MacWorld 8902 February 1989

MACWORLD The Macintosh® Magazine February 1989 $3.95 Canada $4.95 Illustrator vs. FreeHand The Winner Is... Writing Tools: Spelling Checkers, Thesauruses, Dictionaries, Outliners, and More Guide to Color Separations on the Mac 19 Personal Finance Programs Compared The Mac’s Fifth Anniversary: Back to the Future with the Mac Development Team end seven years inside Apple and you learn a thing or two. In 1981, Apple approached several major computer in history. To give Macintosh users software developers with a radical vision of —_ all the functionality flexibility and power to personal computing, push productivity to unheard- Avision, it turned out, too of limits. And to do it with radical for most to even accept. = FE | acombination of hardware But one did. ‘ : 4 _ and software that’s somehow ki -o day, over i aa wa ewes ra touse. years later, we suspect the ee : appens to be a vision other developers are still kick- “is we still share. Passionately. ing themselves. ~ Which is why we've cre- 1 We, “ the ane hand, are , es ese the ry ated ata ape eetiots still pushing ourselves. lay fosh shipped, our software shipped. at have cl get le way At Microsoft, we shared in Apples vision _ today’s businesses do business. to make Macintosh’ the most corporately Case in point: Microsoft® Word, quite lit- powerful, yet disarmingly friendly, business __ erally the best-selling Macintosh application ever created. Now, with the new version 4.0, Word users can enjoy true WYSIWYG and sheets, a database, drawing, even a commu- nications tool—all in one versatile package. even easier table generation. For the developing developer? We cre- Microsoft Write gives the casual usera ated Microsoft QuickBASIC, which basically great deal of word processing capabilities—___ gives you everything you need for quick, effi- for not a great deal of money. cient programming, testing and execution. And of course, theres Microsoft Excel. Allof which brings us to Microsoft Mail Right now, eight outof ve Mice re ' vo everytenMacintosh © igs) MiRgl (view) Wie) ligimal. Mimpot Mizu Ee spreadsheet usersare gay ato 5 an using Microsoft Excel. , The simple truth is, for years its actually Nobody sells more. eee applications than we do. ‘And the only ieee been the most power- impressive than using then. alone, is using them together. ful argument for buying a Macintosh. and the concept of workgroup computing. And speaking of power, until Microsoft PowerPoint® was created, desktop presenta- tions didnt exist. Now the person making the presentation can actually generate it—from overheads to 35mm color slides. Best of all, only PowerPoint has built-in color schemes. For impact like you've never seen. And with Microsoft File as your econom- ical database, creating professional-quality business forms and mailing labels has never been faster. Or easier. As for Microsoft Works, just think of itas the Swiss army knife of business software. Works integrates word processing, spread- Mail actually lets you share data, graphics, thoughts, whatever—Mac’ to Mac, or even Mac to PC. For more about our Macintosh applica- tions and what they can do for you stand- alone, and working together, call us at (800) 541-1261, Dept. 189. Its inside information we think you'll find extremely useful. Ca ” Making it all make sense: usomers in Canad cal 16 673 7538, outside Nort Ameri, 006) 882 86. © Cort 188 Mico Corpo. ‘ation Alig reseed Miao the Miao and overt re regtered traders and Mating sense isa Corporation ‘of Apple Compute Inc. MACWORLD February 1989 Departments 13 MacBulletin On the Cover Illustrator 88 versus FreeHand: When the two big contenders square off, does one emerge as the champ or isita draw? 19 31 57; 61 79 97 105 277 291 297 351 392 Late-breaking news. Commentary/Jerry Borrell An outsider’s view of Apple on the Mac’s anniversary. Letters David Bunnell The great price hike: smart business or aslap in the face? Steven Levy Yet another author tackles the myth behind the Mac team. How To/Insights on HyperCard Animation Ronald Wartow Liven any stack with simple but effective graphic effects. How To/Quick Tips Lon Poole Tape backup, tall-adjusted rulers, stretching text in PageMaker, and more. How To/Getting Started with Electronic Mail Jim Heid Learn to communicate efficiently. New Products A quick look at new Macintosh hardware, software, and accessories. Updates The latest software upgrade news. Maeworld 1988 Annual Index Where to Buy Contact information for products in this issue. Best-Sellers The Macintosh® Magazine Macworld News = DynaPerspective A3-D architec- tural package from Japan. "= Word Publishing Desktop publish- ing and word processing software merged. = VideoWorks CD ROM Arazzle- dazzle display of the Mac’s potential as a multimedia playback device with CD ROM. = Desktop Planetarium Voyager soft- ware excites astronomers, both lay and professional. = Hackers in Paradise Computer jockeys convene at Hackers 4.0. Plus, HyperCard book roundup, how Macs guide shoppers through Bloom- ingdale’s, object-oriented program- ming news, and more. 160 170 180 188 198 206 Enter the Mac Masters Art Contest (p. 124), and you may win a brand-new Mac Il. Features Glory Days Steven Levy It’s the Mac's fifth anniversary. Where are the original creators of the Mac now, and what are their insights? The Reading Edge Brita Meng Converting scanned text images into * editable form is made less mysterious in this detailed comparison of eight OCR packages, complete with extensive benchmark tests. The Big Match: Illustrator 88 vs. FreeHand Erfert Fenton Looking for the best professional illustration program? Check out the big two. Beyond Word Processing Cheryl Spencer Supplement your word processor's power with outliners, spell checkers, thesauruses, and other specialized writing programs. Color Separation Explained Steve Roth, Want to know more about translating color images from the screen to the page? First in a series of two articles. Mac-sumizing Your Money Alan L. Slay From simple check writing to advanced portfolio-management, find the personal finance package that best meets your needs. 