MacWorld 8904 April 1989

49 NEW PRODUCTS—PAGE 201 « 24 PRODUCT REVIEWS—PAGE 152 ae The Macintosh’ Magazine Coverage of Apple’s New Mac PageMaker, Quark Xpress & ReadySetGo: How They Compare Statistics Software Music for Beginners Moving PC Files to the Mac Ten Techniques for Speed. Fasten your seatbelts, Mac*fans. You’re about to enter the Microsoft Zone. Earlier this week I witnessed a demo of Microsoft’s products that left me feeling as enlightened as the day I first set my eyes on a Macintosh® Here’s acompany with a reputation for singularly superior products. But what they showed me pushed the envelope of software productivity: soft Mail. You can send and receive infor- mation between members in your work- group even if they’re on a PC, Nice. But the real beauty is that you can 4.0. No other company can offer that kind of integration. Or this kind: A product line that all works together. With other applications on the Mac. And even ‘products forthe Macthavy “all work together. The significance of which hit me like a ton of bricks when I saw them in action. For instance, I saw a Here’s a company with a reputation for singularly superior products. But what they showed me pushed the envelope of software productivity: A with such PC standards like Lotus? 1-2-3*, Mi- crosoft Word 5.0 and WordPerfect*. What’s more, every product is supported by Or you can call one number Customers in 16) 678-7638. Untusand 123 ‘chart in your very favor- complete line of products ite spreadsheet and mine, that all work together. Microsoft» Excel, updated from within» Microsoft Word4,Ousingjusvafewkeystrokes. And then pasted into PowerPoint® for an in- credible looking presentation. And with just as little effort, the ever- capable Microsoft Word 4.0:was merged ithoM ft’sed li As if that wasn’t enough, I saw their versatile integrated program Works share files with Microsoft Excel and Word. What really blew me away is Micro- Outdide North trademarks of Lotus Deve WEST SIDE USERS GROUP if (206) 882.8661. Copy ion WordPerieet i for. unlimited technical support. Obviously, I’m impressed. So much so, that I’ve asked Microsoft to send copies of their Macintosh product line brochure in time for our next meeting. If you can’t make it, you can always getafree'copy by calling (800)'541=12615 Depto192. Fellow Macphiles, man your Macs. Because we're entering anew age of com- patibility—or at least Microsoft is. And I don’t know about you, but I plan on going along for the ride. rightsreberved. Micto fiPerfectCorporition. A person onteat yision will come into your life. sade Ad akg all niak sende ipa trademaik of Microsoft Corporation, Mac, Macintosh arid the Apple ogo ate registefed trademark Macworld 3 13s IS NOW YOUR LUCKY NUMBER 4112 (10 9” X 9" x 3” Padded Pocket for External Disk Drive, Modem, or Accessories. Padded Compartment for Mouse and Cords. 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Add frequently used styles to your menus and turn them on and off with keyboard commands. An eninge 10 000 word cna checks and corrects your spelliig A good leader must be a good communicator So MacWrite HI reads and writes h. MacWrite IT inchudes a desk-accessory thesaurus, too. directly to all these word processing formats. Introducing MacWritell. repstered irademarks of Apple Computer Inc. For the name of the Claris dealer nearest sou. call 800-3CLARIS, ext. 600. By the wu the upgrade is a rea! deal for MacWrte onmers. Call 800-544-8554. In Canada, call 800-668-8948. ina. WHEN YOU'RE MORE PRODUCTIVE, IT SHOWS. MORE Ii: PLANNING, WRITING AND THE OUTLINE MAKES DESKTOP PRESENTATIONS. THE SHOW. Being MORE productive means every- \ Once you have an outline, thing you plan, write, or present is MORE \ your art work is done. Because organized. And it shows in everything you do. 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The kit lets the printer run with QuickDraw-based Mac soft- ware, including MacDraw II, Microsoft Word 3.02, Excel 1.5, PowerPoint, and Cricket Presents. With the kit, the HP Paint- Jet printer supports 256 col- ors on the Mac II and 8 col- ors on the Mac SE and Plus. Depending on the software, users can mix colors to get thousands of shades and hues. The HP PaintJet printer produces 180 dots-per-inch and prints near-letter-quality text at 167 characters per sec- ond, A typical page prints in 30 to 40 seconds. The kit provides bit-mapped printer fonts in sizes from 10-point to 36-point and in Times, Helvetica, Courier, and Symbol fonts. For further in- formation, contact Hewlett- Packard Peripherals Group at 619/592-4676. Crate Hard Drives b Crate Technology is manufacturing eight new hard drives, including Tote- Crate, a removable drive for Macintosh users who work with classified or sensitive data, ToteCrate features a 45MB removable data car- tridge. The other seven drives are a 4OMB Inner- Crate internal disk drive for the Mac SE; 100MB and 160MB InnerCrate internal disk drives; 100MB and 160MB MacCrate external disk drives for the SE and the II; and upgraded 300MB and 600MB InnerCrate in- ternal disk drives for the II. Crate drives are sold through distributors and dealers and directly to government of- fices, educational institutions, and the Fortune 500. For further information, contact Crate Technology at 213/822-4069, New Printing Options ® laser Connection, a QMS subsidiary, is offering three new printing products. First is the new version of MacjJet software, which lets Macintosh users print direct- ly to all HP LaserJet series, and compatible, printers. It works with the 512K Mac and up, and it lists for $249. Second is the SX Envelope Cassette Tray, an automatic- feed tray that holds up to 15 envelopes and fits into the paper cassette slot of all Canon §X-based printers, in- cluding QMS Kissplus, QMS- PS 810, HP LaserJet Series II, and Apple LaserWriter II printers. It lists for $85. Third is the BigBin 1000, a motorized paper input tray that lets Apple LaserWriter TISC, NT, and NTX printers hold 1000 sheets of letter size paper, five times more than the standard paper cas- sette. The company also has versions for Canon SX-, Ricoh 4150-, and Ricoh 4080/4081-based laser printers. All BigBin 1000 ver- sions list for $795. For further information, contact Laser Connection at 205/633-7223. Virex Update B® JC Software has up- dated Virex, its antivirus pro- gram for the Mac, to combat two new viruses reported by Virex users. The first is an entirely new and different Mac virus that infects disks the instant they are inserted into an infected computer, It infects programs by inserting INIT 29 resources, so it has been named the INIT29 virus. The second virus is a deri- vative of the nVIR family of viruses, with two minor va- rations that help it escape detection by previous anti- virus software. It is called the Hpat virus because it re- places nVIR resources with Hpat resources. Virex lists for $99.95. Reg- istered users will be notified and offered an update for $15. For further information, contact HJC Software at 919/490-1277. 