MacWorld 9004 April 1990

24 PRODUCT REVIEWS: PAGE 166 © 262 PRODUCT UPDATES: PAGE 253 .-5 MACWORLD Magintosh”. Magazine. ApriLJA90 $3.95 Canada $4.95 GRAY-SCALE SPECIAL 23 Monitors: Page 132 ¢lmaging Software: Page 124 WOR FOR Re EMORY Sai RAM ea APPLE'S FONT STRATEGY Battle Royal GEEK CHIC There's aWord fc t people like you. Whether youre a marketing maven on your way up,ascientist knee-deep in formulas, or a temp trying to i cope with an unfamiliar corporate mindset, when it comes to putting thoughts to paper, Microsoft is the Word for you. And our users arent the only ones who think so. Recently, the editors of Mac User gave Microsoft® Word version 4.0 the highest rating of any Macintosh° word processing program. Period. A move we werent al- }RuBpaiiad together surprised by. You see, besides being perversely com- mitted to research and develop- ment, we use a highly sophisti- cated approach to improving our product. We listen. ‘All of which has led to innovations like Word 408 powerful Table feature, enabling users to create side-by- side paragraphs, lists and even forms, without the hassle of dealing with tabs. And since there ave other word processing pro- grams, Word 4.0 provides connectivity to Microsoft Word version 5.0 for the PC, PC WordPerfect? DCA and other file formats. So now you can share your work with those less fortunate than yourself. What’ more, Word 4.0 is uniquely capable of delivering even more performance when it’s used with other applications. For example, even highly educated executives can import Microsoft Excel tables and charts and automatically update them. Making it easy to en- sure document accuracy. Plus, Microsoft Mail can be sent from within Word 4.0, significantly boosting work- group productivity. For something a tad more informative than this ad, call (800) 541-1261, Dept. J92, to receive a brochure or ask for the location of your nearest dealer for a demo. You'll find that no matter what type of word processing youre performing, you could be doing it better. 4 Just take our Word for it. Making it all make sense 0 ht Sa al 0) 52 De a Cac 1068 tie dC 5 Sgt feet Creat hte Mm eh eon fnlvsone ha indeed room Capers Macon wt reasoned nak et Aoke Eaapuch ne Wechelect i egtered imcoart et Wether Coronation For the sharpest monochrome moni- tors, see page 132. On page 124, we contrast gray-scale editors (Cov art by Arne Hurty. Stock photogra- phy by Afier-Image.) 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Adal #16 peryear from Canadaand Mexico; add 6 per year for 8 ail or $95 per year for airmail roe all ‘counties, Second-lass postage pad at San Francisco, Cal forma, and at addtional mailing ofices The New WriteNow Version 2.2. Still Easy. Still Fast. And Still the Right Choice... .-- But Now For Even More Reasons! How about 1.4 million new reasons? WriteNow now includes the Proximity WordMaster™ Thesaurus, containing 1.4 million synonyms, antonyms, compared, contrasted, and related word responses at your fingertips—it's the biggest in the Macintosh world! FRSA AORN NOU ececee How about another 135,000 great new reasons? We've increased the size of our spelling checker to 135,000 words, making it the largest of any Macintosh word processor as well. Direct Word 3.0 and Word 4.0 Compatibility WeMrenmanteaesd 3.0 or 4.0 good reasons? WriteNow is directly compatible with Microsoft Word 3.0 and Microsoft Word 4.0 documents. Over a Dozen New Features & Usability Enhancements (oie about over a dozen new features and usability enhancements, like menu fonts, ruler guides, automatic window tiling & stacking, date formatting, ae powerful new format acceleraiors, direct input of font sizey pre-designed 1.4 Million 135,000 mailing label templates for popular label sizes, and more. Word Word The Word Processor of Choice in the Macintosh World [efanag Thesaurus Dictionary about just one really important reason: When you ask industry critics which word processor they use day-to-day, the answer is always the same: WriteNow. Still the word processor of choice in the Macintosh world. | 66 WriteNow is the definitive Macintosh word WriteNow22 MacWritell Word Works processor. It's easy to use, powerful, and : —————| comfortable... 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Nonregistered users should call or write for details. 1989 Readers’ Choice Award, ‘Best Word Processor’—MACazine ‘T/Maker Company Mts. ae 1390 Villa Street cated Word Processor in Macintos) Mountain View, CA 94041 PC Week Poll of Corporate Satisfaction,’ —PC WEEK MaGaziINE Tel: (415) 962-0195 Fax: (415) 962-0201 STRTAas Copa Alia rececd Te Gloag acl ie pic ha: Wow a Macs pe Copa as Mac Wee Cas Coei ‘ice Misch Gepusee Wanda: vue Campa Cnn ae See us at Macworld Expo, Booth #1217 (akev Circle 332 on reader service card Industry tum Caley Role ln Education The words are those of Jonathan Seybold, perhaps the most respected voice in desktop publishing. His news- letter, The Seybold Report, reaches some 200,000 publishers—of whom we estimate 199.990 have never even tried a NeXT™ Computer. Certainly, then, Mr. Seybold’s words weren't calculated to gain favor among his readers. We suspect a far simpler motive: honesty. The NeXT machine has caused many to believe that it was designed exclusively for publishing. Not a bad theory, considering