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Color Laser Values BY JOSEPH SCHORR Macworld Lab tests eight color laser print- ers for output quality as well as speed and setup. ai | Who's calling, please? The YoYo reviewed, page 64. MACWORLD VEMBER 4 9.96 SPEC REPORT OS Essentials Mac OS 8: Back to Square One sy macworto stare An in-depth analysis of the Mac OS. News CHRP Moves Closer to Reality 19 Dual Mac OS/Windows NT pro- totypes look promising. 27 Special Report Adobe's Next Generation Sneak peeks at PageMaker 6.5 # Persuasion 4.0 * Photoshop 4.0 272 Blindingly Fast Chips Will we see S00MHz machines 14 Lock out snoops and saboteurs—the top security programs rated, page 146. Opinion Letters State of the Mac BY ADRIAN MELLO times are ahead for us The Desktop Critic BY DAVIo POGUE Count your blessings, O Mac pilgrims. How to Contact Macworld Three color ink-jet printers vie for top honors in Reviews, page 60. Secrets 167 Keep Your Hands Off My Mac BY JOSEPH scHORR How to Advice on maintaining keep private information on your workplace privacy in computer private. Secrets, page 167. 171° Quick Tips By LON PooLE Tips, tricks, and shortcuts. 179 NetSmart BY CAMERON CROTTY Hints on working successfully with plug-ins. Media 183 Optimizing the Power Mac 8500 for Media sy Jim HEID How to get the most AV bang for your buck. 188 Publishing Workshop r By steve ROTH Get depend- ‘The latest on Appl able color using swatch books. plans for Mac OS special report, page 52. 190 Graphics Workshop By CATHY ABes Use masks to make smooth transitions between images in Photoshop. SIDG November 196, Volume 1, Mumbet 11 Macwai (SSN O74 8647) ON THE CoveR Sette ete sn mies ste ido 2088 Potograph by Wayne Calabrese edt, CO 90322-1529. ted i the USA THE COMPANY THAT BROUGHT YOU FAST AND WICKED FAST NOW BRINGS YOU INSANELY FAST. THE POWERTOWER" PRO 225 MHz. SIX PCI SLOTS. INTERLEAVED MEMORY. 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MELODY Drake via Macworld Online Even More Best Web Sites | CAME ACROSS THE POWER COMPUTING site mentioned in “The Best Mac Web Sites” (August 1996)—the one that allows you to build your dream system and check out the price tag—but when I tried the URL given, I found myself on the Web page of Australia’s largest distributor of IBM computers! I hope that wasn’t a Freudian slip. Dove via Macworld Online Korwin Maybe that’s why Power Computing was so eager for Macworld editors to bungee jump at the Boston Macworld Expo... naw. That URL should've been hutp://www.powerce.com.—Ed. | N*THE BEST MAC WEB SITES” YOU LEFT out the two most important Web sites for anyone wanting to keep track of what's going on in the Mac world: the Macintosh Léllers Resource Page (hetp://www.macresource -pair.com/) and the Macin'Touch Page (bttp:/ few. macintouch.com/). These pages are absolutely essential to my life, and I can’t believe that they were left out! THomas Reep St. Louis, Missouri | N MAC WEB SITES,” HOWARD Baldwin writes: “Like the ocean, the Web is a vast and murky place. Diving in randomly, you're just as likely to discover a clear, clean Macintosh site as a clunky site posted by a 14-year-old fan of Smash- ing Pumpkins.” What exactly does he mean by that? | am a 14-year-old, and a fan of The Smashing Pumpkins. Does this mean for some reason that | am not organized or computer literate? Just because I am not a pocket-protector-clad math whiz doesn’t mean I don’t know anything about computers, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. I read Mac- world and can program in C and Pascal. 1 also listen to Nirvana and play electric guitar. Baldwin could have made his point just as well if he had said “a clunky site with pictures that didn’t load and missing links” instead of resorting to the use of a cheap stereotype. M. WrYANDT via the Internet As a pocket-protector-clad math whiz, might I ask what you meant by that? —Ed. Don't Forget 1's and I's ( ) UR FRIEND DAVID BLATNER STRIKES, _/ again (Publishing Workshop, August 1996). His short, to-the-point column. should be required reading for all com- puter users. As an instructional technolo- gist, getting my students to use indents instead of tabs is my most difficult task. Now, if I could only get those boys and girls to stop using double spaces after periods, I’d have it made. ALAN APPLEGATE Littleton, Colorado Names We Love to Hate | ” UDOS TO DAVID POGUE FOR HIS T AN cific, fininy article’ on pinduet-nam= ing and numbering. He left out two of the most blatant naming-protocol viola~ tions, however: HoTMetaL Pro and—the absolute worst product name ever— theFONDIler. Ugh! Raut REGALADO via America Online GOT A GOOD LAUGH OUT OF DAVID Pogue’s column about product names, particularly his comments on the arbi- continues www.macworld.com November 1996 19 $ee yourself forwho z= you # G really are, A.D\A.M: At Home , a A Peel through over a a hundred layers, | atch over four hours of animations, and ee - challenge what you've learned with puzzles. | ees ou may neecIeor) looky ; LETTERS The phone number for Power Computing (“High-Performance tems,” Reviews, October 1996) is 512/388-6868, The phone numbe gies (“Faxstf 3.2, 1996) is 816/463-1412, ° © DayStar Digital’s phone number is 770/967-2077 (“The New Speed Champs,” July 1996). © Immedia will require QuarkXPress 3,32 or later to run (News, August 1996). © The Practical Peripherals MacClass 288 V.34 PC Card modem has a five- ‘year warranty (SPC Card Modems,” July 1996). The Editors’ Choice bax in “Best Buys | in Optical Drives” (October 1996) for the 2.6GB Optical Drive is as fallow OPTICAL DRIVES For optical drives, we looked for the ei best mix of price/performance, clear | documentation, useful bundled software, and good overall design. 