220 222 223 227 231 234 236 238 240 245 249 252 256 259 261 263 264 268 Reviews Apple Scanner Document scanner with software. Finale Integrated music software. Digital Darkroom 1.0 Electronic photo retouching. High-End Data Acquisition MacLab, IDAC/1000, MacAdios II SE. NEC SilentWriter LC890 Laserless PostScript printer. Generic CADD Level 1 2-D CAD program. QuickCapture 1.0 Video frame-grabber hardware and software. Micro Planner 6.1e Project-management software. Microsoft QuickBASIC 1.0 BASIC programming language. AppleShare-Compatible File Servers AlisaShare and PacerShare. Early Reading Software Reader Rabbit and Alphabet Blocks. Statistical Analysis Software StatView SE+ Graphics and Systat. Turbo SE SE accelerator and optional adapter for the Mac Plus. Solitaire Games Solitaire Royale, Unison Software card games, The Solitaire Desk Accessory. EndNote 1.0 Bibliographic reference system, MacMainFrame Mac Il and Mac SE terminal emulation card. The Colony 3-D graphic adventure game. Comment 2.0 Post-it note-type desk accessory. Window Shopping Three HyperCard stacks and FormSet. Macworld = 3 Need some animation ideas? 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To get an idea of how big 160GB is, imagine two thousand 80MB hard disks—enough to store about 80 million pages of text, Micro Dynamics in- stalled its first jukebox- equipped MARS system in October 1989. The jukebox—also known as Writable Disk Autochanger model WDA-3000-10—has two optical disk drives and 50 optical disks, which are changed by a robot arm. In addition to the jukebox, MARS works with WORM optical disks; other compo- nents of the system include high-speed scanners, OCR text-recognition devices, lo- cal area networks, and laser printers, For more informa- tion, call Micro Dynamics at 301/589-6300. FoxBase+/Mac Multi-User ® FoxBase+/Mac, the fast- est database-management software available for the Mac, is now available in a multiuser version. FoxBase+/ Mac Multi-User provides full record- and file-locking on AppleShare and compatible LANs, including 3Com’s 3+ and the soon-to-be-released Novell Netware version 2.15. Multi-User is completely compatible with Apple stan- dards and with the methods and language syntax used in the PC multiuser versions of FoxBase+. Users on mixed PC and Macintosh networks can share the same data, index, format, and program files. FoxBase+/Mac Multi-User lists for $595. For further information, contact Fox Software at 419/874-8678. Macs to Minis to Macs P Ideassociates has intro- duced its Ideacomm Mae, the first communications board designed to link a Macintosh SE to an IBM System 36/38 or AS/400 midrange system. The new board, which Apple expects will help the Mac further penetrate organiza- tions that use the IBM ma- chines, supports bidirectional file transfer between the Mac and IBM systems. The Ideacomm Mac board plugs into the SE’s expansion slot and connects to the IBM System 36, System 38, or AS/ 400 via twinax or twisted- pair cabling. Mac SEs, IBM PCs, and PS/2 systems can all attach to the midrange sys- tem on the same line. Users can cut and paste data from the minicomputer into Mac applications. Idea- comm Mac supports Hyper- Card XCMDs, allowing users to tailor applications to their needs. You can run, and view, up to four host ses- sions simultaneously. Ideacomm Mac allows printers such as the Image- Writer Plus and the Laser- Writer to emulate IBM sys- tem printers. For remote communications, the board connects to an IBM 5294 or 5251 Model 12 cluster controller. Slated to ship in January, the Ideassociates board re- tails for $995 including sofi- ware. For more information, call Ideassociates at 508/663- 6878. Larger SE Screens for Less P Mobius Technologies believes it has a solution for SE users who long for larg- er screens but can’t afford them. Mobius's MultiScreen, a video board with software, lets you attach a wide range of inexpensive high-resolu- tion monitors to the SE. MultiScreen can display multiple resolutions on the same screen—640 by 480, 720 by 540, or 800 by 560 pixels, all selectable from software—and redraw the display on an external mon- itor up to 30 percent faster than the SE alone. MultiScreen should allow users to see almost a full page lengthwise for half the cost of a typical full-page display. MultiScreen is priced at $495. For more information, contact Mobius Technologies at 415/654-0556. New Accelerators P A line of accelerator boards from Irwin Magnetics, the XL, XL 20, and XL 25 Mac Bulletin Excelerators, boosts the pro- cessing speed of the Mac SE by up to eight times. The XL doubles the SE’s speed by replacing its 8-MHz 68000 microprocessor with a 16- MHz 68000. The XL 20 and XL 25 accelerate the SE to more than three times faster than a Mac Il, by replacing the 68000 with a 20-MHz or 25-MHz 68020, respectively. Prices for the boards are $499 for the XL, $999 for the XL 20, and $1600 for the XL 25. For more information, call Irwin at 313/930-9000. New Monitors P A host of high-resolu- tion monitors have been in- troduced recently, and one thing they all share is ergo- nomic design and a tilt-and- swivel base. Three of the new monitors support the Mac II equipped