the evidence. To begin with, the NeXT Computer is the first pure PostScript® machine. You can work on-screen with the hun- dreds of fonts in Adobe’s type library. You can output to any PostScript device, be it laser printer, slide maker or the highest quality professional typesetter. And what you sec on the display is pre- cisely what will print. As the rest of the industry explores ways to accomplish this feat, in a year at best, only the NeX’T Computer can do it today. In addition, the quality of the image itself is raised dramatically. The NeXT MegaPixel Display pro- vides a huge workspace, with sharp- ness and detail you haven't seen on a computer before. The NexT Laser Printer, at 400 dots per inch, offers over 75% greater resolution than the current 300 dpi standard. Ours is also the only system to offer optical storage as a standard feature. A single optical disk (256 megabytes) lets you store and transport multiple versions of long documents, rich in ©1990 NeXT; Inc. NeXT, the NeXT logo and Digital Library are rademarks of NEXT; twadematk of Frame Technology Carp Webste graphics-along with expansive libraries of fonts and art. The NeXT Computer streamlines the entire publishing process. Frame- Maker” software combines writing, graphics and layout tools in one publish- ing package. Which brings an end to the tradition of forever bouncing between programs, “importing” and “exporting” as you go. And, thanks to true multitasking, you can instantly access other applications. ‘The NeXT Digital Library,” for example, is always at hand. It includes entire books, such as Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary” and Colle- giate® Thesaurus. Or archives of your past work, in which you can pinpoint text or graphics in seconds, to copy into new documents. NeXT Mail makes publishing a truly collaborative process. Unlike ordinary e-mail, it lets you send and receive messages that include text, graphics, voice, even entire documents. Never has there been a more effective way to locate information, receive comments and get approvals. And, as Publish! magazine recently reported, the NeXT Computer “offers a staggering price advantage” when com- pared to personal computers configured for desktop publishing. ‘To receive our publishing brochure, call 800-848-NeX'T: While youte on the line, ask for the location of your nearest Businessland Center. There, you can get some hands-on experience with the world’s most sophisticated desktop publishing system. And get a quote on a sys- tem all your own. cf ouScript isa registered trademark of Adobe Systems, Inc. FrameMaker is registered nth New Collegiate Dictionary and Collegiate ae cegistered trademarks of Merriam Webster, Ine “THE BEST COMPUTER FOR PUBLISHING ® Access Managed Environment Call today for a Free Brochure 800 359-4920 Casady & Greene, Inc. P.O. 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Randy Schneiderman (915/243-0505) CIRCULATION Circulation Manager Lindsay Davidson Fulfillment Coordinator Evelyn Adenau Promotion Coordinator Lori Hitchcock Circulation Assistant Catherine Huchting Director George Clark Rep Martin Garchor RESEARCH Director of Research Gary Rocchio Project Coordinator Guy Tasaka ADMINISTRATION Director of Finance Vicki Poilon Corporate Business Manager Christina W. Spence Accounting Manager Pat Murphy Director of Human Resources Shelly Ginenthal Information Systems Manager Walter J. Clogg Founder David Bunnell Founding Editor Andrew Fluogelman 1943-1985 |r You’RE CONSIDERING Aw Appxte Monitor, Here’s A Nuvce In Tue Orner Direction. Once again, Radius turns display technology on its ear, Introducing Pivot." the first display that goes from portrait to landscape with only a gentle push, ©) The new Pivot is the first display that changes orientation, in real time, p. a Pr to match the format of your project. 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Macworld is 2 member of IDG Communications, the ‘world’s largest publisher of compuscerciated information. 1DG Communications publishes aver 120 computer publications in morc than At major countries Fourteen million poopie readoine ‘more UDG Communications publications each month VPA It's Going Where No High-Speed Modem Has Gone Before. There’s nothing more advanced for Macin- SPEED SAMAK It even lets you dial in to your network tosh networks than the new high-speed RETWORK SHARING AAKAKT from a remote site to access files, use TOPS” NetModem V.32. Because the NetModem REMOTE BRIDGING #44448] AppleShare,° E-mail,’ printers or any other V.32 pushes performance to the limit. Just —_| EASE OF USE #AAAK| network resource. 