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editor's note
Now that this is done, I’m going back to playing Unreal.
verybody has their favorite apptica- Staff Rants
tions. Sometimes apps are your T
avec eu palatal reac es Pp 10 in our series—and this time
editor
in “ClarisWorks keeps my Mac free
from Microsoft.” Sometimes you like a pro- ste nersonel.
gram for its functionality—for example,
“MacInTax saved me $500 last year.” ‘
Sometimes you just like an app because it’s a Lunchy Executive Editor
GOT YOUR so dang cool: “Look at my little stick man
OWN LIST of dance, thanks to Flash.”
lester What exactly makes a great application ‘A. Probably Starcraft-~at least that's where I've
Spell ‘em out at is a tough bug to pin down. Some applica- wasted the most time,
muiwew tions just seem to be designed really well— “
smaceddichcom in, easy to find what you need, and they
a work intuitively. Others perform specific
functions that no other app does just right. A. It's a toss-up between Word 6 and an
Some are simply legacy apps—everyone GOATEES are so early 90s! obscure QuarkXPress XTension that made a
uses them, so you do, too. typesetter spew 63 feet of very expensive film at
In the quest for just what makes a great application, I made two lists: one of the newspaper | used to work for.
completely functional programs I feel every Mac user should own and learn to use
in order to get the most out of their machine, and the other of applications that, in
my experience, are the coolest, most elegant, best-put-together pieces of software.
‘TOP 10 MUST-HAVE APPLICATIONS TOP 10 COOLEST APPLICATIONS —_}
1. Microsoft Word 1. Macromedia Flash A. Photoshop. Anything that lets me manipulate
2. Adobe Photoshop 2. Adobe Photoshop pictures of my enemies, my ex-boyfriends, my
3, MicroMat TechTool Pro 8. Adobe Illustrator boss (um, just kidding) is, as Martha Stewart
4. FileMaker Pro. 4. Apple Final Cut Pro says, a good thing,
——=—=—=—j 5. Bare Bones Software BBEdit 5. Steinberg Cubase VST
6. Apple QuickTime Pro 6. Adobe After Effects
7. Aladdin Systems Stuffit Deluxe 7. QuarkXPress
8. Casady & Greene SoundJam MP 8. Macromedia Dreamweaver A. Microsoft Word 6 was pretty much the most
9, Intuit Quicken Deluxe 9. Real Software RealBasic unintuitive, annoying, useless, sucky program
10. Microsoft Excel 10. Metrowerks Code Warrior ever. Well, maybe not useless, since technically
lused it every day—but whatever.
Only one product made both listt—Photoshop, which is not only powerful but
also sets the standard for elegant interface design. It’s relatively easy to figure out
and use, yet it’s so deep that very few people know all its secrets. Photoshop comes
in wildly handy. You can correct color, optimize Web Rubber Ducky
images, make digital art, fake photographs, and perform a
thousand other tasks. It’s also the most expensive applica-
tion I would definitively say every Mac owner should buy. A. Word—with all of David
And you know what? Nobody—not a single person—at Reynold’s suggested fixes, and only with those
MacAddict disagrees with me on that point. fixes. A blank page inspires writer’s block, which
Several other applications that almost made both lists presents a good excuse to buy a Twix.
suffered from one malady or another that kept them from making the cut.
Examples include BBEdit, a highly useful tool with a very limited scope, and
QuarkXPress, a revolutionary page layout app, but pricey and a bit esoteric. Other
applications such as Word—a must-have, but bloated and clunky—clearly belong A. Acrobat. An evil manager made me learn the
in one category, but didn’t even approach the other. Great apps combine the qual- program and format a CD interface with it in five
ities of tools you love to use and those you must have from a practical standpoint. days...in the snow...uphill both ways.
Great applications make an impact on the person using them.—RC
12 MacADDICT MAY/00 .
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Ice, Ice, Baby
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—Marwr Sor
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OK, MAX...take the soup bowl off your head.
Let’s get you sobered up.
Tvve been a loyal subscriber to MacAddict ever
since I picked up the premier issue at the
newsstand, and I love what you guys do. You
made an interesting choice to interview Ice-T,
and for the most part it was really good. But I
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to plug his porno, drugs, and guns Web site
directly. While I'm sure you edited out a lot, it
seems like poor judgment to include this stuff.
It puts your magazine in a very poor light,
particularly since the interviewer laughed at
the plug, as if it was no big deal for anyone of
any age to hear or to visit the site,
I still appreciate the innovative approach
MacAddict has had since the first issue,
including your attempt to interview folks like
Ice-T, I hope in the future you use better
judgment in determining what is necessary
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view. It was better than almost any staff
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Mac Is REALLY
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MacDappy
I received an old Macintosh Color Classic
from a friend some time back. It was
tunning System 7.0, so I decided to
upgrade to 7.5.3, which helpfully
appeared on The Disc a while ago.
Well, I finally transferred all the
stuff over to the Mac and began
installation. About 20 minutes
later, I checked on it. What I saw
was rather amusing. Below the
status bar appeared these words:
“Making your Macintosh happy.”
‘What's going on here? Was the installation
program carrying my Mac to bed and putting
on some soothing Barry White while dim-
ming the lights)—Parrick JoHNson-WHITTY
12OR Was
Tuat 24 Days?
After visiting a buddy's Web page, I read
“Zero to Hero in 24 Hours” (Feb/00, p26)
by David “Mad Dog” Reynolds. I embarked
on my own project using a scanner, PageMill,
Photoshop, Canvas, and GraphicConverter
(from The Disc). Three days later, after a
six-hour upload (I found out with Fetch that
HTML strictly forbids several keystrokes in
the titles of some of my files), I had a Web
page. I also had a deep concern about
Reynolds’ meds and an intense desire to
throttle the man.
However, now that the caffeine has
worn off, I see that if it hadn’t been for
Dave's deluded concept of time and my
blind faith, 1 wouldn't be a member of the
growing World Wide Web. Thanks, guys,
for the best computer-zine for freaks, by
freaks.—Larry PausBAck
D’Oun
Thanks to your article “Hardware Hack from
Hell” (Get Info, Feb/00, p23), I avoided mak-
ing the same mistake as your executive editor
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PowerBook G3 also jammed, or at least it
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With a small flashlight, I took a close
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extends from the door to the case interior,
and the other positioned at the bottom,
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Since the resistance to closing the door
came from the side with the bottom wire, I
figured that one must be the culprit. I used
the eye of a large sewing needle to hold the
spring and moved the wire over the top of
the arm to the outside. The spring snapped
back to its original place and the door now
closes normally. MacAddict comes through
again.—HAnk LAVAGNINI
TANGERINE SEATS?
Notice that the Honda slogan is “Thinking”
and the Dodge slogan is “Different.” What's
next? Translucent cars?—Kenr Svar
THEY ForGoT
To PATENT Os
AND 1s, Too
Tn what will someday be known as the busi-
ness oversight of all time, Amazon neglected to
patent the use of the database as a means of
storing information about products and users,
even though it did patent the way of accessing
said information. Please notify everyone that I
will be patenting the use of the database to
store any and all information, and anyone
using or planning to use a database to store
information from this point forward will face
long and painful lawsuits —Cuartes Kau
PILLAGED
Just thought you might enjoy the sports
addicts we have at our school. I am a
Green Bay Packer fan, and I literally
begged for any flavor of iMac except Viking
purple. This is what they gave me to under-
mine my Green Bay decor!—JEanie
MAYBE THEY can get to the Super Bow! now.
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Don’t ForGeT
Fuzzy Dice
This picture is of a Macintosh I that I
custom-painted for a final art project in high
school last spring. I used some spray paint
for the red base coat and brushed on the
flames with acrylic. Then I gave the whole
thing a final coat of clear enamel to make it
really shiny. To complete it, I added a Chevy
emblem, just because Chevy is the best. I
have christened it MuscleMac—because it
looks like a hot-rod muscle car. It needs a
drive train and a windshield before I can get
it going —Sam BowERMAN
THAT MAC IS FLAMING...
uh, we mean on fire!
