MacWorld 8905 May 1989

May 1989°$3.95 4 Cantiin $4.95 Forheavy users of wont intimidate Word. And Word Count haracters, words, lines and paragraphs. Anyone can create side-by- agraphs without having to worry about tabs. Documents 10,000 pages and fon And youl always find the right word—the thesaterus boasts 220,000 of them, gues authors an exact count of rere: Our formula typesetting feature can handle symbols and notations so Absolute positioning of graphics and text is the absolute best if youre ‘you technical writers won't have to rely on a typeseter. involved wlth page layout. The text wraps around any object as you type. Microsoft. Word The expression that you cant please all of the people all of the time just got redefined. In developing Microsoft® Word version 4.0, we took input from the over 400000 Word users who made Word the best-selling Macintosh? product in history. Added startling, cutting- edge technology. And the result is a gracious, easy-to-use word processing program with features as dynamic and diverse as its users. Unleash those features, and you push the envelope of word processing. You can set up tables automatically, without worrying about tabs. Reformat an entire document with one command. And choose from four editing views—including one that shows you exactly what your document looks like, so you can organize and revise your docu- ments without any guesswork. Whats more, Word is completely custom- faking tall make sense isa trademark of Micro mation eall (800) 541-1261. Debt. 172. Custa izable—any command can be placed on any menu or assigned any keyboard command. And, software fans, the best-selling word processing program for the Macintosh now comes with the best-selling paint - and draw program for the Mac- ie intosh—SuperPaint by Silicon 4 Beach Software” Hci And keep in mind Microsoft Word is part of an entire line of Microsoft products that work seamlessly together, so you can do more with your Macintosh. Microsoft Word 4.0 can emphasize, articu- late, clarify and organize your words. In fact, practically the only thing it can’t do is think for you. Yet. = ® Making it all make sense: Corporation. Macintosh isa registered trademark of Apple Computer. Inc in Canada call 416) 673-9811, outside North America, (206) 882-8661. MACWORLD With this issue, Macworld tokes the plunge into desktop publishing (19) ilestration by Ron Chor.) DEPARTMENTS How to Contact Macworld. ..........0.0cersseereeeeene B Commentary/Jerry Borrell... Brave New Macworld: Our magazine goes DTP. betters... a7 Dovid Bunnelll............ AS Taking a second look at HyperCard. ArtBeat... By Ann Gavi a hese oo) ison/ How our cover was created. The leonoclast.........s00s0 eens By Steven Levy/Stephen Wolfram and his amazing program will change mathematics Conspicuous Consumer... 73 By Deborah Branscum /There are no shortcuts to finding a good dealer. State of the Mac. Ree cat By Thom Hogan/When it comes to color, whe you see is rarely what you get. NEws Mac Bulletin. 13 Late-breaking news. Macworld News......... 95 Il Tough Mac Works Fast GreenSpring ruges Mass Microsystems’ board captures live top publishing. offers ale: lets your crea RasterOps 2.0 Mus MACWORLD © MAY 1989 The Macintosh® Magazine May 1989 New Products ce 215 A quick look at new Macintosh hardware, soft- ware, and accessories. HOWTO/QuickTips....... eo By Lon Poole / MacCalc table lookups, using the Mac abroad, making a monitor support arm, and more. HOW T0/Getting Started with HyperCard............. 243 By Jim Heid/Learn how to exploit HyperCard's versatility. Updates. 257 The latest software upgrade news. Where to Buy..... saaiael Contact information for products in this issue Lok Patek erence tere set + 304 i ColorSpaceFX Supports Video ideo in real time. M1 DTPin China Chinese students learn desk- @ Better Connections for Less Dayna Communications expensive network. ll MS-DOS Rapport A Kennect device 1d DOS from your floppy drive. ll Hypermedia Duck Mystery An interactive educational experiment. ll VideoMaker Film professor ¢s a video-editing control program. ill New Color Boards from and 32-bit boards bring better color tothe Il. Ill MacMusicFest ans confer about the Mac. REVIEWS PhotoMac 1.0. ae MethacPabyanae 176 (Galen Soveuion/ separ ricer Photon Paint 1 OLS Paint prorat With speeial effeeae 178 ‘WriteNow 2.0. isa reseatena {A fast and efficient WP bargain. 182 Exstofix 1.0.1... Statistical software package. WORM Drive with Software. 191 APL-800WD, Writelmage, Optical Disk Interface Software. Copy Il Mac7.2. Disk copy and utility program, 2195 (Geek our buyer's guide to large opacity hard ehives(p. 158). ii Gliseene ret phi coarse epencs cn yourne-ds enayeiserdnte "s how to find the black-and-white scanner that's right for you. Enhancing PostScript Fonts..... 134 By Exfert Fenton/You don't have to be a graphic designer to jazz up your type. Font-editing programs let you add your own distinctive touch to PostScript fonts. Getting Down to Black & White. v2 By Bruce F. Webster/Color may look flashier, but black-and-white and gray-scale have their advantages. Here are the best noncolor monitors for the SE and the Mac II. Brushes with Color. 151 Ib) brfer Re alora/ © ecaielmned by the dfezying rey. of Color pains progam’ Find out which one you should buy. Massive Media..........00 158 ‘By Dai Pogue/(a We marker for'a hatd disk? Think big—with a high-capacity drive, yo more for your buck, Picking the Best Presenter erties A166 By Phillip Robinson/Which presentation package should you use? Here’s ho top five contenders measure up. Color soparete and menipolte scanned images (p. 176). ‘Andrew Tobias Managing Your Money 2.0... Personal financial planning NuPaint 1.0... 198 Bitmapped monochrome paint program. Focal Point I! 1.0. nee - 200 Time-and-project manager. ‘Shufflepuck Cafe 1.0...... 202 Fast-paced action game. Irwin Backup 5080 Tape Drive for Macintosh.......... 207 S80MB cartridge tape backup with EZTape. The Hobbit Trilogy... bie 209. Text adventure games with cress Window Shopping 2 Stacks, Joker Poker, and ConvertUnits MACWORLD © MAY 1989 Extend the power. The ultimate utility How To Break The Font, DA, F-Key And Sound Barriers With Your Mac fyou'rea power user, there are a couple of indispensible utilifies designed to quick- en your pulse and take you further and faster than ever before. 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Resource Resolver is another powerful feature which will effectively resolve both sound and font ID num- bering conflicts, eliminating any potential confu- sion. But that’s just for starters. MASTERJUGGLER DOES EVEN MORE. MasterJuggleristhe new generation, super- charged sports model of resource optimization utilities. With all the powerful features of Juggler Plus and many more, enabling you to do much more, too. Like opening multiple applications or docu- iin MasterJuggler UCT) RESOURCE OPTIMIZER within BEET any op- plication. Switching between open applications from a convenient pop-up menu. Or hiding the current application's windows before selecting another application. MasterJuggler gives you unprecedented power and flexibility. Now you can instantly see or print any name or number conflicts among the resources you are using. Plus, you can assign an interesting variety of sounds to 7 different Mac operations or you can build your own sound library by converting dig- ifized sound files into Macintosh and HyperCard sound resources. Whether you're in alarge network or you're ‘one person with a Mac and a mouse, Font/DA Juggler Plus and MasterJuggler will make a big difference. All for a very small price. Call now for orders or the Bonsu dealer nearest