7.6 2.6GB Optical Excellent pertor- mance in its class, very good software, a well- designed case, and aggressive pricing make this the top pick. Company: La Cie (503/520-9000, http://wwnw.lacie.com), List price: $1999, trary use of upper- and lowercase letters in product names. Imagine my surprise when I turned the page and saw an entire article on “AutoDesk”! AMELIE VON FLUEGGE, AUTODESK San Rafael, California | AVID POGUE FORGOT ‘THE MOST commonly made intercap mistake: MacIntosh. Hearn HANLIN via Macworld Online so YOU DON'T LIKE THE NAME WOW for CompuServe' the service includes censoring of content, maybe the name down it's MOM. 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Macintosh owners are more likely 10 buy CD-ROMs than are people on the Win- dows side, where installation and compatibility hassles are common. Multimedia Notes N YOUR RECENT ARTICLE QuickDraw 3D (“The Mac’s 3-D Edge,” August 1996), you neglected to mention the QuickDraw 3D Web site at bttp://quickdravo3d.apple.com. This site lists scores of vendors that support QD3D and provides about 20 demo applications for QD3D. It also talks about future plans for Windows, integration with Quick- Time, and the relationship to VRML 2.0, and even has a gallery of QD3D work for people to contribute to. Tony DeYoune via the Internet JUST READ JIM HEID'S ARTICLE ON multimedia applications (“Multimedia Options Multiply,” August 1996) and was horrified to notice that you did not include HyperCard. HyperCard is the multimedia tool for me, not only for my shareware stuff but also for my daily teaching. Though HyperCard is in dire need of an update, it is still a competitor. I’m not asking that you give Hyper- Card a glowing, this-is-the-greatest- program-ever review. Frankly, Hyper- Card doesn’t currently deserve it. But it does deserve to be counted among its peers in your article about multimedia authoring software. Eric M. HOLSEN North Mankato, Minnesota The Mac Isn't Fine without CAD Cas SEITER INCORRECTLY CON- Acludes that “Mac CAD Does Fine without AutoCAD” (News, August 1996) by simply ignoring the mechanical CAD application and basing his conclusion on interviews with design firms that use the Mac for CAD. The reality is that large architectural firms are standardizing on Windows 95 and NT operating systems. Lack of the latest AutoCAD version on the Mac only serves as further justifica- tion for their OS strategy. Apple and the Macintosh CAD devel- oper community deserve to compete on a level field when it comes to selecting a platform. When the leading CAD prod- uct is not available, Mac faces an uphill battle. There is certainly need for concern, Nei KLEINMAN Tarzana, California Reminds Me of Paul Simon READ YOUR REVIEW OF THE KODAK Digital Science DC50 Zoom Camera (Reviews, July 1996), and I would like to know: Is that rea/ly a white alligator? Where is it? What's the person in the background doing? Tim BoGar Lansing, Michigan The photo is from the Denver Zoo, but Antoine Le Blanc is currently vacationing at the San Francisco Zoo before he heads home to New Orleans. We think he likes the foggy summer- time weather—Ed, m Letters should be sent to Letters, Macworld, S01 Sec- ond St,, San Francisco, CA 94107; via fax, 415/442- 0766; or electronically to CompuSe 1702), MCI Mail (294-8078), America Online (keyword Macwsorld), AppleLink (Maczorld1), or via the Inter- net (letters@maccorld.com). Include return address and daytime phone number. Due to the high volume of mail received, we can’t respond personally to each letter. We reserve the right to edit all letters. 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Windows isa trademark of Micro 410-290-8050, 2 Circle 46 on reader service card Wank Osuna State of the Mac New Road Ahead for the Macintosh RECENT DEVELOPMENTS ARE CHANGING THE MAC LANDSCAPE T HAS en pretty sleepy since the Worldwide Devel- Conference in opers carly May. No major announcements from Apple other than con- tinued changes in the executive team and the absence of PowerBooks; no major prod- uct announcements outside of Apple, either. The entire Mac world has seemed to be in sleep mode. Suddenly, though, things are getting interesting. Events have occurred that will permanently change the Mac land- scape and lead to significant new product developments. As I see it, these events fall into a few important areas: computers, system software, and media and graphics. This overview will help put them into context. When you’re ready for more, dive into this month’s special report, “OS Essentials.” The Bit-by-Bit OS ‘The biggest development is Apple’s sys- tem-software upgrade schedule. Apple will no longer provide a single major release of its operating system, but will instead offer a series of updates every six months. What used to be code names for full-integer system releases—Copland and Gershwin—now refer only to collec- tions of the technology well Apple will draw upon to incrementally release new system functionality (see “Mac OS 8: Back to Square One,” this issue). According to Ellen Hancock, Apple’ new vice president of research and devel- opment, chief technology officer, and the principal architect of the new policy, pple is considering a subscription pric ing scheme. We may have to buy system releases incorporating major new fea- tures, though not releases for collections of bug-fixes and minor enhancements. Hancock acknowledged that Apple must keep its developers apprised