Mai to OrpER
Justa little piece of Mac evangelism I whipped
up...a silly play on words. Thanks for making a
great magazine like MacAddict—Turry
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HE MAID IT himself.
Eios Saip THE SAME
Tine Aspout Lara!
While reading the Tomb Raider II review
(Feb/00, p49), I was dismayed to see
Frank O'Connor's comparison of Lara Croft
to Weird Al Yankovic. O'Connor wrote that
Weird Al “refuses to change with the times”
and is “trapped forever in a haze of eight-
ies zaniness.” This is completely untrue.
The reason why Weird Al is still around and
popular today is because he does change
with the pop music scene. His parodies are
timely, up-to-date, and downright hilari-
ous. He has lasted much longer than most
of the groups he has parodied in the past,
and it is because of his current and
dynamic style —Jon OrHorr
Honpa? Wuat
Asout Max?
After seeing the Apple motorcycle in the
March issue, I thought I'd send you a pic-
ture of my own Apple vehicle. I hope Honda
doesn’t get too mad.—D. Frakes
THE NEXT “Lawsuit of the Month.”
‘You Know You’rE a Mac
Avpict WHEN...
«you enjoy endless hours of Unreal
Tournament fun by calling your
character Bill Gates and then contin-
ually blowing yourself up with the
Rocket Launcher and Redeemer.
—Core DiDonato
..your Mac costs more than your car is
worth.—Jimmie GRILLO
you get your MacAddict renewal
notice and try to click the OK graphic
on the outside with your finger.
—Puittip Comer
you hear someone utter the phrase
FatLoserBunny and you laugh with
them, not at them.—Dave ScHaEFER
.you want to put a Mac 128K beside
your G4 and run benchmarks just
to see how the technology has
improved.—Davio Bensimon
Macworld
sees
The fastest graphics accelerator for your Mac just got better.
ProFormance 3 performed nearly twice as fast as its nearest competitor in tests
run by major magazines worldwide. But that’s only one of the many reasons
why it has become the first choice for Web, graphics, and multimedia
professionals. The long list includes: OpenGL compatibility; true 3D with the
ProCyber 3D virtual reality glasses; better digital output connectivity - with your choice of VESA or SGI Flat
Panel Display standards, or SVideo Out. And much more! So why wait? Find out how to get your Mac to think
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Road Show
| Jobs unveils revved Macs at Tokyo Expo
fa friend in need is a friend indeed, Japan has certainly been
Apple's friend. Even in its darkest hours, Apple could always
count on this easternmost of markets to continue buying Macs
in quantities almost unimaginable elsewhere. On February 16,
2000, Apple rewarded the Macophilic Japanese with the first product
announcements the company has ever made on foreign shores.
While the Macworld Expo Tokyo announcements had a sweep-
ing scope, the details were more modest. Recently, Apple has
tended to focus announcements on a single product family. This
time only the iMac series remained the same: Apple modified »
every portable computer it sells, while the G4s edged back to
their original speeds.
It’s a bit odd that the most immediately obvious of the upgrades
is perhaps the least significant. The iBook now joins its desktop
counterpart in offering a graphite Special Edition for $200 more. In
the iBook’s case, though, you don’t get any extra memory or hard
drive space over the base version. Instead, you get a slightly faster
processor—the iBook SE sports a 366MHz, compared to the
300MHz in the traditional iBook. The entire iBook line has had
some of its weakest features upgraded, though: Apple has bumped
the paltry 32MB of RAM and the 3GB hard drives that shipped with
the original iBooks to 64MB and 6GB, respectively.
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The up-again, down-again G4 line is up
again. In a blast from the recent past, the
G4 series once again provides processor
speeds between 400MHz and 500MHz, at
the same prices announced last fall. This
time, though, the slower machines don’t
lumber along with the aptly named Yikes
motherboard—Apple now bases the
entire line on the technically superior
motherboard it originally provided only
in its faster machines. This time,
we hope, Motorola will be able to
keep the chips flowing fast
enough to avoid another
embarrassing delivery stall
like last fall's. (IBM hasn't
yet joined the G4 game,
although it plans to get
into the action this com-
ing fall.)
Apple reserved its
, biggest changes for
the now-venerable
PowerBook G3 (if
you've been hop-
ing for a Power-
NO, WE DIDN'T
get our colors
‘wrong—the
iBook has
‘gone graphite!
Book 64, keep hoping—there’s still no offi-
cial sign of Velocity-enabled notebooks). Con-
fusingly, the case design and name remain
essentially unchanged for the fourth design of
the PowerBook G3 (Apple’s representatives
now suggest naming the machines by years,
like cars—which would make this the 2000
model). The changes under the hood are a bit
more profound. As always, Apple has pumped
up the chips—the fastest PowerBooks
“now run at 500MHz, while even the
slowest machines now run at last
year’s peak speed of 400MHz.
More remarkably, the
PowerBook G3s now offer
the Rage Mobility 128
graphics chip—a slightly
slower portable version
of the 3D speedster that
delivers 2D and 3D
graphics sensationally
fast on the Power Mac
G4s, The once ubiqui-
tous SCSI port has
finally disappeared
altogether from
Apple’s lineup—
the 2000 Power-
Books replace it
with a pair of
FireWire ports. As
with the older
PowerBooks, you can make the new machine
appear as a hard drive on your main Mac (this
time it’s a FireWire drive), so it's extremely
easy to copy data from or to the machine.
At least with respect to the professional
machines, DVD's day has finally arrived—you
cannot buy a Power Mac or PowerBook
that doesn’t come with at least a DVD-ROM
drive. The consumer lines are still hold-
outs, however, so we'll resist making yet
another optimistic declaration that DVD is
here at last.
‘Where does all this leave Mac users? While
we haven't had time yet to fully test our
preview models (look for reviews next
month), the modifications to the new Power-
Books appear to restore the line to its rightful
place as the crown jewel of Apple's lineup. The
return of the 500MHz Power Mac G4 is
welcome (if somewhat overdue), although the
absence of any meaningful speed increase at
the top of the G4 line over a six-month period’
leaves us feeling a tad edgy (returning to the
starting point hardly counts!). The iBook
changes appear to indicate the start ofa series
of refinements we hope will eventually do away
with its weak points—it took the iMac five
redesigns and more than a year to reach its
current level of elegance. Still, it's hard to
find too much to complain about—Apple’s
Airport-wielding, gumdrop-and-graphite-
flavored lineup is its strongest in years —/S
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fter nearly a year of
litigation, the way-
cool PlayStation emula-
tor for the Mac, Virtual
Game Station, is once
ered February 10, the Ninth Circuit Court
of Appeals overturned an injunction filed
by a lower court that prevented Connec-
tix (hitp/Avww.comnectix.com) from
sending new copies of VGS into the chan-
nel. The court rejected Sony's claim that
Connectix violated copyright laws when it
copied Sony’s Playstation BIOS internally
while creating VGS, ruling that these
copies were “protected fair use.”
Sony evidently had planned for this
contingency—four days later, it filed a
new lawsuit, claiming that VGS violates 11
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Sony patents. Sony requested that the
same judge who granted the earlier
request for an injunction preside over the
new trial. Connectix CEO Roy McDonald
made the standard “we believe these alle-
gallons are baseless and totally without
merit” statement, apparently obligatory in
these circumstances.
Prospects seem bright for VGS,
though—copies of the program still in
the channel since the original imposi-
tion of the injunction last summer sold
well enough to earn VGS the number 2
spot on PC Data's list of the ten best-
selling Macintosh entertainment titles in
January this year, Just to be on the safe
side, however, we'd recommend buying
as soon as you can—if Lawsuit of the
Month bas taught us anything, it’s’ that
you never know what'll happen—1S
New for the Mac
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ShortStack even comes with FireWire cables.