84MB Drive from PCPC P Personal Computer Pe- ripherals Corporation (PCPC) has announced an addition to its line of MacBottom SCSI hard disks for the Mac Plus, SE, and II. The new MacBot- tom HD84 offers a formatted storage capacity of 84MB. The new drive combines a 19-millisecond average ac- Mac Bulletin cess time, an interleaf ratio of 1:1, and a track cache. The track cache tries to cal- culate what the next request for data will be and stores that data in memory on the drive's controller board, The HD84 comes fully formatted and includes PCPC’s popular HFS Backup 3.0 and other disk utilities. An internal, Hayes-compat- ible 300/1200-baud modem is optional. For further infor mation, contact PCPC at 813/884-3092, In-CAD P Infinite Graphics has been hard at work on its In- Vision family of advanced CAD/CAM software for the Mac, In-CAD, the first pack- age available, provides both 3-D solids modeling and 2-D drafting capabilities, Tradi- tionally, these two functions are sold as individual pro- grams and often don’t even share the same user interface. In-CAD contains a true Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG)-based modeling program and thus provides a more complete object model than can be achieved with wire-frame or surface modelers, Building-block primitives and Boolean operations are used to add and subtract material, and the resulting model may be viewed from any direction with hidden lines removed, shaded, or sectioned, (continues) Macworld 13 Mac Bulletin In-CAD also has a transla- tor specifically for AutoCAD. DXF files, full geometry cre- ation and editing, a user programming language, a WYSIWYG interface, and an IGES translator for importing and exporting files between other CAD systems. In-CAD operates on the Mac II only and lists for $1945. For further informa- tion, contact Infinite Graph- ies at 612/721-6283. Hot Presentations P General Parametrics Corporation, a leader in desktop presentation prod- ucts for the IBM PC, has entered the Mae market with three models of its Video- Show Desktop Presentation System. Each model pro- duces and shows slides, transparencies, overheads, and handouts. The portable presentation units can be connected to any color mon- itor or large screen video projector. You operate them with wireless, hand-held remote-control units and choose between a broad spectrum of special effects such as fades, wipes, spirals, weaves, and an on-screen pointer, The top of the VideoShow line is the VideoShow Pro- fessional, retailing for $8995. The VideoShow Executive retails for $2695 and the VideoShow Companion for $1795. For further informa- tion, contact General Par- ametries at 415/524-3950. Apple Lowers SE/30 Prices P& Apple its SE/30 pric changed the system's con- figurations, in part due to the unpopularity of last fall's price hikes. Now at the low- end is the SE/30 with IMB of RAM and an FDHD floppy drive for $4500, The low-end hard disk configuration in- cludes 1MB of RAM, an in- ternal 40OMB hard disk, an FDHD, and a keyboard, all for $5000, At the high end, you get 4MB of RAM, an internal 80MB hard disk, and an FDHD for $6500 to $6700. For further information, contact Apple Computer at 415/996-1010. NEC’s Printer ® NEC Information Sys- tems has introduced the Silentwriter LC 890XL Post- Script page printer, featuring the new 68020-based Atlas controller from Adobe Sys- tems. The printer comes with 4MB of RAM that is expand- able to 8MB, and offers an external 20MB hard disk option. The 20MB disk lets users cache large numbers of fonts and overlays. The LC 890XL uses LED- array technology and has a tated print speed of 8 pages- per-minute. It includes 35 resident typefonts and accepts downloadable fonts from Adobe, Other features include emulation of HP LaserJet TI series and Diablo 630 ECS; Centronics parallel, RS-232C serial, and RS-422 AppleTalk interfaces; and two 250-sheet input hoppers. The LC 890XL lists for $6995. The optional 20MB hard disk costs $999. The printer was scheduled to ship in March. For more informa- tion, contact NEC Information Systems at 508/264-8000. MacDot Printer B® Advanced Matrix Tech- nology (AMT) has introduced the MacDot printer to com- pete with the Apple Image- Writer LQ and ImageWriter Il printers. The first 24-wire printer for the Macintosh, MacDot prints draft-quality pages at 480 characters per second, provides a variety of graphics resolutions, and prints text from 5 to 20 pitch. Text attributes include bold, shadow, italics, under- line, proportional, and super- subscript. Fonts include Courier, Gothic, Trend, and Elite. MaeDot prints both text and graphics in either black and white or full color. For further information, contact AMT at 800/992-2264. Sony, Pinnacle Ship Erasable Optical Drives & Considered to represent a new generation in storage, magneto-optical disk technol- ogy (the storage technology used in the Canon drive an- nounced for Steve Jobs’s Next computer) has arrived for the Macintosh. Sony Corporation says it has begun shipping magneto-optical drives to Pinnacle Micro of Irvine, California, which is incorpo- rating them in its recently in- troduced 650MB removable, erasable disk system, the REO-650. The erasable optical drive attaches to the Mac's SCSI port. Removable 650MB disks cost $230 each; the REO-650 lists for $5995. Pinnacle will also offer a two- drive unit, the REO-1350. For more information, call Pinnacle at 714/727-3300, Network Server from Jasmine > Jasmine Technologies has rolled out DirectSerye, a com- bination of software and ex- ternal hardware that provides faster, cheaper AppleShare networking than setups based on a dedicated Macintosh, DirectServe is built around a 68000 chip, includes Apple- Share code in ROM, and comes with IMB of RAM (expandable to 4MB). Data caching in- creases Direct-Serve’s perfor- mance. Network cost per node is projected to be about half that of a traditional AppleShare network, DirectServe, slated to ship in February, will cost $1299. For more information, call Jasmine at 415/282-1111, New WriteNow Now p> T/Maker is shipping WriteNow version 2.0, which includes over 50 new features, including three dictionaries (arge, small, and user-created), character/word/paragraph count, smart quotes, mail merge, and direct importing and exporting of RTF (rich text format) and MacWrite files. WriteNow 2.0 is now compat- ible with MultiFinder, the Apple Extended Keyboard, AppleShare, TOPS, and other networking systems. It comes on two 800K disks; one disk is optimized for use on single- floppy-drive systems. WriteNow 2.0 has a list price of $195; registered owners who bought version 1.0 after January 15, 1988, will receive the upgrade free, For more information, contact ‘T/Maker at 415/962-0195. 0 April 1989 “Two or three years from now, the typical laser printer will be a lot like the Business LaserPrinter™: small, light, with a SCSI connector for a hard disk, and inexpensive.’ That how Publish! magazine characterized our Business LaserPrinter (BLP), a Postscript® printer for Mac- THE FUTURE OF | intoshes® IBMs° and IBM clones. Wed only add that the future has arrived ahead of schedule. p Simply stated, the BLPis a bet- LJ ter way to translate the language Called Postscript into the graphics, words and numbers people use to communicate in business. AT WILL Better because the BLP lets you—oranyone else onyourApple- Talk® network—produce superior TAKE IT THERE text with the aid of 39 fonts (four m@ more than ournearest competitor). Better because the BLP comes with expandable RAM (two megabytes expand- able to four), which lets you increase print speed. And ee it has a SCSI port, which lets desktop publishers extend the font storage capacity of the BLP via a hard disk. Finally, the BLP even takes better care of your bottom line. In fact, you can buy a BLP and a dedicated hard disk for less than the price of a LaserWriter® Il NT alone. Someday, if Publish! magazine is right, other printers Aly will offer all this. But if yeu Bee a e nas ae visit your — authorized GCC Technologies clealer fora lemon- stration. 