so that they can make product and marketing plans that take advantage of advances in the Mac OS. And Hancock says she’s committed to Apple's doing just that. While Apple has a new course for the Mac OS, OpenDoc is picking up steam. At Macworld Expo, Apple introduced version 1.1 of its component technology, and 16 companies introduced new Open- Doc parts—now called Live Objects— and containers (still called containers). Apple will make sure OpenDoc works with both Windows and Java so develop- ers will be more likely to support it (see “OS Essentials: OpenDoc Tangible,” this issue). The good news is that you can use a variety of parts and get a real feel for the technology. See what it’ like to add fea- tures to the application without the mem- ory and storage overhead you've come to expect from monolithic applications like Word 6. It's also good news to a new class of developers who have interesting ideas for adding value to existing applications. Blazingly Fast Computers A slew of new computers were announced at and around Macworld Expo—not just by Adrian Mello from Apple, but clones as well. The biggest trend is speed. Faster PowerPC chips are enabling computer makers to ratchet up performance significantly. he brightest lightning flashes came from Power Computing’s new high-speed PowerTower Pro series in 180MHz, 200MHz, and 225MHz versions. With real lightning, if you count the seconds to the thunderclap, you can predict how far away the storm is. In Power's case, count ona few miles: the higher-speed 200MHz and 225MHz versions aren't available yet (see “Systems Watch,” News, this issue). Apple has bumped up the speed of several of its models. You can now buy a 200MHz version of the 9500 as well as a version with two 180MHz proces- sors. This first dual-processor Mac uses DayStar’s nPower 360+ card; the card will also be available for other Apple, Power Computing, and Umax SuperMac models. IBM, Motorola, and Ap- ple announced plans for faster versions of the PowerPC mi- croprocessor code-named the G3 and G4 series, The current 603e and 604¢ will eventually ttain speeds above 300MHz.. The G3’s, available in 1997, will be even faster. The G4’s, planned for 1998, will be faster yet, clocking speeds up to News for the Value-Cons: Several computers were announced that offer more performance at a better pri Apple's new Performa 6400 is faster than most previous Power Macs, and starts around $2400 (see Reviews, this issue). Power Computing’s PowerBase series is based on the fast 603¢ PowerPC chip and should be available as you read this for roughly $1500 to $2200. Umax’s con- continues www.macworld.com November 1996 27 STATE OF THE MAC sumer-oriented line, based on the 603¢, is due in carly fall for less than $2000. Still dealing with PowerBook 5300 shortages, Apple plans to discontinue the 5300c. But its new notebooks, code- named Epic and Hooper, are rumored to be on track. Power Computing intends to produce notebooks, but we'll have to wait until carly next year for specifics, Motorola is also entering the fray, In 4 Macworld exclusive, we test the new Motorola StarMax system, which pro- Consumer Information Catalog vides excellent performance at what promises to be an excellent price (see “Motorola’s Hot New M: The ‘Tanzania motherboard. provi improved performance and an interim transition to the Common Hardware Ref- erence Platform (CHRP). As CHRP be- comesa reality, we should have even more choices. IBM and Motorola both demon- strated CHRP systems at Macworld Expo, and Apple expects to have a ver sion of the Mac OS ready for CHRP. The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread No matter how you slice it, our free Consumer Infor mation Catalog is great food for thought. 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Apple’s decision to go directly to QuickDraw 3D version 1.5 (it should be te September) will no doubt tivity in the worth noting. saw new ver- and CorelDraw; ill support painting on 3-D ob- » being optimized for the cessing systent ion | faster, jects, and i new multip high-end fol them to plug in their choice of renderers. Graphics applications are gaining speed and case of use, if Fractal Detailer For those will permit is an indicator, Users can render 3-D objects by painting on them as easily as they paint in two dimensions (see “Work- station Graphics on the Desktop,” News, this issue). New, speedier versions of Specular’s Infini-D and Strata Studio Pro o offer improved rendering and pro- fessional features. On the media front, Apple now in- cludes QuickDraw 3D rt of its QuickTime Media Layer (QTML), along w ith QuickTime VR, QuickTime Con- neing, and QuickTime 2.5. Quick- .5 supports multiprocessing and placing QD3D objects in QuickTime QuickTime Apple looks serious about pushing QuickTime as a cross-platform standard, which in the long run could provide more leverage for Apple and the Mac, and thav’s good news for all Macintosh users. No Time Like the Present Other developments in recent weeks also change the Macs direction. Internet prod- cts such as Claris Home Page and the new ion of PageMill continue to appear. ‘The fundamental networking architecture growth on the Netis : Open elated sto- ly to the Macworld Daily Naas our Web site at htt; macworld.com. AS May you live in interest- Ge Piet, going photos Pram came, digital comeras and Gpoe owl Norn Fae shew we ca'tFaluiays quacmntee the sulle p f 4 A he saris) / SED Macs Jue] G00 iT: td ‘ “ -J J a Sd Bt se ott Mt. LSKiWIW. metatzcle. com = inn -. 