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Now you can get the | most from your Mac with Apple's | free update for System 7.5 users. _ This update will improve overall stability and performance and, if you use Virtual Memory on your PowerMac} start your applications up to four times faster than before. *Connect ne charges may apply Now you can download Microsoft's Internet Tools and disco’ sr the ne Internet capabilities of your Mac. Free? Microsoft's continued commitment to the Mac means you'll be browsing, creating and accomplishing more than ever before. To obtain your Internet Tools, and the System 7.5 Update 2.0, please visit //werw.microsoft.com/macoffice/. Or to order a free Microsoft Empowerment Pack for the Mac, which includes ROM with the software listed above plus a special offer on RAM from Kingstc Technology call 800-469-6520 Dept. MCA {© 1996 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft and Where do you want fo go today? are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporatior Mec and PowerMac are tra 1arks of Apple Comox Macintosh is @ registered trademark and RAM DOUBLER? SPEED DOUBLER? COPY DOUBLER? DISK DOUBLER? CPU DOUBLER? CLOCK DOUBLER? WHY NOT JUST GET A REAL COMPUTER? AWARD-WINNING 150MHz POWERPC 604 POWERCENTER™ SYSTEMS NOW JUST ‘2,095 The PowerCenter has been put to the test. MacWeek, MacUser and Macworld magazines have MacWeek awarded PowerCenter their highest accolades, including Editor’s Choice, as have the tens of thousands of satisfied customers who have made PowerCenter their first choice in Mac OS systems. And now, the reasons to choose Power Computing are even more compelling. New PowerCenter pricing makes PowerPC 604 fo) systems more affordable than ever. Our 150Mhz PowerCenter systems now start at an unbelievably low $2,095° and 132 MHZ PowerCenter systems start at just $1,895. — ) PowerComputing PowerCenter 132 AV 132MHz PowerPC 604 Processor PowerCenter 150 Starter PowerCenter 132 Starter 150 MHz PowerPC 604 Processor 132MHz PowerPC 604 Processor +24 MB RAM (512 MB Max) +268 AV Copable Hard Drive Quad Speed (4x) CD-ROM Drive *5IOK Level 2 Cache +2 MB On-Board VRAM (4 MB Max) +3 PC! Expansion Slots -Miro DG20 Full Screen, Full Motion ‘S¥ideo In/Out PCI Video Cord w/Adobe Premiere LE and Photoshop LE Built in Ethernet (AAU! and TOBaseT) Extended Keyboard and Mouse ‘Add Power 15” Multimedia Monitor °379 ‘Add Power 17" Monitor 695 Apple, Macintosh and Mac ore registered trademarks, trademarks of Power Computing Corporation. ll +16 MB RAM (S12 MB Max) +1 GB Hord Drive “Quod Speed (4x) (0-ROM Drive “512K Level 2 Cache “1 MB VRAM OnBoard (4 MB Max) “Hac 1Spin Connector and SYGA Connector “3 PCI Expansion Slots =Buil in Ethernet (AAU! ond 10BaseT) Extended Keyboard and Mouse Desktop Enclosure Add Sony 15° Wrnitron i5sx 425 Add Power 15" Multimedia Monitor ‘379 “Add Power 17” Monitor °695 in the US. ond Canada only ond ore subject to change without notice. “Monier not included in price “16 MB RAM (512 MB Max) “1.68 Hard Drive “Quod Speed (4x) CO-ROM Drive 512K Level 2 Cache “1 MB YRAM On-Board (4 MB Max) “Moc 1-pin Connector and SVGA Connector 3 PC Expansion Slots Boil in Ethernet (AAUI ond 10BaseT) ~Extended Keyboard and Mouse -Deskiop Enclosure Add 28.8 Modem & Internet Kit 195 Add Power 15" Multimedia Monitor '379 Add Power 17° Monitor °695 the Mac 0S logo is © todemark of Apple Computer Inc Powerlower ond PowerCenter are registered rand ead/or prodoct somes are the property of ther respective holders. Prices ond specfictons are valid Circle 151 on reader service card 4 141 146 157 November 1996 Features The Best Media Machine By Jim HEID How does Win- dows stack up against the Mac in serious multimedia work? Mac- world Lab compares both plat- forms to determine the winner. Your Mac Is Ringing BY HOWARD BALDWIN We examine seven telephony pack- ages to uncover the best way to connect your phone to your Mac. Macworld Exclusive Motorola's Hot New Macs BY GALEN GRUMAN Ma Lab tests the latest clones. world Secure Your Mac BY GENE STEINBERG Macworld evaluates 24 applications for the best ways to protect your data, your network, and your Mac— along with your sanity. Color Laser Values By JOSEPH SCHORR Macworld Lab tests eight color laser print- ers for output quality as well speed and setup. Who's calling, please? The YoYo reviewed, page 64. MACWORLD NOVEMBER GW OS Essentials 52 34 38 42 Mac OS 8: Back to Square One sy macworto starr An in-depth the Mac OS. analysis of News CHRP Moves Closer to Reality Dual Mac OS/Windows NT pro- totypes look promising. Special Report Adobe's Next Generation Sneak peeks at PageM Pers Blindingly Fast Chips Will we see 500MHz machines next year? 4336 19 27 272 14 Lock out snoops and saboteurs—the top security programs rated, page 146. Opinion State of the Mac BY ADRIAN MELLO Exciting times are ahead for users. The Desktop Critic BY DAVID Pocue Count your blessings, O Mac pilgrims. How to Contact Macworld A desktop LCD projector with attitude, the Viewpoint Model 100, reviewed on page 85. 167 179 183 188 190 Secrets Keep Your Hands Off My Mac BY JOSEPH SCHORR keep private information on your computer private. How to Quick Tips BY LON pooLE Tips, tricks, and shortcuts. NetSmart BY CAMERON CRoTTY Hints on working successfully with plug-ins. Media Optimizing the Power Mac 8500 for Media sy Jim HeID How to get the most AV bang for your buck. Publishing Workshop sy steve ROTH Get depend- able color using swatch books. Graphics Workshop By CATHY Ases Use masks to make smooth transitions between images in Photoshop. SIDG DOMED: 1465 Sutcnpton tes ar $90 for 12 nes, $6 or oe. Postar: Send adres changes to Macro, P.O, Box 829, ‘Three color ink-jet printers vie for top honors in Reviews, page 60. Advice on maintaining workplace privacy in Secrets, page 167. The latest on Apple's plans for Mac OS 8, a special report, page 52. ON THE Cover Photograph by Wayne Calabrese 8 9 ££ 8 8B 70 74 79 81 83 85 87 $ 8 100 102 107 Reviews ***/6.9 Canon BJC-4550; 4% */7.8 Epson Stylus Color 500; K/7.2 HP DeskWriter 680 Color ink-jet printers compared ek «*/7,4 Netscape Navigator 3.0 Web browser 9/7. Performa 6400/200 ‘System for the SOHO market ****/8.0 YoYo 1.2 Telephony device screens calls *K/7.9 Phaser 350 Color business printer ***/6.8 COPSTalk 2.0 for Windows 95; a **/7.5 PC MacLAN 6.0 for Windows 95 AppleTalk for Windows 95 compared %*%*/6.3 Map Factory Raster-based mapping program %#/3.1 Midi Land $35/818 System; 494/77.) Yamaha System 45 Speaker systems compared ee **/7.2 PhoneDisc PowerFinder 2.2; %**/3.0 Phone Search USA 2.0; ew #/7.2 Select Phone 4.0 CD-ROM-based phone directories ***/6.1 Eudora Pro 3.0 Internet E-mail reader *&**/8.2 AirCommunicator Lite Feature-packed fax modem **&/6.6 ChameleonNFs 3.6; 4etk/68 tepConnect 4.0 Enterprise Internet access suites 4eo9/8.0 CyberGauge Internet bandwidth diagnostic tool ***/6.9 Viewpoint Model 100 Self-contained LCD projector ***/5.7 Amapi 2.1 3-D modeler k#H/7.3. Electricimage Broadcast 3-D animation tool ***/6.6 Font Box 