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The Macworld Expo has become so big an event—more than 50,000 attendees—that people are wont to say, “you know, there just isn’t any- thing exciting at the Expo anymore.” What they’re really saying is that there’s too much to comprehend, too many hundreds of new products to put it all into some understandable, comprehend- ible, get-your-hands-around-it-and-call-it- one-cute-thing form. But I’m going to try. For four days I walked the floors of the Macworld Expo’s two locations: San Francisco’s gleaming convention hall, Moscone Center, and the tattered old Civic Auditorium. I think I stopped at every booth and asked what was new— but I wouldn’t want to swear that I saw everything. Because I spent nearly all my time on the show floor, I certainly didn’t see all of next summer’s products being shown in the hospitality suites off the show floor. I've since heard that there was some really neat stuff outside of the show—hand wave. Mac SE/30 Apple announced its 68030 in a Macintosh chassis with the host of great features we discussed in our March issue. What’s most important about the Commentary/Jerry Borrell Macworld Expo— San Francisco An overview of new products announcement for me is that it shows Apple is keeping its promise to launch a steady stream of products—vital not only to the continued growth of the third- party proclucts that we all love, but also to the long-term competitiveness of Apple Computer. Now for about $5000 we can buy a small computer from Apple that competes with anything other vendors can produce—the low- to mid- range machines from Sun and Apollo, for instance, not to mention the 386 family of machines. Sure, if you run some benchmarks on one of the fast Compaq machines you'll see that it competes with the SE/30, but to choose the Compaq over the SE/30 you'll have to ignore the SE/30’s better interface, networking, software, and so forth. And the fact that you can easily add a large-screen monitor (that will perform better than it would on the original SE due to a change in the connection to the system board) gives new Macintosh puchasers a reason to spend the extra money for the SE/30. Not that engineers, programmers, and anyone who can actually make use of A/UX or floating-point math-based applications will hesitate, another dream machine for those who don’t need the expandability of the Mac IL. Accelerators Is there no end to demands for computing power? No. There are many out there who want faster machines. In fact, an accelerator for the SE/30 was announced the day Apple announced the new machine. Good news for owners of all machines, from the Mac 128K to the Mac II, is the large number of accelerators available for these machines. Spectra’s Proboard and Total System's Gemini, for example, will change your 128K Mac to a Motorola 68020-based machine that rivals the speed of the Mac II (you worry about inding the SCSI interface). And for Mac SE and II owners, there are new 020 or 030 accelerators from DayStar, Dove, SiClone, Aox, Mirage, CSA, and Irwin. Of course, Apple also offers an upgrade for the Mac II and SE, so keep in mind the traditional trade-offs: the security you get with an Apple product versus the fea- tures and lower cost typical of a third- party offering. DPI offers a $269 up- grade for the Mac Plus. Performance How to get greater speed from the Mac was one of the major themes at the show, Disk and memory access are crucial to speed on the Mac (see “Ten Ways to Speed Up a Mac,” in this issue), and many vendors are responding to demands for speed. RAM cache boards are available from Pinnacle Micro, Jets Cybernetics, Golden Triangle, Orchid, and National Semiconductor, The RAM cache is high-speed RAM that allows the CPU to speed up data handling; the DMA boards speed the flow of data from your hard disk to the processor. National Semiconductor was also showing a brute-force solution—a NuBus board for the Mac II, with 64MB of RAM, that keeps applications and huge files all resident in high-speed memory. Alterna- (continues) Macworld 19 Low-Cost Macintosh’ Data Acquisition New SCSI Hardware and Software Solutions for Macintosh Computers Turn your Macintosh Plus, SE or I] into a low-cost labora- tory computer that's powerful and easy-to-use. These simple, versatile outboard boxes pro- vide a variety of I/O options, 28.8k samples/sec throughput via the Macintosh SCSI bus, and control from programming languages or menu-driven programs. Call and discuss your needs with an experienced engineer. ) GW Instruments, Inc. 35 Medford St., Somerville, MA 02143 The Macintosh Data Acquisition Company Circle 124 on reader service card 20 April 1989 Commentary tively, you could employ another person and buy a couple of Mac IIs with the money. Monitors and Video Controllers There are simply too many to list here—which is why these days we have to run two or three major monitor- evaluation articles a year. Our editorial offices look like the wharfs in some 5S ipping port when we start ing these things for review. One note of interest: several major suppliers to the IBM PC market have announced their interest in the Mac market over the past year, including Sigma, Princeton Graphics, Taxan, Mitsubishi, NEC, and others. But in this market they supply video controllers as well—Sigma began last year, and now Taxan has entered the market. After some initial specifica- tions from Apple regarding 32-bit Quick- Draw, many of the older Mac video suppliers have felt compelled to show -bit or 32-bit video boards: SuperMac, RasterOps, Radius, Micron Technology, and PCPC were all demostrating such boards, RasterOps also showed its QPDM video board (with an on-board AMD drawing processor), which speeds QuickDraw considerably, depending upon the application. This is the first attempt to use hardware to accelerate QuickDraw. Storage Three aspects of storage technology stood out at the show: removable hard drives; high-capacity hard disks; and numerous optical offerings. Mass Micro and Jasmine started the trend in remoy- able 45MB hard drive media, followed by Microtech International, CMS En- hancements, and Crate Technologies. These things are great—a godsend if you have a lot to back up and can’t really afford to stack up 300MB drives. The large capacities, 300MB and 600MB, always astonish me. I grew up in an era when 300MB meant a box that looked like a small freezer and was locked up on a raised floor. A 600MB internal for your Mac II? What do you do when it crashes, commit suicide? What do you back it up with—another 600MB drive? Anyway there were 300s and 600s from Imprimis, MicroNet, Relax, Microtech, and Jasmine. The optical drives at the show were legion, and both the write-once, read- many (WORM) and erasable optical (EO) types were represented. Incredibly, only last winter the erasable optical drive for the Next machine was considered a risk, a breakthrough technology. Now it’s got a SCSI interface and is available at a dealer near you. Storage Technology (WORM), Relax (EO), PCPC (EO), CMS, Jasmine, Dolphin Systems, Laserdrive, Macsetra, and Sumo all had drives, ranging in price from $3400 to $4900. So now we have 600MB to 800MB of storage available. Access time will be a problem, compared with magnetic technologies, but in many applications speed considerations will be outweighed by the ability to store and erase on an optical drive. Color Output Another oft-repeated complaint from those skeptical of color graphics on the Mac is the old saw “but there’s no way to get hard copy.” There are plenty of ways—the problem is cost and process- ing time. Agfa-Matrix showed what it ys will be the first PostScript film recorder. Howtek had a $9000 thermal PostScript printer; Schlumberger, a $20,000 color thermal PostScript printer that will compete with the QMS Color- Script, and Tektronix unveiled a Pi Script-clone, networked version of i thermal printer. Tektronix also showed a 216 dpi ink-jet printer for QuickDraw only, Hewlett-Packard had a driver kit ($125) for its PaintJet. And QMS showed its $12,995 PS2200 B-size laser printer (noncolor), only the second B-size— output plain-paper laser printer on the market. Crosfield Lightspeed announced the completion of a driver for its color prepress software for Hell and Scitex laser film plotters, and for Dicomed film recorders. Kodak showed and is ship- ping a thermal printer, the SV6500, that produces 3-by-4-inch prints of E-6 photographic-processing quality. Finally, Presentation Technologies had a new film back for its cameras, which enables you to make 3-by-4-inch transparencies or overhead presentations. And color output is only going to get better. (continues) Ten Reasons Why FileMaker’ Users Are Switching To Panorama” 1. Panorama's drawing package Is far superior for creating and revising forms. In fact, no other database even comes close to Panorama's drawing capabilities. If you've ever struggled with FileMaker® to get a form to look just right, you'll really love the Panorama diifference. 