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Palm enthusiasts, rejoice—color has come to
the Palm platform with the Palm Illc organizer.
Besides adding a color active-matrix TFT dis-
play, the Palm llc features 8MB of memory.
cradle charging, and the new Palm OS 3.5
software. Gosh—it’s beautiful, and it's avail-
able now.
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PALM. Yes, it's in
color. Yes, we
‘want one too.
Freeway 3.0
SoftPress
ht iww.softpress.com, $299
New features pack the third version of this
hot Web page editor (which neither Adobe
nor Macromedia owns)—better perfor-
mance, multiple language support, Apple-
Script support, a built-in JavaScript inter-
preter (including a Java rollover editor),
and the ability to import Illustrator and
Photoshop files. Freeway 3.0 will be avail-
able in late March—DA
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| A New Wave of Graphics Applications Struggles for Dominance.
he twice-annual Seybold conference, the largest gathering
of digital publishers, is traditionally a key expo for Apple
(Apple used last fall's conference to introduce the PowerMac G4).
This time, though, Apple steered clear of Seybold, leaving us
afraid that a Seybold without Apple would be a strange, lonely
sort of affair.
Fortunately, the company’s departure didn’t deprive the
show of all its drama. A host of new graphics applications
from some of the biggest names in the business made
appearances—some publicly shown in the booths, others
demonstrated quietly behind closed doors.
The biggest clash came at the keynote, where Macrome-
dia, Quark, and Adobe all tried to capture the publishing
industry. Macromedia made the first stab at Seybold glory,
showing off version 9 of Freehand, which it plans to release in
mid-March. The new Freehand brings the illustration program
into Macromedia's Web line: Version 9 can export images in
Flash format and. can even create simple Flash animations.
With these changes, Macromedia is staking Fiash’s claim as
the preeminent vector graphics format on the Web.
Adobe, instead of contesting Flash’s prowess, appears to be
trying to hijack the format. With its new LiveMotion product, Adobe
has created what looks like Flash with an Adobe-style interface—
‘the program actually uses Flash as a default file format. Adobe also
ran through demonstrations of a variety of other programs with the
ubiquitous (and overused) prefix in. InProduction, slated for spring
2000, attempts to provide the infrastructure to transform the PDF
format from a strictly onscreen format to a viable option for print
publishers. InCopy (availability unknown), based on the InDesign
engine, aims to enable editors to work with textual components of
InDesign documents without worrying about inaccurate line and
page breaks. In later briefings, Adobe showed us the first major
upgrade to InDesign itself, which appears to fix a number of prob-
lems we mentioned in our analysis of the 1.0 version (Reviews,
Dec/99, p62). It supports text along curves and both striped and
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dashed rules, and offers vastly improved alignment controls—while
improving response times considerably.
Quark tried to outdo competitors with a presentation on its
upcoming QuarkXPress 5, designed to take a shot at the vast Web-
design market. Flinging buzzwords with wild abandon, Quark
announced its plans to use XML-based technologies to provide a
flexible solution for media-independent publishing (in English, this
means Quark 5 can quickly produce both print materials and Web
sites based on information stored in an XML database). To clarify its
singularly unenlightening description of the new QuarkXPress
(lated for the fourth quarter this year), Quark proceeded to give the
audience M&Ms as part of a bizarre metaphor that also included a
pixie stick. Needless to say, we had to conclude this wasn’t Quark’s.
finest hour (although we appreciated the candy) —/S
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While the major players struggled for dominance in Seybold keynotes, a host of
smaller vendors tried to attract attention with new wares. Here's a partial rundown
XTension that lets QuarkXPress import
Photoshop files directly
New version of the too-cool-to-believe
graphics synthesizer
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AppleWorks 6
by David Reynolds
ppleWorks is a stalwart application that doesn’t get as much time you read this) also sports a nifty Aqua-esque interface, which
attention as it deserves, This jack-of-all-trades program (Claris- should fit right in with Mac OS X. Here's a closer look at everyone’s
Works in another life) features a word processor, spreadsheet, data- favorite Mac tool—we're showing off the presentation module
base, drawing module, painting module, and presentation module because it’s awfully nice to put together a presentation with a
in one slick package. Version 6 (scheduled for release around the _ product that’s not from Microsoft.
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templates, and Web access to clip art.
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the gratuitous QuickTime movie? It’s a nice touch
that adds flair to any presentation,
Hanging Tabs
Switching between various
aspects of AppleWorks’ Control
palette is as easy as clicking one
of these uvula-like objects,
AppleScript Menu
‘This little icon brings a lot
‘of comfort to AppleScripters—
‘it means that AppleWorks
offers AppleScript support,
‘some of which you can
access from the menu.
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nowle
slugfest
he tension’s mounting. The smell
of sweat is in the air. It’s time
for the MacAddict pay-per-page
super product slugfest. We shove
31 products into the ring against their
will and make them kick, poke, sock,
and slam it out. Read on to see who’s
left standing. Find out if InDesign can
pin heavyweight champ Quark; whether
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Quake or Unreal is the true king of the
ting; if Dreamweaver has what it takes
to KO GoLive; and whether Handspring
can take down Palm. No scripts, no
blood, no biting a la Mike Tyson and
Marv Albert—but entertaining nonethe-
less. The stage is set, the opponents
have taken their corners, and like it or
not, they will rumble...
hen it comes to Mac gaming,
its either feast or famine.
Thankfully, late last year it
was a feast. Both Quake Ill and Unreal
Tournament emerged for the Mac almost
immediately after the PC versions, instead
of the usual year or two later, and Mac
gamers faced a tough decision. While pick-
ing favorites between these two (sequel)
behemoths is like picking horses in a photo
ALTHOUGH THE BIG, bright, cartoonish Quake
characters are original and compelling, they
lack a certain human scale and realism—but
that does make them easier to shoot.
finish, in the end we decided that one game
is in fact more worthy of the sleep depriva-
tion you're sure to face.
For those unfamiliar with the concept,
these are first-person shooters, in which
the object is to blast just about every-
thing you see to pulpy smithereens.
These are violent games with minimal,
pointless plots and are designed from
the ground up primarily as multiplayer
experiences—tog on, line up your sights,
then start shooting
The graphics in each game are
astounding. Quake beats out Unreal on
the technical front with some cool light-
WELL, HEY THERE. The character models in
Unreal Tournament, while unimaginative, are
certainly convincing. They're also very easy
to customize using the included software.
Quake vs. Unreal
ing effects and brilliant gothic designs.
Unreal, however, has more interestingly
designed environments and much better
character models. It's also easier to
import skins, textures, and models,
which let you appear in-game as any-
thing from Spider-Man to a bare-naked
lady (we've noticed that people are less
inclined to shoot the latter). Quake’s look
is less realistic and more artistic.
In terms of play options, Unreal
certainly takes the lead. It has more levels
and play modes, including the unique
domination option, best described as a
cross between capture the flag and death-
match. Quake is limited to deathmatch and
capture the flag modes, and the latter fea-
tures only four levels from which to choose.
Unreal has capture the flag, assault, domi-
nation, and deathmatch. Both tiles loudly
boast about single-player bot matches,
but playing against computer-controlled
drones Is simply not satisfying,
In this type of game, weaponry should
be interesting and fun. Quake weapons
feel more dangerous and powerful, but
UNREAL'S USE of exciting locales, like this
four-masted pirate galleon, makes it the
Clear winner in the level-design stakes.
Unreal is way ahead in terms of sophistica-
tion. For a start, each of Unreal’s 10 guns
has two separate modes of fire—doubling
the number of ways you can ice an oppo-
nent and raising the level of strategy one
notch above Quake’s.
Inthe end, however, the decision comes
down to a simple question: Which is more
fun? Under perfect circumstances (a fast
Internet connection and challenging human
opponents), both games are very fun. But
when you spend the last bullet, Unreal
310-255-2050, http://www.activision.com
$49.99 (SRP)
PLUSES: Visceral. Simple. Gloriously
rendered. A ferociously fun gaming
experience.