with the standard Mac II Video Card at its 640 by 480 resolution. All three are priced well below the AppleColor High-Resolu- tion RGB Monitor: NEC's MacSync monitor lists for $895, Magnavox’s 9CM080 for $699, and Relisys’s RE1475 monitor for $645. Another NEC monitor, the MultiSyne 3D, supports the Mac II Video Card as well as a wide range of display modes such as IBM’s 8514 standard, VGA, PGA, EGA, CGA, MDA, and super VGA (800 by 600). NEC hopes that the MultiSync’s flexibility will make it a common choice for corporations seeking to stan- (continues) Macworld 13 Mac Bulletin dardize; it supports IBM AT, IBM PS/2, and Mac II com- puters. The list price is $1049. Relisys is also competing for corporate customers who use both Macs and PCs. The RE1520 monitor is compat- ible with the TBM 8514 dis- play graphics standard and displays an unlimited num- ber of colors with a resolu- tion of 1024 by 768 pixels. The list price is $995. Moniterm Corporation has introduced its Viking 2 19- inch monitors for the SE and the II, which will eventually replace the Viking 1, Im- provements include easily accessible controls and indi- cators on the front panel. List price is $1995 for mono- chrome display on the SE and the II, $3045 for gray- scale display on the II. Personal Computer Periph- erals Corporation is market- ing the Shadowgraph gray- scale monitor, which works with the CGC/2 graphics board. The Shadowgraph provides a screen resolution of 1024 by 768 in both L-bit or 8-bit mode, and it is also A/UX compatible. The list price is $3045, For further information, contact NEC Home Electron- ics at 312/860-9500; Magna- vox at 612/521-4499; Relisys at 408/945-1062; Personal Computer Peripherals Cor- poration at 813/884-3092; or Moniterm Corporation at 612/935-4151, High-Capacity Hard Disks > Crate Technology has introduced the InnerCrate 600, a 600MB internal hard disk for the Il. Features include automatic head park- ing and a utility for remap- ping defective areas of the hard disk. The list price is, $3845. On the external hard disk front, NCL America Computer Products has introduced a line for the Mac II, SE, Plus, and 512KE, Capacities of these hard disks range from. 30MB to 675MB, and they are available as the ExpressDrive Series, which fit under the Mac, or as the portable Excel- Drive Series. Both kinds have two SCSI ports so that you can daisy-chain multiple hard disks for even higher storage capacities. List prices for the Express- Drive series are $875 for 30MB, $1075 for SOMB, $1775 for 80MB; for the ExcelDrive series, $895 for 30MB, $1095 for 50MB, $1795 for 80MB, $2295 for 150MB, $4395 for 300MB, and $5195 for 675MB. For more information, con- tact Crate Technology at 800/ 543-5808 (nationwide), or 800/323-9994 (in California), or NCL America Computer Products at 408/734-1006. 1280 by 1024 Resolution Matrox Electronic Sys- tems has developed the first graphics board for the Mac II that can display graphics and text at a resolution of 1280 by 1024 with a choice of 256 colors from a palette of 16.7 million. The NG-1281 board runs under Apple’s 32-bit QuickDraw interface, and Matrox is now modifying the interface to take advantage of the NG-1281's on-board intelligence and graphics capabilities. The board was designed to turn the Mac II into a cost- effective entry-level engineer- ing workstation that can run CAD packages at top speeds. For further information, call Matrox at 514/685-2630. New LAN Options > CBIX, producer of the LAN operating system Net- work-OS, has announced a Mac-to-PC LAN interface and a CD-ROM Delivery System that can be accessed by mul- tiple users through CBIX’s Network-OS LAN operating system, Network-OS Mac-PC Con- nection lets Macintosh users run PC applications and share PC network resources, such as printers and storage devices, The Network-OS CD-ROM Delivery System enables mul- tiple users to access data- bases stored on CD ROM disks. For further informa- tion, contact CBIX at 404/446-1332. Software Piracy Protection P Rainbow Technologies is shipping a Mac version of its Eye copy-protection system, which defends developers’ software while letting users make unlimited backup co- pies. Eve consists of a hard- ware key and development software. Developers use the Eve software to set up a se- curity system of “locks” in- side their applications. When an application is shipped, the hardware key is included. The end user plugs the key into the Apple Desk- top Bus, where the key can open the locks embedded in the application. The hard- ware sends a “challenge” to the lock, which must reply or the application halts. The backup copies also contain the software locks, so the backups work only when the key is installed, which prevents piracy. A user can transfer the key and software to any single Mac SE or Mac Il. Users who buy Eve-pro- tected software from several developers can install hard- ware keys provided sep- arately by each developer. Keys will not interfere with each other, the company says. The Eve system sells to devel- opers for $45 each in lots of 500, or $55 in lots of 100. For more information contact Rainbow Technologies at 714/261-0228. SBT Announces Mac Accounting Programs P Major dBase application developer SBT Corporation says it’s shipping its first Macintosh programs, part of the new Series Six Plus/Mac portion of the SBT Database Accounting Library. Created in FoxBase+/Mac and fully compatible with Database Ac- counting Library software run- ning on IBM PCs and UNIX/ XENIX systems, the first four Mac programs are dLedger, diInvoice, dStatements, and dPayables. Single-user ver- sions (scheduled for release before the end of 1988) cost $395, $295, $100, and $395, respectively. Multiuser ver- sions, called MultiNet by SBT, will ship soon after the multi- user version of FoxBase. A total of 15 programs, all FoxBase versions of exist- ing SBT accounting products, are planned for Series Six Plus/Mac; all will have multi- user versions and will offer compatibility with the other major operating systems run- ning SBT accounting soft- ware. For more information, call SBT Corporation at 415/331-9900. 