1.8 — Font manager **/4.7 Fastedit/Deluxe Photoshop plug-ins ke */6.0 NovaModem 288 PC Card modem *KKK/7.8 Pro View 1.3 Presentation tool **#*/7,.8 Maple V Release 4 Mathematics software *k*K/8.1 Slicer Views 2-D slices of 3-D graphics *#%/6.8 Chemintosh 3.4 Drawing tools for chemists **/45 Street Atlas USA 3.0 Searchable atlas on CD-ROM ***/6.9 Hexen The Heretic fantasy continues. Star Ratings Macworld’s ratings for hundreds of hardware and software products at a glance. THE COMPANY THAT BROUGHT YOU FAST AND WICKED FAST NOW BRINGS YOU INSANELY FAST. THE POWERTOWER™ PRO 225 MHz. SIX PCI SLOTS. INTERLEAVED MEMORY. DUAL FAST SCSI. 8X CD-ROM. “THE POWERTOWER PRO SERIES SOARS ABOVE ALL MAC RIVALS....MAC POWERUSERS WILL SOON BECOME POWER COMPUTING USERS IN DROVES” — macWEEK Macazine 7.22.96 Listen closely and you can almost hear the sound of the computer world being floored. Considering that the PowerTower Pro is the fastest and most expandable Mac 0S system ever, this response is quite natural. As the leader of our already impressive product line, this machine's strengths \ “THE POWERTOWER PROS ARE COMPELLING ) ALTERNATIVES TO APPLE‘S POWER MACINTOSH 9500!” — macworto ocr. 96 are virtually boundless. The new PowerPC 604e CPU at speeds of 225, 200 or 180 MHz. A 7200 RPM AV-capable hard drive. A huge 1 MB Level 2 cache. Dizzying 8X CD-ROM. Dual (fast internal 10 MB/second) SCSI. 8 DIMM slots. Does the onslaught stop here? No! Dual processor capability. Six PCI slots. Nine expansion bays. A YY yy) 300w power supply. And an 8 MB IMS Twin Turbo MacWeek “POWER COMPUTING HAS THE CLEAR AND UNDISPUTED EDGE OVER APPLE IN BOTH PRICE & PERFORMANCE. YOU WANT A POWERTOWER PRO.” = — MacUsen Macaze SEPT '96 128 bit graphics accelerator. The list doesn’t end here, but some things you just have to see for yourself. Sure there will be followers, but it'll be a long time before anyone $6666 even gets close. Call now to custom configure your Taps! dream system. © PowerComputing Apple, Macintosh ond Mac are registered trademarks, and the MacOS logo iso tradamark of Apple Computes Inc. PowesTower and PowerCenter ore registred trademarks of fower Computing Corporation ll eher brand and/or product ‘names ore the property oftheir respective holders, Prices ond specifications ae vlid in the US. ond Canad only and are subject to change without notice POWERTOWER PRO: THE FASTEST, MOST EXPANDABLE MAC OS SYSTEM PowerTower Pro 225 Starter ‘225MHz PowerPC 604e Processor 16 MB RAM (1 GB Max) +2 GB 7200 RPM AV Copable Hard Drive 8X CD-ROM Drive “1 MB Level 2 Cache “IMS Twin Turbo 128M graphics accelerator with 8MB VRAM =6 PCI Expansion Slots Interleaved Memory +9 Drive Bays “Dual (Fast 10 MB/Sec) SCSI *Connectx Speed Doubler Extended Keyboard and Mouse Add Sony 20” sfil Monitor $1795 PowerTower Pro 180 Starter 180MHz PowerPC 604e Processor “16 MB RAM (1 6B Max) 2.68 7200 RPM AY Capable Hord Drive “8X CD-ROM Drive “1 MB Level 2 Coche “IMS Twin Turbo 128M graphics ocelerator with 8MB VRAM 6 PCI Expansion Slots Interleaved Memory +9 Drive Boys -Ducl (Fast 10 MB/Sec) SCSI -Connectx Speed Doubler -Extended Keyboard ond Mouse Add Sony 20° sfl Monitor $1795 POWERTOWER: AFFORDABLE HIGH-PERFORMANCE MAC OS SYSTEMS Powerlower 200e Starter ‘200MHHz PowerPC 604e Processor “16 MB RAM (512 MB Max) +2.GB 7200 RPM AV Capable Hord Drive +8x CD-ROM Drive “IMB Level 2 Cache +2 MB VRAM On-Board (4 MB Max) +3 PCI Expansion Slots “Connectix Speed Doubler MiniTower Enclosure Extended Keyboord ond Mouse Add Sony 17” Trinitron 17sfll °875 Add lomega Jaz 1 GB Drive °395 —— Powerlower 180e Starter 180 MHz PowerPC 604e Processor “16 MB RAM (512 MB Max) +2 GB 7200 RPM AY Copoble Hard Drive 8x CDROM Drive “IMB Level 2 Cache +2. 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Complete Font, Management MasterJuggler is the professional's choice and was picked as the pre: ferred font manager by Macworld (5/95), MacUser (8/95) and Adobe Magazine (3/95). In addition to basic font management it also checks your fonts for corruption as they're opened so they'll never crash your Mac again. It checks for missing printer fonts to avoid the “aggies.” Font number conflicts are automatically resolved so the right font is always displayed, “Font gathering” copies the screen and printer fonts you need to send to a service bureau, Advanced font and sound compression saves valuable disk space. 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The Mac OS twists and turns have been a nightmare. ‘Asa disgruntled and struggling user of Microsoft's productivity suite, I have found and continue searching for alter- natives to Word and Excel. To install both applications on our computers required a grand total of 56 floppies. Enough already! MELODY DRAKE via Macworld Online Even More Best Web Sites [ees COMPUTING site mentioned in “The Best Mac Web Sites” (August 1996)—the one that allows you to build your dream system and check out the price tag—but when I tried the URL given, I found myself on the Web page of Australia’s largest distributor of IBM computers! I hope that wasn’t a Freudian slip. Doug Korwin via Macworld Online Maybe that’s why Power Computing was so eager for Macworld editors to bungee jump at the Boston Macworld Expo... naw. That URL should've been http://www. powerce.com.—Ed. N“THE BEST MAC WEB SITES” YOU LEFT out the two most important Web sites for anyone wanting to keep track of what's going on in the Mac world: the Macintosh Resource Page (bttp://www.macresource -pair.com/) and the MacInTouch Page (bttp://www.macintouch.com/). These pages are absolutely essential to my life, and I can’t believe that they were left out! THomas REED St. Louis, Missouri N“THE BEST MAC WEB SITES,” HOWARD Baldwin writes: “Like the ocean, the Web is a vast and murky place. Diving in randomly, you’re just as likely to discover a clear, clean Macintosh site as a clunky site posted bya 14-year-old fan of Smash- ing Pumpkins.” What exactly does he mean by that? I am a 14-year-old, and a fan of The Smashing Pumpkins. Does this mean for some reason that I am not organized or computer literate? Just because I am not a pocket-protector—clad math whiz doesn’t mean I don’t know anything about computers, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. I read Mac- world and can program in C and Pascal. I Leller's also listen to Nirvana and play electric guitar. Baldwin could have made his point just as well if he had said “a clunky site with pictures that didn’t load and missing links” instead of resorting to the use of a cheap stereotype. M. Weyanpr via the Internet As a pocket-protector—clad math whiz, might I ask what you meant by that?