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Computer Singapore, shows associate features s ago I wandered __ editorCheryl England Spencer the monitor-testing sasastudent, my foot- site at Apple's factory (top). Macworld UK. steps dogged by a host of less-than- Peter Worlock and senior associate subtle observers. At times an older Carol Person savor London's famous weather. person would pull me aside and wk per that as long as the Soviet people had bread, shelter, and peace, things were all right. Twenty million coun- trymen had died in the Second World War and could I please tell everybody in America that what people in the Soviet Union wanted most was peace. Argue what you will about the role the USSR has played—Evil Empire or tormented giant of Asia—the Mac can certainly help bring about change and MACWORLD = APAIL 1990 the greater possibility of peace to the Soviet Union. Last fall the State De- partment approved the export of Mo- torola 68000 processors to the East- ern Bloc. So with the help of Apple Computer's Michael Spindler, Kent Edquist, and others, I have contrived to deliver the editors at PC Mir from PC tyranny through the use of Macin- to produce their bimonthly publication. Moreover, I've instigated an upcoming article in PC Mir that tells readers how to get started with desktop publishing in Cyrillic. Last winter I discussed desktop publication of PC Mir with my Soviet colleague ichael Volodarsky, director of Infor- er Enterprises [ICE] of iary of IDG, our par- ent company. I was concerned—torn by my old experiences with the dead- ening Soviet system and by heartrend- ing television pictures of thousands of people standing at the Brandenburg Gate of Berlin, singing, dancing. brating the finish of four decades of totalitarian so In the end, it was no contest and I plunged headlong into helping acquire Macs for the USSR. PageMaker is being localized for Cyrillic, and Apple is expected to de- liver a Cyrillic Mac for the USSR as early as May. 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There in the shadow of the Expo- sition of Achievements of the Soviet Economy will be Macintosh hardware and software as well as other personal computers. You could say that we are delivering technology to the Soviets that will help them repair their rav- aged economy, and you may wonder whether that is something we should do, But as an observer with more than an academic knowledge of the Soviet people, I would argue that putting Macs into the hands of Soviet techno- crats will accomplish what samizdat (publishing by hand—usually clande tine copies of banned books or politi- cal tracts) has only aspired to. Growing Global Influence It may be hard to believe that in the greater scheme of things, in matte: of the world, the Mac and Macworld have some role to play. But over the last year we have both grown incredi- bly. The Macintosh, with its ease of localization and expanding success abroad, has become much more an international computer, As for Macworld, sister publications are springing up around the world. For- eign Macworlds have been created by our parent company in Sweden, Aus- the United Kingdom, Denmark, Taiwan, and Germany. And versions are planned for Norway, Finland, Ja- pan, France, and other countries. They do not merely license our name, but actually involve sharing editorial and staff beeween publications, Three years ago I began to envi- sion an international sharing of edito- rial , building bridges between our in San Francisco and the 35 '§ where IDG has subsidiaries. MACWORLD + APRIL 1990 Most magazines offer travel perks to journalists (one of the small benefits they're given to make up for the rela- tively little money they derive from their profession) but I hope to offer the Macworld staff something more— actual working knowledge of what is happening with the Mac in foreign countries, knowledge of publishing, abroad, exposure to different cultures. In turn we're welcoming the editor: of foreign Macworlds into our offices, and initiating them into the ways of Silicon Valley. This is not merely an attempt to win the loyalty (and longevity) of young editors, for the Macintosh has expanded greatly worldwide. In 1989 nearly 35 percent of Apple’s revenues were derived outside of the United States. Strong markets and communi- ties of product developers are appear- ing in other countries. People abroad are doing things with the Mac that are of interest to our readers, and we have a long tradition of writing about them. An Editorial Exchange Program Senior editor Adrian Mello was cho- sen for the first exchange. Adrian trav- eled to Australia for three weeks in 1988 and went there again last fall. At that time, Adrian and I initiated re- mote network access to our Ap- pleShare network server via Farallon’s Timbuktu Remote, a setup that worked only sporadically in the first year. It was my goal to allow foreign editors to log on to our in-house net- work an ated graphics, and E-mail. The network capacity has grown— and Macworld UK was the first to log (continues) Australian Macworld editor Osmund Lind Iversen right) shows the sights of Syiney to senior features editor Adrian Mello. CaAeMIBUES Land Aldus Fie Power Realized. —. \W aster the power of your software quickly as your own private tutor talks you through the software, step by step. With your hands on the keyboard, trying each new skill as it's explained, you'll learn quickly and thoroughly. 