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There is no need to ask any longer if Apple Computer will make-it into the twenty-first century; the question now is what the company will look like. So rather than make this a paean to the Macin- tosh, I'm taking one more opportunity to conjecture on Apple itself. Because of the frequency with which the company is reor- ganized, that’s difficult—but perhaps change is the crux of the matter. Surely no other company in the Fortune 200 is in such a constant state of flux. There is a joke at Apple that the com- pany’s organization charts are kept in Mac- Draw because of the frequent changes. Re- cently the company’s reorgs reached the nadir when a new organization chart for marketing, labeled Step One, was pro- duced with the admonition that it only rep- resented areas of responsibility and did not constitute a true organization chart (or words to that effect). It’s getting mighty thick in Cupertino. Time for hip boots? Many people have begun to ask whether the repeated reorganizations are a sign of the company’s ability to adapt in re- sponse to rapid growth, or the manifesta- tion of a company subject to weak leader- ship, power plays, rapid staff turnover, and lack of overall direction. John Sculley sees the reorgs as the former: planned, dir- ected, well-defined events that pave the company’s road toward the twenty-first century. Third-party developers, many of whom understand the need for growing companies to change, have taken to throw- ing their hands up. They spend months es- tablishing contacts within Apple, only to find that these valued sources of informa- tion or direction change overnight. Sim- ilarly, some Apple managers find them- selves in new jobs overnight through executive fiat. But that may be preferable to Commentary/Jerry Borrell Outside Looking In The fifth anniversary of the Macintosh the status of those who keep their old jobs —one manager told me he had seven bosses in two years. An asset to the com- pany who has seen too much change, he is by turns either enthusiastic or burned out and cynical after five years at Apple. Such rapid change raises several ques- tions: not only whether Apple’s managers have the institutional memory to deal ade- quately with the company’s developers and customers (no, say many), but also whether the philosophy of change itself has become institutionalized at the company. A Company of Opposites Indeed, Apple is a company of oppo- sites. For every superlative one can direct toward Apple, there is a negative counter- part. Those who work for the company find ita mecca of high salaries, good bene- fits, profit sharing, stock options, fast growth, stability (at least compared to a small developer), high energy. It offers young people tremendous opportunity. So it attracts them—and some of them realize their dreams. For others it is a sweet- scented trap. Once lured in, they are caught by the pay and benefits and the life- styles those benefits engender, but they feel unable to bring their skills to bear in ways that can help the company or allow them to realize their potential. Many bright and capable people believe the system is set up to ensure failure. Apple is run by consensus. Decisions are made at the top, to be certain. But the implementation is left to midlevel manag- ers. Ambitious managers at Apple find their days given over to incessant meetings, forc- ing them to set aside their evenings for get- ting real work done. Meeting fever leads to wasted time, and to decisions that cater to the lowest common denominator. Witness: the debate over who really controls the future of favorite projects such as multi- media. This project has nearly a dozen groups within the company, each with some claim to implementing it. Consensus-building can lead to real- istic goals, broadly understood and sup- ported by groups within the company. But managers often find themselves at odds with their peers who have alternative ways to achieve the goals. A group works la- boriously toward a consensus, only to have its decision second-guessed by others who couldn't make the meeting. Or a dissident member effects a pocket veto by avoiding acrucial meeting and then announcing that the arrived-at decision cannot be im- plemented without consideration of other agendas. Nor do these traits lead to a company that makes decisions well—for two years Apple did not formally recognize that the Macintosh sold into the home. The official explanation that Apple did not want the Mac to be seen as a home computer came at a time when 85 percent of our readers had Macintoshes at home. This monolithic approach, that “We'll tell people what we want to be the truth because it matches our goals,” is out of place at a company sup- posedly in touch with its market. It was a sad irony juxtaposed with the lemming campaign. Even today, the company seems all too capable of marching to its dogma rather than to reality. Ata time when many have begun to recognize that the future of the office is in the home, Apple promotes the idea that the Mac is a success in the business market. To its credit, the company once had a manager for the home-office market. The ability of Apple to believe in itself, and its own perception of the truth, is leg- endary. Little wonder, then, that even its most acute critics seem to have a soft spot for the company. An Apple manager once said to me, “It’s amazing what you guys in the press let us get away with. We've made some really bad blunders, and no one calls (continues) Macworld 19 Here’s why. 