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News 21 The first Mac clones go on sale in the US; an exclusive first look at Apple’s new Pippin multimedia machine, System 7.5 upgraded already, plus more. Publish and be educated 71 DTP isn’t just for creating publications; it can be a fun way of learning too. Here’s how kids can learn from DTP at school and at home. What’s New 26 First looks at the latest new products, including an idea processor, a ‘trackpad’ and a ‘joypad’ for the Mac, plus an easy way to cope with Phoneday and a new typographic experience from Swifty. MacroScope: Behind the News 30 How ‘seedy’ CD-ROMs are causing a crisis of confidence among parents in the US, and why one of the top scanner manufacturers says.scanners should be even easier to use. Apple Talk: Letters 36 Your views on everything Mac-related, including the price of soft- ware, the disappearance of old hardware, and violence in Wolfenstein... Buying Advice 76 How to protect your rights when buying in the shops or by mail. Back Issues 118 You don’t have to live without those vital issues any longer... Mail Order Offers 123 We searched far and wide for the top Mac products, so we could bring them to you at the best possible prices direct from MACFORMAT. Gamebusters 132 Tips and cheats for all! How to play any level of Rebel Assault you fancy, plus more help for frustrated Syndicate wannabes... Soapbox: ‘What the Newton is good for’ 136 Now don’t laugh. It really is useful - a Macrormat reader shows how. Free Reader Ads 138 Buy bargain kit, sell your old stuff off, and find a user group near you. Soapbox: “Balloon Help isn’t’ 140 What Balloon ‘Help’ could become, according to a reader... Dilbert 140 Why DTP may not be such a good idea after all. Next Month 145 What’s coming in our next packed issue (if all goes according to plan, that is...) Protect your credit card details on-line 75 You'll soon be able to transfer money and pay for things via the Internet or on-line services, but can you be sure it’s safe? Three of the UK’s main service providers reveal how they keep your data secure. Get it sorted with HyperCard 79 On this month’s cover disk, MAcForMat brings you a HyperCard stack that organises your files and applications for you — here’s how it all works! Plus, your HyperCard queries answered and problems solved. Mac Answers 83 More of your Mac and Performa problems solved by our team of experts, including how to replace the ‘Welcome to Macintosh’ screen with a message of your choosing, transfer data from PCs, improve your printouts and help new Macs read old Macs’ disks. 133 Last month we rated Marathon the best Mac game ever, and now you can win one of ten copies, each worth £58, plus Marathon posters and lots of goodies for runners-up! A Umax flatbed scanner 146 Win a Umax Vista-S8 colour flatbed scanner plus UTA-V6 transparency unit — worth over £2,100 in all! It’s all you need to scan transparencies or documents up to full A4 size in full colour! MACFORMAT *¢ ISSUE 24° May 1995 REVIEWS PhotoFix — A good Photoshop-alike! 94 True-colour image-editors have been appearing thick and fast recently, but so far they haven't really amounted to a serious challenge to Photoshop. This one is a third of the price and naturally has fewer features, but could it be a realistic alternative even so? Multimedia: The hottest new titles on CD-ROM — and we do mean hottest. ‘Adult’ CDs, plus sports and science... Who Built America? 99 The Joy of Sex 100 This is Spinal Tap 100 National Lampoon’s Blind Date 101 Let’s Play Soccer 102 Let’s Play Tennis 102 Golf with Tom Kite 103 For All Mankind 106 Mars Explorer & Venus Explorer 107 The Secrets of Stargate 108 Distant Suns 2 108 Training videos and CDs 110 More helpful than a paper manual and more patient than a real live tutor? Could these video and CD-ROM-based tutorial materials help you get to grips with your Mac and your programs? Shareware Heaven 119 The latest low-cost and no-cost software fresh from the Internet, including a quilt designer, a fabulous Asteroids style game, an ‘alien breeder’, a Hebrew pronouncing utility, the good and the awful of ‘neural networks’ — and that’s just the sensible bits... It’s like a vintage games reunion this month, with a mob of re-makes, re-releases and updates... and one new title! Sargon V 126 MacBestsellers 126 Asia Wolfenstein: Third Encounter 128 . waaen Pebble Beach Golf Links 128 ee. Harpoon Classic 130 é- » SI Earth Command 131 Utilities: DiskTop 4.5 134 ais, Before System 7, before MultiFinder, there was 4k DiskTop. Many of its excellent file management functions are now part of the System, so what does the current commercial version still have to offer? Utilities: Expresso 135 There are plenty of personal organisers around, integrating a calendar, address book and to-do list. So why is this one worth getting? CONTENTS FEATURES. Macintoshes and desktop publishing go together like paper and ink, whether you're producing a professional full- colour magazine or a club newsletter. But which is the best DTP program for you? We test every Mac DTP package available today and compare them feature by feature to help you choose! 