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COMMENTARY ‘wis petcan0 i-chief Jerry Borrell meets with Claris president Bill Campbell at the company's ‘Sunnyvale, California, headquarters. on with 9600-baud links and retrieve compressed graphics and text files Macworld UK is actually a latecomer, the fifth Mac magazine to be launched in Great Britain and the largest Mac publication in that country, with over 33,000 readers. Our British sister pub- lication is also the most active user of our network. Reviews editor Carol Person, assigned to work with British editor Peter Worlock, spent two weeks in January in the London offices. In April we will host a meeting of Macworld editors from around the world with the goal of sharing our elec- tronic publishing technology on a wider basis. We await the time when the technology of image compression from companies such as Creative Cir- cuits Corporation will allow us to send full-color images across the world j as we send half-megabyte graphics files at present. Beyond the practical issues of communicating with international covering Apple Computer as it grows beyond $5 billion in an- nual revenues has become a global ures editor Cheryl England upcoming story on Apple's. manufacturing required her to travel to Singapore to see one of the most automated plants in the world. Execu- tive editor David Ushijima has been in Japan three times during the past year to follow the progress of Apple Com- puter in the Japanese market. Depart- ments editor Deborah Branscum— fluent in Swedish—trayeled to Swe- den in March for an extended period of work with Macworld Sweden. Afte France, Sweden represents the larges market for Macs in Europe. ‘The editors of our sister publica tions in foreign countries give us eyes MACWORLD + APRIL 1990 and ears in Mac communities far be- yond the reach of what we might be expected to know. The result? An ex- traordinary insight into uses of the Macintosh and how it will fare in inter- national competition. And we've kept pace in the United States. We still maintain the largest editorial and de- sign staff dedicated to covering the Mac. With over 375,000 subscribers, Macworld has grown to more than the circulation of the next two largest dedicated Mac publications combined, By the end of the year some issues will have more than 400,000 subscrib- ers, making Macworld the fifth-larg- est computer magazine in the world. And as many as an additional 100,000 Mac users read our editorial material in foreign Macworlds. That’s more people than read magazines such as Science, Connoisseur, and Premiere. Back in the USSR All of this makes me wonder what we might be able to accomplish in a na- tion like the USSR with 270 million people. At the time of Leonid Brezhnev’s tenure there was a joke in Moscow that went like th it pos- sible to wr n elephant in a newsp: per?” “Yes, if Comrade Brezhnev ap- peared at the Presidium yesterday ”"— an allusion to the fact that newspa- pers were required to print the full text of the stifling bureaucratese that constituted political speeches in the USSR. For centuries Russia shared a great literary tradition with European cul- tures: Tolstoy, Dostoyevski, Gogol, Turgenev, Chekhoy, Goncharov, Sholokov, Blok, Mandelstam, Babel, Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn. Writers who have vanished from (or never ap- peared in) government-sanctioned bookstores, Entire bodies of literature disappeared with the Communist con- solidation of power in the 1920s. (Af ter that the press and publishing be- came the organ of official opinion.) 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With the cost of RAM stead- ily declining, what's the big deal? Is this too much to spend for IAC, outline fonts, new print architecture, da- tabase access,’ and so on? Five bucks are still watching black-and- white TVs and bitching about the C-note you dropped ten years ago for that HP calculator. G Overton Des Moines, lowa Upgrade Optional, Not Required rom all the griping about System 7 in the Decem- ber Letters column, I'd swear that RAM upgrades cost thousands of dollars and that Apple is going to recall all copies of System as soon as System 7 ships System 7 is not going LETTERS ® to make your SE obsolete. Turn to page 96 of the De- cember issue and you'll see an ad for RAM at $119 a megabyte. My Calculator DA tells me that comes to $238 plus shipping to make your Mac ready for System 7. No, you won't get virtual memory, but you don’t have it now, either, so you won't be any worse off than you were before. I find it hard to under- stand why users who won't balk at spending hundreds of dollars on the latest word processor, page-layout, or illustration program sud- denly march themselves off to the poorhouse when confronted with the pur- chase of RAM. Take heart, genuinely penniless Mac users who can’t budget a RAM up- grade. Jean-Louis Gassée is not going to slide down your chimney one night and smilingly make off with your System Folder. You can keep running Sys- tem 6 and your current ap- plications till the cows come home—or till you win the lottery, JF. Peter Alfke Tucson, Arizona Package Pollution Y ou should add one more parameter to your evalu- ation of software, namely, the level of excessive hard- plastic (not shrink-wrap) packaging. Maybe you could even use a trash can symbol for amount of waste (for example, a one-can versus a four-can product). I have come to be ap- palled by the number of hard-plastic presentation shells I toss when I get a new piece of software. This stuff is very diffi- cult to dispose of in the en- vironment; it can actually trap and kill many forms of wildlife, especially in marine ecosystems. Coastal birds and some mammals ingest this stuff and either have their throats cut by it or starve to death. Cardboard (continues) MACWORLD * APRIL 1990 Corrections RGB Technology charges $720 per year for on-site service of its printers in the continental United States (Hot Wax & Cold Ink,” February 1990) and $2000 for customers in Alaska and Hawaii. Hey ICan Print, by REB Software, 800/627-9778 (New Products, January 1990), is a series of printing tools for HyperCard and SuperCard. The table “Number Pro- cessors” (“Math without Tears,” January 1990) should have noted that MatLab 1.1 runs on the Mac, PC, VMS, and UNIX. The following informa- tion should have appeared in the table “Forms Fea- tures” (“Forming Opin- ions,” February 1990): Panorama 1.5 has been re- leased; it can generate forms of up to 9 pages; it imports PICT and EPS graphics; and it offers data- entry constraint options. Quality Discount Com- puters offers a 90-day (not @ 30-day) warranty on its Mac/Apple I daisy-wheel printer (Conspicuous Con- sumer, February 1990). The phone number for Mac Doctor Electronics, maker of Brainstorm mem- ory expansion and SCSI interfaces and system up- grades (‘Is Your Mac Ob- solete?” February 1990), is 415/964-2131. uN Cs) —$——<———————— re TS EEE ——— and paper can serve the same structural function for packaging; for example, HyperGlot uses cardboard and paper packaging for its language HyperCard stacks. This is one industry that should be sensitive to that kind of thing, Elliot Einzig Porter Berkeley, California Harmful Emissions s an owner of a Mac SE, I have long wondered about the existence of harmful emissions beamed at me as I work. How bad are these thought to be by the medical community? And are there any reasona- bly priced products that ef fectively deal with these emissions? Thus far, the seemingly most effective shield that I know about is the rather expensive ($179) Eyeguard- XP (Natural Energy Works, It’s a thick leaded that the company will filter out emi: from X rays, microwaves, ul- traviolet s, positive ions, VLF, and ELF, Is this my only effective recourse? Raymond H. Rosenstock Keene, New Hampshire ‘While there is proof that VDTs produce emissions that are harmful,'space prohibits us fram. going into detail here. (Please tead our upcoming June issue, which will focus on this topic.) Although monitor screens and shields can cut down on emis- sions and glare, we know of none that can block ail electric and magnetic fields. Ergonomic Computer Products (415/673- 5757) has information on many of them, Safe Computing Com- pany (617/444-7778, 800/222- 3003) makes a shielded liquid crystal display monitor that it claims emits no electric or mag- etic fields. The company also makes a hand-held meter to measure magnetic radiation from computers. Other resources for information on VDT-related radia~ tion studies include the bi- monthly newsletter VOT News (212/517-2802) and the Center for Office Technolagy (212/560- 1298), an association of indus- try trade groups and computer manufacturers. —Ed. Mac Font Formats | want to clarify two items mentioned in your edi- torial (Commentary, De- cember 1989] that could be subject to misinterpretation. Regarding Agfa Com- pugraphic’s position con- cerning font formats, we intend to support the ma- jor font formats in the mar- ketplace: Hewlett-Packard’s PCL, Adobe's PostScript, and Apple’s Royal. How- ever, we have made no such commitment to manufac- ture a QuickDraw image- setter. This can be a con- fusing issue as it relates to the difference between font formats and page-descrip- tion languages. Talso want to clarify my comments regarding HP and IBM. We are working with HP to address the nificant office-publishing market with our Intellifont aling technology and PCL printer line. We have also worked closely with HP to bring to market a PCL-based imagesetter and font utility, Type Direc- tor. 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Menlo Park, CA 94026 G-MWwot Hewlett-Packard—could be the potential loser as a re- sult of the Microsoft-Apple alliance, because Apple can now compete on a more equal footing with IBM PCs Ken Draeger Agfa Compugraphic Wilmington, Massachusetts 90 Days Is Enough egarding “Apple P| ht Robber Baron” [Conspic- uous Consumer, December 1989]: A 1-year warranty is something we Mac consum- ers don’t need but are going to have to pay for. Lemon hardware will crap out with- in 3 months, and hardware that holds up for 3 months is going to last at least 9 more. I know there are exceptions. But thanks to all the uproar, Apple will have a legitimate excuse for charging a dollar for a dime’s worth of addi- We've Just 4 | This month only pick vp i renew HECCDES5 CD EDA ive Dot sow Phone oo fal | Pane! Your fitRoom 4.0 otto 0 oqerhae cs) eee M AE EEE tional service. I vote for Apple to continue good qual- ity control, 90-day warranties, and the lower prices. Your article says / can make money off tive merchandise by getting a 12-month warranty from another manufacturer, pass- ing that manufacturer's mer- chandise on to the consumer: with only a 3-month war ranty. If Apple does indeed do this, consumers will even- tually go directly to those manufacturers, cutting Apple out altogether. Apple, how- ever, has not gotten where it has by adhering to short- sighted marketing practices. Right, Apple? Joe A. Dale Waco, Texas pple defec- Quality, Not Quantity Y our December Conspic- uous