6. Panorama’s bullt-in charts eliminate the hassle of transferring data to a separate charting program. 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Steer and accelerate with the mouse, and use your keyboard for brakes and shifting. Each level is tougher than the last with unpredictable road hazards and many courses to travel. You score points for fast, skillful driving. Road Racer is high perform- ance you won't forget. @ PCAT’ © 1988 PCA! 612-427-4789 Road Racer js a trademark of PCAI Circle 291 on reader service card 22 April 1989 Commentary Graphics A perpetual favorite, Mac graphics ases to surprise me. Levco has ported all of Pixar's Photorealistic Renderman software to its transputer board on the Mac II, Minicomputer- based animation software, the result of a decade of development, is now avail- able on the Mac. Cricket announced a new color-paint package. Electronic Arts, in a tour de force, showed 8-, 16-, and 24-/32-bit versions of its Studio paint program. SuperMac showed a 24-bit version of PixelPaint. LaserPaint has a new version (1.9) with a better inter- face, SuperPaint version 2.0 has finally shipped, and in the SuperMac booth was a truly innovative CAD system for fashion design. VIDI (Visual Information Developer Inc.), formerly VII, has re- designed two earlier imaging and anima- tion programs into a package called Presenter, A firm from France, 2Al, is selling its Bimage image-processing software in the United States. Strade has finished its presentation software for the Mac, PresentationPro. Letraset was quietly showing a color version of its ImageStudio software off the show floor (ColorStudio), Enabling Technologies owed a new 24-bit version of Pro3D, a rendering package called expected to be ready in the second quarter of 1989, It really looks exciting. MacroMind released MacroMind Director (its working title was Video- Works Professional), selling for $695. Desktop Publishing At the Expo there was actually relatively littke happening in the main- stream DTP world. Interleaf announced version 3.5, and Broderbund's TypeStyler should be shipping by the time you read this. But the main additions to this mar- ket came from font suppliers: Bitstream, Compugraphic, Varityper, Olduvai, Image Club, Casady & Greene, GCC, Adobe, and Postcraft International (which showed two new packages of font effects), Icom Simulations’ MacKern allows kerning to be added to outline fonts. Altsys, developer of Fontographer, has a new $99 product, KeyMaster, which allows development of EPS fonts. Kingsley/ATF introduced Type Foundry, an outline-font design system for $495, and ATF Typographer, a $595 page- layout program. In the realm of advertisement lay- out, Multi-Ad Services showed Multi-Ad Creator for design and layout of news- paper ads. It costs $995. Clip Art Desktop publishers and others seem to have an insatiable appetite for clip art—this category of products has ex- panded dramatically over the past two years. New libraries of clip art—primarily in EPS format—were announced by Multi-Ad, Adobe (libraries of PostScript patterns and textures), T/Maker, Image Club, Dream Maker, Casady & Greene, and 3G Graphics, Word Processors The big news is that Claris has announced MacWrite II, a completely rewritten version of the Mac's best- selling word processor. Paragon Con- cepts is shipping Nisus, a technical writing—oriented word processor. Deneba has shipped BigThesaurus, the first licensing of Webster's New World Thesaurus in an electronic form. This one contains antonyms, synonyms, derivations of words, and their gram- matical identity. Math Processors One small field of products—math and equation processors—is undergoing tremendous growth; Wolfram Research's Mathematica is only one of the latest. New versions of MathType, MacEqn, and Expressionist are all in the works. Bonadio & Associates is demonstrating Theorist, an algebra processor with 3-D color graphics. A new package for the Mac, Numerica was announced at the show, Paracomp began shipping its math processor, Milo. The field has moved rapidly from merely printing mathemati- cal formulae toward interactive mathe- matics and printing on the Mac. OCR Optical character recognition has moved faster on the Mac than on any other computer, in part because of its use of typefaces. Mac software recog- nizes font outlines, so we should expect (continues) HOW CAN YOU JUSTIFY BUYING AN IMAGESETTER “TO PRODUCE POSTSCRIPT" LINO? OUTPUT QeERAOR NO: 18: Nese92e oe NO: COM. 1666 FORM PROOF! ON ROOF! OPERATOR N Jo No:CoM 1686 FORM2 P =~ 7p CAPS TRACK! N6SE926 UTPUTSYSTEM: CG94 2.28.89 CLIENT: ANDERSON TYPOGRAFIX "If you buy a Linotronic £200 machine, you'll have to sett dots-per-inch. Good enough for some jobs, but will it sa tomers? Or you? For about the s: i dpi. To get output that sharp twice as much for an L300. Can you justify that? ig makes even more sense. 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We'll send you our free HyperCard POSTSCRIPT Products Overview diskette. (You'll need a Macintosh with HyperCard to view this program.) It’s an entertaining, self-guided tour of the AGFA Compugraphic family of POSTSCRIPT output devices. JOB NO; GOM1686 FORM3 PROOF1 OPERATOR NO: 18 (CoA, TYPEFACE: SABON LIGHT 12/13 10/11 TRACK! N658926 QUTPUTSYSTEM: CG9400PS DATE: 2.28.89 CLIENT; ANDERSON TYPOGRAFIX Circle 187 on reader service card 26 April 1989 Commentary OCR technology to move ahead. Xerox’s recent acquisition of Datacopy has led to cross-fertilization of Kurzweil OCR and Datacopy technology for the Mac. Xerox/Kurzweil/Datacopy announced AccuText for the Mac. Olduvai has a new version of Read-lIt, its trainable OCR software that also runs on the new handheld scanners from Logitech, Thunderware, and Computer Friends. Tutorland introduced new OCR software for the Apple scanner, called AutoRead. Computer-Aided Design While Versacad is occupied with releasing a new version, and AutoCAD has substantially rewritten its product for the Mac, Infinite Graphics is now shipping its powerful 3-D solid modeler In-CAD for the Mac, and Schlumberger is shipping MacBravo, a product based on its minicomputer line of CAD products. MSC Pal has announced its intent to port its full library of engineering analysis software from the IBM PC family, and now hi complementary geometry processor—LapCAD—that can accept data files from existing Mac CAD p: ages and generate finite element meshes for analysis with Pal. An Australian firm, 12 Metre Graphics, showed a hull analysis package for the Mac. Finally, Vector from MicroConcept is another 3-D Mac