MINUSES: Lacks variety in levels. Doesn't
advance the genre.
UNREAL TOURNAMENT
MacSoft
800-229-2714,
http://www,wizardworks.com/macsoft
$49.95 (SRP)
PLUSES: Beautiful environments. Great
depth of options. Multiple play modes.
MINUSES: Iffy Internet performance (on a
modem). Occasionally annoying interface.
more customizable that Quake M's. puter
‘opponents, with much more detailed Al
and more realistic behaviors. Also, Unreal
Tournament comes out of the box with a wi sr
variety of maps and game styles than Quake
Ill. Rather than going for cartoonishly over.
muscled heroes and heroines \ ‘whose figures
cl
“Why is Quake Il ter ace
than Unreal Tournament?
Graeme Devine, id game designer if
“Quake Ill focuses on providing the best _
deathmatch experience possible, and we’v
succeeded at this and go | unchallenged in ‘the
Tournament feels a bit bigger and
a bit bettet—Frank O'Connor
THE DECISIONS tthe edae to ureai Tournament
MAY/00 MacADDICT 27
he battle of email programs in some ways
T parallels the battle of computing platforms.
In that vein, Qualcomm's Eudora is the
Windows of email programs, and Microsoft's
Outlook Express is the Mac. Say what?
No, we don’t have product dyslexia. Eudora
looks antiquated and is unintuitive. Nowhere is this
more noticeable than in the mailbox/folder system,
which is difficult to decipher and only lets you drag
and drop messages into folders when you open the
mailbox window. Outlook, meanwhile, features a
Stellar folder system in a left window and allows you
to drag and drop messages easily. Ironically, Eudora
for Windows is much prettier than the Mac version.
Other features that make Outlook a winner are its
address book and attachment options. Outlook allows
SLEEK AND SOPHIS-
TICATED, Outlook is
the more beautiful of
the two programs.
EUDORA: email's
ugly duckling.
Eudora vs. Outlook Express
you to store oodles of information in your address book
while Eudora is limited to single fields for phone and
fax. When you start addressing a new message in
Outlook, a drop-down menu of everyone in your
address book whose name starts with that letter
appears—just select the right recipient. Eudora only
does that if you press Command-comma. Both pro-
grams let you select encoding options for attachments,
but in Outlook you can also select compression. One
other cool feature is Outlook's info bar: At the top of
each message, a note appears telling you if and when
you answered that message, along with the option to
see your reply.
Eudora is not without merit, It automatically adds
anyone you've corresponded with to a separate folder
inyour address book, and allows you to record yourself
and attach voice messages. It also saves all URL links
you've ever opened from Eudora in a special window.
One final thing: Outlook is free, while Eudora costs
almost $40 unless you are willing to look at sponsor-
ships when the program is open (then it's free).
The bottom line is, Outlook kicks Eudora’s butt, and
Eudora Pro 4.3
Qualcomm
800-238-3672,
http://www.eudora.com
$39.95 (SRP), free for spon-
sored version
PLUSES: Voice message
abilities. Saves URLs.
MINUSES: Unintuitive
folder system. Full version
costs, unless you don’t
mind staring at ads.
Outlook Express 5.01
Microsoft
Free at http://www
-microsoft.com/mac
/downloads/default.asp
PLUSES: Great address book.
‘Simple folder system. Free!
MINUSES: Import function
doesn't fully work.
there are no buts
about it—Cathy Lu
he battle of utility apps ranks among the
| most fiercely fought wars in the
software world, with many once-amiliar
programs (Central Point Utilities comes to mind) fad-
ing from the scene. The current contenders for the
title of Program You Just Can't
Live Without are Norton
Utilities and TechToo! Pro.
Norton’s strongest feature
is its oldest: the Disk Doctor
package that scans your hard
drive for damage and attempts
TECHTOOL'S UNBELIEVABLY
THOROUGH March tests would
take several days to complete.
ETT Non es TTT
to fix any problems it finds.
Unfortunately, the sheer awful-
ness of the well-intentioned
FileSaver package undermines
Disk Doctor's strengths. File-
Saver is supposed to save
file information at shutdown
and during system idle in order
to let the program recover
information if a drive's file
structure gets damaged.
NORTON is getting old and
showing it.
Unfortunately, it takes such a long time to run that
most users turn it off. Worse, the extension is buggy
and tends to cause crashes, Norton includes a good
benchmarking package, but a poor interface hides it.
Just a little over two years ago, an early version of
TechTool erased one of MacAddict’s drives (to its
credit, Micromat recovered all our data when
informed of the catastrophe). The good news is that
TechToo! has vastly improved since its rather inaus-
picious beginnings. While some of the tests included
Norton
Symantec
800-497-6180,
http://www.symantec.com
$99.95 (SRP)
PLUSES: Outstanding Disk
Doctor program.
Good benchmarking,
MINUSES: FileSaver is slow and
buggy. Poorly designed interface.
in its almost ludicrously comprehensive battery are a
bit silly, many are quite useful in diagnosing obscure
system problems such as defective memory mod-
ules. The protection routines (TechToo!’s equivalent
of FileSaver) work more quickly and unobtrusively,
and seem far more stable.
TechiToo!'s disk optimization package is safer but
less powerful than Norton's—it optimizes by moving
files about, requiring a fair amount of free space on
the volume for scratch purposes. Norton actually
moves about file fragments, requiring little free space
but destroying the system’s file structure if a power
failure occurs during optimization, Despite this weak-
ness, TechTool Pro is the better
TechTool Pro 2.5.3
Micromat
707-566-3831,
http://www.micromat.com
$97.98 (SRP)
PLUSES: Amazingly comprehen-
sive test suite. Nice interface.
MINUSES: Some tests (like
the one for testing your
mouse tracking) seem silly
and complicate the interface.
Comparatively weak
optimization code.
product—t's simply more use
ful, more often Jan Sammis
28 MacADDICT MAY/00
ike lemmings, most of us succumbed to
L Palm domination because its devices were
the only real option for joining the yuppie
world of handheld organizers. When Handspring
released its Visor line late last year, Palm respond-
ed appropriately and created a win-win scenario
for all of us: greater options and cheaper prices. So
when faced with two handheld devices that basi-
cally look and work the same way, what's a PDA-
Phile to do? (That's Personal Digital Assistant to
you.) With pricing and options in fiux, it's hard to
declare a clear winner. Though we struggled for
days on end, we did finally come to the conclusion
that one handheld is slightly superior.
On the inside, Palms and Visors both use the
Palm operating system. The outside is where Palm
and Handspring compete. To its credit, Handspring
was first with the Springboard expansion slot, which
makes it possible to upgrade memory, add backup
modules, and in the future, expand the Visor to
function as everything from a digital camera to an
MP3 player. Palm struck back nicely with the
announcement of snap-on expandability. The key
word here is announced. Handspring has
announced a greater variety of modules than Palm
has, but very few were available as of press time.
So what should you buy? If you think of a
handheld as simply an electronic datebook, the
economical Palm Ilie¢ at $149 is your best bet. It’s
the same price as the Visor Solo and comes with
a cradle. if you're a style-conscious, info-addict-
ed, business user, you'll also want to buy a Palm.
There's no direct Handspring equivalent to the
sleek Palm V or wireless Palm Vil. The recently
teleased Palm Ilic—with 8MB of memory, color
display, and dark slate color—offers the best in
form and function, but at the high cost of $449.
For everyone else, we recommend the Visor
Deluxe (see Reviews, this issue, p47} for now. Ata
midrange $249, it offers 8MB of RAM and
Handspring’s expandability of memory and multi-
function potential. Plus, the
Visors come equipped with
USB cut of the box. Palm has
no pians to deviate from its PC
serial default, so Mac users
must shell out at least $9.95 for
‘the Palm MacPac version 2 and
$39.95 for a USB kit. Visor
Deluxe also comes in iMac-
type flavors, Palm recently
PALM SIMPLY OFFERS:
MORE variety for PDA
and information addicts.