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Or call 1-800-ASK-XEROX, ext. 486. Xerox Color. The Color Of Business. Circle 100 on reader service card DOCUMENT COMPANY NOVEMBER 1996 __ systems CHRP Mave’ Closer to APPLE, MOTOROLA, AND IBM SHOW OFF PROTOTYPE SYSTEMS by Galen Gruman Bong promised but now closer to reality: at the ff recent Macworld Expo, | IBM and Motorola HH demonstrated their re- ystems to run both ac OS and Windows NT, And Apple demonstrated a working prototype of a Common Hardware Refer- ence Platform (CHRP) system that ran the Macintosh OS and included PC-style paral- lel, serial, a ared_ ports running, respectively, as dard PC parallel printe ial mouse, and an in- | keyboard. System, Two OSs ed its Viper motherboard, which it will use in forthcoming CHRP Mac and Windows NT systems and sell to other systems mak- ers. Viper has ADB, PS/2 ser- ial, EIDE, and 2 ports, so it can handle both Mac and PC peripherals, IBM showed off its similar Long ‘Trail motherboard. IBM and Motorola both demonstrated how their CHRP. One Motorola displ 34 November 1996 motherboards let users swit between the Macintosh OS and Window: » When you start up (or restart), you g screen with buttons for V screen and its buttons are part of the Open Firmware ROM that the CHRP specification uses. Both companies touted the new release of Windows NT 4.0 for PowerPC, which they demonstrated running Microsoft Excel. Then they MACWORLD rebooted their CHRP systems to run Fractal Design Painter under the Mac OS. Apple's Mac Focus Apple's rem, code-named a dua tem; instead, it is a Mac cific system based on CHRP. Apple's engineering manager for CHRP, Mike Bell, said that today’s Mac programs would run unmodified on a CHRP- based Mae. ‘To prove it he ran ClarisWorks 4.0, loading the pe- jj f ja _ | X N | 1 j ae | hat | | communications component, and demonstrated that the communications dialog box shows two new ports—the PC’s standard COMI and COM2—in addition to the Mac’s standard Modem Port and Printer Port. Bell said the January update to System 7.5, code- named Harmo should run fine on CHRP Macs as well, since the changes to support continues on page 42 Brave New Driver LASERWRITER 8.4 OFFERS A NEW INTERFACE, ONE-PASS PRINTING by Anita Epler sers of LaserWriter 8.4 will immediately notice a dramatic new look in Apple's (408/ 996-1010, http://www .info.apple.com) latest printer ‘iver. But its enhancements are more than simply cosmetic. When Laser\Writer 8.0 de- buted, it didn’t take long for Apple customers to cry foul over the so-called innovation of two-pass background print- ing. Unlike older versions of Apple’s printer driver, Laser- Writer 8.0 first spooled print jobs to your hard drive, then streamed the data to the printer asa second step. This reduced the time required to return control to the application, but you needed twice the hard drive space to spool files in this hion, In environments where file sizes are measured in hun- dreds of megabytes, such as ser- vice bureaus, this was no small sacrifice. Most shops opted to turn background printing off to avoid the disk crunch. LaserWriter 8.4's. biggest news is the elimination of this two-pass method, In addition, nearly all of the driver has been converted to PowerPC- native code. But you probably won't see major improvements in overall speed, despite pre- dictions of Apple engineers at May’s Worldwide Developer Conference, who promis performance boosts of 25 to 35 percent over previous versions. Apple's claims are now more modest. “We've seen that {LaserWriter 8.4] provides dif- ferent results based on differ- ent test suites,” says Ken Fee- han, Apple’s product line man- ager for laser printers. “The more complex a document is, the more likely people are to see the benefits of native code.” The new driver also features an enhanced user interface that allows you to switch be- tween like devices (for example, from one monochrome laser to another) within the dialog box, without having to cancel your print job and go to the Chooser. Other improvements include the ability to set layout options (such as 2-up or 4-up printing) within the Print log, and the relocation of print- er- and application-specific op- tions to their own screens, ac- cessible via a drop-down menu in the Print dialog’s main window, LaserWriter 8.4 als quires that you adopt Apple's new desktop-printer scheme for managing output devices; the old PrintMonitor is gone. [low- ever, thanks to LaserWriter 8.4 companion software, Desktop Printing 2.0, desktop printers can now reside in any folder, not just on the desktop. LaserWriter 8.4, currently shipping only with the Ls Writer 12/640 PS (see Reviews, October 1996), is available for download from Apple (betp:// wuw.info.apple.com/swupdates/). Feehan won't comment on when the new driver will be available for mass distribution, but says it will likely be some- time in the fall. Workstation Graphics on the Desktop NEW MAC APPLICATIONS EMERGE AT SIGGRAPH by Cathy Abes his year’s Siggraph conference in New Orleans was dominat- ed by the usual devel- opers of Silicon Graph- ies products, along with Microsoft. pushing Windows Alps Joins Scanner, Printer SMEAR-PROOF PRINTS AND METALLIC INKS Alps Electric (408/ 432-6000, http:// www.alpsusa.com) is planning to release the $699 MD-4000 Color Printer/Scanner. The “MD" in MD- 4000 stands for Mi- cro Dry inks, which promise printing that 8 3 3 is sun- and waterproof on any kind of paper. The inks come in metallic gold and silver, as well as the usual blue, red, yellow, and black. The MD-4000 also functions as a 24-bit scanner and handles images up to 8 by 11 inches. The 600-dpi QuickDraw printer was expected to ship by the end of October. A model without a scanner, the MD-2010, should already be available for $499.