software entry. Development in this area has been slow for several reasons: because Mac graphics have just begun to mature in the realm beyond 8 bits of color, because developers did not under- stand the difficulty in writing software for the Macintosh, and because of QuickDraw’s evolution, Games Games are also making progress. Activision Entertainment (now a division of Mediagenic) is shipping a CD ROM— based version of Manhole that is a great deal of fun to play with, but it’s more a demonstration of what can be done with Mac graphics and games. Mindscape released a color version of Colony, its 3- D shoot ‘em up, and Gauntlet, a Mac II color version of the arcade game. Captain Blood is on the way. Microillu- sions showed Faery Tale, a graphics- and-text adventure game. PCAI is now shipping Road Racer for the Mae Il, an adaptation of PoleRunner, the race-car track game, Artificial Intelligence Al appears to be having a period of strong growth. Texas Instruments (which wagered on the Mac II by selecting it as a base platform for its LISP processor—based microExplorer) showed several new products in its booth, including KEE, a new $30,000 knowledge-based development system from Intellicorp. Symbolics, which similarly decided to put a LISP proces- sor on a NuBus 1, was showing its Maclvory product in the National Semiconductor booth, It made me wonder if the Mac could, through some strange twist of fate, end up becoming the platform that AI developers have long sought. Both Texas Instruments and Symbolics have flirted with Sun Microsystems for years now. Neuron Data has forged a strategic alliance with Oracle, the $400 million (per annum) developer of databases, and ExperTelli- gence has a new product called Action (a development support product), which sells for $1995. Cognition Tech- nology is well into development on the professional version of MacSmarts. All in all, a very good show for this area of technology. Coral, developer of LISP for the Mac, was recently acquired by Apple, so there appears to be some growing interest in what the Mac can do in this field, Weird and Wonderful A new category, or at least a new heading for products that are neat but that don’t deserve a separate heading. One of the best was a wireless version of AppleTalk from DataSpace, called Arlan/Telenode. MultiClip from Olduvai allows you to open multiple clipboards simultaneously, Avery and Williams & Macias offered laser labels. Julian Systems is marketing a high-end video editing system from Seahorn Technol- ogies. The color FX board from Ma‘ Micro creates special video effects for (continues) © rasisstsheril Stak Images THE SPIRIT OF COMPETITION. It's the stuff of champions, The inspiration of leaders. And the driving force behind one of the fastest growing companies in the global technology market, Microtech. Where the Spirit of competition comes alive, @MICROTECH | TECHNOLOGY. 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Circle 458 on reader service card INTRODUCING THE SHORTEST DIST Most presentation software seems to be for people Persuasion automatically formats your outline into pro- with lots of time and a degree in graphic design. But if fessional-looking slides or overheads, you're like most business professionals, you proba- using one of the program's pre-format- bly have neither, ted designs or one of your own. So we borrowed a page from our PageMaker® Sogn eel at You can literally create and experience, and developed a new technology for auto- 3 s ) | change a presentation as mating the process of creating presentations 4 * fast as you can type your The technology is AutodTemplate! _ | ideas into an outline. The program is Aldus® Persuasion’ And f If you want to embellish it’s the most streamlined way to create great f your presentation, feel free. presentations with your Macintosh® Here's why. Persuasion lets you be more Using the AutoTemplate technology, all : f creative with text formats, styles, you have to do is select a design, type your ideas ; LAA and colors than any other pre into the text outliner, and you're done. Aldus ’ sentation program. “Offer ary 28, nd is goo. US. and a only. Demo disk requires « Macintosh Plus, SE or IL. Aldus, PageMaker and the Aldus logo are registered trade and Aldus Pe Long Term Directions © Pacific Coast demand igh demand growing ag ind inland through ‘ anchi Advertise it NCE BETWEEN THESE TWO POINTS. Tables and graphs are easy to add, too. Pe automatically generates practically right from the program’s data sheet. Or from imported suasion any kind of graph data from spreadsheets such as Microsoft® Excel. And if you want to generate organization charts, Persuasion can do them instantly right from the outline And you can be artistic with Persuasion. It includes powerlul drawing tools, special effects, and clip art. So you can easily create flow charts, conceptual diagrams, and logos. Or import art from other graphics programs. And because Persuasion is the most complete program for presentations, it includes a spelling checker, slide sorter, and an on-screen “slide show” feature. It also generates speaker notes and handouts. and AutoTemplate are trademarks of Aldus Corporation. Macintosh is a registered trademark of Ap Computer Inc, Microsoft is a registered trade Your output can be color or black-and-white; slid or overhead transparencies. And film recorders, laser printers, or service bureaus can also be used. To see just how short the distance can be between your ideas and a professional presentation, call us at 1-80 3-2538, Department D-2 for a free self-running demo disk* Or visit your authorized Aldus dealer today. Circle 306 on reader service card ens MUS rsuasion 411 First Avenue South, Seattle, WA 98104 22-5500 of Microsoft Corporation. ©1988 Aldus Corporation. All rights 7 Grappler Spooler | PRINTING DOESN'T HAVE TO MEAN WAITING | Simply stated, a “spooler” allows Ls Control Pon! | The Grappler Spooler loads into TFT you to simul- Ovo [TH] @on Cowt your Mac's control ie taneously use your Mac while your printer is printing. No more waiting. You get more done, ‘Syeter ser #00 = Doosan *-DOzeAzp | Seeetto) KARL'S 20018 panel for easy access. You can queue up to as many print files as your disk will hold, faster! Whether you have an and manage that queue with com- mands like Move To ImageWriter II, ea I ImageWriter LO, or | ‘= [,|Grappler’Spooler® Diovange tere ine, 1988 10 you're using any Ei Top, Defer, Delete, Cancel and more. dot matrix printer with the Grappler C/Mac/GS, the new Grappler Spooler lets your Mac do two jobs at once. Requires Moc Plus, SE, ior lx with minimum 1MB of RAM. A hard disk is recommended. System 4.2 and Finder 6.0 or later is requirod, The Grappler Spooler even works in MultiFinder. Suggested Retail: $79 @ Orange Micro Inc. 1400 N. Lakeview Ave., Anaheim, CA 92807 (800) 223-8029 (714) 779-2772 Circle 265 on reader service card CASINO GAMES THAT GIVE YOU THE SKILL. FOR THE WINNING EDGE Recommended and used by professional gamblers, Play and learn at your own pace with no risk. Make all casino bets. ‘Windows help with payoff odds and advice. Manuals contain complete rules and betting strategies. For Mac's with 512K including Mac I. Not copy protected. CRAPS MASTER™ Casino craps give skilled players nearly the same advantage as the house. Standard bets including multiple Odds and Place. ROULETTE MASTER™ The croupier sliding over your winnings is the only thing missing from ‘our realistic Casino Roulette game. Play Double 0 or Single 0. Repeat bets with single entry. BACCARAT MASTER™ Feel what itis like to bea high-roller in the ultimate casino game. Play one to three hands with unlimited betting. 