you, 713/ 353-4090. # ALSoft, Inc. A P.O. Box 927 W Spring, Texas 77383-0927 W 713/353-4090 [ASot, Hasler Joggler ond Fnt/DA Juggler ore trademarks of ALS, nc. Al other rodemarks acknowledged. © 1989 ADS & PR Corporation ol ighs reserved Circle 202 on reader service card Editor-in-Chief Jerry Borrell EDITORIAL Executive Editor David Ushijima Managing Editor Charles Barrett Senior Editor/ Features Adrian Mello Editorial Manager Jane Lagos Associate Editor/ Departments Deborah Branscum Associate Editor! Features Joe Matazzoni Associate Editor! News Tom Moran Associate Editor/ Reviews Carol Person Associate Editor/ Features Cheryl Spencer Associate Editor! Features Suzanne Stefanac East Coast Editor/ Features Brita Meng Senior Production Editor luis A. Camus Senior Copy Editor Ruth Henrich Assistant Editors Cathy €. Abes, Mark Hurlow, Mary Margaret Lewis, Liza Weiman Production Editor Annie Jenkel »py Editors Marjorie Boer, Emily Bower, Frecis, Felicity O'Meara, Katherine L. Ulrich sistant Production Editor Barbara Tannenbaum Editorial Assistant Pamela T. Creighton Editorial Administrative Assistants Joyce C. Ripp, Lyn Taylor Assistant to the Editor-in-Chief lisa Barshay Editorial Intern Wendy Monroe Contributing Editors Nancy E. Dunn, Robert C. Eckhardt, Erfert Fenton, Danny Goodman, Rob Hahn, Jim Heid, Dove Kosiur, Steven Levy, Lon Poole, Charles Seiter, Franklin Tessler, Bruce F. Webster Founding Editor Andrew Fluegelmon 1943-1985 ART ano DESIGN Designer Dennis Mcleod Associate Art Director Joanne Hoffman, Assistant Art Director Nancy Paynter Senior Design Assoctates Leslie Barton, ‘Andrew Faulkner, Arne Hurty Design Associates Martha Katt, Hae Yuon Kim PRODUCTION Senior Production Manager Anne Foley Assistant Production Manager Claudia Dawn Smukler Advertising Billing Coordinator So Fong Yip President and Publisher Macworld Communications James E. Martin Assistant to the President Susan Miller Publisher's statement can be found on page 8. 200 The 19. 39 Modem. Now everyone on even the biggest Macintosh speaker It also displays a modem front-panel icon, with network can have the power of modem communication — ‘LED’ status lights, in your Mac’s menu bat. for less per Mac than the cost of a box of floppy disks. If you're away from the office, you can call in Because the Hayes°-compatible NetModem™ V2400 through any ordinary modem and the NetModem V2400 can be shared, just like you share a LaserWriter” So connects you to the office network: You can access files, there’s no need for the cost or complexity of multiple use TOPS,” AppleShare,® electronic mail, printers or any modems and phone lines. The NetModem V2400 is easy _ other network resource, just as if you were sitting in front to set up—just plug it in and turn it on. And it’s easy to of your office Mac. Find out how the NetModem V2400 use. You can hear the progress of your call, no matter can make your Macintosh network more productive. where in your office the NetModem is, because it feeds Call 1-800-458-3550, or write Shiva, 155 Second Street, familiar modem sounds back to your own Mac's Cambridge, MA 02141. by Shiva We're Putting Networks To Work” (OK neadestyon cnthuya Seba fr 1952 tay dete Nader's $599 pricey 31 Mas an AppleTalk worth nominal lathes per Mac $1.32 Sl ie bes del ru “Traders Neen - Sia Gora, Reseed Trademark Nae ines Mercimpale Product le: Le: AplStae- hyo Compies ac; Tops Mirosems re Circle 421 onreader 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 400 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. Thunderware Hand Scammer @ lor Mactios/ 21 Orinda Way, Orinda, CA 94563 415/254-6581 FAX: 415/254-3047 MACWORLD Associate Publisher Steven J. Rosenfield Assistant to the Associate Publisher Cynthia 1. Meade . MARKETINGANDADVERTISING Director of Advertising Sales Patricia Navone (415/243-0505) Senior Account Manager/No. California (San Francisco) Penny Rigby (415/243-0505) No. California (San Jose) Cherie La France (415/243-0505) Northwest Regina T. 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If you're interested in writing for Macworld, senda stamped, self-addressed envelope along with a 's guidelines. Direct (by mail) to: uidelines, Editorial Dept request for our writ Number $ 179 publishes BUG ps fete td is an i LE, the APPLE “Two or three years from now, the typical laser printer will be a lot like the Business LaserPrinter™: small, light, with a SCSI connector fora hard disk, and inexpensive” Thats 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. Simply stated, the BLPis a bet- La ter way to translate the language called Postscript into the graphics, words and numbers people use to communicate in business. Better because the BLP lets you—oranyone else onyourApple- Talk® network—produce superior TAKE IT THERE text with the aid of 39 fonts (four @ more thanournearest competitor). Better because the BLP comes with expandable RAM (two megabytes expand- able to four), which lets you increase print speed. And because it has a SCS! 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 \l will offer all ee if you prefer not to wal just visit your — authorized GCC Technologies dealer for a demon- stration. For more information, or the name of a dealer near == TECHNOLOGIES you, phone (617)890-0880* Peripherals Wi GCC Technotogies, Penpher Circle 177 on reader service card If your monitor isn’t sharp, even the best ideas look fuzzy. That's why you need to look into ColorMax and SilverView for your Mac II and PageView for your Mac SE. The new line of monitors from Sigma Designs. Designed for engineering workstations, our 19” ColorMax delivers 16.8 million colors with knife-edge definition. Which means your blueprints will now be a lot ~ more than just blue. ___ Forart directors and designers, the 21” flat-screen fiew extends your range with an exact scale two-page d And your palette with the entire gray scale’s 256 Shades. So you'll never have to leave anything to i ation again. d less than $1000, our PageView 15” flat-screen is clearly one of the most remarkable bargains industry. ideal for desktop publishing and text dling it comes with something ingenious ode. Enabling you to workin actual ‘X11’ page. A feature you Costing twice as much. words, pictures, find out how much more the right screen. No other hard drive stacks up to Jasmine. Year after year, Jasmine has set the standards by which other hard disk drives are compared. Now, in 1989, we've raised those stan- dards. With a new series of DirectDrives™ that are more reliable, affordable, and technologically advanced than ever. Diréctrive20; te DirectDrive40 ............ Directrive 800.52. hes... DirectDrive100 . DirectDrive140 . Se DirectDrive300 .......... Of course, while continually pushing the boundaries of technology, we've never forgotten that there are some things tech- nology alone can't provide. Like the joy of spending not a penny more than necessary to acquire the very best. Or the satisfaction of owning a hard-working, reliable piece of hardware. Or the feeling of confidence that comes from dealing with a company dedicated to customer service. So it’s only to be expected that this new series of external hard disk drives gives you more than more megabytes for your money. With each 1989 DirectDrive you also receive our exclusive, 30-day money-back guarantee and no-nonsense, two-year warranty. But that’s not all. Jasmine DirectDrives come bundled with over $500 worth of the most advanced utility software avail- able—absolutely free. Including Symantec™ Utilities for Macintosh, which lets you recover data from a mistakenly-initialized hard disk. Redux” from Microseeds, perhaps the easiest, most powerful way to back up your data. DriveWare™ and DEScryptor,” our comprehensive operating and proprietary encryption tools’ Plus DemoWare™ and over SMB of Public Domain and Shareware software. To order a new DirectDrive call 1-800-347-3228 in the US. or 1 1-415-282-1111 worldwide, Our knowledgeable staff is ready to answer your & Jasmine questions Monday through Friday from 8 am to 6 pm (Pacific Standard Time). MasterCard, Visa, or American Express cheerfully accepted. 