—Ed. Don't Forget 1's and I's ( UR FRIEND DAVID BLATNER STRIKES J again (Publishing Workshop, August 1996). His short, to-the-point column should be required reading for all com- puter users. As an instructional technolo- gist, getting my students to use indents instead of tabs is my most difficult task. Now, if I could only get those boys and girls to stop using double spaces after periods, I’d have it made. ALAN APPLEGATE Littleton, Colorado Names We Love to Hate 7 UDOS TO DAVID POGUE FOR HIS TER- rific, funny article on product nam- ing and numbering. He left out two of the most blatant naming-protocol viola- tions, however: HoTMetaL Pro and—the absolute worst product name ever— theFONDler. Ugh! Ravi REGaLapo via America Online GOT A GOOD LAUGH OUT OF DAVID Pogue’s column about product names, particularly his comments on the arbi- continues www.macworld.com November 1996 19 see yourself for who you really are, =f See yourself with A.D.AM. The Inside Str. ¢ ees 5 TE Wij, Peel through over a hundred layers, watch over four hours of animations, and Se f) challenge what you’ve learned with puzzles. emma When you’re through, you may never look prea eieae | Fae 2 yourself the same way again. -800-408-ADAM ader service card LETTERS ° Ns The phone number for Power Computing (“High-Performance Sys- tems,” Reviews, October 1996) is 512/388-6868. The phone number for STF Technolo- gies (“Faxstf 3.2,” Reviews, October 1996) is 816/463-1412. DayStar Digital’s phone number is 770/967-2077 (“The New Speed Champs,” July 1996). | Immedia will require QuarkXPress 32 or later to run (News, August 1996). The Practical Peripherals MacClass 288 V;34 PC Card modem bas a five- ‘year warranty (“PC Card Modems,” Faly 1996). The Editors’ Choice box in “Best Buys in Optical Drives” (October 1996) for the 2.6GB Optical Drive is as follows: OPTICAL DRIVES For optical drives, we looked for the best mix of price/performance, clear documentation, useful bundled software, and ‘good overall design. 2.668 Optical E Excellent perfor- mance in its class, very good software, a well- | designed case, and aggressive pricing make this | the top pick. Company: La Cie (503/520-9000, | Ihttp://wreew.lacie.com), List price: $1999, | trary use of upper- and lowercase letters in product names. Imagine my surprise when I turned the page and saw an entire article on “AutoDesk”! AMELIE VON F £, AUTODESK San Rafael, California vEC | AVID POGUE FORGOT THE MOST commonly made intercap mistake: MacIntosh. Heatu HANLIN via Macworld Online {0 YOU DON’T LIKE THE NAME WOW for CompuServe’s new service? Since the service includes censoring of content, maybe the name is appropriate. Upside down it’s MOM. Tom KELLER via CompuServe HOUGH WE ARE GRATIFIED THAT Macworld has finally taken some notice of our CD-ROM work of art, ScruTiny in the Great Round, it was curi- ous to find it on a list of the five worst Mac product names (The Desktop Critic, August 1996). David Pogue complains that you'd never be able to tell from the title that this is a CD-ROM, that the title “not only conveys no information, but implies a double entendre.” Would anyone be able to tell solely from its title that Hard Drive is not a piece of equipment, not a porno flick, but a book by one David Pogue? ScruTiny in the Great Round is the name not of a software tool but of a work of the imagination. Since when has it been customary for works of art to have utilitarian, marketing-driven titles? What information is conveyed by such titles as As You Like It, Moby-Dick, or “Let It Be” My partner explains the meanings it has for her in a biographical video that our publisher, Calliope Media, went out of its way to include on the disc. It is intentionally a multiple entendre, refer- encing the womb, the passing of seasons, cycles of life and death, the eye, mandalas, and more, associations that become clear- er the more time you spend with the disc. Jim GasPERINt New York, New York Another Year, Another Expo \\Juar are THE Dat \) Macworld Expo in in January 19972 S OF THE in Francisco Gary Wess Bellevue, Washington We just got back from the last Expo and you vant us to think about the next one in ’9 Man. If you must think about it now, the 1997 Macworld Expo in San Francisco will run Jan- uary 7 through 10. For more information, call Mitch Hall Associates at 617/361-8000.—Ed. 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Version 2.0 a MICROSPOT Microspot USA, Inc. (408) 253-2000 Se habla espafiol Demo copies available - www.microspot.com Circle 3 on reader service card MACWORLD 22 November 1996 LETTERS IBM and a Macintosh version of Direc- tor? What about hybrid CDs? T haven’t purchased my new system yet. I was going to get a Mac, but if I need to buy two copies of Director and two dif- ferent machines in order to produce cross-platform CD-ROMs, forget it. Is there anything I can do, or do I have to buy an IBM and forget about the Macin- tosh platform altogether? Well, you could always buy a Mac and forget altogether about the PC platform... . ‘Jim Heid, Macworld’s multimedia expert, responds: If you want to create Windows titles with Macromedia Director, you must indeed buy a Windows machine and the Windows version of Director. You can develop Windows titles using the Mac versions of Apple Media Tool and mTropolis’s mFactory—but it's still a good idea to have a Windows machine on hand to test your project as it comes together. As for just buying a Windows machine and ‘forgetting about the Mac platform, that’s cer- tainly an option, although it’s one that will cost ‘you in sales. Macintosh owners are more likely to buy CD-ROMs than are people on the Win- dows side, where installation and compatibility hassles are common. Multimedia Notes N YOUR RECENT ARTICLE ABOUT QuickDraw 3D (“The Mac’s 3-D Edge,” August 1996), you neglected to mention the QuickDraw 3D Web site at dttp://quickdraw3d.apple.com. This site lists scores of vendors that support QD3D and provides about 20 demo applications for QD3D. It also talks about future plans for Windows, integration with Quick- ‘Time, and the relationship to VRML 2.0, and even has a gallery of QD3D work for people to contribute to. Tony DEYoune via the Internet JUST READ JIM HEID'S ARTICLE ON multimedia applications (“Multimedia Options Multiply,” August 1996) and was horrified to notice that you did not include HyperCard. HyperCard is the multimedia tool for me, not only for my shareware stuff but also for my daily teaching. Though HyperCard is in dire need of an update, it is still a competitor. T’'m not asking that you give Hyper- Card a glowing, this-is-the-greatest- program-ever review. Frankly, Hyper- Card doesn’t currently deserve it. But it does deserve to be counted among its peers in your article about multimedia authoring software, Eric M. HOLSEN North Mankato, Minnesota The Mac Isn't Fine without CAD “Y HARLES SEITER INCORRECTLY CON- Acludes that “Mac CAD Does Fine without AutoCAD” (News, August 1996) by simply ignoring the mechanical CAD application and basing his conclusion on interviews with design firms that use the Mac for CAD, The reality is that large architectural firms are standardizing on Windows 95 and NT operating systems. Lack of the latest AutoCAD version on the Mac only serves as further justifica~ tion for their OS strategy. Apple and the Macintosh CAD devel- oper community deserve to compete on a level field when it comes to selecting a platform. When the leading CAD prod- uct is not available, Mac faces an uphill battle. There is certainly need for concern. Nei KLeINMAN Tarzana, California Reminds Me of Paul Simon READ YOUR REVIEW OF THE KODAK Digital Science DC50 Zoom Camera (Reviews, July 1996), and T would like to know: Is that really a white alligator? Where is it? 