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Software Ventures was demonstrating a new version of MicroPhone II that supports icons, Hayes has a new version of Smartcom II for Hayes-compatible modems. Infosphere is now shipping its network management software, Liaison, which bears some similarity to the SilverServer and Silver- Lining products from La Cie (new versions of these are also shipping). Although a number of new products are coming from Farallon, none were on the show floor. Farallon has found such success (having shipped over 700,000 AppleTalk nodes, it now rivals Apple) that it has engendered competitors such as Nuvotech, which also sells an Apple- Talk replacement cable and network- analysis software. Nexsys has entered the network-diagnostic-software market with Intellinet, New Versions Other new updates you should get if you already own the products: Pix- elPaint 2.0; Works 2.0; Graphisoft/ Archicad 3.31; Managing Your Money 2.0; Clients and Profits 4.0; Picture Base 2.0; MacSafe 1.03; WordPerfect 1.02; SmartScrap 2.0; Pegasys 3.2; PowerPoint 2.01; Fox Base+Mac, the multiuser yersion; FreeHand 2.0; DeskPaint 2.1; Inside Out 1.2; VersaCAD 2.1; McMax 2,0; Courseware 1,5. Congratulations on Shipping to.., Oracle, Silicon Beach (SuperPaint 2.0), Claris (SmartForms), T/Maker (WriteNow 2.0), and all the rest that I've no doubt forgotten. It’s Still Not Enough Well, there is more. Send a self- addressed, stamped envelope with 45 cents in postage (for six double-sided sheets) and I'll send you a list of this *s announcements. Write to me, care of Macworld, 501 Second St., San Fran- cisco, CA 94107. Can you believe there is another Expo in April? 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Macworld is a wealth of information which keeps you up to date on the latest products, news, tips and tactics. Dedicated exclusively to the Mac II, SE and Plus. We look out for your interests. We tell you what’s new for the Mac. What it does. Who it’s for. Compare similar products—and name names! Discuss pros and cons. Assess value for money for both hardware and software. Macworld helps you make the most of your Mac. SS S MAIL THE ATTACHED CARD TODAY! Ever feel like your project is managing you? You're behind schedule, over budget, and out of excuses. Suddenly, your project's become a monumental drag. What H do you tell the boss? Help is on the way. With MICRO PLANNER, the powerful project manager that makes even complex projects a snap. In less than a day, MICRO PLANNER’ unique graphic interface will have you building a step-by- step model of your project. From there, Critical Path Method will calculate start dates and deadlines, Circle 50 on reader service card —~ forecast bottlenecks, and optimize crucial resources. Then you'll create impressive reports—including PERT charts and bar charts—that look as powerful on paper as on the screen. PC or Mac;' you're ready for take off. Identical on PCs or Macs, MICRO PLANNER auto- matically converts files between machines. Which keeps everyone in your company pulling together. Show your project who's boss with MICRO PLANNER. Call Micro Planning International at. (415) 788-3324 for your nearest dealer Planning for Success. mark of Micro Mani The fastest way to get here. AION Claris CAD cant reduce the huge number of two-dimensional drawings it takes to get a plane off the ground. But it makes them a lot easier to do =f Claris CAD supports ANSI Y14.5 cand other drawing standards. So those who God ‘parts ie bike with those design wholes Accurately drawing graceful curves like these becomes a simple matter ‘of point anu click. Claris CAD can help you design everything from electronic schematics to the box they come in. Claris CAD is the epitome of ‘less is more” Less time learning. More time creating. INANE TOUUUUVCUUUA Te With the abltty to daw in layers, you can hide essen- tial details ike wiring and plumbing just a click beneath an elegant exterior Draw the lines of fine design as finely as you wish: from 1.5 inches to 000] mm. © 1989 Claris Corponation, 440 Che Avenue, Mountain View: California 94043; 415-962-8946, Starter Kit includes demonstration sofware, tutorial workbook and video. Ofer expires Seprember 30, 1989. A special Isto start here. ‘A Bae Claris CAD is the first professional 2-D design and Fillets, tangents, keyboard entry: double lines Customizable pens, dashed lines, hatch rafting tool to fully utilize the intuitive Macintosh — and automatic dimensioning turn your ideas into. patterns and dimension appearance give you way of working So it takes hours to learn, not days realities with exacting precision. anew level of versatili: Claris CAD makes it easier to sell your inspirations. Plot your plans, concept Keeping the vision in your revisions is easy: sketches, schematics and working drawings exactly as you see them, turn them into Because you don’ have to redraw from scratch. slides or overheads, or cut and paste them into proposals and reports. Stan Catt tegout_ tongs Pox Font_sn TE = z q EooLe Lae a a S| 2 pe eo Claris CAD integrates with other CAD software via optional IGES and DXF conversion programs So yout can move them to larger (refi CAD/CAM systems for 3-D modeling and prototyping. 800.62. Introducing Claris CAD. ‘introductory price is available to regisiered MacDnny If users Cal! 800-628-2100, Claris isa trademark and MacDraw isa registered trademark of Claris Corporation, Macintosh isa registered trademark of Apple Computer Inc. DXF tsa adernark of AutoDesk, Inc: For the name ofthe Claris dealer nearest you, call 800-3CLARIS, ext. 200. {nt Canada, call 800-668-8948. dable when you buy the complete program). To order call -2100, And see how incelligent design begets intelligent design. «, the clear leader 4% -DIMENSION... 1 MacUser j J “Although this category, unlike “4th Dimension from ACIUS, Inc. spreadsheets and word proces- of Cupertino, California, sors, had a lot of new players this _ outshines the other databases we year, one seemed to us to be the tested both in number of features clear leader. and in rich database develop- 4" Dimension, the powerful first ment environment.” product from ACIUS, takes the Don Crabb, InfoWorld, January I, 1988) idos.” MacUser, February 1988 “Congratulations! InfoWorld's Want to try it out? readers have chosen ‘ \ 4" Dimension as the Product For $20, we'll send you a demo \ ofthe Yearin the Macintosh isk and comprehensive 50-page LN Database Systemscategory” User's manual. S) Jonathan aink InfoWorld, omak Call today and find out what 19851 4" Dimension can do for you. “T can’t imagine a data- management problem that _e Relational database you won’tbe able to solve —_« Multi-user with 4" Dimension.” e Intuitive interface Steve Mann, Macintosh Today e Graphics and pictures pA it 11, 1987) . esa < e Automatic forms & reports Users with no experience or interest in programming can build a barebones database in Yes you can ! 4D’s ‘Design Environment’ just S O by pointing, clicking, and nam- $20 Demo Offer _ ing files and fields.” 1-800-952-6300 ast.or Dept. 22 “For searches and sorts - database operations that are performed interactively - 4D’s performance curve is probably the best of the four programs (Omnis 3 Plus, Double Helix Il, dBASE Mac, and 4" Dimension).” David Brandt, MacWEEK, January 19, 1988) “It will do everything you need, and then some, and will prove itself well worth the cost.” Jan L. Harrington, MacUser, November 19871 “?'m convinced that many users of other Mac databases and even PC databases will want to switch over to 4"" Dimension.” Adam Green, Macworld, July 1987! “In general, Macintosh software is better than software for other per- sonal computers... 