1- 800. io 347- 32 28, © 1969 Jasmine Technologies inc 1740 Army Stet, San Francisco, CA94124, Phone 1-15-2821. FXC1-41546i81625 DireaDrive,DriveRare, DEScrypor and DemoWareare trademarks ofsmine Technologies ne *DEScrypea included wit US sales only Symantec™ Uulites or Macintosh by Symantec, Redn™ by Microseds, Circle 21 on reader service card MAC B INDUSTRY NOTES Powder Blue Ships Mac Clones Powder Blue Computers says it is shipping Mac clones with legal Mac ROM BlOSes. The company is acquiring the 128K ROM from several sources, mostly surplus resellers. The list price of the BlueMag line ranges from $4395 for a 68000 machine with IMB of RAM, a floppy drive, and a 65MB hard disk, to $7499 for an 030 system with 4MB of RAM, a floppy drive, an 85MB hard disk, ‘and a 14-inch monitor. The Mac I! and Mac Ix—compatible systems do not support color displays. For further information, call Powder lu Computers ot 801/273-3993 Berger Leaves for Sun Chuck Berger, vice president of Apple's systems integration unit, has left to take on the job of vice president of product marketing for Sun Microsystems’ entry systems group. Berger’s departure is the latest of several by high-level Apple exec- utives since last summer, ond it’s all the ‘more important because of his destination. Sun is expected soon to introduce a low-end computer that will compete head-on with the Macintosh, And Boesenberg Resigns Turmoil in Apple's marketing division led fo the resignation of Charles Boesenberg, Apple USA's senior vice president of sales. Boesen- berg took a senior position with MIPS Com- ‘puter Systems, maker of RISC microproces- sors. David Hancock, Apple's senior vice pres- ident of marketing, then reorganized the division into six separate units. William Cold- rick, former vice president of northwestern operations, took Boesenberg’s former seat. Rodime Drops Prices Rodime cut prices on hard disks fo match or beat Apple’s lower prices. External 20MB and 45MB hard disks and the Rodime RX line of internal hard disks for the Mac SE, SE/30, 1, nd lx, were all included in the cuts. er Ti Aldus Corporation has announced an exlension to PageMaker 3.0 for those who desire color capability for the pagelayout program. Called PageMaker Color Extension, it will be available in the second quarter of 1989. PageMaker Color Extension supports the display of encapsulated PostScript (EPS), text, and TIFF files, It will run with 32-bit QuickDraw to produce 24-bit color. The new extension also incorporates the Pantone Matching System, so you can tun it on a blackand- white system, choose colors from the Panione palette, and produce colormaiched color output. With monochrome laser printers, the extension supports gray-scale output of color TIFF and EPS files. It also lets you produce color hard copy on color PostScript printers. PageMaker Color Extension also can work with PostScriptcompatible imagesetiers such as the Linotronic. Aldus also introduced Alpine, a proposed standard interface for prepress systems. For registered Mac PageMaker users the extension costs $150; suggested list price is $200. For more information, call Aldus at 206/622-5500. : Color for the 512KE and Up Aura Systems has developed a peripheral device for adding color to a Mac Plus, an SE, or a Mac 512KE with a SCSI upgrade. Scuzzygraph is o peripheral device that sits under the Mac and plugs into the SCSI port. All Scuzzygraph models provide 16 colors and full QuickDraw compatibility. The lowestcost model is compatible with color monitors with up to 720-by-5 1 2-pixel resolution; higher-cost models work with both digital and analog monitors with up to 1280-by-1024-pixel resolution. Any QuickDraw-compatible software will work with Scuzzygraph, and anything the screen shows in color can also be printed in color. For further information, contact Aura Systems at 619/438-7730. Motorola’s 68040 to Break the Million-Transistor Barrier Motorola recently revealed early details of the 68040 microprocessor, which will incorporate 1.2 million transistors. The chip will incorporate the complete 030 instruction set and will be 100-percent compatible with software for the entire 68000 family, Motorola said. The chip adds a higherspeed integer unit, a floating-point math unit, and improved instruction and data caching, The O40 will include o new hardware mechanism for multiprocessing support. Motorola will formally unveil the 040 during the third quarter. Apple Sets Mac Ilcx Prices At the introduction of the Mac Ilex in March, Apple announced systenrunit prices that range from $4669 with 1MB of RAM to $7552 with 4MB, an 80MB hard disk, and A/UX installed. A $5369 configuration includes 1MB of RAM and o 4OMB hard disk, while a system unit with 4MB of RAM and an 8OMB hard disk retails for $7069. All the configurations include a mouse and one SuperDrive, but keyboards, display boards, and monitors are extra. The llex costs about $300 more than an equivalent SE/3O and about $800 less thon an equivalent Mac II. MacProject II 2.0 Bows Claris has begun shipping o new version of MacProject Il that adds features including automatic and interactive resource leveling. MacProject Il 2.0 can also analyze resources allocated to multiple projects, calculate using aciual or projected data, access multiple charis, and create an unlimited number of custom calendars. The suggested retail price of MacProject Il 2.0 is $499. An upgrade from MacProject Il 1.0 is free if the program was purchased after February 1; otherwise it's $65. Upgrading from MacProject will cost $199. For more information, call Claris at 415/960-1500. (continues) MACWORLD © HAY 1989 13 7 $$ rrr HAC BULLETIN INDUSTRY NOTES Macworld Expo Asia The first Macworld Expo in Asia will be held at the Raffles Gity Convention Center in Singapore from June 29, 1989, to July 2, 1989. For further information, contact Macworld Expo Asia ‘89 at 415/341-2227. New Apple HQ Apple announced the opening of ifs new Atlanta operations headquarters, the fifth such unit in the country. The southern opera- tions group, covering six regional sales groups in 11 states, began full operation in Jonvary. The group also includes mojor cor- porate headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina, as well as Tampa, Miami, New Orleans, Dallas, Houston, ond Tulsa. HyperEngine Help Seven developers are introducing products using HyperEngine, o stack-access technology that provides online help and reference. The seven are Claris Corporation of Mountain View, California; Layered, of Cambridge, Massachusetts; Onset Computer Corporation of North Falmouth, Massachusetts; Neuro- nics, of Cambridge, Massachusetts; Channel- mark Corporation of San Mateo, California; Telerobotics of Knoxville, Tennessee; ond PictorGraphics, of Richardson, Texas. Hyper- Engine is based on Symmeiry's HyperDA software. 3Com Makes the Mac Connection 3Com Corporation of Santa Clara, California, ‘has announced an agreement with Pacer Software of La Jolla, California, to codevelop software allowing Macs fo use file and print services on a 3Com 3+Open LAN Manager network. Another 3Com partnership, this one with France's Telesystemes Reseaux, is developing an X.400 gateway and X.25- based router for worldwide exchange of electronic mail among 3Com networks. aris Cuts Support Gris Corporation announced that only Claris customers are now eligible for the company’s Customer Relations and Technical Support services, induding telephone hotine suppor and notification of product upgrades. Pre- Apple labeled versions of is products. 