Consumer column. continues the recent trend of Apple bashing in your publication. From experi- ence, I've learned that the length of a product's war- ranty has remarkably little correlation to the product's quality. Reliability is what I want and what I've gotten from Apple products and, with a few exceptions, what Pye not gotten from third- party products. Have there been prob- lems? Certainly. As your col- umn pointed out, the origi- nal Mac and Mac Plus power supplies had problems. Hard disks have been a more re- cent problem. A few weeks ago, I had an SOMB hard disk fail. The “inadequate” 90-day warranty on the Mac Icx had expired, but of course I had to get the disk repaired. How much did the repair cost? Nothing. How long did it take? Including “shipping” time, about 45 minutes. Not bad for off-warranty service. Kenneth Good Ann Arbor, Michigan 1MB Is Not Enough ll aving recently upgraded from a Mac Plus to a Ici, I've encountered numerous conversion problems, includ- ing software incompatibility, problems with peripheral interfacing, unkept delivery commitments, and—most it ritating—the discovery that the Ilci requires 2MB of RAM to run color properly. My dealer had just returned from an Apple-sponsored seminar for educating deal- ers on the IIci, where the Apple representative assured everyone that the machine would work perfectly with IMB. I called Apple to com- (continues) asad AriRoom™ 4.0 ~ a substantial upgrade. I lina cone Foo 4.0 bas bon ‘nded to include Five new yolros of Image Clos ward wianing Dighrt™ EPS clip frt- Over 3000 images are at your fingutips on one CO HOM. Bundled with ArtReom 4.0 intuit vip aa atone 20 e280 9 #5 1902 Ith Street S.E. Calgary, Alberta 126 362 (403) 262-008 Fax (403) 261-7013. Frye vay, MACWORLD + APRIL 1990 Image Club Graphics, Inc. All These Videos _ WereCreated © yA Mouse Coton S Pact If you-can pointand click,you can produce professional quality color videos with ColorSpace Ii. ‘The video card that lets you oyerlay anything cre-~ ated ona Mac II onto live or recorded video. : ColarSpace Ili’s advanced _ genlocking technology assures crisp, high- quality images by.synchro- nizing Mac graphics, titles, and animations to any stan- dard TV video signal. You can even digitize still images froma video camera. Award-winning GolorSpace Hi turns your 4 Mac intoa iy) professions fs ie And while ColorSpace [i " desktop } ise: to use, it lets you PROMOTIONS . TRAINING : vide | get as sophisticated as you want. Because it works with-all the most ea production /Al. powerful Mac software—HyperCard.™ SuperCard.™ and Director.™ studio. All of which makes ColorSpace Ili the technology of choice for today’s desktop video applications: animations; film and commercial storyboards; sales/promotional/instructional videos. For details, your nearest dealer, and to order our $9.95 demo tape, call 800-522-7979. And let your mouse make you a star. jifornia 94086, M. AS 550 Del Re y 604-276- bution call 4 microsystems All trademarks are the property of their respective owners. _ Circle 207 on reader service card CA-Cricket Appeals'o Any MIND-BLOWING GRAPHICS FOR YOUR CREATIVE HALF. Realism, cubism, company logos—with CA-Cricket Draw™ you've got the power to draw them all. That's because CA-Cricket Draw’s highly advanced graphics tools let you do things heretofore found only on the most expensive drawing programs. And let you do them with ease. You can map colors and patterns, use bezier curves for precision, even enhance your drawings with PostScript special effects. With CA-Cricket Draw you've got the freedom to really let your imagination roam. CA-Cricket Presents™ is an all-star desktop presentation program that lets you prepare slides, overhead transparen- cies, handouts and electronic presentations right on your computer, It’s even got an outliner to help you get it all together. More than just a business graphics program, CA-Cricket Presents lets you plot graphs, draw logos, even generate your entire presentation from the outliner with a single click. Allin bright, vivid color. With CA-Cricket Presents, you get the best of both worlds in one easy-to-use program. ester orm aden of be Spies FE HOGOOOOCE + K+ HHA OMHK MH AE KS one With Half A Brain. VIVID VISUALS FOR YOUR ANALYTIC HALF. No need to let the other halfhave all the fun. With CA-Cricket Graph your analytic side can be every bit as creative. You'll find 12 different graphs to choose from—everything from log charts to polar graphs—with applications for both science and engineering. You can cus- tomize fonts, shades and color pattems —even re-arrange and re-size your graphs on the page. With up to 2,700 rows and 40 columns in each data window, CA-Cricket Graph can make even the most complex information look intelligible. In addition to being easy touse, you'll find that all three CA-Cricket programs can be rather sophisticated. So you won't outgrow them once you leam how to use them. Andall three share one very special feature—their innovative user interface. No other software gives you so much bang for your buck. Which is why CA-Cricket isn't just the emotional favorite. It's the logical one as well. For the authorized CA-Cricket dealer nearest you, call 1-800-531-5236 (inCanada 1-800-663-6904), (AOMPUTER’ iSSOCIATES Software superior