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Windows i a trademark of Microsoft 290-8050, Circle 46 onreader service card State of the Mac New Road Ahead for the Macintosh RECENT DEVELOPMENTS ARE CHANGING THE MAC LANDSCAPE HE MAC MARKET HAS been pretty sleepy since the Worldwide Devel- opers Conference in early May. No major announcements from Apple other than con- tinued changes in the executive team and the absence of PowerBooks; no major prod- uct announcements outside of Apple, either. The entire Mac world has seemed to be in sleep mode. Suddenly, though, things are getting interesting. Events have occurred that will permanently change the Mac land- scape and lead to significant new product developments. As I see it, these events fall into a few important areas: computers, system software, and media and graphics. This overview will help put them into context. When you're ready for more, dive into this month’s special report, “OS Essentials.” The Bit-by-Bit OS ‘The biggest development is Apple’s sys- tem-software upgrade schedule. Apple will no longer provide a single major release of its operating system, but will instead offer a series of updates every six months. What used to be code names for full-integer system releases—Copland and Gershwin—now refer only to collec- tions of the technology well Apple will draw upon to incrementally release new system functionality (see “Mac OS 8: Back to Square One,” this issue). According to Ellen Hancock, Apple’s new vice president of research and devel- opment, chief technology officer, and the principal architect of the new policy, Apple is considering a subscription pric- ing scheme. We may have to buy system releases incorporating major new fea- tures, though not releases for collections of bug-fixes and minor enhancements. Hancock acknowledged that Apple must keep its developers apprised so that they can make product and marketing plans that take advantage of advances in the Mac OS. And Hancock says she’s committed to Apple’s doing just that. While Apple has a new course for the Mac OS, OpenDoc is picking up steam. At Macworld Expo, Apple introduced version 1.1 of its component technology, and 16 companies introduced new Open- Doc parts—now called Live Objects— and containers (still called containers). Apple will make sure OpenDoc works with both Windows and Java so develop- ers will be more likely to support it (see “OS Essentials: OpenDoc Finally Gets Tangible,” this issue). ‘The good news is that you can use a variety of parts and get a real feel for the technology. See what it’s like to add fea~ tures to the application without the mem- ory and storage overhead you’ve come to expect from monolithic applications like Word 6. It’s also good news to a new class of developers who have interesting ideas for adding value to existing applications. Blazingly Fast Computers Aslew of new computers were announced at and around Macworld Expo—not just by Adrian Mello from Apple, but clones as well. The biggest trend is speed. Faster PowerPC chips are enabling computer makers to ratchet up performance significantly. ‘The brightest lightning flashes came from Power Computing’s new high-speed PowerTower Pro series in 180MHz, 200MHz, and 225MHz versions. With real lightning, if you count the seconds to the thunderclap, you can predict how far away the storm is. In Power's case, count ona few miles: the higher-speed 200MHz and 225MHz versions aren’t available yet (see “Systems Watch,” News, this issue). Apple has bumped up the speed of several of its models. You can now buy a 200MHz version of the 9500 as well as a version with two 180MHz proces- sors. This first dual-processor Mac uses DayStar’s nPower 360+ card; the card will also be available for other Apple, Power Computing, and Umax SuperMac models. IBM, Motorola, and Ap- ple announced plans for faster versions of the PowerPC mi- croprocessor code-named the G3 and G4 series. The current 603e and 604¢ will eventually attain speeds above 300MHz. The G3’s, available in 1997, will be even faster. The G4's, planned for 1998, will be faster yet, clocking speeds up to 500MHz (see “Blindingly Fast Chips,” News, this issue). News for the Value-Conscious Several computers were announced that offer more performance at a better price. Apple’s new Performa 6400 is faster than most previous Power Macs, and starts around $2400 (see Reviews, this issue). Power Computing’s PowerBase series is based on the fast 603e PowerPC chip and should be available as you read this for roughly $1500 to $2200. Umax’s con- continues www.macworld.com November 1996 27 STATE OF THE MAC sumer-oriented line, based on the 603e, is due in early fall for less than $2000. Still dealing with PowerBook 5300 shortages, Apple plans to discontinue the 5300c. But its new notebooks, code- named Epic and Hooper, are rumored to be on track. Power Computing intends to produce notebooks, but we'll have to wait until early next year for specifics. Motorola is also entering the fray. In a Macworld exclusive, we test the new Motorola StarMax system, which pro- vides excellent performance at what promises to be an excellent price (see “Motorola’s Hot New Macs,” this issue.) The Tanzania motherboard provides improved performance and an interim transition to the Common Hardware Ref- erence Platform (CHRP). As CHRP be- comes a reality, we should have even more choices. IBM and Motorola both demon- strated CHRP systems at Macworld Expo, and Apple expects to have a ver- sion of the Mac OS ready for CHRP. 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Macworld Expo attendees saw new ver- sions of Deneba Canvas and CorelDraw; Seybold visitors saw new versions of Macromedia FreeHand and Adobe Photoshop, PageMaker, and Persuasion, to name a few (see News, in this issue, for details), There was equally big 3-D and multimedia news. Let's start with 3-D. Apple’s decision to go directly to QuickDraw 3D version 1.5 (it should be available in late September) will no doubt please 3-D artists. QD3D 1.5 will be faster, will support painting on 3-D ob- jects, and is also being optimized for the new multiprocessing systems. For those high-end folks, version 1.5 will permit them to plug in their choice of renderers. Graphics applications are gaining speed and of use, if Fractal Detailer is an indicator, Users can render 3-D objects by painting on them as easily as they paint in two dimensions (see “Work- station Graphics on the Desktop,” News, th e). New, speedier versi ’s Infini-D and Strata $ also offer improved rendering and pro- fessional features. On the media front, Apple now in- cludes QuickDraw 3D as part of its QuickTime Media Layer (QTML), along with QuickTime VR, QuickTime Con- ferencing, and QuickTime 2.5. Quick- Time 2.5 supports multiprocessing and placing QD3D objects in QuickTime e : QuickTime Media Layer”). Apple looks s about pushing QuickTime as a s-platform standard, which in the long run could provide more leverage for Apple and the Mac, and that’s good news for all Macintosh users. No Time Like the Present Other developments in recent weeks also change the Mac’ direction. Internet prod- ucts such as Claris Home Page and the new version of PageMill continue to appear. ‘The fundamental networking architecture supporting the Mac’s growth on the Net is also changing (see “OS Essentials: Open Transport,” and other Internet-related sto- ries in News, this issue). 