— SUZANNE COURTEAU NT as the high-end graphics platform. Still, a number of Macintosh products were shown, ranging from 3-D modeling, rendering, and ani- mation to video painting and compositing to virtual reality applications. Powerful Rendering and Animation LightWave 3D 5.0, from NewTek (913/228- 8000, http:/Aoww.newtek.com), is finally coming to the Power Mac. The $1495 package, slat- ed for October release, offers broadcast-quality modeling, rendering, and animation ca- pabilities and will support QuickDraw 3D for viewing changes to graphic objects in real time. Macintosh users will have access to such profes- sional-level features as full ray tracing, depth of field, motion blur, and variable lens settings. Other new features include MetaNURBS, which allows real-time transformations be- tween polygons and splines to create organic 3-D objects, and MetaBalls, which uses spheres to approximate com- plex shapes and transform the rough shapes into complex 3-D objects. Also migrating from Sili- con Graphics workstations— and supporting QuickDraw 3D—is Vertigo 3D, from Ver- tigo Technology (604/684- 2113, bttp:/Avww.vertigo3D.com). Designed to ease the transition from 2-D to 3-D graphics, Vertigo incorporates Pixar's RenderMan renderer. Through its use of the QuickDraw 3D. plug-in rendering architec- ture, it will also support other rendering packages such as LightWorks (see below), Fea- continues www.macworld.com November 1996 35 tures include Phong-shaded previews, deformation lattices, effectors (plug-ins that gen- erate effects such as waves, wind, and noise), hierarchical keyframing, and animatable shaders. You can drag and drop objects into a scene, change an object’s contours by dragging any control point, and even drag shaders onto objects, Vertigo’s Orbit win- dow lets you move or rotate an object by moving the cursor around the window, For $800, you get a Mac-based program that can ange data with— and has all the functionality of—its $5000 Silicon Graphics sibling, while the company promises the next Mac version will Future fe tures will include capabilities such as moving text along path, rotating text, changing letterspacing, and mapping text around an ellipse, LightWorks, from Light- Work Design (44 114 266 8404, bitp:/Avereslightwork.com), is a photo-realistic renderer tool kit that’s currently avail- able only to other developers of 3-D software. How the company is working with Apple to package LightWorks as a plug-in ren- derer for QuickDraw 3D 1.5 Longer bars are better. Results are times as fast as a Centris 650 (Centris 650 = 1.0). Products are listed in decreasing ISDN for PowerBooks SCIl OFFERS PCMCIA CARD If you're on the road and a 28.8-Kbps modem doesn't cut it for your file-transmission needs, consider ExpresSO PCMCIA, a $495 ISDN card from SCii Telecom (813/562- 5971, hetp:liwww.sclitelecom.com) that works with Apple Computer's PowerBook. The card supports ISDN Basic access, consisting of two B channels at 64 Kbps plus a D still to be (a release date i determined). Video and 3-D_ Painting Tlluminaire, from Denim Soft- ware (310/618-9700), is actu- y two programs, Illuminaire Paint and Tluminaire Compo- sition, that can be bought sep- arately ($795 each) or together ($1395), The former, an object-based painting applica- tion, provides more than 30 draw modes, including smooth, blur, emboss, dodge/burn, tint, and posterize, You can change the order in which paint strokes and filters are applied to produce different results. channel at 16 Kbps. Mac PPP and TCP drivers are included. Of course, you'll also need an ISDN connection from the local tele- phone company. — STEPHEN BEALE Mluminaire Composition offers 3-D compositing of film clips and still images. Both packages support Adobe Photoshop and After Effects plug-ins. Version 1.5 of MeshPaint 3D, from Positron (402/365- 1002, betp://a 3dgraphics com), allows animators to cre- ate texture maps by painting directly on 3-D surfaces. New features in the $600 package include VRML support, a clone tool, and a Chroma- Stripper mode for removing color as you paint. VRCreator, from VReam (312/477-0425, Attp:/koww.vream.com), is a vir~ Umax Pulls Ahead of Power Computing ‘Armed with the latest and fastest PowerPC 604e 250MHz CPU, the prototype Umax SuperMac'$900 604/250 was able to outrun a 225MHz Power Computing PowerTower Pro despite having. a smaller cache (512K versus 1MB), However, the 225MHz version Of the SuperMac $900 was slower than the 225MHz PowerTower Pro. Expect to see 250MH2 604e-based systems from Power Computing and DayStar this fall. For details ‘on our tests, see "The New Speed Champs,” July 1996 —Macworld Lab testing supervised ‘order of overall performance. bby Mark Hurlow ‘Overall Score CPU-Intensive Umax SuperMae $900 604/250° ===> 9.6 = 96 Power Computing PowerTower Pro 225 —C—=—=—=—=—5-9,2 S—-9.4 Umax SuperMac $900 604/225' ——c—=—=—=—=5-38 ==—=—-89 Power Computing Powerlower Pro 200 ——=—=—=- 85 === 8.4 Umax SuperMac $900 604/200 ===> 83 S==———>—85 Apple Power Macintosh 9500/200 =~ 7,7, 7.5 ‘Apple Power Macintosh 8500/180 ————=——>67 ==—=>-—66 *Prototype system. Indicates typical per- Indicates perfor- formanceina mixed- mance for most use environment, business and person- such as a company al tasks. 