by design. Moderate Global Warming ees imployee/Age Somparison Sales History Comparison Unis : BF overaa B s060 O 35.90 23.35 Unser 23 1% 17 7 7 80 Sl 82 83 HM 8S 8 Year Response/Time “Is -10-05 00 05 1015 20 25.30 a5 Time (ee) Eee ) RGeS ae toaeeee © 1990 opt Ascites Fanon, In, 71 Swot na, Goren Ch MY 1530-487 Circle 510 on reader service card plain, but received, predicta- bly, little sympathy, no sup- port, and no admission of guilt. Lasked my dealer to or- der me three additional IMB SIMM chips from Apple. Of course, they're back-or- dered. I've been waiting six weeks and the best delivery estimate Apple can give my dealer is “maybe this month.” Michael Darling Ossining, New York Erasing Some Black Marks fter reading your Decem- ber review of the Ricoh PC Laser 6000-PS printer (our best-selling laser), we were puzzled by your statement that replacing the toner can be a messy job. Not one cus- tomer has ever complained about having to clean up a mess, We've used several alongside our Apple Laser- cs) sn EEE Writers on a network and found them no messier than the Apples. You follow the same process to release the toner into the work tray as you do with the Apple and other Canon engine-based lasers. ‘The only difference is that you have to hold the car- tridge in place, and then dis ecard it when finished, as opposed to leaving it in the machine. He next complains that you have to get down on your knees to read the dit play panel. Why would you have to do this, when, if the printer is sitting on your desk, you're already at an aeceptable eye level with the display? He also says that the legend for the control panel is located away from the panel itself, and you can't see one while looking at the other. Not true, The control panel legend is visible right on the control panel as it should be We feel sorry for those readers who, based on per- haps well-meaning reviewer comments, spent hundreds. more for less performance, Steve Folkestad Mac Friends Portland, Oregon In Sync with MultiFinder | n your December review of Synchronicity, our per- sonal strategy tool, the re- viewer claimed that you can- not use the MultiFinder icon while the program is run- ning. This is not true—Syn- chronicity is (and always has been) fully compatible with MultiFinder. I think what the author was trying to point ‘out was that, due to the full- bleed art on the screen, we opted to keep the Multi- Finder icon invisible while the program is being used But the button is still in po- sition, and it can be clicked to switch between applica- tions, including Synchron- icity, at will. Paul O'Brien Visionary Software Portland, Oregon Acius Online he CompuServe Informa- tion Service (CIS) addre: listed in Tony Oppenheim’s article “Insights on 4th Di- mension 2.0” (January 1990) was recently changed. 1 access the Acius forum on. CompuServe, just type Go Acius from the main menu. The Acius forum now provides multiple sections dealing with various 4th Dimension topies—such as (continues) BOLDLY GO WHERE NO HAS GONE BEFORE Macintosh® users can finally choose from the thousinds of sofiware programs only available for the PC. With SoftPC? The only software package that brings true MS-DOS* compatibility toa Mac Il, IX, or 68020- accelerated SE, SoftPC enables you to run all the PC best-sellers ~ Lotus® 1- WordPerfect? etc. — on the Mac. And those PC programs developed in-house for special purposes. You can even use PC and Mac programs at the same thanks to SohPC and Apple's MultiFinder™ Copy and paste between PC to Macintosh applications 38 And when you finish, all infor- fon can be stored on the same cintosh bard disk, SEEING IS BELIEVING Don't tal Visit the nearest computer our word for it M THERE’S Ho ee) deale id ask for a demonstration Calgorm 91086 10 BE AFRA of SofiPC. SoftPC will open 2 0 0 whole new universe for you To find the dealer closest to you, call 800-848-7677, No boards. . iN hassles SoftPC is easy to install and upgrade, Just like you'd expect from any Macintosh application. Double-click. le 69 on reader service card, MACWORLD + APRIL 1990 CheckFree® Electronically Pays All Your Bills And Automates Your Recordkeeping. No Checks, No Stamps, No Paperwork. a Checktive | ally Designed for The Macintosh.” = For the first time, Macintosh users can experience the speed, convenience, and simplicity of paying bills the CheckFree way, Now you'll discover that CheckFree is the superior bill paying solution. It Couldn't Be Easier. All you do is enter payment information, and CheckFree software automatically r categorizes, and sends the information to the oe ‘kFree Processing Center via modem. yments are then processed through the Federal tem—the same system that bank: to clear your checks today. Fixed, recurring yments (such as mortgages) can be made automatically; once theyre set up, you never have to bother with them again. Pay Anyone Through Any Bank. You can pay anyone with CheckFree because the CheckFree Processing Center utilizes electronic transfers as well as laser printed checks to make payments [fa company or individual you are paying is not set up for electronic payment, the CheckFree Processing Center will print and mail a laser printed check for you. Because of its universal payment processing technology, CheckFree can process payments to anyone