1.44MB Floppy Drive Peripheral Land (Pll) has developed a 1.44MB high-density floppy drive that reads and writes to 720K or 1.44MB disks made by both Apple and IBM. Called TurboFloppy, it works with the Mac Plus and up, without upgrades or extra controllers. MS-DOS files appear in conventional Macintosh windows and can be opened with compatible applications or converted to other formats with Apple File Exchange ulllities. TurboFloppy connects fo the Mac via the SCSI bus. The drive can also be daisy-chained with other peripherals. For further information, contact Peripheral Land at 415/657-2211. Apple’s 160MB Hard Disk Apple has added.a 160MB internal hard dick to its list of peripheral products for the Mac II or IIx. The hard disk has 327.780 disk blocks of 512K each. Average seek time is 18 milliseconds, and startup time is 20 seconds. The unit connects direclly to he Mac Il or Mac IIx via the SCSI connector. For further information, contact Apple Computer at 408/996-1010. Plasma Touch Screen NexSys has developed a plasma display screen, the TarMac, that responds to the touch of a finger or a pointing device, just as a graphics tablet would. TarMac gives you more control by sensing how hard you press. For example, you could select a shape by touching the screen and then fill it in by pressing harder. You can place TarMac on a work table or in a frame, or use the unit just like any monitor, and the stan- dard Mac monitor remains active. TarMac’s screen can be as large as 1728 by 1280 pixels (24 by 17.8 inches). That's two tabloid pages side by side at a full 72 dots per inch, which should make the screen useful for publishing, among other applications. For further information, contact NexSys at 212/995-2224. MSI’s TableTools Brings Table Creation to the Mac TableTools, from Mansfield Systems (MSI), gives Macintosh users a wide variety of tools and options for building WYSIWYG tables. Instead of having to handle the various components of complex financial or scientific tables in separate applications—tabular material in a spreadsheet, graphics in a paint or draw program, and so on—you do it all in one environment and place the completed table directly into a desktop publishing program. TableTools’s unique From Within Shutlle transfers data quickly between applications from within TableTools. You can edit data or create graphics and charts inside cells using other applications; TableTools also creates tables from Excel files and includes a complete word processor. Suggested retail price is $395; for more information, call MSI at 800/872-3332. AppleFax Is Back, and Hopefully Better Apple is staging a comeback for its. much-beleaguered AppleFax Modem, which the company pulled off the market in October. Version 1.2 software, available free from Apple, fixes incompatibilities with some Group 3 facsimile devices and addresses a charactercollision tendency in the AppleFox. For more information, call Apple Computer at 408/996-1010. Spam, Spam, and Spam SPAM (Speed-up for Apple Mathematics), a new product from Bravo Technologies, is an INIT/CDEV combo that doubles the speed of math (floating-point) operations on the Mac. SPAM is especially good for improving the speed of math, statistics, database, CAD, and graphics programs on a Mac Plus or SE without an accelerator board or floating-point chip, but it will increase computation speed on any Mac. SPAM costs $79; for more information, contact Bravo Technologies at 415/841-8552. High-Capacity Storage and Backup New on the market from MicroNet Technology is the Micro/Mox series of SCSI hard disks for the Mac Plus, SE, or Il: the SBX-159im (150MB)}, the SBX-300im (300MB), and the SBX620im (600MB). Hard disks in the Micro/Max series come with a universal power supply for use anywhere in the world, and boast a 16.5ms access time. An optional tape-backup system with a capacity of (OMB, 150MB, or 300MB can be included with the Micro/Max or can be added later with a tape kit from MicroNet. For information, call MicroNet Technology at 714/837-6033. MACWORLD © MAY 1989 PROMOTE YOURSELF IN SECONDS. (Easily Create this Overhead, in Seconds.) 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Prices shown are cash prices and do not include shipping, Add 3% for VISA or Ma trademarks of LaGie td Macintosh and Local alk cand, 5% for American Express. Add lemarks of Apple Computer: Prices and. or rush handling. Cirrus, LaCie, Silerlining, Silverserver and Silverplater are cifications shown are subject to change without notice Circle 145 on reader service card Brave COMMENTARY nce in a great while magazines undergo a redesign, one of the most uncertain times in the life of a publication. And these days, magazines are thinking about how to make the shift to electronic or desktop publishing, another great uncertainty. For reasons too convoluted to explore here, we decided that Macworld would do both at once, And we succeeded. The issue in your hands incorporates both a new de- sign (including new departments of the magazine) and the use of desktop publish- ing tools to produce all of the editorial por- tions of the magazine except four-color photographs. In the late summer New Macworld °° How Macworld come to be desktop published by Jerry Borrell planning. The design group began working on a redesign. I began holding staff meetings to consider our path toward DTP. As time passed, it became clear that we would gain the greatest efficiency by implementing both at the same time. Note that I do not say we chose the easiest path. The design of Macworld had been sagging under the weight of our growth since the last changes I directed, in the fall of 1986. Even then it was clear that the The design team of Dennis Mcleod (rear), Leslie Barton, and Andrew Faulkner created Macworld’s new look. magazine needed more work, and as our average issue approached 300 pages the problems grew more noticeable. The typography was the basis of many prob- lems—our Garamond face was overused and underpowered. We needed different MACWORLD © MAY 1989 weights of type and different type sizes. Our design specifications, al- though tuned in 1986, had been with us since the magazine was founded in 1984, when Macworld was much smaller. In those days it wasn’t as necessary to cram. information into a given amount of space, and there was less need to provide read- ers with relief from the dense technical content of our articles. Many elements of our design cried out for attention—the table format, the sidebar format, the use of a single typeface. Designer Dennis McLeod led the group that completed the design you now see. The main changes: addition of a sans serif face (Futura), more flexible design specifications for our features and reviews, changes to the layout of depart- ments (needed to make them stand out more from advertising in the back and front of the magazine), and additional elements (for example, several levels of subheads) throughout to make articles more readable despite the complexity of the material. Another goal that I set some while ago was the improvement of informational graphics for our articles. To this end Dennis hired Arne Hurty, winner of Aldus Corporation’s FreeHand illustration con- test for 1988. We knew we needed some- one with a strong conceptual illustration background and a command of computer graphics tools for the Mac if we were to make a difference. Atthe same time we wanted to change the editorial focus somewhat in depart- ments, to support changing aspects of the Mac market. We kept our How To's, which support novice users, in the back of the magazine: Getting Started, Insights, and Quick Tips. We retained our editorial well for features, and in the front we added State of the Mac, Conspicuous Con- sumer, and Art Beat. State of the Mac’ origin is found in the shift of 25-plus percent of our readership to the Mac II. 