36 November 1996 ‘or school, MACWORLD FPU- Intensive —-143 —=-134 === 128 —=—=-127 ——=-120 —— ra Disk-Intensive <= 35 —=35 —=-34 —==-35 —=—=30 => 25 =S—103 =a — 24 Indicates perfor- Indicates perfor- mance for analytical, mance of the Mac's 3:D,and other _data-transfer capa- specialized uses. _bilty, which affects all users, tual reality authoring tool that supports VRML and Java to let you create interactive virtu- al worlds on the Web. For accelerated rendering, GreenICE, from ICE (617/ 768-2300, bttp://aan.iced.com), combines a Mac with an ICE 16-processor rendering engine. ‘The product’s pricing begins at less than $15,000; the sy tem is due by year’ end. The Thunder 3D graphics card, from Radius (408/541- 6100, bttp://vww.radius.com), is designed to accelerate Quick- Draw 3D. applications and increase frame-rate_ perfor- mance; it supports enhanced resolutions and a 30-bit color palette. Prices begin at $4499, Is There Life after JPEG? VENDORS PROMOTE WAVELET COMPRESSION AS NEW STANDARD by Stephen Beale PEG has always been an imperfect solution for compressing. still color images. Estab- lished as an accredited industry standard by the International Standards Orga- nization (ISO), JPEG uses a lossy compression algorithm in which small amounts of data are thrown away as part of the compression process. The more you compress the image, the more data gets thrown out, eventually result- ing in artifacts and lost detail. Nevertheless, JPEG has be- come the dominant format for still-image compression. Ir’s built into QuickTime and Adobe Photoshop, and is a popular format for displaying images on the Web. Several vendors are now promoting alternative com- pression schemes as potential replacements for the discrete cosine transform (DCT) tech- nology currently used in JPEG. Most are based on a technology known as scalar quantization (WSQ), originally developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory for the FBI as a method of storing and transmitting fin- gerprint data. Like DCT, WSQ is a technique, but there's generally less of a trade-off between the compression ratio and image detail. Wavelet vendors say you can squeeze the picture about twice as much as with JPEG to get the same level of quality. ‘Two companies offering ased wavelet-compres sion products are Lizard’ lech (206/728-8120, bee isardtech.com) and Aware (617/ 276-4000, bttp://www.aware .com). Both vendors have con- nections to the original WSQ development effort: / technology is a direct imple- mentation of the FBI finger- print standard, while ‘Tech’s software was written by the same programmers who created the original WSQ algorithms. LizardTech plans to offer wavelet compression through a product called MrSID, which is primarily targeted at the geographic information systems market. The compa- ny claims that you can com- press a color image at ratios up to 100:1 with no dis- cernible loss of quality. ‘The le | Mews software has three compo- nents: a compiler-compressor, a distributed image-databa server, and a viewer-decom- pressor. A Netscape plug-in version of the viewer is cur- rently available free from the Lizard'Tech Web site, which also includes sample com- pressed images. Pricing for MrSID itself has not been announced. Aware’s technology is im- plemented in the form of AccuPress, a $395 Photoshop plug-in that was introduced y. You can com- at any ratio using Photoshop's Save As function. The package also includes a viewer that allows you to read AccuPress images. Like Lizard- Tech, Aware plans to offer a free version of the viewer as a Netscape plug-in. The primary obstacle to acceptance of wavelet com- pression is a lack of standards: images compressed with one vendor's product cannot be decompressed with software from competing companies None of the wavelet ven- dors is big enough to establish its technology as a de facto standard, leaving them with two choices: get a major ven- dor like Apple or Adobe Sys- tems to endorse their format, or get a standard-setting body such as the ISO to establish wavelets as an accredited industry standard. Greg Gilley, director of engineering for imaging and video for Adobe, that any WSQ_ implementation would have to be in the pub- lic domain—if not actually accredited—for Adobe to adopt it. There would also have to be widely available tools for working with the format. However, he sees WSQ as the most likely suc- cessor to JPEG, and expects the technology will be adopt- ed more widely in the next year or so. FreeHand 7 Leapfrogs Illustrator BY SANDEE COHEN Just one year after FreeHand 5.5 debuted, Macromedia (415/ 252-2000, http://www. macromedia.com) is about to release a major upgrade. But in keeping with its aggressive strategy, the company has decided to skip over 6 and go directly to version 7. It's hard to say who will be more impressed, FreeHand or Adobe lilustrator users. One advantage Illustrator has always had over FreeHand is its synergy with Adobe Photoshop. But with FreeHand 7, Macromedia has liminated this issue. Drag and drop works seamlessly in both directions, and you can paste FreeHand objects into Photoshop as pixels or paths, You'll find a few new Illustratorike Xtras such as Roughen, Bend (like Punk and Bloat), and Envelope (like Free Distort), as well as a chart too! to make basic charts and graphs. Unlike with tllustra- tor, this chart tool has an Apply button that makes it much easier to see how each setting changes the chart’s look. Any Illustrator user who has found FreeHand’s control handles clunky will appreciate the new setting for smaller handles that look al- most identical to llustrator’s, And lke llustrator, FreeHand 7 can color the handles for each layer, making it much easier to select and modify objects. But don't get the idea that FreeHand 