in the US through the checking account you already have at any bank, credit union, or savings and loan. No Loss Of Float. You tell the CheckFree software when you want your bills paid and the CheckFree system pays them on the dates you specify. All we need is a few days advance notice to make sure your payments get processed on time. Saves Time, Paperwork, And Money. Your bill paying and other routine financial activities can be reduced to just a few minutes Paperwork becomes virtually non-existent. Plus, the CheckFree service is only $9.00* per month —not much when you consider the savings in postage, bank charges, and late fees. Your Finances, CheckFree gives you a completely automated checking ‘count register that’ updated automatically with an also record deposits or other actions Checkbook reconciliation is virtually automatic, There’ even an easy-to-use ige of income, expense, and budget reports that keeps you constantly aware of what’ coming in and what’ going out. Plus, you can export CheckFree data to Excel® and MaclnTax®, Completely Secure. Chee nies is more secure than Someta et mes ailers including Egghead Discount Softw ity © Also hrough the Con ‘tronic Mall (Go CF). Hardware Requirements: alt rote npatile rer, Guarantee: Ifyou arv rot completely satistied wi ase within 0 days for a full refund (phone or mail orders only). *Limitations: Over 20 actions involve a nominal surcharge (833 per ten payments or portion thereof). CheckFree is a registered tradomatk of poration. All other marks are the property of their respective corporatio a from PC Magri 1e, November 14, 1989. Copyright © 1989, Ziff Communications Cx ‘Scholastic Inc. All rights reserved. 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Circle 230 on reader service card pl f ‘Mustration created in Swivel 3D by foe S EXPRESS YOURSELF WITH BETTER GRAPHICS Swivel 3D" is the best-selling, three-dimen- sional Macintosh program for anyone who needs high-quality graphics for product design, scientific visualization, animation, and graphics for desktop publishing and multimedia presentations. Easy tolearnand use, Swivel 3D comes with an extensive library of 3D art including alphabets, human figures, robots and additional shapes and figures By instantly changing the lighting, casting a shadow, or placing 2D art over a 3D surface, Swivel 3D gives you the freedom to explore all kinds of dramatic possibi Quickly and easily. What's more Swivel 3D works with your other graphic programs because it supports all the popular formats: Encapsulated PostScript® for Adobe Illustrator; PICT2 for Studio8; PixelPaintand PageMaker; PICT for MacDraw II; and the animation format — PICS — for Macro- Mind Director. Express yourself. Call (415) 543-3848 today. isks are available for $10. Raa A ‘GO: M_P Swivel 2D is a trademark of Young Harvill/VPL Research, In. Other brands and product names ore trademarks or registered irademarks of their respective holders. © 1989 Paracomp, Ine. Circle 229 on reader service card ———————— - Ri ——— EE hy Deborah Branscum This column examines the tools and the talent behind Mac- world’s graphics and discusses the techniques that make them possible Antists: Macworld designer Arne Hurty created the dra- ie, referring based on a concept by art director Joanne Hoffman he hardware in- Macintosh IIcx, a ‘olor Display Sys- tem with a Radius Quick- Color Graphics Accelerator, 8MB of RAM, a 100MB ternal Super The software used was Adobe Photoshop, Aldus FreeHand, and Capture from Mainstay. How It Was Done: Hurty used four transparencies from a photo service, an illustra- DEAT tion in FreeHand, and type- set Japanese text to create acover image that conjures up the illusion of a Blade Runner-like future. To get star Hurty used the Barneyscan scan- ner to scan in two 35mm, slides of buildings as TIFF files that were placed into a Photoshop file. Too small as they were, Hurty dupli- cated both buildings to double their width. Next he selected the background of the Photoshop file, then copied and pasted the light- ning (which had been scanned in earlier) inside the background. Art director Hoffman wanted to establish a low- resolution look for the face used on the cover. Hurty opened the scanned image in Photoshop and sampled down the image to reduce its total number of pixels. Then he resampled it to a larger size using the near- (continues) ert fy ona on dot matt A ov ost © i Cotor SUPP port 10 aste » og pit : cara postseriet with Sat use fon i mappa pont ize ae pto ‘3 yor | © + UP ¢ pails pa 6e™ ping packs tel den com? a wretch! mn . Kernint ung & accel - Hi incheis) (picid PAE ulers vers tim Circle 200 on reader service card. Printer Connectivity Is What We Do Best JetLink JetLink Express:™ The ultimate Macintosh® software printer driver for the HP LaserJei™ series, HP DeskJet™ series and HP compatible laser printers. JetLink Express includes 13 outline fonts, Features supported include: reduction, enlargement, gray scales, and more. PrintLink Collection:™ A series of Macintosh software printer drivers ‘which support the Epson LQ & FX series, Okidata 300 series, Panasonic 1000, 1100 and 1500 series, NEC Pinwriter series and Diconix 150 & 300. Supports Adobe Type Manager." SG GUT Softworks Inc, P.O. 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