RIGHT ABOUT NOW, the Deluxe
is most people's best bet, but
Palm’s not far behind.
with 8MB of memory. If
shipped as scheduled,
competition for the
Visor Deluxe.
The Visor Deluxe
isn’t optimal for the email addict-
ed—currently Mac users can't download email
‘onto a Visor without a third-party application. While
Handspring will most likely fix this major inconve-
nience, for now it costs the Visor Deluxe points.
Regardless of what you choose, Palms
and Visors are quality handhelds. But Palm
offers a greater range of products, leaving
Handspring to depend on its range of Spring-
board modules for real product differentiation. For
now, this stil gives Palm the edge—
at least until the next crusade [7
| Palm Computing
800-881-7256,
hitp:/Awww.palm.com
$149 to $449 (SRP)
PLUSES: Sleek design. Palm Vit
wireless. Wide product line.
MINUSES: Slightly on the
expensive side. Serial by default.
Mac compatibility costs extra.
Visor
Handspring
888-565-9393,
http://www.handspring.com
$149 to $249 (SRP)
PLUSES: Springboard expansion
slot. USB by default. Wide variety
of expansion modules expected.
MINUSES: Bulky design.
Expandable, but at a price. Can't
sync to Mac email program
without third-party app.
begins.—Narasu Rebbapragada = | \
Handholding: Your Guide
B fo Choosing a Handheld
Model Basic feature(s) Price (SRP) | You want this one if...
Visor Solo | No cradle $149 You're a cradle robber, or legitimately
have a cradie already.
Palm Ille 2MB of RAM; your basic | $149 You're not sold on the handheld credo
meat-and-potatoes date- and don’t want to spend a ton of money
book —at least this comes with a cradle.
Visor 2MB of RAM; $179 You're a run-of-the-mill gadget geek who
Springboard wants an electronic datebook for personal
expansion slot and business contacts.
Palm Ilix MB of RAM; upgradable | $229 You're brand conscious and think the
flip-top lid is to die for.
Palm llixe | 8MBof RAM; same as | $249 Not avaiable at press time, but 2 competi-
Visor Deluxe without the tive alternative to the Visor Deluxe. Good
yummy colors for those who just have to have a Palm.
‘Visor Deluxe | 8MB of RAM; comes in | $249 ‘You're on the Apple color bandwagon.
yummy colors You care about what we think. And we
think you should get this one.
Palm V 2MB of RAM; siylish $299 You're style hungry.
Palm Vx ‘8MB of RAM; stylish $399 You're style and power hungry.
and powerful
Palm ilic 8MB of RAM; color dis- | $449 Your parents taught you never to look at
play; cool slate color ‘the world as just black and white,
Palm Vii 2MB of memory; wireless | $449 Until your finger turns into a modem, this
is your best option. i
MAY/00 MacADDICT 29
PHOTOGRAPHS BY AARON LAUER
hese are good days for Web design-
ers. The battle over the best WYSIWYG
Web authoring tool has shaken off the
lightweights and put two powerhouses in the
ting. On one side, we have Macromedia's
Dreamweaver 3, which has come of age as a
true Macintosh application rather than a clunky
Windows port. But competitor Adobe GoLive
has always been a sentimental favorite for the
Mac community with its tight Finder integration,
intuitive Mac-like GUI, and tue WYSIWYG
operation. In the past year, though, we've seen
nothing more than a few bug fixes coupled with
a hefty $99 upgrade fee. So which one takes
the crown as the ultimate cutting-edge Web
design tool? Let's go to the ring to check it out.
GoLive, in its previous incarnation as
CyberStudio, was the first Web program to do.
‘site management right. it wowed us with its
innovative point-and-shoot user interface,
which allowed you to stretch a rubber-band-like
string to connect links with pages, images, or
THE GOLIVE LAYOUT view (top) of this nested
table is pixel perfect and clearly marked. The
Dreamweaver view (bottom) of the same file
is less accurate and much harder to work
with due to its dashed edges.
whatever. GoLive allows you to update sites
with one click, repair broken links throughout a
site, and make Finderlevel changes to your
local files. Also, the Components feature
enables a form of serverside include (SSI),
where you make a change on one element and
it appears throughout the ste.
However, Dreamweaver leapfrogs over
Golive in its site management functionality, In
addition to incorporating all of the above fea-
tures (including a rather shameless copy of the
point-and-shoot tool), Dreamweaver adds a
remarkable array of version-control features
that make it possible for a group of people to
maintain the same site without overwriting each
oiher’s changes. Dreamweaver even does SSI
better, with a more elegant solution that uses
less proprietary code. Best of all, these fea-
tures work across platforms.
When it comes to interface, both programs
have it tough. They are so feature-packed that
you need a second monitor in order to show alll
the palettes and still have room left for a Web
YOU CAN COMBINE AND CUSTOMIZE
Dreamweaver’s palettes (right) in many
ways, but you can’t arrange them as
neatly as with GoLive’s palettes.
bwin esate Pe)
page. But it's in managing this chaos that
GoLive really shines. The toolbar uses less than
20 pixels of screen real estate, yet packs in an
‘amazing number of editing tools and allows
maximum room for your document. If you want
to add an element, just go to the Elements
palette, which neatly separates frames, page
elements, form tags, and so on. To edit the
attributes of any element, you need only go to
the constantly morphing Inspector box.
Dreamweaver, on the other hand, gives
you the same functionality but divides it into
competing interfaces. If you want to edit a
table or window, you have to divide your
Treats for Hard-Core
Code Junkies
‘ou learned how to cade by dissecting the source code of your
favorite Web pages. Do WYSIWYG programs have anything to
offer you?
GoLive's text editor gives BBEdit a run for its money. It color-codes
certain tags; property tabs, indents, and formats code automatically;
and has an excellent find-and-replace function that works across files,
saving an immense amount of time. Dreamweaver's text editor isn’t
quite as good, but it includes a copy of BBEdit to make up for it.
GoLive adds a unique interface called Outline View, which is col-
Ne and resembles a code view with certain blocks boxed off.
Dreamweaver's QuickTag Editor helps coders by allowing them to
click a visual object and quickly edit its underlying code.
GoLive is fastidious about the quality of code it creates. It
rewrites the entire page code every time you make a change,
strictly abiding by rules set in the editable Web database. That fea-
ture can be annoying sometimes, but you have to respect this
attention to detail. Dreamweaver, however, changes only the code
you are working on, and respects custom HTML you have
carefully hand-coded by highlighting unknown tags and leaving
them alone.
30 MacADDICT MAY/00
time between Dreamweaver’s Properties box (which
too often gets in the way of your Web page) and
a copious list of contextual menu options.
Dreamweaver’ palettes have inconsistent interfaces,
only some of which are customizable. Two palettes
use tabs to separate content while the third uses a
menu—as if different people designed each without
bothering to consult one another.
Both programs parse HTML code well, but if you
work with complex nested tables, GoLive is a clear win-
ner. Even in layout mode, your work looks like the final
product. Dreamweaver doesn’t always draw tables
accurately, and it uses a dizzying dashed line to mark the
edges. Use more than two nested tables and you can't
tell them apart.
What Dreamweaver lacks in GUI elegance, it tries to
make up for with some innovative design tools. The
History feature, similar to the one in Photoshop, is
perfect for people who design on the fly and need the
ability to backtrack several steps. Also, if you design the
look of your site in Photoshop, you can import it as a
tracing image, then fade it a bit and place it behind your
HTML work as a design aid.
Customization, however, is where Dreamweaver
shines. While GoLive has some degree of cus-
tomization and JavaScript actions, Dreamweaver is
infinitely customizable—not just in the area of
adding JavaScript extensions (which are easier to
program and more numerous), but also in changing
menu and palette configurations, adding macro
commands to automate processes, and more. A
growing number of extensibility scripts are emerging
for Dreamweaver, all cross-platform.