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GW Instruments, Inc. 35 Medford St., Somerville, MA 02143 The Macintosh Data Acquisition Company Circle 124 on reader service card 20 COMMENTARY Arne Hurty specializes in informational graphics, which he often creates in Aldus FreeHand. coeditor of the Macintosh IT Report news- letter, keeps our readers abreast of what's happening with Apple’s open-architec- ture machines. Deborah Branscum, for- merly of Macintosh Today, InfoWorld, and Mother Jones, has taken on the task of becoming our reader ombudsman with the Conspicuous Consumer column. In addition, Deb seeks to shed light on major issues of concern to Mac owners. Art Beat is our chance to tell readers, over 60 percent of whom use computer graphics programs, how we produce the art for our magazine. Art Beat will vary between a detailed description of one major project and overviews of how several pieces were rendered for an issue. DESKTOP PUBLISHING From the moment we began thinking about the redesign, it was clear that we would have problems with desktop pub- lishing. One overarching goal for the redesign was to provide greater design flexibility, allowing us to provide readers with more variation in our layout. Few of the designers believed that desktop pub- lishing tools were up to the task. So we began by evaluating desktop publishing packages. The initial group for evaluation included Interleaf, Aldus Page- Maker, ReadySetGo, and QuarkXpress. Interleaf was soon eliminated because it is more suitable for long documents with strict formatting and without intensive use of graphics. ReadySetGo was eliminated next, because the designers weren't en- tirely comfortable with its procedure for laying out pages and because it lacked the ability to handle four-color specifications. MACWORLD © MAY 1989 Then we looked at QuarkXpress, which offered many features not found in Page- Maker—color output, greater leading control, better table layout. Still, PageMaker was an emotional favorite with many of the designers. They were familiar with PageMaker's “paste- board” environment. They preferred its cut and paste features. We also recog- nized that Aldus was an older, larger company, and since we know all too well the vicissitudes of the software publishing industry, there was a feeling that part of our decision should be based upon the stability of the software company. Not that Quark is unsound. In 1988 it was the fastest-growing company in Mac DTP, but its revenues are dwarfed by Aldus’s. After the copy editors have completed a manuscript, the art department creates a layout. Here Hae Yuon Kim sizes color transparencies while designing the New Products section using PageMaker. For a while, evaluation stalled. It was during this period that the reality of what we hoped to accomplish hit home. Mov- ing a magazine of our size—a circulation of 325,000 anda print run of over 400,000— to desktop publishing had not been done elsewhere in the world. The anomaly of Macworld is that we produce a monthly magazine twice the size of Esquire, or half again as big as many issues of Smithsonian and Travel & Leisure. Our circulation is much smaller, but the magazine itself is larger. One reason: there is more Mac advertising (at a lower cost per page than in the publica- tions mentioned above). We use as much four-color photography and illustration as many of the larger publications. We like to think that our demands for quality are as high as these publications. Not only must we produce a well- (continues) “Two thumbs ORACLE fot up!” Macintosh. For only $199 until May 31° “T like the seamless way ORACLE gives HyperCard full-power database and networking capabilities. 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Stories on Nepalese honey gatherers are less sensitive to time issues. Technology and business writing are more immediate than. fiction and most life-style coverage. In short, who were we to think that we could shift a magazine this size to desktop publishing methods while maintaining our level of quality? We had a saving grace in that over the past several years we have written and worked extensively with developers of desktop publishing tools. Our artists and designers have used the Mac for several years. And fortunately we were able to hire Luis Camus, former assistant managing editor of Macintosh Today, who was vital to the desktop publishing effort there. Luis had scars of experience but the energy to push our work forward. So as redesign plans moved forward, desktop planning progressed anew, and eventually questions about the redesign began to be directed toward desktop publishing tools, Could we get half-point sizes in type? What about the typefaces that we wanted? How good was the reg- istration of film output from Linotronic imagesetters? Would the loss of resolution (1250-dpi type output versus our previous 2400) make the magazine less readable? Could we really specify CMYK colors from Mac programs? Could we afford the loss of color density when using Linotronic MACWORLD © MAY 1989 film? Many of these issues were raised in evaluating the DTP packages. While I was dreaming of working in glorious four-color, the designers were telling me there was simply no way to do it. And the reality of that hit home all too soon. The film quality of Linotronic out- put varied depending upon how the film developer was running at any given time. The registration samples we produced were acceptable for type, but not good enough for color. Some publications, to be sure, are printing color output using Linotronic separations, but ours are typi- cally pulled from Crosfield laser film plot- ters—with several times the quality of Lino output—before being stripped into fully composed pages. Finally the art director pointed out that our printing processes needed a silver-based film to ensure higher-quality print plate produc- tion for the printing process. Even mechanical or spot-color i: are worrisome. The four-color schemes: implemented in Mac software do not precisely correlate to the Pantone colors used by the lithographers and printers (no matter what developers say). There is no way for designers to specify four colors (CMYK) from a program and know with certainty what will come out. In the end, Luis was forced to produce a book of color swatches that show our designers what a given CMYK mixture will produce (see State of the Mac for more on color issues). We began asking developers for patches to their software. We needed to know when additional features would be available. We had to commission the design of typefaces that were not avail- able from Adobe or Linotype. Luis began running film tests with several local sup- pliers to find out what the quality, turn- around time, and working relationship was likely to be. In the end we chose Krishna Copy Center, the local mecca for desktop publishing, and Design & Type, a Bay Area typesetter, to supply us with film and fully composed pages on resin- coated paper (what we call repro), Ac- quiring a Linotronic was never an attrac- tive alternative for us—maintenance, changing technology, and our level of use (continues) sues Overhaul. How to give Ethernet a run for the money. Some people may think the way to rev up a LocalTalk network is to rip the whole thing out, lay some heavy cable, and send your computers out for an Ethernet implant. Spending big Time to complete the infonetics Standard | bucks in the process. 