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Nisus isa trademark of Paragon Concepts, Inc a ARAGON (619) 481-1477 Outside CA (800) 922-2993 4954 Sun Valley Rd., Del Mar, CA 92014 Circle 253 on reader service card Commentary/erry Borrell us on it” If that is a widely held perception within Apple, it's no wonder that execu- tives feel they can say what they want. On the other hand, Apple will go to great lengths to please some groups—such as financial analysts. Last fall’s price hike, for example, is said to have been based on the need to keep Apple's traditionally high profit margins of over 50 percent. Despite the price hike, and another increase in quarterly revenues, the price of the stock dropped to a year low, Was it worth it? ANimble Company? Nor does Apple exhibit the suppleness of a young, ambitious company, if a $200 million dollar CPU backlog is any indicator. Lethargic might be a more appropriate term. Apple seems to be quietly waiting for IBM, which is preparing an onslaught against the desktop computer, engineering workstation, and personal computer mar- kets. Not with OS$/2, but with a machine based on Next’s model of unified printing and imaging (PostScript), AIX (IBM's ver- sion of UNIX), and Next’s software archi- tecture (NextStep). The great news for these markets is that UNIX will be friendly. Apple’s HEX utility is a strong, incremental step. But IBM will have the equivalent of a finder-level implementation of AIX on its machine. Many remember the origins of Apple's struggles with UNIX. Chris Espinosa (Ap- ple employee number 9), a brilliant young contributor to the company, was given the task of heading product management for A/UX. Simultaneously he was the manager for HyperCard. This is an example of the company setting up some of its best to fail. Espinosa’s contribution to the company is one of public record. Setting him up to compete against the likes of Bill Joy and others who helped to develop UNIX is lu- dicrous. The slow development of A/UX at Apple reflects more upon management than upon the product manager: Which raises another question. As the company grows, is it building mechanisms to allow it to e the right decisions? One of the company’s newest buildings houses its executive staff: John Sculley, Jean-Louis Gassée, Allan Loren, Del Yocam, Deborah Coleman, and a host of other VPs. Does this improve decision making by bringing to- gether key managers who can share infor- mation more easily, or does it create an ex- ecutive ghetto where upper management (continues) When it comes electronic mail, InBox is TOPS. InBox ‘the powerful yet easy to use electronic mail system is now part of the family of TOPS ‘net- working products. Which makes InBox the most well- connected E-mail software you can buy. 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Other brands and products are trademarks oftheir respective holders, Connect Wang and Macintosh YsCom/Macintosh—The industr' ndard Wang VS 2110 terminal emulation and file transfer software is now lable for the Apple Macintosh. VsCom/Macintosh provides true Wang VS 2110 terminal emulation including complete support of the Macintosh user interface standard. TANG-O remotely through Wang VS ADC, EADC, MULTC or WACS communication ports. Wang VS function keys are ‘nt oocument accessible through continuously p] Benenden = Soeurent Filing ms, the Macinto: sh nae Terainate tora Processing luANG US LORO PROCESSING svsTEn 222 West Adams Street * Chicago, Illinois 60606 II (PHONE: 312.443.1222 + vax: 312.443.1377 * TELEX. 650 3306745 * Mc MAIL: 3306 Circle 160 on reader service card 22 February 1989 VsCom connects locally and Ie File Edit Connections WA’ Other Pleose select next octivity aussie et reas Commentary/erry Borrell is isolated from midlevel managers? Two years ago you could see Sculley having lunch in the cafeteria of the engineering building of the company. Does that still happen? Until recently Apple had no plan to provide for the retirement of its employees. Sculley's position was that people don’t re- tire from Apple. “They come here and spend a few years and then go to other places,” he said. Such a theme would be anathema at organizations like 3M or IBM where the staff is seen as a company’s most precious resource. In late October Apple did announce a plan to begin contributing to the 401(k) plans of its employees. Some point out that this is only fair, as the com- pany has become tightfisted with stock options. Still, the point has to do with Apple’s willingness to invest in people—to train, to retrain, to relocate. On the one hand the company has Apple University for internal training courses, provides for reimburse- ment on outside coursework, has coopera- tive agreements leading to an MBA with a neighboring college, and has management- training sessions. Its unique sabbatical, the ReStart program, provides a six-week vaca- tion to people who've been employed for five years. On the other hand I most often hear about sabbaticals from people who say, “Well, if they're going to reorg my position, then I might as well just take my sabbatical and find a new job when I get back” There is also criticism that the company’s ap- proach to management training is a mé- lange of pop, psycho-social fluff that im- parts few skills outside of aerobics and supervisory