROM $999 same sophisticated graphics pro- cessing power of several leading programs combined — all in one inexpensive, easy-to-use package. Open it up on one of Apple’s new low-cost machines and we're talking a match made in heaven. Particularly if you've always pictured heaven as a place where you get big muscles without having to pay the price. WE'LL PAY YOU $25 FOR BEING SMART. Purchase UltraPaint and a Macintosh Classic, LC, or Ilsi between October 15, 1990 and May 31, 1991, and receive a $25.00 rebate direct from Deneba. Simply send a copy of your qualifying Mac registration card, your original Ultra- Paint registration card, and dated proof of purchase for both to our main address.We'll send a check for $25 US by return mail! See below for further details. YATRA LOW COST INTEGRATED GRAPHICS FROM Deneha SOFTWARE | 3905 NORTHWEST 74TH AVENUE, MIAMI, FLORIDA 33122. PH: (305) 594-6965. FAX: (305) 477-5794. 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We think new Microsoft’ Excel version 3.0 is the closest thing to perfec- tion ever seen in a spreadsheet for the Mac’ For one good reason. Power made easy. The new Toolbar; for instance, Yes, Paul, a single button now lets you access 68 chart types, 24 of which are 8 ¥D. You can incorporate these right into your worksheet, along with text and data. reduces common, time-consuming tasks i And notice the outlining feature on the lefi?Go nuts. down to one step. and voild — it all adds up. Highlight a row or column of num- Do quick, push-button formatting. bers, hit the © button (that’s Autosuny), Use outlining features to collapse “us shiping and handling ond applica saes tax If yo ae arte wer of Mico Exe wath yer mals foram update cmon. led nln th 50 Unite Stat nthe 60 United State, cal (8005411251, De QS. 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If you acquired your current ver- sion of Microsoft Excel on or after 12/7/90, the upgrade is only $50: Call (800) 541- 1261, Department Q83, to find out more. By the way, Bryan Larson: we said hi to Bill for you. He sends his regards. Making it all make sense All rights resred. andthe Micros logo are and Autosum, Toolbar and Making it sl make sense ae trademarks of Explore Our Printer Options! fo Chooser ie KS a Select a printer port. 7 re is lr] Bie BIS) OFSDe ees a eee lala lara eS] J a © ©)! me (ore T —Deskeh_Desriter @aActive KS qe ws ABpleTelk Ginactive 35 ie} 2 hn Za Uiserdet Laseret > LaserJet JetLink Express™, PrintLink Collection™ and roy M Mac Daisy Link™ are Macintosh® software 3 i ) : We printer driver packages, which together support pene Sete over 600 different laser, dot matrix, inkjet Ba : daisywheel printers, DeeTABO MacDatiy Linke Herox 4045 Printer connectivity is what we do best! &. &. S|) GD Softworks Inc &€Zss ‘ PO Box 1865 bn! 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In the near term we plan to make Photoshop on a Macintosh compete with a Scitex system by throwing hardware at the problem. Sanjay Sakhuja, for example, has 32MB of RAM on the Mace Ici that he uses for color retouching at DPI, and he plans to upgrade to 128MB. Image Compression Is Crucial Given the size of the files that I'm writing about, compression is vital. We have to store a year's worth of images for use by our sister Mac- worlds. We'll eventually build up a collection of multigigabyte drives, but they're expensive, And at up to a gigabyte of storage for each issue of the mag we'll never be able to afford storing images at full size. s important for sons as well, We want to transmit images across our ISDN net- work, which is too slow even at 64,000 bits per second and runs out of ca- pacity quickly. Storm Technologies’ Adriaan Ligtenberg and Radius's Mike Boich have been sensitive to our ini- tial input on these products, and changes are under way in their com- pression products. Looking Ahead Last year I suggested that 1991 would be the year of color in publishing. I still believe that, but it's going to take until the end of the year before we get all the bugs worked out and are producing all our photography on the Mac. And, of course, just a little more equipment. 1 Mirror makes a better one. In fact, in one of the biggest reviews yet on the color display itror’s Color Monitors . GiveYou Mote Mice) _ latHalfthe Price. We thought the Mirror Trinitron® was a real bargain. | | MacUser May 91 | Radius 19" 24 bit color $7890 4444 Mirror 19" 24 bit color $3997 $484 12 ding toa recent MacUser magazine article, Radius has always made an excellent big screen color monitor. 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I guess I have to go with the clone article as my favorite, After all, I made a conscious decision to go Mac rather than IBM, and if Tend up with an orphan machine I have no one to blame but myself. Paul Galanti Indianapolis, Indiana The Atari That Would Be Mac | n your discussion of Mac clones and emulators currently in production, 1 was disappointed that you failed to mention the Spec- tre GCR cartridge, which transforms an Atari ST computer into a (faster) Mac Plus. The Spectre GCR (minus the 128K Mac Plus ROMs) retails for $299.95 from Gadgets by Small, Inc., 40 W. Littleton Blvd., #210- 211, Littleton, CO 80120. Forrest Blood Delran, New Jersey C) LETTERS Develop, Don’t Litigate \ J hat a waste! If NuTek spent those zillions on developing the next gen- eration of personal com- puters instead of meticu- lously cloning the Mac and preparing to do battle in the courts, the consumer would be light-years ahead. Apple is equally to blame. Michael W, Miller Middleton, Wisconsin AutoMac’s Unlauded Advantages es, you can assign the F-keys to your [AutoMac Ill] macros [“The Desk Potate uide to Macros, April 1991], although you can’t just press F8 and start recording a macro to empty the Trash or print, as you can with other macros. You can still use them by sim- ply typing “F8” in the Re- cord dialog box. AutoMac will then ask you to press the F8 key to define its po- sition on the keyboard, then just record away, You can use all 12 F-keys and also the escape key this way. Where you got the fig- ure 