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I’m out of here. 6 ppm: The Xerox MajestikK 5765 Digital Color Copier/Printer 9ppm: The Xerox Regal 5790 Digital Color Copier/Printer 40 ppm: The new Xerox DocuColor 40 Digital Color Production System You demand color that's sharp, fast, and consistent. Now Xerox has more ways to meet those demands. The Regal Color Copier/Printer handles transparencies, duplex copies and heavyweight coated stock. You can colorize originals and print Pantone licensed colors. Configured with EFI Fiery, Colorbus Cyclone or Splash color servers, you can print from a PC or a MAC network. In fact, no one has more certified front ends to fit your fey NOVEMBER 1996 CHRP Moves Closer to Reality APPLE, MOTOROLA, AND IBM SHOW OFF PROTOTYPE SYSTEMS by Galen Gruman ong promised but now closer to reality: at the recent Macworld Expo, IBM and Motorola demonstrated their re- spective systems to run both the Mac OS and Windows NT. And Apple demonstrated a working prototype of a Common Hardware Refer- ence Platform (CHRP) system that ran the Macintosh OS and included PC-style paral- lel, serial, and infrared ports running, respectively, a stan- dard PC parallel printer, a PS/2 serial mouse, and an in- frared serial keyboard. One System, Two OSs Motorola displayed its Viper motherboard, which it will use in forthcoming CHRP Mac and Windows NT systems and sell to other systems mak- ers. Viper has ADB, PS/2 ser- ial, EIDE, and SCSI-2 ports, so it can handle both Mac and PC peripherals. IBM showed off its similar Long Trail motherboard. IBM and Motorola both demonstrated how their CHRP 34 November 1996 motherboards let users switch between the Macintosh OS and Windows NT. When you start up (or restart), you get a screen with buttons for Win- dows NT and the Mac OS; the screen and its buttons are part of the Open Firmware ROM that the CHRP specification uses. Both companies touted the new release of Windows NT 4.0 for PowerPC, which they demonstrated running Microsoft Excel. Then they MACWORLD rebooted their CHRP systems to run Fractal Design Painter under the Mac OS. Apple's Mac Focus Apple’s prototype system, code-named Opus, is not a dual-boot sys- tem; instead, it is a Mac-spe- cific system based on CHRP. Apple’s engineering manager for CHRP, Mike Bell, said that today’s Mac programs would run unmodified on a CHRP- based Mac. To prove it he ran ClarisWorks 4.0, loading the AM Samencc er maw. A se communications component, and demonstrated that the communications dialog box shows two new ports—the PC’s standard COMI and COM2—in addition to the Mac’s standard Modem Port and Printer Port. Bell said the January update to System 7.5, code- named Harmony, should run fine on CHRP Macs as well, since the changes to support continues on page 42 RICHARD DOWNS Brave New Driver LASERWRITER 8.4 OFFERS A NEW INTERFACE, ONE-PASS PRINTING by Anita Epler sers of LaserWriter 8.4 will immediately notice a dramatic new look in Apples (408/ 996-1010, bttp://www .info.apple.com) latest. printer driver. But its enhancements are more than simply cosmetic. When LaserWriter 8.0 de- buted, it didn’t take long for Apple customers to cry foul over the so-called innovation of two-pass background print- ing. Unlike older versions of Apple’s printer driver, Laser- Writer 8.0 first spooled print jobs to your hard drive, then streamed the data to the printer as a second step. This reduced the time required to return control to the application, but you needed twice the hard drive space to spool files in this fashion. In environments where file sizes are measured in hun- dreds of megabytes, such as ser- vice bureaus, this was no small sacrifice. Most shops opted to turn background printing off to avoid the disk crunch. LaserWriter 8.4’ biggest news is the elimination of this two-pass method. In addition, nearly all of the driver has been converted to PowerPC- native code. But you probably won’t see major improvements in overall speed, despite pre- dictions of Apple engineers at May’s Worldwide Developer Conference, who promised performance boosts of 25 to 35 percent over previous versions. Apple’s claims are now more modest. “We’ve seen that [LaserWriter 8.4] provides dif- ferent results based on differ- ent test suites,” says Ken Fee- han, Apple’s product line man- ager for laser printers. “The more complex a document is, the more likely people are to see the benefits of native code.” ‘The new driver also features an enhanced user interface that allows you to switch be- tween like devices (for example, from one monochrome laser to another) within the dialog box, without having to cancel your print job and go to the Chooser. Other improvements include the ability to set layout options (such as 2-up or 4-up printing) within the Print dia- log, and the relocation of print- er- and application-specific op- tions to their own screens, ac- cessible via a drop-down menu in the Print dialog’s main window. LaserWriter 8.4 also re- quires that you adopt Apple’s new desktop-printer scheme for managing output devices; the old PrintMonitor is gone. How- ever, thanks to LaserWriter 8.45 companion software, Desktop Printing 2.0, desktop printers can now reside in any folder, not just on the desktop. LaserWriter 8.4, currently shipping only with the Laser- Writer 12/640 PS (see Reviews, October 1996), is available for download from Apple (Attp:// www.info.apple.com/swupdates/). Feehan won't comment on when the new driver will be available for mass distribution, but says it will likely be some- time in the fall. Workstation Graphics on the Desktop NEW MAC APPLICATIONS EMERGE AT SIGGRAPH by Cathy Abes his year’s Siggraph conference in New Orleans was dominat- ed by the usual devel- opers of Silicon Graph- ics products, along with Microsoft pushing Windows Alps Joins Scanner, Printer SMEAR-PROOF PRINTS AND METALLIC INKS Alps Electric (408/ 432-6000, hetp:// www.alpsusa.com) is planning to release the $699 MD-4000 4000 stands for Mi- cro Dry inks, which promise printing that g 3 3 is sun- and waterproof on any kind of paper. The inks come in metallic gold and silver, as well as the usual blue, red, yellow, and black. The MD-4000 also functions as a 24-bit ‘scanner and handles images up to 8 by 11 inches. ‘The 600-dpi QuickDraw printer was expected to ship by the end of October. A model without a scanner, the MD-2010, should already be available for $499.