4" Dimension redefines those 1 high standards.” Andrew Gore, The Macintosh Buyer's Guide, Spring 1988' Demo version bundled on all Jasmine Hard Disk Drives. seus ION 8 Ne Ss | e wk 4" DIMENSION is a trademark of ACIUS, Inc. and AC. 10351 Bubb Road All other brand names are trademarks of their manu Cupertino, CA 95014 facturers (408) 252-4444 Letters A forum for Macworld readers Lights, Camera, Action Tama college student who hopes to be- come a writer. | will begin my studies in the screenwriting program at San Fran- cisco State University in the fall of 1989. Is any script-writing software available for the Mac Plus? Mario Alejandro Henriquez San Francisco, California There are several, including CineWrite (at press time, 2.3 was the current version; a newer version should be out by the time you read this), $495, from Max3, 213/398-3771; and Scriptwriter, also $495, by American Intelliware, 213/533-4040 (recently we've bad prob- lems contacting this vendor). Thomas Brown, a New York independent film pro- ducer, uses Scriptor 1.4, $295, by Screen- play Systems, 818/843-7819. Hal Bar- wood, a writer/producer/director who has worked for Lucasfilm, finds script- writing programs too cumbersome and inflexible. Instead, be uses WriteNow and creates a screenplay format using Macro- Maker (part of System 6.x), then saves the format to apply to bis work,—Ed. ABomb Hits Shanghai Last year I worked in China on a French film as first assistant director. It was the Corrections The Connect Professional Information Network (“Great Communicators,” December 1988) isrun by Connect Inc., 10101 Bubb Rd., Cupertino, CA 95014, 800/262-2638; MacNet is its telecom- munications software for the Mac. The phone number for Carina Software, maker of Voyager (Macworld News, February 1989) is 415/352-7328. third film on which I used my but the first time I traveled with it in such a remote country. Needless to say, my col- leagues at the Shanghai Film studios were fascinated with my “magical box.” While it took me three days to schedule 23 weeks of shooting, they needed a crew of ten as- sistant directors to deliver hand-written the same work. My last day in China, as I was leaving Shanghai for Hong Kong, I had to put my Mac through the X-ray machine be- fore boarding my plane. The woman at the machine asked me to open the Mac. After explaining to her that I couldn't, I con- vinced her to let me switch it on so she could see that no bomb or gun was hidden SCOTT BALDWIN inside. After plugging in my transformer: and wiring everything in front of two cus- toms officers and a translator, I prepared to show them the beauty of MacPaint. They were looking for a bomb and they got one as soon as I booted my HyperDrive! Pierre Magny Montreal, Quebec, Canada ALack of Communication Your article “Great Communicators” [De- cember 1988] states that VersaTerm-Pro of fers Tektronix graphics terminal emulation not available in other programs, We would like to point out that our Text'Term+ Graphics not only offers Tektronix graphics terminal emulation but also provides the (continues) Macworld 37 TRY FULL IMPACT AND SEE WHY EXCEL DOESN'T. Te NICATE READSHEETS COM ne pow SP #3 in a serie’ How Spreadsheets eae Communicate — ‘A recent tacking study per- fre rs reared arg forma by uneel Unders ding Methods Bureau, Ine has ding Methods Bureau, Le. has determined that constant and prolonged exposure to spreadshet ieaiea ‘Output may result in cases of extreme drowsiness and lethargy Contributing factors have beet Asegp numbers with no context, lack of {graphic elements, and limited abilities in the treatment of text, _Indiferent SPREADSHEET USAGE = s roneorat wee A Seat te tras of sateen one rein. Nit mocha tee cree ee call 303-799-4900, ext. 3501. Trademarks/owner: Full [mpact, dBASE, Ashton-Tate/Ash Corporation; Microsoft, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Works/Microsoft Corporation; Its the difference between merely analyzing something, and actually seeing what it means. Introducing Full Impact? from Ashton-Tate. Full Impact is a spreadsheet program designed expressly for the Macintosh that goes beyond the basic number-crunching capabilities of Microsoft Excel: it gives you the ability to easily turn your work into clean, crisp —and understandable—documents. How? By letting you take full advantage of the way you're already used to working on the Macintosh. Start by simply entering your data. Then, select all or part of it, and in- stantly create a chart using those values —simply by clicking on the appropriate chart icon from the icon bar. Need to write some text explaining your analysis? And high- light certain passages? Full Impact’s text editor gives you plenty of fonts, sizes, and styles to choose from. What if that block of text would look better somewhere else? Fine. Just click on it, and drag it there. You can even bring in art from other programs, then merge it with your text and data, all on the same page. But lest you get the impression that Full Impact is merely a presenta- tion program disguised as a spread- sheet, consider this: with over half a million usable cells (far more than any other Macintosh spreadsheet), Full Impact gives you more than enough room to handle even the largest projects. And more than enough speed to recalculate them quickly. You can work with as many as eight spreadsheets simultaneously. And then link them all together. Or create powerful, time-saving macros, and even customizable icons to tie FULL IMPACT vs. EXCEL Full Impact 10 Excel 1.5 Power Usable cells with IMbRAM 512000 50000 Linked spreadsheets Yes Yes "C-like macro language Yes No Customizable icon bars Yes No Presentational Capabilities Print charts and spread- sheets on one page Yes No Mix fonts, sizes, styles cell by cell Yes No Drawing cools Yes No Easy-to-move, formattable text blocks Yes No You can also exchange files with many other popular pro- grams, including Excel and Microsoft Works, Lotus 123, all of Ashton-Tate’s dBASE* products, and much more. So you wont lose your investment in your current data. LE PULL IMPACT FOR FREL Weld like to make it easy for you to get the full impact of Full Impact. Just call 800 437-4329, ext. 3501, and we'll send you a full-capability prod- uct sampler. What could be more impactful? AS HT Oehe= Torus 123/Lotus Development Corporation; Macintosh/Apple Computer, Ine. Output created on Microsoft Excel 1.5 and Full Impact. © 1989 Ashton-Tate Corporation. All rights reserved. Circle 220 on reader service card WE PUT PERSONAL SCANNING WITHIN YOUR REACH. Announcing LightningScan, the new hand-held scanner for Macintosh. From Thunderware. Now one quick pass is all you need to scan any image up to four inches wide. With resolution settings up to 00 dots per inch, LightningScan™ makes almost any scanning job easier to handle. And because LightningScan is controlled by the software that helped make ThunderScan® famous, you have the powerful tools you need to enhance and edit your images. As for graphics compatibility, you name it: from PageMaker® and Illustrator" to ImageStudio™ and Digital Darkroom" At its suggested retail price of $549, LightningScan makes the benefits of personal scanning very easy to grasp. 