20 for the number of times AutoMac can loop, I don't know, I set up a macro before I leave for the night and it’s still run- ning in the morning. I was also disappointed that you did not mention the editing feature in Auto- Mac, which has been a real time-saver more than once. Paul Reznick Troy, Michigan Thanks for pointing out the un- documented feature. In our tests, AutoMac’s recursive mac- ros loop only about 20 times. In MACWORLD » JULY 1991 related news, CE Software has released an Extensions set for QuicKeys’. One of them pastes any text or graphic at a key- stroke; another permits con- trolled looping; and still another switches your monitor between various color settings. Paper Chase Redux Y ou guys were way too easy on that apparent environmental nut who complained in a letter to the editor in your April is- sue that you are using 1485 metric tons of paper per month to include subscrip- tion forms in Macworld. That figure is incredible because it is grossly wrong. My calculation gives some- thing like 3 tons. Even her calculation of 809.4 times 340,000 was off by more than a factor of 10. Your (continues) Corrections The upgrade price [Up- dates, April 1991] for Fal- con from Spectrum Holo- Byle is $5. Ehman lowered the price of the Swift 165 bard drive as “Midrange Hard Drives, Just Right” [March 1991] was going to press. The $849 price is reflected in the table but not in the text. The TokaMac LC ac- celerator (MacBulletin, April 1991) is available from Fusion Data Systems, 512/338-5326. 3 © ——— MS —————— typist should have caught that. Why are people so gullible about ridiculous environmental claims? Any- one who didn't instantly recognize how preposter- ous the numbers in that letter were would proba- bly also believe, say, that monitor emissions are harmful. Bill Mixon Austin, Texas In fact, we use 10 tons of paper per issue for the subscription cards and the reader service cards combined. Also, the Na- tional Academy of Sciences is currently studying electromag- netic emissions. Biodegradable Reviews Il ow about printing Mac- world on quality re- cycled stock? Garbage magazine does it and it " Salient’ looks great. If you're seri- ous about the environment, drop the posturing and do something constructive! Gary Young Albany, California We are exploring with our printer the use of recycled paper and soy-based inks. Currently, there are no acceptable solutions, but we are in constant contact with our printer about the latest technological breakthroughs and how soon we might be able to utilize them. We currently use recycled paper for all our mar- keting pieces and are testing the use of recycled paper for our in- serts and subscription and re- newal cards. Pros of Prodigy ) rodigy has yet to have a fair review in your mag: -ntially, Prod- igy gives you unlimited time Double the space on any disk exp © by shrinkit any Mac file or folder Gam an average of 50%. ‘DiskDoubler rate the best o its kind” $833) MacUser on the service for $10 a month. Some few percent of its membership were us- ing this fact to send over 1000 pages of mail a month. Prodigy could do it only if other members subsidized the heavy E-mail use! The question of cen- sorship is two-sided. Be- cause of children, Prodigy needs more supervision of its bulletin boards and public clubs than the other servi Calvin S. McLaughlin Corona del Mar, California Don't Censor Stupidity find it amazing that one of the examples cited by Brian Ek of Prodigy |Letters, April 1991] is their censor- ing of the comment, “You can't get pregnant if you don’t have an orgasm." So MACWORLD + JULY 1991 now they are censoring stupidity as well? As an educator, I find this dis- turbing. The best way to combat such stupidity is to bring such comments to the fore and let the light of public scrutiny set such people straight. Learning and truth thrive when there isa free and open exchange of ideas. Allen Shoemaker Grand Rapids, Michigan Keyboarding with UltraKey | nfortunately, Larry Ste- ) vens’s comments [Win- dow Shopping, March 1991] are uninformed about the purpose of a keyboarding tutor. Most keyboarding tutors do little more than provide drill and practice. UltraKey shows people how to type correctly. In each (continues) Free Millions for $79, Circle 39 on reader service card. 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If, after using Ultra- Key in the recommended manner, any customer is not ied that UltraKey is worth every penny paid, then Bytes of Learning will refund that customer's money. Art Willer President, Bytes of Learning Willowdale, Ontario, Canada Bad Call to Bottom Line was looking for a printer for my Mac, and on page 323 of your February issue I saw an ad from Bottom Distribution that quoted a price significantly lower than any other I'd seen. The ad also gave a 900 phone number, and said it would cost me $2 per Line minute to call, That made me a bit nervous, but I fig- ured even with a for the call the price would still be lower than anywhere else. So I made the call, and was told the item was “out of stock.” Now I get my phone bill and find it cost me $4 to learn this. So how come this company has a 900 phone number? Generally, the point of a 900 number is that what the caller is buying is the content of the call itself—as in the 900 numbers on late-night TV ads featuring sultry girls in filmy negligees. In this case, Bottom Line’s prices are pret put the fi quoted xy, to be al product delivered is what used to be called a tease. Big talk, no action Macworld made mon- ey on the ad; I got taken I'm disappointed in you guys Andrew Main Santa Fe, New Mexico Bottom Line Responds e use our 900 number asa tool to help lower our overhead. The major- ity of our customers rez ize that the phone charges are small in comparison to the amount of money they save, as well as the service and technical support that Bottom Line provides. It is an unfortunate re- ality that items are some- times out of stock. How- as we do stock over $160 million worth of in- ventory, if anyone has it, are it is us. 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