techniques. Farewell Developers? Another trend at Apple, albeit unwit- ting, is that Apple appears to be devouring its third-party developers. “I had a pro- grammer,” says one developer. “Key archi- tect of my product. He just went to work for Apple. They doubled his salary. | couldn't begin to compete with that.” This is a fre- quently heard story. But as the company employee count goes over 11,000, a good question is where can Apple find talented programmers and engineers if not among the developers who know Apple best. It could even be beneficial, as Apple absorbs. engineers from companies that find them- selves in a losing battle with the company. It gains people who know a great deal (continues) THERE’S MORE THAN ONE WAY TO SCAN A CAT Macintosh graphic. Then, with 2 powerful set of software tools written by Mac developer Andy Hertzfeld, ThunderScan lets you change, enhance and save the image in a wide variety of ways. When you want to create graphics with your Macintosh, there’s no need to pussyfoot around with anything less than Thunder- Scan. ThunderScan® turns any printed image into a detailed, high resolution CAT (AKA Kitty) Start with any original image, black and white or color. 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Circle 176 on reader service card The flute re radomark of compares nba TeurdeSca, Tundra ate Trend i Mandese, nc; Maciush, Abs; Imagerie an taser ier Ae Computer, nc, PaaS Adobe Sytem: ne ©1988 urbe Ime A gh reed 24 os The First Full Featured Desk ACcéssory Database. ra j for Text, Color Images, and Grapbics Preferred Publishers, Inc. 5100 Poplar Ave: ‘Suite 706 Memphis, TN + 38137 (800) 446-6393 + (901) 683.3383 4.1988 Preferred Publishers, Inc. All Referenced Trademarks are property of their respective holders Circle 317 on reader service card February 1989 Commentary/erry Borrell about Apple’s products and markets. Cer- tainly as the company includes ever more in its System software or announces addi- tional peripherals, some developers wonder what the future in third-party development really is. Atthe same time Apple is creating a multitiered organization for its developers. With 8000-odd developers of some note, it has to find some way to help those who can help Apple the most. The evangelist group, the group most responsible for aid- ing Apple, is now directed by its third man- ager in little over a year. Nor is evangelism fully staffed. Such turnover is not likely to produce the stable, mature, and experi- enced management an organization needs. Many gifted people are in charge of the evangelists—are they provided with the environment that will allow them to succeed? The complaints about Apple’s in- frastructure range from the global to the minute. The company is willing to provide great pay for its staff, but hires insufficient administrative staff or secretarial support to allow that talented staff to do its job. Another internal group, Apple’s Hu- man Resources department, is the target of a love-hate relationship within the organi- zation. On the one hand it’s enlightened: recognized for its efforts in minority hir- ing, child-care facilities, forward-looking policies in areas such as maternity leave, and employee advocacy. On the other hand it’s the bane of the organization. Rather than playing a support role, Apple’s Human Resources staff is in many ways a second group of managers who focus on how the company is working. Helpful in an organization run by con- sensus, HR often works behind the scenes to reconcile opposing groups’ decisions. But the group can be troublesome in instances where its staff may second-guess front-line decision makers who are respon- sible for the outcome of decisions. Some managers find that the group disrupts su- pervisor/employee relationships that it un- derstands little, effectively depriving man- agers of any real authority in a structure already lacking in ways to make things happen, Worse, the HR staff itself some- times gets embroiled in its respective groups bids for money, employees, or control. (continues) Circle 230 on reader service card Customer Profile Rick Smolan Age: Withheld upon request. Profession: World class photographer, entre- preneur and inspirational force behind the now famous Day in the Life of Australia; Day in the Life of the Soviet Union; Day in the Life of America— you get the picture. Hobbies: When he’s not taking photos in exotic places like Bangkok, Nairobi or Cairo, Rick enjoys kicking back, relaxing, and possibly doing some serious scanning of articles related to one of his favorite subjects—Levitation as practiced by Tibetan monks. His Page Recognition Software: OmniPage, of course. Why else would we have him in our ad? According to Rick: “Coordinating 100 photographers in the Soviet Union for a one day photo shoot is no easy task for a small group like ours—despite what you hear about glasnost. Especially when you have to put an entire book together in a matter of weeks. When we're on assignment each photographer turns in notes— about a given shot—in whatever language he or she speaks. You can imagine some of the type styles that we have to deal with. When do you guys think you'll be able to handle the Cyrillic alphabet?” Favorite Quote: Jonathan Seybold summed it up best: “OmniPage is the first good reason to buy scanner.” Things Disliked Most: “Scanner software that over promises. Being able to scan any font in almost any column format really makes a differ- ence. | wish that our photographers had the time to submit captions that are 99.9% accurate, or even half as reliable as OmniPage.” Favorite Scan: “I'm developing a library of some of my favorite photography articles—serious professional stuff—and putting it into files that | can get to and use. That’s my idea of a meaningful scan.’ Future of Page Recognition: “The idea of making computers compatible with paper is long overdue. People like myself who are on the move need products like this to save time. Everyone could stand a few less key strokes. | also see some real possibilities for OmniPage in the area of desktop publishing. Being able to scan specific sections from general publications, even typed notes, provides a real benefit to anyone who has to quickly turn around a publication. Do you guys think OmniPage will ever be able to read my handwriting? Our staff would love that.” 1988 Caere Corporation. Commentary/erry Borrell Marketing: Apple’s Forte? The marketing department at Apple is a moving target. I have known so many dif- ferent directors and managers at Apple over the last three years, that it is truly a wonder that the company maintains any continuity at all within the group. The staff below the level of vice president never knows what is going on for longer than a few months. Even the vice presidents play office musical chairs. No other group in the company is so rife with rumors. No other group is so often affected by poor morale or left without clear goals, spending time interviewing for other jobs and speculating on who will be doing what, where, and when. There is always a reorg under way, with promises of more announcements later—heaven knows who thinks this is a responsible way to treat a large group of employees. Apple segment marketing—educa- tion, engineering, business, consumer, and the home—are now said to be going away, to be replaced by regional marketing ef- forts. And the regions have recently multi- plied from three to five. Is it growth, plan- ning, or ill-communicated reshuffling? Apple does appear to be building stronger relationships with its value-added resellers. Still, I receive calls from resellers asking me for advice on who they should talk to at Apple, or complaining that Apple’s policies regarding support, or the company’s deter- mination of who qualifies as a VAR, are grossly unfair. I patiently explain that I work for a consumer magazine, not the trade press, and suggest that they contact the appropriate group at Apple. And the lesson of Apple’s hubris in re- gard to its beliefs and goals applies to mar- keting efforts as well. I will never forget sit- ting in the audience in Tokyo as Apple unveiled its desktop publishing push for Japan. The Apple speaker was politely but firmly asked what made Apple believe that it would succeed in Japan with desktop publishing as it had in the United States, which was the contention of the speaker. The response was that, well, Apple had done it in the States, Apple would do well here. The look on the face of the ques- tioner said, “Right. You and the rice farmers from Louisiana” A few yeats ago, on the other side of the globe, Apple introduced an innovation into European marketing: the AppleCentre concept. Apple formed a partnership with strategic Apple dealers and funded expan- sions to their stores that provided a train- ing and demonstration space for Apple and third party products. It looked good at first. European prices for the Macintosh are much higher than here in the United States, and the AppleCentres added a touch of class to the computer store in keeping with the high price tags. Now the owners I have talked to say the concept is winding down, becoming a financial burden, and no more support from Apple is forthcoming. Sez Who? It's pretty hard to argue with success, and Apple is definitely successful. It is also easy to criticize from the outside, but the company does have problems as it cele- brates the Macintosh’s fifth anniversary. 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Circle 300 on reader service card Letters A forum for Macworld readers On Accounting I was very disappointed with the super- ficial manner in which the accounting packages were reviewed in your Septem- ber 1988 issue ["Who Keeps the Books?” ]. After reading this article, a novice would think that there were numerous accounting packages to choose from. As a practicing CPA, I can assure you that the current sta- tus of Macintosh accounting software is abominable. Your review stated that a bookkeeper would love Insight. I will testify under pen- alty of perjury that bookkeepers hate this program. Because it saves only a summa- rized portion of a transaction—no detailed accounting information is stored on hard Corrections Aba Software's telephone number (Mac Bulletin, September 1988) is 215/644-3580. The telephone number for LaserGraphics (New Products, October 1988) is 714/660-9497. The correct phone number for Sphere, inc., maker of Falcon 2.0 (Updates, January 1988), is 415/522-3584. The telephone number for Tecmar (‘Why Say No to Backup?” November 1988) is 216/349-0600. The address for Abaton (‘Getting Started with Scanners,” November 1988) is 48431 Milmont Dr, Fremont, CA 94538. MacChimney (“Merry Macintosh,” December 1988) ts available from Silicon Comforts, 2650 Bancroft Way, #117, Berkeley, CA 94704, and the $17.95 price includes shipping in the United States. disk—bookkeepers must review paper printouts to find individual entries. No wonder the reviewer added that “the series will not begin to realize its full potential for a couple of years: David R. Satava Oakland, California Design Costs Let me begin by applauding Macworld for two very well written and informative arti- cles (“Is Desktop Publishing Worth It?” and “A Halftone Handbook,” October 1988) on the limitations and usefulness of desktop publishing and digital