21 Orinda Way, Orinda, CA 94563 415/254-6581 FAX: 415/254-3047 Letters fastest performance, Although we realize that the aim of your article was to highlight advanced features useful for commun: ing via electronic mail packages, we feel it is a disservice to your readers not to men- tion our easy-to-use, fast, and powerful ‘Tektronix terminal emulator. James E, George Mesa Graphics Los Alamos, New Mexico We didn't mean to give the impression that VersaTerm-Pro ts the only Mac pro- gram that offers Tektronix terminal emulation. However, since our intent was to cover general-purpose telecommuni- cations software, specialized terminal emulators were not included in our Time After Time Back in 1981 I found a program for the TI-59 called Sunrise/Sunset, which calcu- lates sunrise, sunset, and civil twilight time with accuracy for any date, latitude, longi- tude, and altitude. Do you know of a simi- lar program for the Mac Plus? Abraham Krufka East Hampton, New York Carina Software (415/352-7328) makes a desktop planetarium program for the Mac called Voyager (see Macworld News, March 1989), which bas what you're look- ing for. By clicking on a star, a planet, or any other object in the galaxy, you can Jind its azimuth (position along the hori- zon), its altitude, ise and set time, and its transit time (the point at which it’s highest in the sky). A DA called Sun Clock, by MLT software (503/245-7093), indicates the current areas of day and night on a map of the world and enables you to calculate the time at any location. —Ed. From Another Perspective I would like to add a few comments to the review of MacPerspective by David Peltz in his article on 3-D software [“3-D in Per- spective,” December 1988]. | was probably the first architect in Michigan to purchase MacPerspective to run on my 512K Fat Mac, shortly after I bought the equipment. This program is an incredible im- provement over the way most of us pro- (continues) A tan architect, fine hairlines like ours are pure poet Odject_Layout_Effec € File Edit Tent fa ‘i f to-tracing built this banana from 4 a seanned-in produce ad, 5 In split seconds, F ey “© Multi-point beater KS curves make drawing 4 = bunch easier. Colors are’ =| added in layers imal BD: \uo-resizing helped this VP of Sales display the fruits of his labor, graphically tweet DD) E Smooth continuous color blending inspired this art director to new heights. ts Macro Windows % F What are mere words compared to WYSIWYG text with special effects? G@ After he slipped away, we added rich Postscript” gray scales to the gorilla’s leftavers. ELE ORE i UTA SEEIEE ow an architect, an MBA, and an art direc- tor developed instant talent in precision drawing. And a gorilla developed mild indigestion. Meet Canvas 2.0, The new tap banana. Able to help even ordinary people draw extraordinary things, Rasy enough for almost any primate to master, Use our Bezier curves and smooth polygons to build any shape. Add or delete control points and join, split, open or close them at will Use Auto-Tracing to save countless hours by converting existing bitmapped images — pictures like clip artor scanned graphics = into easily manipulated Canvas 2.0 obje Work across unlimited layers. View, print or save them in any combination. Draw in millions of colors, or with Postscript’ gray scales and patterns Experience heartstopping accuracy (4000 DPI) and fineness of line (1/1000"), Zoom around from 3% to 3200% of original size. Draw continuously up to 9 feet square. Import and export freely, using PICT, PICT2, TIF MacPaint™ or MacDraw™ formats. Output to any Mac compatible printer, & Q) oT 1 NAL BANANAS typesetter, or film printer you want. Like we said: go bananas. s right under your Apple menu st convinced you that Canvas 2.0 is the drawing program you've been waiting for, send us $9.95 to re- ceive a fully featured Demo Copy. With which you can finish convincing yourself. Afterall, power like this can be very apecling. Canvas 2.0 (including Canvas 2.0 DA) $299.95 Site licenses available Canvas 2.0 Demo Disk $9.95 For more information or a demonstration of this or any of Dene! other products, see your local dealer or call us at 1-800-4-CANVAS. In Florida, call (305) 594-6965. 3305 Northwest 74th Avenue, Miami, Florida 33122 “Read only, © 1988 Deneba Systems, Inc. All product names mentioned are trademarks of their respective holders. Circle 217 on reader service card WAL AE These unretouched drawings were created in Canyas 2.0 and output to a Mirrus film printer. Letters duce our drawings. MacPerspective en- ables you to input dimensional data in less time than either using the classic graphic method or using a printed pers chart, and it lets you produce views rapidly. Since over half the architectural firms in this country have fewer than five peopl equipment and software represent signifi- cant budget iter to-learn program fills a architect who isn’t a graphic or computer specialist. Albert]. Vegter Ann Arbor, Michigan Resolutions Resolved We were pleased with your coverage of our product, the Grappler LQ [Review cember 1988], but there are sev that need to be addressed. You stz graphics can only be printed at 72 dpi, or screen resolution, when actually the G: pler LQ will print graphi up to 300 dpi, depending on the resolution of the file for- mat you re using. Your information on font availability is correct but incomplete. Our upgraded font package, Alphabits, includes three com- plete sets of fonts (small and large sizes) and five headline fonts (18-point and 2: point screen fonts supported), These are li- censed from Bitstream, as are the original Grappler LQ fonts, and the age tails for $99, Although you claimed to have prob- lems with our spooler, we have found it to work in all the applications we've run. We'd like to know which ones caused problems for the reviewer. Karl Seppala Orange Micro Anaheim, California It’s true that the Grappler LO can print 300-dpi graphics, so long as the image is in the appropriate file format—Quic Draw for object images, a 300-dpi format for bitmaps. (PostScript files, of course, are specifically not supported, and these images print atscreen resolution only.) As for the spooler, we tested it on a Mac Plus and an HP Laserjet Series If with Excel, Ragtime, Works, Scoop, and Mac- Paint, and we experienced intermittent with most of thes applications.—Ed. (continues, THEIR LIST IS HIGH. AND SHORT. OURS IS LOW. AND wae MACDRAW'II LIST PRICE $395.00 (NO DA VERSION AMAIGARLEY Key Rreaturess s All the standard drawing tools — Unlimited layers : : Ultra-fine hairlines Editable arrowheads ‘Smooth polygons” Object libraries. = 32x magnification seduction ; ‘Text rotation High precision 8 available colors : Auto-dimensionng of lines CANVAS 2.0 VS MACDRAW Ii DRAW YOUR OWN CONCLUSION. BEFORE YOU JUMP TO ONE. If you want to see. the Canyas difference for yourself, send Us $9.95 to receive a fully-featured Demonstration Copy, Circle 282 on reader service card Bes (INCLUDING CANVAS 2.0 DA) Key Features: All the standard drawing tools ; Unlimited: layers” Ulira-fine hairlines ie ge _ Editable arrowheads = ~ Smooth polygons. 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Brendan Shea Hartford, Connecticut ‘A File-Transfer Primer” (in this issue) ex- amines the various options for transfer- ring files from a Mac to a PC. Fortunately for you, moving files from a Mac to a PC is easier than the other way around.—Ed. Home Repairs Somehow or other the upper drive in my SE was damaged, Having a machine that was out of warranty and being someone who enjoys tinkering, I cracked open the box and removed the drives. After noticing that the head was bent, I put the machine together and brought it in to the local com- puter store. There I was informed that Ap- ple specifically (and the industry gener- ally) does not sell repair parts; they sell disk drives. So instead of paying approx- imately $15 for a part (plus labor for instal- lation and testing), I was forced to pay $160 (plus $40 labor and tax). I know that my old drive will go back to Apple for repair. 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