Macromedia’s expertise in all things Web gives
Dreamweaver an added advantage because it
understands JavaScript and HTML files produced
by FireWorks, and offers a similar tight level of inte-
gration with Flash and Shockwave files. If you want
to integrate movies into your Web page, however,
GoLive has the advantage. An integrated QuickTime
editor lets you insert, edit, and modify QuickTime
movies or audio files, using a timeline interface sim-
ilar to Adobe Premiere.
If Cascading Style Sheets are too much for you to
handle, Dreamweaver offers an HTML Styles palette,
which lets you set up a text style you can use over and
over again by selecting some formatted text, choosing
New Style, then naming it.
Ifyou have faith in Adobe's intentions toward GoLive,
you can wait and hope that version 5.0 will see signifi-
cant feature improvements. But why wait when you can
get a solid, innovative, feature-filled performer now? Mac
users should reward respect for our platform choice
whenever they can, and Macromedia has eared our
allegiance with Dreamweaver 3.0.—Shahed Amanullah
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GoLive 4.0
Adobe
800-685-3612
http:/Avww.adobe.com
$285 (SRP)
PLUSES: Elegant
interface. Great code
editing tools. Near-
perfect WYSIWYG.
MINUSES: Crash-prone.
Few JavaScript actions.
THE GOLIVE CODE editor includes an error checker that
can test code on various browsers. Just click the error,
and the program takes you straight to the offending tag.
DREAMWEAVER'S HTML STYLE
feature makes repetitive for-
matting tasks simple, and you
or sharing,
can save them for future use
No recent updates.
Dreamweaver 3.0
Macromedia
800-457-1774
hitp://wwwe
.macromedia.com
$299 (SRP)
PLUSES: Excellent
site management
features. Extensive
customization options.
‘MINUSES: inconsistent GUI.
Poor WYSIWYG editing.
on’t get us wrong, GoLive and
D Dreamweaver are both dreams
come true for Web designers—but
they're not without their quirks. Here
we take the opportunity to slam them.
Why? Because we can.
SLAM 1: In both programs, the site
view is simply a waste—sites that have
more than a dozen pages become a
tangle of lines and arrows. Both ty to alle-
viate this with a scaling control, but this
just renders the whole mess unreadable.
SLAM 2: In GoLive, take care when
you alter Inspector values—the change
isn’t official until you press the Return
key. If you try to fix a fink or attribute in
Inspector but don’t see the change in
the file, here’s your culprit,
SLAM 3: While both programs
allow you to fine-tune the output of
the HTML code generation engine,
Dreamweaver makes you edit the
sourceformat.txt configuration file by
hand, bringing back unpleasant memo-
ries of that Programming 101 class
long ago.
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to press the Return key after you've typed
in the value, or all is lost.
MAY/00 MacADDICT 31
he mere thought of comparing lasers to inkjets
| makes printer companies shudder with horror.
The two types of printers serve different needs,
are tightly marketed to different customers, and use total-
ly different technologies. Some jerk writing a magazine
article shouldn't muck around with the distinction, making
ludicrous comparisons. At some point, though, many of
you will walk through a CompUSA store, hungry for your
next printer—and you'll want to
know what to buy.
Deciding whether to pick up an
inkjet or laser printer is indeed a
tough call. Laser printers produce
sharp black text consistently on any
paper. They chum through copy
after copy at a clip of around 10
pages per minute. They last a long
time. They're workhorses. Inkjets,
on the other hand, have...well, color.
TOP: PERFECT FOR A NETWORK OF MACS and those who
only print text—and that’s about it. BOTTOM: AHHH...IT’S
GOT COLOR and it’s cheap. Inkjets have the one-two punch.
Inkjet vs. Laser Printers
Of course you can get a color laser, but it'll cost you
thousands of dollars, and it still won't render as smooth-
ly as some of today’s inkjets. The other major advan-
tage of inkjets is price—typically you can purchase one
for $200 to $300. The cheapest lasers we could | setting. Durable. Most
find started at $400 and didn’t include PostScript sup- | printers have expandable
port, reducing their appeal for those who dabble in | memory, built-in
graphics, Meanwhile, inkjets offer PostScript support in | PostScript support,
the form of software drivers (like Adobe PressReady) | easy networking.
and can print black text every bit as sharp as a laser's | MINUSES: Expensive,
on quality paper. especially if you
In terms of flexibility, you just can't beat an inkjet. | want color.
Digital photos come out with the quality of developed film, ;
resumes look professional, you can snazz up business | Inkjet
reports with color, and the labels on your homemade jam
will look amazing. If you own a business and need a shared
Laser
PLUSES: Sharp,
consistent text on any
type of paper. Fast at any
PLUSES: Photorealistic
color. Flexible.
printer, or if all you do is crank out loads of black-and-white } Inexpensive. =
printed text, then shell out the dough for a laser—its dura- | MINUSES: No built-in z
bility, speed, and long-lasting toner cartridges will save you |) PostScript. Requires Z
money in the long run. But if you're ready to see the full | good paper for 5
range of what your Mac has to offer with the right printer, | sharp results. =
inkjet is the way to go. r —— Ey
—Robet Caps THE DECISIONS te tieeoinier)
——.
SoundJam MP vs. Audion vs. MVP
he superhyped, ultracom-
pact MP3 music format
enables you to keep all your
favorite music right on your hard
drive, download tracks from the
Internet, and even swap digital tunes
with your friends. When you finally
download, RIP. and transfer your col-
lection of MP8s, though, you'll need
an application to listen to them, and
if you get in deep enough, you'll
realize you need something a iot
more robust than Apple's free
QuickTime player. Luckily there's
quite a few savvy MP3-wielding apps
for the Mac.
The most feature-flled of the
bunch is SoundJam MP—it rocks
harder than a custom van at a drive-
in, It works perfectly with Icecast and
Shoutcast MP3 streams such as
those found at http://www.live365
.com. The quickest and easiest CD-
to-MP3 encoder we've seen, it sports
\ lots of customization options, and it’s
already the default app for the pre-
miere Mac hardware MP3 player,
Diamond Multimedia’s Rio 500.
SoundJam's biggest competitors
are Audion and QDesign MVP, but
neither one can chokehold the
champ. Audion requires a separate
encoder app for converting CDs to
MP3s (you can purchase it bundled
with Proteron's N2MP3_ encoder),
and the program proves finicky with
MP3 streaming files. QDesign’s MVP
fares even worse, offering no Icecast
or Shoutcast MP3 streaming support
and no equalizer of any kind. In
addition, MVP's CD-to-MP3 conver-
sion is horribly slow. Both Audion
and MVP have their pluses—such as
Audion’s builtin streaming browser
and MVP's support for the remark-
ably small proprietary QDesign
music format—but such perks can't
compete with the stability
SoundJam MP, Casady & Greene
800-359-4920, http://www.soundjam.com
$39.90 download only (street), $49.96 for boxed
CD and manual
PLUSES: Rich equalizer feature. Well-integrated encoder
and player. Encodes and decodes AIFF files. Fast
CD-to-MP3 encoding.
MINUSES: Demo version times out quickly.
py with
Audion, Panic
503-296-2185, http://www.panic.com
$17.95 for player only, $39.90 with N2MP3 encoder (street)
PLUSES: Built-in MP3 streaming server listings.
MINUSES: Separate N2MP3 app required for encoding.
Finicky about opening streaming files.
MVP, QDesign
604-688-1525, http://www.qdesign.com ;
Free encoding feature, $19.95 for MP3 encoding (street)
PLUSES: Encodes to proprietary QDesign format as well as
to MP3 format. :
MINUSES: No Shoutcast or Icecast streaming support.
‘Unintuitive and painfully slow encoder. No EQ,
and speed of SoundJam.
—Robert Capps
| THE DECISIONS soinssm ur ne vai
32 MacADDICT MAY/00
ike art, drawing programs are a subjective
L matter. Some artists buy more than one
package, creating and moving illustrations
back and forth between applications to take advan-
tage of the best features of each. Some people can’t
be bothered (or can’t afford) to do that. In that case,
choosing between Freehand and flustrator comes
down to a matter of personal taste.