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As the busin wa $ units sought autonomy, it was a propitious time to seek alternatives for producing the magazine. Editorial pro- duction shifted to the editorial department under managing editor Charlie Barrett. We took a conservative approach to implementing the changes in editorial production. At present we continue to copyedit on paper, although that may change our production experience matures. This decision avoided near-term copy editors had to edit on screen and of changing the day-to-day i s of whether sui work ofa talented group of professionals. The changes among the editors have been evolutionary as well. Now editors supply the production group (via the copy editors) with documents formatted in Microsoft Word style sheets. After an initial copyedit, the editorial production staff pours news, reviews, and depart- ments documents into single-column PageMaker templates for proofing gal- leys. Departments, the most strictly for- matted section of the maga by the editorial production group into final gall ures, and rev’ go to artists and designers who design and ine, are poured WS pour these sections. THE IMPLEMENTATION We began slowly. Long hours were spent designing charts of how the processes would work. New staff had to be hired and trained for the edit production group. Extensive PageMaker training was the (continues) “A new product first, the channel tablished Eee tbe opened:a Hf arkeiplace. We it #0 Ie 1) A Medi vas introxluced in October with aI Sed strategy, 00 ‘our (D. 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Redux” backup program has Redux by Dave Winzler microseeds publishing inc becomeso popular these days. It's easy-to-use, flexible, and fast. Fora free “I hate backing up.” button, send us a self-addressed stamped envelope. Quantities are limited. Redux isa trademark of Microseeds Publishing, Inc, 4702 N. Hesperides St.,Tampa, FL 33614 (813) 882-8635 Circle 366 on reader service card COMMENTARY Senior copy editor Ruth Henrich and copy editor Emily Bower proof Linotronic repro that has been pasted up on boards. Macworld uses boards for much of its production because the traditional approach gives designers more leeway in making color decisions. order of the day. Luis and Andrew Faulkner, one of the designers on the redesign team, created the templates for news, reviews, and departments. The schedule of copy- editing for each stage of the process had to be worked out, with time for produc- tion staff to input copy editors’ changes. We've leit plenty of room for improve- ment. Part of the plan is to introduce the technology in a nonthreatening manner that allows all of us to learn how the tools work. We have lots of problems to solve, but eventually we will tackle issues such as timeliness of production, four-color page manipulation, and more. For now, we have plenty to do, EQUIPMENT True, we had many Macintoshes in the art department already and lots of in-house expertise to rely upon. This is probably the foundation of our bravado in this effort, but DTP brought changes almost immediately. Another fortuitous benefit of Macworld’s becoming independent was the unification of our art, editorial, and editorial production departments on a single floor. Networking was less oner- ous, but two AppleShare zones had to be established to avoid bogging down the network. There has been a degradation of performance for the 40 of us on the network, but it’s minimal. Equipment demands went up quickly. The designers needed Mac IIs to work on large PageMaker files with any facility. So did the editorial production staff. Five megabytes of memory was required for (continues) Vista™ Videographics Cards Ne EXE 60. seconds, we wl be Which Macintosh i graphi ics se offers the widest range of capture and - display resolutions—NTSC, PAL, © Monitor, hi-res, interlaced, non- interlaced and other modes? a) NuVista2M ~b) NuVista4M_c) All of the above Name the only videographics card which provides true-color, real-time capture and broadcast-quality display wotle occupying only a single slot in a Macintosh Il. a) NuVista 2M _b) NuVista 4M c) All of the cae Which videographics card offers full euiedran” compatibility at 1,2,4,8,16 or 32-bits per pixel? a) NuVista2M b) NuVista 4M c) All oft! ne cone Visual clue for Videographics test, Ifyou chose (c) on ail three questions, congratulations! You know that the NuVista series from Truevision is the answer to all your advanced videographics needs. 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EXPENSE So, are we saving any money? To be hon- est, the impetus for this effort is rooted in the need to make a magazine our size more timely, not to save money. We can shift printing dates at our large printer in the Midwest only so much if we are to reach subscribers throughout the country by the beginning of the preceding month every four weeks (that is, January issues hit the newsstand the first week of December). Whereas we hope to cut two to three weeks fromour production cycle with DTP. A secondary goal is the recognition that we need to use Macintosh software if we are to write about it competently. Finally, we must be able to hold costs level with older production methods, at least through the introductory period. Then we'll work on cutting costs, and I believe that we will be able to do this. SO WHAT DO YOU THINK? As the adage goes, watch what we do, not what we say (or something like that). 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P. 0. Box 223779, Carmel CA 93922, FAX (408) 624-7865 For Fluent Laser Fonts (postscript) circle 137 on reader service card. For Fluent Fonts circle 16 on reader service card. MACWORLD © MAY 1989 33 = If you make presentations, you're no stran- er to pressin; i it View Text Outline ; ee ° Pp ig = File Edit Ui deadlines. = 1989 SALES PR 8 Or last-minute Fe a 5 dus Posuasion i changes. If only there were a quick, easy way to create power- ful presentation visuals. There is. With Aldus’ Persuasion; you simply select a design, type your ideas into the text outliner, and you're done. As fast as you can outline your thoughts, Persuasion’s AutoTemplate™ technology con- verts them into a professional- quality presentation. Persuasion handles the design, so you're free to concentrate on the content. Use the power of Persuasion to produce crisp black-and-white or color overhead transparencies. Generate 35mm slides with a desktop film recorder. Or send your file to Autographix, a nation- wide network of slide bureaus, for overnight service. Use the on-screen slide show to review your presentation, or to actually present your work. Persuasion is today’s only full-featured desktop presenta- tions package for the Macintosh. And it’s a snap to use, with auto- matic organizational charts, out- lining, word-processing, drawing, and charting tools. INSTANT. & MINUTE MOCHA 1989 SALES PRESENTATION © Mocha Sales - Warming Up Quickly = Big Perks on the Horizon = People want a quick cup of cof = Coffee drinkers won't sacrifice © Mocha satisfies urge for choco ©) Minute Mocha Sales Opportunities = Waking up the industry l= Projected Sales © Coffee Consumption = Gourmet Coffee Cappuccino French Roast Espresso Jamaican Blue Mountain Kona Mocha © Gourmet Coffee Characteristics = Flavor = froma = Color © Consistency © Coffee Consumption Continued oo 0 000 Text tA Ra *Offer good in US. and Canada only and expires September 30, 1989. Aldus and the Aldus logo are registered trademarks, and Aldus Persuasion and AutoTemplate are trademarks of Aldus Corporation. Macintosh isa registered trademark of Apple Computer Inc. ©1989 Aldus Corporation. All rights reserved. | No wonder the reviewers are applauding Persuasion. Accord- ing to InfoWorld, “This may be as the product that does for desktop ; presentations ei what PageMaker didfordesktop | publishing’’ In its 12/88 Macintosh (iene Ratings Report, fein quomaenly Software Digest audience handouts. says, ‘‘Persuasion provides the best balance of features, usability, and performance to meet the needs of most users:’ Discover the power of Persuasion. To see how Persuasion can make your next presentation an. instant success, visit your nearest authorized Aldus & 6 / dealer. Or, call us at / 1-800-333-2538, Depart- ment 2D2, fora FREE / information packet* |ALDUS The Creative Edge in Business. Circle 306 on reader service card Introducin Tape Backup With The Attributes Of All Three. , Streamy what does the Max- Stream™ have in common with the Concorde, a supertanker and the Golden Gate Bridge? Plenty, when you're talking about performance. With speeds up to 6.75 megabytes per minute, it’s the fastest tape backup available. It quickly reduces even the longest, most mundane backup chore into a simple, effortless task. But don’t think that means you give up accuracy for speed. Built-in error correction and data verification guaran- tee that the data you put on tape will be exactly the same when you restore it—all 150 megabytes. H =: That's right. MaxStream packs a ‘ q whopping 150 megabytes on a single . industry-standard DC600™ 1/4” car- tridge. With that kind of capacity, it’s like a supertanker for data. (There's ¥ also a 60 megabytes version for gsmaller applications.) Either one is perfect for backing up high-end applications like graphics, imaging, database or CAD programs. And of course, MaxStream works with every popular network. It’s the one drive you can trust for backing up all the valuable data on a server. LAN administrators will also appreciate MaxStream’s software. It lets you back up an entire network at pre-programmed times, instead of having to rely on users to back up their data individually. Even if you're not on a network you'll like our full array of backup and restore features as well as scripting, which allows for automatic, unattended backups. You can run an entire backup at night, or while you're at lunch. MaxStream also bridges the gap between Macs and IBM PCs® by letting you use the same DC600 cartridge with both systems. With Archive's Universal Tape Format,” atapefrom one of Archive's tape subsystems can be read and used by the other and vice versa. MaxStream works with the Mac Plus, SE, II and IIx®. It plugs into the standard SCSI port, and comes with everything you need — cables, software, DC600 cartridge and manual. Just as important, when you go with MaxStream, you're get- ting backup and support from the company that pioneered streaming tape technology back in 1980. Today, there are over one-million Archive tape drives in use throughout the world. Ifyou’re looking for backup that combines speed, capacity z and connectivity, it's time to look into MaxStream. For com- plete information call 1-800-237-4929. Or write Archive Cor- poration, Data Storage Division, 1650 Sunflower Ave., Costa Mesa, California 92626. ARCHIVE’ CORPORATION A Why trust your data to anyone else?™ @ yowatt Circle 3 on reader service card Archive is a registered trademark and MaxStream, Universal Tape Format and Why trust your data to anyone else? are trademarks of Archive Corporation. Macintosh Plus, SE, IT and Ix are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. IBM PC is a registered trademark of International Business Machines. DC 600 is a registered trademark of 3M Corp. A Forum for Macworld Readers Long Live the Revolution hile recently scanning the Macintosh press, I noticed several articles lament- ing the lack of any new, rev- olutionary technology from Apple. I urge these authors, and any users who share this same “technology fixation,” to focus instead on the revo- lutionary uses of the Mac. Speech recognition for the Macintosh is now well into development by Apple as well as by third-party ven- dors. Apparently, Apple is also experimenting with hand- writing recognition and other advances in input technology, all helping to make the Mac the information appliance Steve Jobs envisioned it to be. The Macintosh is pro- viding a platform for new advances in man-computer communications and uses, which I believe—along with the Mac IIx and the 030 SE— to be quite revolutionary in their own right. Now if there could only be a revolution in price... Mark Boudreau Greenfield Park, Quebec, Canada A Mac in DOS Clothing hat equipment do I need to run IBM PC software on my Mac SE? I also need a wide-carriage Mac-compatible printer. Blaine Voss Newark, Ohio C2) LETTERS In our September 1988 Reviews, we covered two products that allow you to run DOS files on con SE: Mac+PCSE (“A Window on DOS") and SofPC (“Teaching o New Dog Old Tricks"). See May 1988 Reviews (“Apple's Junior Business Printer") for information on the ImageWriter 10, a wide-carriage printer.—Ed. An Unworkable Works | publish two newsletters using Microsoft Works and PageMaker and have been using Works 1.0 and 1.1 since I first obtained my Mac. Then I updated to 2.0 for the col- umns capability and the spel- ling checker. That was a big mistake. In attempting to place word processing files from Works 2.0 into PageMaker 3.01, I got no font transfer and my 24-point headlines were either missing or chopped to the point of uselessness. A Microsoft representative told me that PageMaker does not accept RTF format for font and file integrity, She also said that if I transferred my Works file into Word, I could then transport it into PageMaker. I do not have Word, and if I did I would not be using Works for the newsletters. The PageMaker manual says one can import Works documents by direct placing. Not so now! No- where have I read a warning that Works 2.0 won't export to PageMaker. For my pur- poses, Microsoft Works 2.0 MACWORLD © MAY 1989 Corrections Steven Levy's April Iconoclast column was an April Fool’s joke. Our apologies to readers who did not get the gag; any future satires will be clearly labeled as such. The address for STF Technolo- gies, maker of FAXstf (Where to Buy, March 1989), is 1817 Main St., P.O. Box 247, Higginsville, MO 64037, 816/584-7727 or 800/ 426-1679. Accountant, Inc. Professional (New Products, February 1989) is @ professional accounting pack- age by Sofisync, 212/685-2080. ‘The phone number for Spec- trum HoloByte, maker of Tetris for the Mac II (New Products, March 1989), is 415/522-3584. has fallen far short of utility. Earl M. Robertson Rochester, New York Because PageMaker 3.0 and later versions support neither the Works 2.0 file format nor the RTF export format, the only way to import Works 2.0 files is in text-only format, eliminat- ing all formatting and graphics. At this time, neither Microsoft nor Aldus is planning to correct the problem. For further information on Works 20, see Reviews, April 1989.