7 is just playing catch- up with Illustrator, It has leaped way ahead by allowing blends be- tween spot colors and between objects filled with gradients. It also lets you take two blended objects and join them to a path. This, combined with FreeHand's live blends—the ability to modify a blend on screen by adjusting the original objects— gives FreeHand the most powerful set of blend tools anywhere. In addition to woo- ing Illustrator users, the new version will be a boon for FreeHand users. For example, instead of 26 variations of the Inspector Palette, there are now 5 tabbed omc = sass palettes that can be FreeHand 7can combine blends on apath. merged like those in Photoshop or docked so they move together, FreeHand has always had sophisticated object and text styles, but version 7's new Graphic Search and Replace goes further. You can search for object attributes—such as colors, stroke widths, even object shapes—and replace them with new attributes, illustrator’s Select filters don't even come close. In spite of these significant enhancements, the jump in version number from 5.5 to 7 seems a little steep. Is Macromedia playing a numbers game with Adobe? It will be interesting to see how Adobe responds with the next version of illustrator. www.macworld.com November 1996 37 Special REPORT [ News Adobe Rebuilds Graphics Powerhouses UNVEILS MAKEOVERS FOR PAGEMAKER, PHOTOSHOP, AND PERSUASION ‘The latest versions of Photo- shop, PageMaker, and Persuasion feature new interfaces and offer enhanced Internet publishing features. But will they help Adobe maintain its dominant position in the Mac graphics market? Macworld answers the question in this special report. PageMaker 6.5 Goes for the Jugular by Galen Gruman ust a year ago, Adobe Systems (206/622-5500, http://www .adobe.com) brought us PageMaker 6.0, boasting of color- management and master-page features meant to attack QuarkXPress on its own turf. Now Adobe has turned up the heat, adopting a key Quark- XPress layout approach—the use of boxes to hold text and graphics for structure layouts tures to PageMaker 6.5, which is due to ship in November for $895. Up- i st just $99. d the Mac market leader XPress since 1993, although version 4.0 is expected next spring.) Boxes Arrive ‘The adoption of boxes to hold elements marks the end of a ten-year resistance to this idea, which has been a hall- mark of all other leading page layouts through the decade. I find this technique to be much more flexible than PageMaker’ traditional ap- proach, especially when mod- ifying a design. And I'm happy to see Adobe outbox the competition: rather than have separate PageMaker 6.5 adds new Web-publishing capa- bilities, as well as interface refinements to better match the look and feel of Photoshop 3.0. (you can still use the original PageMaker column-by-col- umn placement approach). It is also staking a claim on Internet publishing by adding a raft of Web-oriented fea- 38 November 1996 types of boxes for text and pictures, PageMaker has sim- ply one box in which you can place anything. Howev- er, Adobe is miss- ing a key rationale for boxes: multi- column text. Page- Maker 6.5’s boxes contain only one column, so you can’t use them easily to con- vert a layout from, say, two to three columns. Adobe continues its re- lentless campaign to make all its programs—most, like Page- MACWORLD Maker, acquired from other companies—share similar ap- proaches and interfaces. That means PageMaker gets the tabbed palettes of Photoshop 3.0 and the ability to have multiple layers on a page— the electronic equivalent of paper overlays. The multiple layers allow PageMaker users to create documents that contain mul- tiple versions—you might have a layer for text in dif- ferent languages, for exam- ple, or separate layers for Web and print graphics. By selecting the layers for out- put, you create a version of the document for a specific medium or reader. This is the kind of feature whose power will not be obvious to you at first but over time will be- come a must-have. New Plug-in Scheme Another significant interface change is in how plug-ins, formerly called Additions, are managed. Plug-ins are no longer confined to a menu list, so developers can now create them so they reside in any menu, dialog box, or palette—just as QuarkXPress’s XTensions can. This means you'll be able to access added functionality where you'd expect to use it. While competitor Quark has focused on creating an XPress add-on called Imme- dia to produce multimedia doc- uments (see “Immedia Makes QuarkXPress Interactive,” News, August 1996), Adobe has extended PageMaker to the Web. The previous ver- sion had rudimentary HTML export, but the new version really aims at the Web. The HTML export now handles most HTML 3.2 fea- tures, including frames. And Page- Maker now auto- matically converts graphics to JPEG and GIF formats when exporting for the Web. You can also create hyper- links in your docu- ment, including those to URLs. A year ago, I thought Page- Maker 6.0 was a necessary but not awe-inspiring upgrade. This year, Adobe Systems is on its way to hitting a home run with PageMaker 6.5, if the final version delivers on the prototype’s promise. Photoshop 4.0 Delivers New Interface by Cathy Abes hotoshop 4.0 is bound to stir controversy among veteran Photo- shop users, since its redesigned interface will necessitate significant re learning. However, once you continues pouG Ross $$ $$$ Ine INTRODUCING EUDORA PRO™ 3.0. With 10 million users, Eudora® products have made a huge impact on the Internet. And now there's something even more powerful: Eudora Pro 3.0, written to official Internet standards. Eudora Pro 3.0 has improved message filtering and mail management tools that help you sort large volumes of e-mail in seconds. Advanced drag-and-drop capabilities let you easily attach files and manipulate text. Live hot links auto- matically open your Web browser and other Internet applications. 