Drawing in Freehand and Illustrator feels virtual-
ly the same, and the two have nearly identical mod-
ifier keys that you press and hold while clicking and
drawing with the mouse. Both allow you to perform
on-the-fly adjustment of points and handles while
keeping the last-drawn point active, so you can con-
tinue the path from where you left off. However,
you'll find two noticeable differences in how such
adjustments work. Freehand is more intuitive when
you need to make a sharp change in direction while
you're drawing—simply click the point and drag out
@ new handle. Illustrator requires you to press the
Option key as you click and crag the new handle—
not a big deal, but still a hassle.
Another difference Is noticeable when you sim-
ply want to undo your last point or on-the-fly path
adjustment. Illustrator keeps the leading point
active, while Freehand doesn't, forcing you to click
the point to reactivate it and start drawing from
where you left off. In the end, though, it’s a matter of
which program quirks you get used to—and both
programs have their fair share.
In terms of exchanging files. both Freehand and
Illustrator can export files to a broad variety of for-
mats, and both programs easily read many of the
‘same ones. Unless your clients have solid evidence
that your choice of illustration software won't read
files they'll be giving you, or their software won't
read your files, go with the application that suits you.
The bottom line is that you really can create the
same illustrations with either program—but some
techniques are easier in Freehand, and others are
easier in Illustrator. If, for example, you are creating
THIS GIVES YOU an
idea of the power of
Freehand’s Find &
Replace Graphics
feature. You can even
find and replace entire
shapes. You can
restrict the feature to
a selected object or
group of objects, or
a e
tas fitenae =
Fk to just the current
1B bok tte page (in multipage
git Hs Coxe} documents).
WE CREATED THIS crude apple with Illustrator’s
Pencil tool, a gradient mesh created, and shading
applied, all in just a few minutes. The mesh and
shading for more complex objects takes more time
and fine-tuning.
art that requires complex, airbrush-like shading and
gradations, you'll probably prefer Illustrator and its
Gradient Mesh tool. If, however, you anticipate fre-
quent alterations to your illustrations (say, adjusting
Freehand 8
Macromedia
800-457-1774,
http://www.masromedia.com
$399 for version 9 (SRP), $374.96 for
version 8 (street)
PLUSES: Lens effects work well for
maps, technical drawings, and com-
plex masking effects. Version 9
promises many new features. Major
Hews services have standardized on
Freehand.
MINUSES: Training courses, guided
and self-paced, aren't easy to find.
Heavy use of lens effects creates very
farge files.
line weights of logos or images for use at different
sizes—from T-shirts to highway billboards), you may
find Freehand’s Find & Replace Graphics
feature a sanity saver. Yes, of course you can create
complex gradient shading in Freehand, but it will
take more manual labor. Likewise, you can edit
each fill or stroke of a shape one by one in Illustrator,
but in just two steps you can, for instance, find
all Pantone Green hairlines of a width to .99 point,
beef them up to 1 point, and tum them Cyan
in Freehand.
One final note: Macromedia's Freehand 9,
not yet released at press time, promises new fea-
tures such as perspective grid illustration; live
enveloping; and opening, creating, and editing
multipage PDF files. If it delivers,
Illustrator 8
‘Adobe
800-833-6687, http://www.adobe.com
$379 (SRP)
PLUSES: Gradient Mesh ideal for
airbrush-like blends. Interface has
familiar Adobe feel. Popular
choice of agencies and design
studio professionals,
MINUSES: Freeform object drawing
and editing does not feel natural or
controltable. No find-and-replace fea-
ture for graphic objects and their
attributes. Keyboard shortcuts are
not customizable.
Freehand 9 will be the clear winner.
—Elyse Chapman
F or freewheeling edits of drawn
objects, Illustrators Pencil simply
doesn't fee! as natural or controllable as
Freehand’s Push and Pull tools, noris itas
fun to use. Freehand's Push and Pull tools
accurately display the shape as you create
Comparing Freeform
it. With Iilustrator's Pencil tool, however,
when you change a shape, sometimes it
doesn't end up like what you drew. Unless
you have a lot of points on the portion of
the path you want to edit, the Pencil tool
isn't very effective.
rata
[Peet Tool)
larae
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fee]
USE ILLUSTRATOR’S PENCIL,
Smooth, and Erase tools for
freeform drawing and editing.
‘THE FREEFORM TOOL in
Freehand does a Push
operation on a square.
THE FREEFORM TOOL in
Freehand does a Pull opera-
tion on an identical CL,
MAY/00 MacADDICT 33
InDes
| ‘n the world of technology, it is rare for a
product to go on for years uncontested.
But it was only recently that upstart Adobe
InDesign 1.0 even gave professional publishers
something to think about. QuarkXPress, long
the industry standard, has been around since
the mid-1980s. (Many polls claim that 80 per-
cent of the professional publishing industry has
a workfiow centered around QuarkXPress.)
Quark spent many years apparently resting on
its laurels because of this lack of competition—
witness how long it remained stuck in various
flavors of version 3 (it's now at 4.1), Meanwhile,
Adobe is betting that InDesign will attract users
unhappy with the QuarkXPress program or
Quark’s history of an almost adversarial attitude
toward customers. The question is whether
InDesign is a good enough program to steal
some of Quark’s thunder.
One of the most elemental aspects of
choosing software is the amount of memory it
requires. You'd expect most serious publishing
and graphics applications to want a good
chunk of RAM, processor speed, and hard
drive space, but InDesign’s requirements are
plain piggish. ts read-me (as good little pub-
lishers, we carefully read and print out all read-
me files before running installers) states that it
wants a minimum of 20MB of RAM to call its
own—but we all know applications want more
than what they say they want, don't we? Read
further—it says that if you have 128MB of RAM,
assign InDesign 30MB in the Preferred field; if
you have 256MB of RAM, give it 50MB. Ouch!
QuarkxPress's minimum RAM requirement
starts at only about 60 percent of InDesign’s. It
also takes up less hard drive space (on our
Mac, Quark occupied 29MB for a full installa-
tion) than the standard 80MB of InDesign.
=
gn vs. QuarkXPress
27 TT}
REET PNT KENT TERT
InDesign requires
a PowerPC with a 604
or better processor,
Mac OS 8.5 or later,
130MB of available
disk space during
installation, and it wil
only print to a
PostScript Level 2 or
higher printer. Quark-
XPress 4.1, on the
other hand, can run
‘on an old 68020 non-
PowerMac (a 12-year-
old Mac Il!) running
System 7.1, and it
works with both PostScript and non-PostScript
printers, as well as fax software. (Currently the
‘only way to fax from InDesign is to export the
document to PDF and fax it from Acrobat
Reader or Acrobat.)
‘Adobe Is emphasizing InDesign’s modular
structure, claiming that it will be easy to
upgrade and easy for third-party developers
to create plug-ins. Since 1989, however,
QuarkXPress has been customizable with add-
ons called XTensions. These allow the compa-
ny to ship the program with the basic features
most people need, leaving out specialized fea-
tures such as database publishing and direct-
‘mail personalization. This approach is very
practical—buy the basic features, see if they
meet your needs, and if not, purchase the add-
‘ons. There are more than 500 XTensions and
AppleScripts for XPress available today—it may
take some years before InDesign hits that mark.