— suZANNE COURTEAU NT as the high-end graphics platform. Still, a number of Macintosh products were shown, ranging from 3-D modeling, rendering, and ani- mation to video painting and compositing to virtual reality applications. Powerful Rendering and Animation LightWave 3D 5.0, from NewTek (913/228- 8000, bttp://www.newtek.com), is finally coming to the Power Mac. The $1495 package, slat- ed for October release, offers broadcast-quality modeling, rendering, and animation ca- pabilities and will support QuickDraw 3D for viewing changes to graphic objects in real time. Macintosh users will have access to such profes- sional-level features as full ray tracing, depth of field, motion blur, and variable lens settings. Other new features include MetaNURBS, which allows real-time transformations be- tween polygons and splines to create organic 3-D objects, and MetaBalls, which uses spheres to approximate com- plex shapes and transform the rough shapes into complex 3-D objects. Also migrating from Sili- con Graphics workstations— and supporting QuickDraw 3D—is Vertigo 3D, from Ver- tigo Technology (604/684- 2113, bttp://www.vertigo3D.com). Designed to ease the transition from 2-D to 3-D graphics, Vertigo incorporates Pixar's RenderMan renderer. Through its use of the QuickDraw 3D plug-in rendering architec- ture, it will also support other rendering packages such as LightWorks (see below). Fea- continues www.macworld.com November 1996 35 tures include Phong-shaded previews, deformation lattices, effectors (plug-ins that gen- erate effects such as waves, wind, and noise), hierarchical keyframing, and animatable shaders. You can drag and drop objects into a scene, change an object’s contours by dragging any control point, and even drag shaders onto objects. Vertigo’s Orbit win- dow lets you move or rotate an object by moving the cursor around the window. For $800, you get a Mac-based program that can exchange data with— and has all the functionality of—its $5000 Silicon Graphics sibling, while the company promises the next Mac version will have more. Future fea- tures will include capabilities such as moving text along a path, rotating text, changing letterspacing, and mapping text around an ellipse. LightWorks, from Light- Work Design (44 114 266 8404, bttp://aww.lightwork.com), is a photo-realistic renderer tool kit that’s currently avail- able only to other developers of 3-D software. However, the company is working with Apple to package LightWorks as a plug-in ren- derer for QuickDraw 3D 1.5 Longer bars are better. Results are times as fast as a Centris 650 (Centris 650 = 4.0). Products are listed in decreasing order of overall performance. Umax SuperMac $900 604/250° ===> 9.6 Power Computing PowerTower Pro 225 ===> 9.2 Umax SuperMac $900 604/225" ——=—=—=—=—=5-8.8 Power Computing PowerTower Pro 200 —t=—=—=—=—=—— 8.5 Umax SuperMac 5900 604/200 Apple Power Macintosh 950/200 — == 7.7 Apple Power Macintosh 500/180 ———====3-—67 “Prototype system. 36 November 1996 ISDN for PowerBooks SCIl OFFERS. PCMCIA CARD If you're on the road and a 28.8-Kbps modem doesn’t cut it for your file-transmission needs, consider ExpresSO PCMCIA, a $495 ISDN card from SCii Telecom (813/562- 5971, http:llwww.sciitelecom.com) that works with Apple Computer's PowerBook. The card supports ISDN Basic access, consisting of two B channels at 64 Kbps plus a D {a release date is still to be determined). Video and 3-D Painting Iluminaire, from Denim Soft- ware (310/618-9700), is actu- ally two programs, Illuminaire Paint and Illuminaire Compo- sition, that can be bought sep- arately ($795 each) or together ($1395). The former, an object-based painting applica- tion, provides more than 30 draw modes, including smooth, blur, emboss, dodge/burn, tint, and posterize. You can change the order in which paint strokes and filters are applied to produce different results. channel at 16 Kbps. Mac PPP and TCP drivers are included. OF course, you'll also need an ISDN connection from the local tele- phone company. — STEPHEN BEALE Illuminaire Composition offers 3-D compositing of film clips and still images. Both packages support Adobe Photoshop and After Effects plug-ins. Version 1.5 of MeshPaint 3D, from Positron (402/365- 1002, bttp:/) -3dgraphics .com), allows animators to cre- ate texture maps by painting directly on 3-D surfaces. New features in the $600 package include VRML support, a clone tool, and a Chroma- Stripper mode for removing color as you paint. VRCreator, from VReam (312/477-0425, bttp://oww.vream.com), is a vir- Umax Pulls Ahead of Power Computing ‘Armed with the latest and fastest PowerPC 604e 250MHz CPU, the prototype Umax ‘SuperMac $900 604/250 was able to outrun a 225MHz Power. Computing PowerTower Pro despite having a smaller cache (512K versus 1MB). However, the 225MHz version Of the SuperMac $900 was slower than the 225MHz PowerTower Pro. Expect to see 250MHz 604e-based systems from Power Computing and DayStar this fal. For details (on our tests, see “The New Speed Champs,” by Mark Harlow ‘Overall Score CPU-Intensive === 56 —— od == 29 —————— re ——— red —75 = >— 66 Indicates perfor- ‘mance for most business and person- al tasks. = 83 ldicates typical per= formance in a mixed- use environment, such as a company ‘or school MACWORLD July 1996 —Macworld Lab testing supervised FPU-Intensive = 143 = 134 S28 —-127 20 S221 —==— 103 Indicates perfor- mance for analytical, 3-D. and other tual reality authoring tool that supports VRML and Java to let you create interactive virtu- al worlds on the Web. For accelerated rendering, GreenICE, from ICE (617/ 768-2300, bttp://www.iced.com), combines a Mac with an ICE 16-processor rendering engine. The product’ pricing begins at less than $15,000; the sys- tem is due by year’ end. ‘The Thunder 3D graphics card, from Radius (408/541- 6100, hitp:/Avww.radius.com), is designed to accelerate Quick- Draw 3D applications and increase frame-rate perfor- mance; it supports enhanced resolutions and a 30-bit color palette. Prices begin at $4499. Is There Life after JPEG? VENDORS PROMOTE WAVELET COMPRESSION AS NEW STANDARD by Stephen Beale PEG has always been an imperfect solution for compressing still color images. Estab- lished as an accredited industry standard by the International Standards Orga- nization (ISO), JPEG uses a lossy compression algorithm in which small amounts of data are thrown away as part of the compression process. The more you compress the image, the more data gets thrown out, eventually result- ing in artifacts and lost detail. Nevertheless, JPEG has be- come the dominant format for still-image compression. It’s built into QuickTime and Adobe Photoshop, and is a popular format for displaying images on the Web. Several vendors are now ous Ross promoting alternative com- pression schemes as potential replacements for the discrete cosine transform (DCT) tech- nology currently used in JPEG. Most are based on a technology known as wavelet scalar quantization (WSQ), originally developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory for the FBI as a method of storing and transmitting fin- gerprint data. Like DCT, WSQ is a lossy technique, but there’s generally less of a trade-off between the compression ratio and image detail. Wavelet vendors say you can squeeze the picture about twice as much as with JPEG to get the same level of quality. ‘Two companies offering Mac-based wavelet-compres- sion products are Lizard’Tech (206/728-8120, http://www Jizardtech.com) and Aware (617/ 276-4000, bttp://www.aware -com). Both vendors have con- nections to the original WSQ development effort: Aware’s technology is a direct imple- mentation of the FBI finger- print standard, while Lizard- Tech’s software was written by the same programmers who created the original WSQ algorithms. LizardTech plans to offer wavelet compression through a product called MrSID, which is primarily targeted at the geographic information systems market. The compa- ny claims that you can com- press a color image at ratios up to 100:1 with no dis- cernible loss of quality. The | News software has three compo- nents: a compiler-compressor, a distributed image-database server, and a viewer-decom- pressor. A Netscape plug-in version of the viewer is cur- rently available free from the LizardTech Web site, which also includes sample com- pressed images. Pricing for MrSID itself has not been announced. Aware’s technology is im- plemented in the form of AccuPress, a $395 Photoshop plug-in that was introduced last February. You can com- press the image at any ratio between 4:1 and 150:1 using Photoshop’s Save As function. The package also includes a viewer that allows you to read AccuPress images. Like Lizard- ‘Tech, Aware plans to offer a free version of the viewer as a Netscape plug-in. The primary obstacle to acceptance of wavelet com- pression is a lack of standards: images compressed with one vendor's product cannot be decompressed with software from competing companies. None of the wavelet ven- dors is big enough to establish its technology as a de facto standard, leaving them with two choices: get a major ven- dor like Apple or Adobe Sys- tems to endorse their format, or get a standard-setting body such as the ISO to establish wavelets as an accredited industry standard. Greg Gilley, director of engineering for imaging and video for Adobe, says that any WSQ implementation would have to be in the pub- lic domain—if not actually accredited—for Adobe to adopt it. There would also have to be widely available tools for working with the format. However, he sees WSQ as the most likely suc- cessor to JPEG, and expects the technology will be adopt- ed more widely in the next year or so. FreeHand 7 Leapfrogs Illustrator BY SANDEE COHEN Just one year after FreeHand 5.5 debuted, Macromedia (415/ 252-2000, http://wew.macromedia.com) is about to release a major upgrade. But in keeping with its aggressive strategy, the company has decided to skip over 6 and go directly to version 7. It's hard to say who will be more impressed, FreeHand or Adobe Illustrator users. ‘One advantage illustrator has always had over FreeHand is its synergy with Adobe Photoshop. But with FreeHand 7, Macromedia has eliminated this issue. Drag and drop works seamlessly in both directions, and you can paste FreeHand objects into Photoshop as pixels or paths. You'll find a few new lllustrator-like Xtras such as Roughen, Bend (like Punk and Bloat), and Envelope (like Free Distort), as well ‘as a chart tool to make basic charts and graphs. Unlike with Illustra- tor, this chart tool has an Apply button that makes it much easier to ‘see how each setting changes the chart’s look. Any illustrator user who has found FreeHand’s control handles dlunky will appreciate the new setting for smaller handles that look al- most identical to illustrators. And like llustrator, FreeHand 7 can color the handles for each layer, making it much easier to select and modify objects. But don't get the idea that FreeHand 7 is just playing catch- up with Illustrator. it has leaped way ahead by allowing blends be- tween spot colors and between objects filled with gradients. It also lets you take two blended objects and join them to a path. This, combined with FreeHand’s live blends—the ability to modify a blend “on screen by adjusting | the original objects— | gives FreeHand the most powerful set of blend tools anywhere. In addition to woo- ing tllustrator users, the new version will be a boon for FreeHand users. For example, instead of 26 variations of the Inspector Palette, there are now 5 tabbed palettes that can be merged like those in Photoshop or docked so they move together. Fretiand teat had sophisticated object and text styles, but version 7's new Graphic Search and Replace goes FreeHand 7 can combine blends on a path. "further. You can search for object attributes—such as colors, stroke widths, even object shapes—and replace them with new attributes. Illustrator’s Select filters don’t even come close. In spite of these significant enhancements, the jumpin version number from 5.5 to 7 seems alittle steep. Is Macromedia playing a. numbers game with Adobe? It will be interesting to see how Adobe responds with the next version of Illustrator. www.macworld.com November 1996 37 Special REPORT [ Hews Adobe Rebuilds Graphics Powerhouses UNVEILS MAKEOVERS FOR PAGEMAKER, PHOTOSHOP, AND PERSUASION The latest versions of Photo- shop, PageMaker, and Persuasion feature new interfaces and offer enhanced Internet publishing features. But will they help Adobe maintain its dominant position in the Mac graphics market? Macworld answers the question in this special report. PageMaker 6.5 Goes for the Jugular by Galen Gruman ust a year ago, Adobe Systems (206/622-5500, http://www .adobe.com) brought us PageMaker 6.0, boasting of color- management and master-page features meant to attack QuarkXPress on its own turf. Now Adobe has turned up the heat, adopting a key Quark- XPress layout approach—the use of boxes to hold text and graphics for structure layouts tures to PageMaker 6.5, which is due to ship in November for $895. Up- grades will cost just $99. (Quark hasn’t revised the Mac market leader XPress since 1993, although version 4.0 is expected next spring.) Boxes Arrive The adoption of boxes to hold elements marks the end of a ten-year resistance to this idea, which has been a hall- mark of all other leading page layouts through the decade. I find this technique to be much more flexible than PageMaker’s traditional ap- proach, especially when mod- ifying a design. And I’m happy to see Adobe outbox the competition: rather than have separate PageMaker 6.5 adds new Web-publishing capa- bilities, as well as interface refinements to better match the look and feel of Photoshop 3.0. (you can still use the original PageMaker column-by-col- umn placement approach). It is also staking a claim on Internet publishing by adding a raft of Web-oriented fea- 38 November 1996 types of boxes for text and pictures, PageMaker