—Ed. Deft Left Out W: were disappointed that our product, Deft, was not mentioned in your listing of CASE tools for the Macin- tosh (“CASE Tools for the Mac,” Letters, January 1989). (continues) 37 3D Interior Design and Space Planning for the rest of us. Now for the price of a typical 2D package, you can get your hands on one of the hottest 3D design and layout programs for the Macintosh. Work in several different views. See your design in perspective and birdseye, then print it out on your laser printer, or use MacPlot to run it out toa plotter. With Maclnieriors special object library it's a snap to design a room, a house, an office or even the newest addition to the Acme Widget factory. any angle and height you choose. ark stored Macinteriors is a tradi and MacPlot iso 1 $295 © “Tile fait View Call_ Change Uptions Pattern Top Wail oFnicer? EEE Tait wie CaN_chonge_o Perspect N ICROSPOT een 1 800 272 5533 USA Circle 374 on reader service card 38 A 95014 1 408 739 0326 OVERSEAS ———— er EES Deft is a well-established product that covers analysis, design, coding, and documen- tation—the areas the letter writer was interested in. Andres Model Deft Inc Rexdale, Ontario, Canada We regret the unintentional omission —Ed. Pros and Cons of SuperStacks part-time HyperCard hacker, I very much en- joyed your SuperStacks con- test (November 1988). But I made two disappointing dis- coveries. First, you had no category for stacks designed to make financial calculations for busi- ness or personal use. For many such computations, HyperCard provides a much better development and user environment than, say, Excel or database applications. I hope you'll consider this as a category for future Super- Stacks contests. Second, Developer Stack did not win its category. I have been using Developer Stack since I began using HyperCard. While it may not be for the true novice, it can be used by anyone develop- ing stacks, even those for per- sonal use. It allows beginners to benefit from the power of- fered by external commands without the struggle of learn- ing Pascal or C. As such, it is perhaps the most valuable resource tool for someone getting started with scripting. Tommy Bargeron Tifton, Georgia Getting Past First Base | owned a 128K, then up- graded to a 512K with a HyperDrive, and recently pur- chased a Mac Plus. That’s MACWORLD © MAY 1989 when my troubles began. None of my 1stBase files were legible, and although I talked to several Apple dealers, none were able to help me. Finally, I determined that I needed a new database, but they were all complicated and didn’t really serve my needs. Imag- ine my delight when, while browsing through Zeiters in the September 1988 issue of Macworld, | discovered that 1stBase was now 1stFile. I called 1stDesk Systems, got the update, and retrieved all my lost files dating back to 1984. Best of all, I can now create new files. Just one line in your Updates column would have saved me a lot of time and worry. Mary Lou McClammy Baker, Oregon We reviewed IstFile in our January 1988 issue and covered it again ina June 1988 feature, “Data Basics."—Ed. Aches and Strains 'm in the process of moving from a Mac Plus to a Mac II and a large screen, and I need help in selecting the appropri- ate furniture, screen-suspen- sion hardware, and so forth. I'd love to read an article on selecting computer furniture to minimize headache, back- ache, neck ache, eye strain, and other maladies related to computer usage. I’m sure such an article would gain a large readership. How about doing one? Stanley Froud New York, New York We do seem to be getting more letters on ergo- nomics lately (see “Desktop Ergonomics,” Let- ters, November 1988, and “Who Keeps the Books?,” Letters, March 1989). As a result, we are planning to cover this issue sometime in the future —Ed. (continues) ‘A Toan architect, ’ @ File Edit Text Object Layout Effects Macro Windows % a) “E Smooth fine hairlines like ours are pure poetry. B Auto-tracing built this banana froma scanned-in produce ad. In split seconds. Multi-point bezier curves make drawing a bunch easier. Colors are added in layers. D Auto-resizing helped this VP. of Sales display the fruits of his labor, graphically. 00000 —————— continuous color blending inspired this art director to new heights. FP 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 leftovers. FOUR INDIVIDUALS WERE GIVEN AN HOUR WITH THE NE 4 CANVAS 2.0: TREE WENT BANANAS. ONE ATE THEM. 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 top banana. Able to help even ordinary people draw extraordinary things. Easy 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 art or scanned graphics — into easily manipulated Canvas 2.0 objects 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 (64,000 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, TIFE MacPaint™ or MacDraw™ formats. Output to any Mac compatible printer, SiO typesetter, or film printer you want. Like we said: go bananas. But do itsoon. While we're still throwing in Canvas 2.0 DA for free. It’s a special desk accessory version that puts some 80% of these features right under your Apple menu And ifall this hasn't 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, After all, power like this can be very apeeling. Canvas 2.0 (including Canvas 20DA) $299.95 Site licenses available Canvas 2.0 Demo Disk $9.95 For more information or a demonstration of this or any of Deneba’s other products, see your local dealer or call us at 1800-6-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 Wea AE These unretouched drawings were created in Canvas 2.0 and output toa Mirrus film printer, EEE Instant Imaging R on Risley’s article on color printers (“Printing a Rainbow,” January 1989) was interesting, but some of his statements regarding color film recorders sound ques- tionable. He calls Polaroid instant slide film “a hassle to work with” because you must expose an entire roll, then process and mount the slides for viewing. I’m not aware of any slide film that doesn’t require this sequence of steps. The Polaroid Instant Slide System allows you to process and mount the film in about five minutes compared to the normal two and a half hours or more it takes for a lab to process conventional E-6 film. There will always be a pre- mium for the speed and con- venience of instant imaging, but the advantages far out- weigh the slight cost increase, and it surely beats paying at least $13 per slide from a ser- vice bureau. Mark Cross Northfield, Minnesota Powerhouse Word Processors n example of incomplete, if not inaccurate, informa- tion can be found in Jim Heid’s article, “The Great Write-Off,” in the November 1988 issue of Macworld. In comparing Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, and FullWrite Professional, he says that “since Word treats any line ending with a hard carriage return as a paragraph, I had to remember to select all the lines in a table before adjust- ing tabs.” Although that’s technically correct (Word does store for- matting information with each hard return), he failed to men- tion that Word provides a new-line feature (Shift-Return) that creates a new line but not a new format. This feature makes it easy to create, and even easier to modify, tables, address blocks, and multiple lines of text with identical formatting. Simply move the I-beam pointer to the left margin, and when it changes to a right pointing arrow, double-click, and the para- graph is selected. Quark- Xpress also uses this feature. I was initially frustrated that Word did not use embed- ded rulers to indicate a for- mat change. But after becom- ing familiar with Word’s ap- proach of placing formatting information with each para- graph, I came to appreciate this newer concept that elimi- nates superfluous rulers dividing text. Joseph T. Broghamer Munich, West Germany Since the new line feature opplies the same tab formats to every line in the table, it’s fine for simple tables whose formats are the same in every line. However, for tobes that require different formatting in different lines—such as headings cen