‘Where InDesign is turning a lot of heads is
with its innovative typographic features. The
multiline composer adjusts up to six lines of text
IN QUARKXPRESS, YOU CAN ‘GALL UP some
palettes with the F keys—this comes in handy.
to create more even-looking text blocks. It
automates and eliminates a lot of tweaking
QuarkXPress users must do manually, line by
line. Though Xpress users have requested
automatic hanging punctuation for years, to
date only Adobe has responded (see “Don't
Leave Me Hanging,” p35). InDesign has plenty
of other great typographic features, but we'd
need a much longer article to explore them (see
Reviews, Dec/99, p62). The program has not
yet perfected these features or made them as.
intuitive as they should be, but Quark needs to
add them to XPress's next version if it cares
about pleasing customers. |
Speaking of caring about customers, hav-
ing taken a beating from users and the press
about its customer support, Quark is starting
to respond. Version 4.1's new QuarkLink fea-
ture is a good beginning. From the Utilities
menu, QuarkLink allows you to access the
XG minimum.
hen you edit clipping paths—a feature of both
InDesign and QuarkXPress—a crisp, high-
resolution screen display of raster images is vital. You
would expect Adobe's product to ship with superior
graphics previews, but it seems Quark has beaten
Adobe to the punch. XPress has the better previews
courtesy of an excellent, free, third-party XTension,
Enhance Preview XT-SE, which ships with version 4.1.
Its previews give truer color. They're also not embed-
ded in the XPress document, which keeps file size to
ON THE LEFT is the image in XPress with a normal
preview. At right is the same image displaying its
high-resolution preview courtesy of Enhance
Preview XT-SE. The color you see in the enhanced
preview is true to the image colors in Photoshop.
THE INDESIGN PREVIEW of the same
image is about as crisp as the enhanced
XPress preview, but the color is as far off
as that of the unenhanced XPress preview.
34 MacADDICT MAY/00
QuarkTech Knowledge Base, find and download free
XTensions, search for and get info on commercial XTensions
and other add-ons, email tech support and customer service,
connect to user support forums, and access other options.
InDesign’s support section allows you to update software,
gather Adobe announcements, and go to the user forums
and other areas of the Adobe site, However, InDesign offers
no way to contact customer service or tech support directly.
Quark
$849
COMPLETING TASKS AND
MANEUVERING in InDesign
feels a bit clunky. You have
to switch palettes often to
QuarkXPress 4.1
800-676-4575, http://www.quark.com
PLUSES: More than 500 XTensions and
AppleScripts. Can run on older Macs. Requires a
reasonable amount of RAM and hard drive
space. Widely used and supported.
One nice feature of InDesign is that it imports native
Photoshop images, which
XPress 4.1 cannot do
unless you purchase a
third-party XTension. The
advantage of having this
capability is that you save
the time it takes to flatten
layers, remove alpha
channels, and name files,
and you save whatever
hard drive space the sepa-
rate TIFF and EPS images
consume. if you use this
feature often, you're still
better off using XPress
and buying the impressive
ImagePort XTension ($150),
do simple things.
Te Te Ti ae
| rae ere
E 5. FOrra Fev. =
MINUSES: Typography features need an over-
haut. No built-in multilingual support unless you
buy or upgrade to the Passport version of
XPress. No multiple undo feature. No “master”
master pages.
Adobe InDesign 1.0
Adobe
800-833-6687, hitp://www.adobe.com
$699
PLUSES: Innovative typographic features.
Creates PDF files without Acrobat Distiller.
Includes preflight feature. Editable keyboard
shortcuts,
MINUSES: No ability to mix spot colors. No
Jong-document features. Will not run on older
Macs. Requires lots of RAM and hard drive
space, plus a PostScript printer. Few third-party
which does not flatten layers and allows you to turn them on
or off individually, assign them to a specific color plate, anda
whole lot of other useful things.
With version 4.0, XPress added long-document features that
aid in the production of books, catalogs, magazines, and other
lengthy publications, including generation of indexes and a table
of contents. InDesign 1.0 offers no such features.
tf you work with users of other programs, InDesign will open
and convert QuarkXPress and PageMaker documents, while
XPress requires a third-party XTension to open PageMaker doc-
uments (there is no XTension for InDesign yet). In both cases,
however, successful conversions depend upon the complexity
of the document. In our testing of both products, only simple
documents converted intact. When we used InDesign to open
XPress documents that employed a lot of features specific to 4.0,
we lost some objects and had to create much from scratch.
InDesign exhibits quirks typicai of a first-version product. For
instance, sometimes when we tried to deselect text by clicking
elsewhere onscreen, the page would jump. These errors don't
happen regularly, but they remind you of InDesign’s youth.
XPress, while definitely not bug-free, is a lot more mature. This
isn‘ to say InDesign doesn't show promise—i has a great set of
features (especially for setting good-looking text), but it also has
some gaping holes. Plus, it functions differently enough from
XPress so that long-time XPress users with well-established work
processes and en investment in third-party XTensions won't be
anxious to switch. It would take time and effort for InDesign to
unseat XPress as the professional standard—but Quark had bet-
ter stay on the ball—Elyse Chapman
plug-ins available to date.
| TH DECISION: QuarkxPress, the Undisputed charin
|
Don’t Leave
Me
anging punctuation, or optical
margin alignment in InDesign
terminology, refers to punctuation that
hangs outside the justified margins of
text, creating a clean look. Here's
how we accomplished the effect in
each program.
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templatioa: fen
Fis me patio
temptation: Lean
ead me wot ie
Aemptaton: Lean
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“ead mS)
temptation. 1ean
Find the way myst
Rita Mae Brown
+ fi the way mys
Ri Mae Brown
ind way sel”
Ria Moe Brown
find the way
FAKING IT in QuarkXPress—we added a
Space in front of the opening quotation
mark. Then, with the cursor between the
‘space and the quote mark, we applied
some serious negative kerning (-132) to
get the quote mark to disappear off the
left of the text box. Although such hang-
ing punctuation is no longer visible, it
will print; you just have to trust it’s
there. You can’t create hanging punctua-
tion, real or fake, for the right side of a
QuarkXPress text box.
“Lead me natinio “Lead me not into “Lead me not nto
temptation; in temptation; lear pation Lan
find the way find the way myssl£" Gna the way mse
yee Rts Moe Brown Rita Mae Brown
Rita Mac Brown
INDESIGN’S IMPLEMENTATION turns
on the effect for all linked text.
Here's InDesign’s optical margin
alignment feature, shown first with
frame edges visible and the Story
palette settings for the right-hand
quote. The second image has frame
edges hidden, so you can see the
effect as it will appear in print.
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onlinear QuickTime video editing programs
are tools for putting together finished
movies by stitching together clips and
sounds. At the pro level, there are only two real soft-
ware-only competitors in this creative niche—
Adobe's Premiere and Apple's Final Cut Pro—with a
couple of stragglers (Strata's Videoshop and Digital
Origin’s EditDV) running well behind.
Premiere has an ancient lineage—t was the first
QuickTime app available, and has developed a loyal
following, along with
plenty of industry sup-
port. The upstart is
Final Cut Pro, intro-
duced by Apple last
year. You can get the
job done in either
program—choosing
between them really
comes down to which
interface, workflow, and
features you prefer.
Premiere had a
complete face-lift in ver-
sion 5, but it still retains interface kiudges from its
past life. Most egregious is the way you move around
in the timeline, one of the most common operations
in video editing. Getting from one end of Premiere's
timeline to the other is slow enough, but it's even
slower to switch from one scale factor to another (if,
say, you want to Zoom from an overview of the whole
movie to a close-up showing a few seconds). Even
with the help of its Photoshop-like navigation floater,
you can still get thoroughly lost in a big sequence. By
contrast, moving around in Final Cut’s timeline is a
pleasure. It is far more responsive, and you can
move and scale simultaneously. Moreover, you can
easily break up a sequence into any number of
smaller sequences, essential for editing a long
movie—you can't do that in Premiere.
Adobe added high-end tools such as three-point
editing with version 5, but they look primitive com-
PREMIERE HAD A FACE-
LIFT last year, but Is still
showing its age.
pared to Final Cut’s fast and seamless three- and
four-point editing. Putting a clip into a sequence so
that it moves aside or scales other clips takes a few
steps in Premiere but a single mouse click in Final
Cut. Both programs can play real-time previews of
simple cuts-only sequences (effects and transitions
need rendering, and the
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