halftoning on the Mac. Both should go a long way toward clearing up the confusion and hype that currently surround those topics in some trade journals and computer magazines. Here at ImageSet Design, we found the cost-comparative breakdown both in- teresting and informative, but we were struck—not by the relative cost savings that desktop publishing offers in terms of setting type—but by how inexpensive the designers’ quotes were for design and pro- duction costs. We wondered if Frank Lee’s comment in “Is Desktop Publishing Worth It?” that “some desktop publishers would earn more money mowing lawns” might not also be applicable to some of the de- signers who were quoted. Mark U. Beale Portland, Maine Design costs vary widely and the rates quoted in the article were solicited from graphic designers. Electronic publishing (continues) Macworld 31 MultiDisk” The sensational new disk partitioning utility! Hard disk makers recognize the need to parti- tiona disk As hard disks have increased in size, the need has become critical. However, the Macintosh File System is so complex and users are so demanding, no adequate utility has been offered. We challenged the Macintosh disk experts who created DiskExpress to deliver a solution. They succeeded with MultiDisk ‘MultiDisk provides you with effortless parti- tioning. You can add or delete partitions at any time without having to erase your disk. Multi- Disk has the exclusive ability to create parti- tions that occupy fragmented space (SUM and. Hard Disk Partition” need DiskExpress to defrapment the free space), Another exclusive is the ability to. enlarge a partition without hav- Ing to recreate it. You can start with a small partition and then grow it as needed. This pre- vents the waste of your valuable disk space caused by other partitioning software. A third ‘exclusive is the ability to create partitions within partitions. 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To the Rescue Do you know what it feels like to see the message “unrecoverable disk error” on a vital and (of course) unbacked- up Micro- soft Word file? Where does the av user go to get help? Your Januar cle “HELP!” mentioned that Silicon Beach Software in San Diego takes tech-support calls for general Mac problems. Well, on two recent 0 ilicon Beach was there for me. Ken Jones, among others, an- swers the phones, reassures the desperate, and is extraordinarily helpful. He even called back to check up on me. I feel Sili- con Beach and its wonderful staff deserve public praise and thanks. Carol Piston Brooklyn, New York Upgrade Questions Our company has been using a seven- module, Ma ised TOPS system for about a year. All seven nodes are registered, but we have never received any communica- tion or verification from TOPS. Three weeks ago, having found our TOPS Spool to be incompatible with the latest LaserWriter print tool, I requested and subsequently received an upgrade disk. 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Profession: Author of the all-time best selling book, The Complete HyperCard Handbook, and more recanily Danny Guedman@ HyserCard Developer's Guide; software developer (Business Class and Focal Point Il). Described as a genuine “Renaissance Man”! Hobbies: His idea of a good time is to scan the comprehensive quotes of the great Serbo-Croatian joets while enjoying a good glass of Chenin Blanc. lapa Valley, of course. He prefers non-computer pe bouns like the one on his Bechstein grand piano. A compulsive researcher! His Page Recognition Software: OmniPage, of course. According to Danny: “In preparing a book, or working on a special Piolo need to get at information quickly to avoid dis- turbing my work flow. With Oinnibage: Ican scan sual any font, or font size, in any column format, and easily place it into an existing file. 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(lt should have been released by the time you read this.)—Ed. ‘Two-faced Tip In Quick Tips (September 1988), there's a tip on how to simplify printing two copies of double-sided output. To achieve the de- sired result, however, you must put your first stack of assembled pages in the Laser- Writer tray faceup, not facedown. Phil Russell Waldport, Oregon Object Logo Praised Lenjoyed your October 1988 issue very much. Macworld is one of the few maga- zines of which I have a complete collec- tion, and it is pleasant to observe that the quality of the writing has always remained high. I particularly liked the article “Get- ting Smart” by Dan Shafer, and I was happy to see the inclusion of software by Coral Software. I have used Coral’s Object Logo for more than a year and can highly recom- mend it. Object Logo is one of the most elegant implementations of object-oriented pro- gramming (besides being the most accessi- ble and inexpensive). It’s simple to use, of- fers nearly complete access to the Toolbox, and costs less than $150. In more than 12 months of heavy use, I've never had this program bomb, and have never found a programming task too complex for it to handle adequately. And, the few times I've called Coral to ask about future versions or particular implementation features, I've gotten quick, courteous, and—most im- portant—informed and helpful responses (continues) A To anarchit fine hairlines like ours ROS —— are pure poetry te ; NI B Auo-tracing built Bie Gi this banana from a (SIE) me fy scanned-in produce ad ole . NZ In split seconds. ALD ee we © Multi-point bezier Paks ? Ei Gis drawing a eal : Colors are Cia added in layers. =o —= D Auto-resizing helped this VP. of Sales display the fruits of his labor, graphically. 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