has sim- ply one box in which you can place anything. Howev- er, Adobe is miss- ing a key rationale for boxes: multi- column text. Page- Maker 6.55 boxes contain only one column, so you can’t use them easily to con- vert a layout from, say, two to three columns. Adobe continues its re- lentless campaign to make all its programs—most, like Page- MACWORLD Maker, acquired from other companies—share similar ap- proaches and interfaces. That means PageMaker gets the tabbed palettes of Photoshop 3.0 and the ability to have multiple layers on a page— the electronic equivalent of paper overlays. The multiple layers allow PageMaker users to create documents that contain mul- tiple versions—you might have a layer for text in dif- ferent languages, for exam- ple, or separate layers for Web and print graphics. By selecting the layers for out- put, you create a version of the document for a specific medium or reader. This is the kind of feature whose power will not be obvious to you at first but over time will be- come a must-have. New Plug-in Scheme Another significant interface change is in how plug-ins, formerly called Additions, are managed. Plug-ins are no longer confined to a menu list, so developers can now create them so they reside in any menu, dialog box, or palette—just as QuarkXPress’s XTensions can. This means you'll be able to access added functionality where you'd expect to use it. While competitor Quark has focused on creating an XPress add-on called Imme- dia to produce multimedia doc- uments (see “Immedia Makes QuarkXPress Interactive,” News, August 1996), Adobe has extended PageMaker to the Web. The previous ver- sion had rudimentary HTML export, but the new version really aims at the Web. The HTML export now handles most HTML 3.2 fea- tures, including frames. And Page- Maker now auto- matically converts graphics to JPEG and GIF formats when exporting for the Web. You can also create hyper- links in your docu- ment, including those to URLs. A year ago, I thought Page- Maker 6.0 was a necessary but not awe-inspiring upgrade. This year, Adobe Systems is on its way to hitting a home run with PageMaker 6.5, if the final version delivers on the prototype’s promise. Photoshop 4.0 Delivers New Interface by Cathy Abes hotoshop 4.0 is bound to stir controversy among veteran Photo- shop users, since its redesigned interface will necessitate significant re- learning. However, once you continues ous Ross THE INTERNET'S Most POWERFUL E-MAIL SOFTWARE STRIKES AGAIN. eg Ns Ne INTRODUCING EUDORA PRO™ 3.0. With 10 million users, Eudora” products have made a huge impact on the Internet. And now phone and fax numbers. You can even stylize text to make messages look like word-processed documents. And since Eudora Pro 3.0 is there’s something even more powerful: Eudora Pro 3.0, written to official Internet standards. so easy to use, switching your company’s e-mail software is a breeze. To find out more, just call 1-800-2-EUDORA, ext. 86098. 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Eudora is a registered trademark of the University of Board of Trustees licensed to QUALCOMM Incorporated. All other trademarks are proparty of their respective 0} Circle 22 on reader service card get used to the many reshuf- fled keyboard commands, such as those for Clone and Deselect, you can turn your attention to some major enhancements. New Palettes ‘Two new palettes add useful functions: the Navigator palette provides flexible zooming and panning, an improvement over 3.0’ preset zoom levels, while the Actions palette offers task automation and batch processing—you can record your editing steps, reorder them, disable selected ones, and play them back on any number of files. User- definable guides and grids provide precision alignment. Another useful interface en- hancement is control-drag, which pops up a menu of common operations related to whatever tool is selected. Adobe’s commitment to layers is evident in its addition of Live Picture-style adjust- ment layers, which act as masks through which filters and other effects can be applied to underlying image layers. Thus, an adjustment layer can be changed repeat- edly without altering the image permanently. However, aficionados of floating selec- tions may be disconcerted to find that such operations as applying a filter or adding text create a new layer rather than a floating selection. 40 November 1996 Photoshop 4's new Navigator palette lets | News Improved Distortions Transformations have also been enhanced. The new Free ‘Transform command lets you apply multiple distortions— such as scale, skew, and rotate—to an image in one step, simplifying complex manipulations and reducing image degradation. And the ability to specify numeric transformations lets you edit images with more precision. Users who prefer not to install a slew of third-party fil- ters will be pleased with the 48 new effects filters that have been add- ed to 4.0, including Adobe Gallery Ef- fects. Another new feature is Image- marc, software by Digimare that em- beds visually imper- ceptible watermarks throughout an im- age that are still readable even after the image is edited, printed, or re- scanned. When you open a watermarked image in Photoshop, the program indi- cates the presence of copy- right information and pro- vides a link to the copyright owner's Web site. you zoom in on a large image, while the Actions palette permits task automation and batch processing. Web Format Support Like every other application these days, Photoshop has added Web-related features. Tr supports Portable Network Graphics (PNG) and Pro- gressive JPEG, and lets you save Acrobat PDF files. For those who are hungering for more speed, Photoshop sup- ports symmetric multipro- cessing on Macintoshes with multiple processors. Expected to ship by November, Photoshop 4.0 will retail for $895. It will in- clude an interactive tuto- rial, stock photos, sample plug-ins, a digital gallery, and demo versions of other Adobe software. MACWORLD Web Features Add Life to Persuasion by Stephen Beale dobe Persuasion has long been among the leading programs for design and production of 35mm slide presen- tations. But as fewer people use 35mm slides, developers have transformed their pack- ages into tools for on-screen presentations, adding what are essentially interactive multi- media functions. Now, given the industrywide push toward Internet publishing, it should be no surprise that Adobe has made the World Wide Web a focal point for Persuasion 4.0. Internet Retrofit Irs an alluring concept: take a self-running presentation and put it on the Web. Persuasion 4.0 offers several tools for doing so: import filters for GIF and JPEG, Web-page autotem- plates, and the abili- ty to drag and drop URLs from a Web browser to a slide. However, instead of generating HTML code for the Web page, Persuasion 4.0 produces an Acrobat PDF file using Ac- robat Distiller. This less-than-ideal solution makes Persuasion’s Web support look more like a retrofit than an inte- gral part of the software.