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All Circle 22 on reader service card get used to the many reshuf- fled keyboard commands, such as those for Clone and Deselect, you can turn your attention to some major enhancements. New Palettes ‘Two new palettes add useful functions: the Navigator palette provides flexible zooming and panning, an improvement over 3.0's preset zoom levels, while the Actions palette offers task automation and batch processing—you Photoshop 4's new Navigator palette lets you zoom in on a large image, while the Actions palette permits task automation and batch processing. can record your editing steps, reorder them, disable selected ones, and play them back on any number of files, User- definable guides and. grids provide precision alignment. Another useful interface en- hancement is control-drag, which pops up a menu of common operations related to whatever tool is selected. Adobe's commitment to layers is evident in its addition of Live Picture-style adjust ment layers, which act as masks through which filters and other effects can be applied to underlying image layers. Thus, an adjustment layer can be changed repeat- edly without altering the image permanently. However, aficionados of floating selec- tions may be disconcerted to find that such operations as applying a filter or adding text create a new layer rather than a floating selection. [ News Improved Distortions Transformations have also been enhanced. The new Free ‘Transform command lets you apply multiple distortions— such as scale, skew, and rotate—to an image in one step, simplifying complex manipulations and reducing image degradation. And the ability to specify numeric transformations lets you edit images with more precision. Users who prefer not to install a slew of third-party fil- ters will be pleased with the 48 new effects filters that have been add- ed to 4.0, including Adobe Gallery Ef- fects. Another new feature is Image- mare, software by Digimare that em- beds visually imper- ceptible watermarks throughout an im- age that are still readable even after the image is edited, printed, or re- scanned. When you open a watermarked image in Photoshop, the program indi- cates the presence of copy- right information and pro- vides a link to the copyright owner's Web site. Web Format Support Like every other application these days, Photoshop has added Web-related features. It supports Portable Network Graphics (PNG) and Pro- gressive JPEG, and lets you save Acrobat PDF files. For those who are hungering for more speed, Photoshop sup- ports symmetric multipro- cessing on Macintoshes with multiple processors. Expected to ship by November, Photoshop 4.0 will retail for $895, It will in- clude an interactive tuto- rial, stock photos, sample plug-ins, a digital gallery, and demo versions of other Adobe software. 40 November 1996 MACWORLD Web Features Add Life to Persuasion by Stephen Beale dobe Persuasion has long been among the leading programs for design and production of 35mm slide presen- tations, But as fewer people use 35mm slides, developer: have transformed their pa ages into tools for on-screen presentations, adding wha entially interactive multi- media functions. Now, given the industrywide push toward Internet publishing, it should be no surprise that Adobe has made the World Wide Web a focal point for Persuasion 4.0, Internet Retro’ Its an alluring concept: take a self-running presentation and put it on the Web. Persuasion 4.0 offers several tools for doing so: import filters for GIF and JPEG, Web-page autotem- plates, and the abili- ty to drag and drop URLs from a Web browser to a slide. However, instead of generating HTML code for the Web page, Persuasion 4.0 produces an Acrobat PDF file using Ac- robat Distiller. This less-than-ideal solution makes Persuasion’s Web support look more like a retrofit than an inte- gral part of the software. Improved Integration Other features in the $395 package follow Adobe’ recent trend of better integrating its products, Palettes and keyboard shortcuts are now reminiscent of those in Photoshop and Illus- trator; there’s even a Layers pal- ette similar to those in Adobe's other graphics packages. Photo- shop and Illustrator files can be imported in native format, the former with layers intact. ‘To improve cross-platform compatibility, the Mac version of Persuasion includes several fea- tures previously available only under Windows: dashed and dotted lines, a cropping tool, and enhanced tab functions. ‘There's also a conversion utility for Microsoft PowerPoint files. Managing Fonts and Links A new font-management func- tion displays all fonts used in a presentation and allows you to globally replace one font with another. The new Links Man- agement dialog box shows the location and file size of all linked graphics, sounds, and You can also use this dialog box to keep track of — and modify—hyperlin| Also new: variable-speed transition effects, an eyedropper tool similar to the one in Photoshop, and customizable autotemplates for multime: presentations. Persuasion now lets you convert self- tunning presentations into POF files for use on the World Wide Web. 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