42 Adobe PageMaker 5.0a FrameMaker 4.0 QuarkXPress 3.31 ReadySetGo 6.03 VivaPress Pro 1.5 PianZhang 46 This pricey XPress add-on could lay out books for you automatically! How to do DTP in ClarisWorks 52 You might be surprised just how powerful Works can be — we show you how to use ClarisWorks for page make-up, step-by-step. Full-colour flatbed scanners 88 Import colour images, ready to manipulate in your graphics program or incorporate into your DTP pages! We test six of the most affordable colour flatbed scanners. Basics: networks 57 Share a printer between several Macs, transfer files too big to fit on floppy disks, run programs on another machine — we show you how! Macrormat is available every month with either a CD-ROM or a high density disk. Your CD-ROM 8 Usable (save-disabled) versions of all the top DTP programs, plus Photoshop 3.0 and Claris Works 3.0, 200Mb of the latest share- ware from the Internet, demos of many of the programs reviewed this month, and much more, including everything below... Your Cover Disk 14 Graphic Converter — it’s almost a mini-Photoshop! A frantic Defender update! MacCheckers! Plus invaluable utilities to customise your Desktop, catalogue disks, simplify file opening, and more! MACFORMAT * ISSUE 24+¢ MAY 1995 | WELCOME ! Welcome to MACFORMAT All you ever wanted to know about MAcrormat - and a bit you could have lived without. Talk about information overload! ABOUT OUR WRITERS ALEX SUMMERSBY An academic by training and Mac clever-clogs by experi- ence, Macrormat’s editor has picked up a lot by reading books and articles on the Mac, but he assures us it’s not catching. His favourite Mac program is still QuarkXPress. DEREK SMITH Macrormat's Technical Writer and cover disk compiler is not only a Mac expert, he's also a trained horticulturalist, which means he knows how to kill a lot of plants. Must be why he’s still enjoying killing Nazis in Wolfenstein. RICHARD HILL Richard's training is in graphic design and training, if you see what | mean. He says his favourite program just now is something called Super Metroid, but on his Mac at the moment he’s compulsively using Netscape. Help! ANDY STORER Andy is a veteran computing journalist who brings the perspective of his years of vast experience to his reviews. When asked for his favourite Mac program, he got all misty-eyed and muttered something about Tetris... MARCUS DYSON Photoshop fan Marcus, who uses Photoshop daily in his job as a Photoshop-based graphic designer, used to use QuarkXPress and Photoshop as one of Future's senior art editors. He declined to tell us his favourite program. ROD LAWTON As computer books editor in Future Publishing's books division, Rod uses QuarkXPress a great deal, but keeps writing time-saving HyperCard stacks that would save him time if only he didn’t spend so long writing them. You? Macrormat is always looking for freelance contributors, so if you know all about some aspect of the Mac (partic- ularly hardware!) and can write with wit and clarity, send us an unpublished sample article (photo not essential). ABOUT MACFORMAT elcome again to MACFORMAT, Britain’s best-selling Mac magazine! Whether you're a veteran or a novice, we'll help you get more out of your Macintosh, whatever you use it for! Every month, Macrormat brings you tips, techniques and tutorials covering the range of Mac applications, from graphics, DTP, education, spreadsheets and data- bases to music, comms and games. We'll bring you features about exciting Mac developments and novel uses, accompanied by cover disk programs whenever possible, so you can discover what your machine can do and try things you haven't tried before. We'll keep you up-to-date with all the Mac-related news, and also keep you informed about the wider issues, the people behind the headlines and the stories behind the stories. We'll bring you authoritative reviews of interesting and affordable products, with clear buying recommendations. Mac- FORMAT does not review demos or unfinished programs. We review only the finished products you could buy yourself, to help you decide whether to buy or not. MacFormat’s covermounted disks and CD-ROMs offer you demos so you can try software before you buy, useful utilities (specially chosen to complement features in the magazine), selected shareware pro- grams, games, readers’ contributions and more, every month. Editorial enquiries: Macrormat, Future Publishing Ltd, 30 Monmouth Street, Bath BAl 2BW Tel 01225 442244, Fax 01225 446019 E-mail: macformat@futurenet.co.uk or macformat@cix.compulink.co.uk AppleLink: MacFormat FutureNet: Macrormar is on-line as part of FutureNet. Accessing it is free — just point your World Wide Web browser at: http://www.futurenet.co.uk/ Advertising enquiries: Jackie Garford, tel: 01225 442244 Subscription enquiries: Subscriptions, Future Publishing, Freepost (BS4900), Somerton, Somerset TA11 6BR (No stamp needed if you're posting in the UK) Tel 01225 822510 (8.45am—4.30pm) Fax 01458 274378 (24 hours) E-mail: subs@futurenet.co.uk A word about prices... We try to ensure that all prices quoted in editorial pages in MACFoRMAT are accurate at the time of going to press, and they are all inclusive of UK Value Added Tax at 17.5%. However, this may not necessarily be the case with prices appearing in ad- vertisements, so we recommend that you always contact advertisers before ordering to confirm prices and availability. See page 76 for some helpful buying advice. Entire contents Copyright © 1995 Future Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. ABOUT OUR REVIEWS very MACFORMAT review is EK designed to inform you in detail what you'd be getting if you bought the product and help you decide whether it’s worth your money. It tells you the essentials, without jargon. MAc- FORMAT reviews only fin- ished products, and we rate them on this scale: @ 80+% means excellent. @ 70+% means well worthwhile, though not out- standing. @ 60+% means good, but with a few shortcomings or some limitations. @ 50+% means acceptable but flawed. @ A rating below 50% means think care- fully before parting with your money. The Macrormar Classic Award If a product earns a rating of 90% or more, we'll give it a MacrorMat Classic Award. This means what it says: we judge the product to be a classic, a standard-setter of its type, @ We make every effort to verify all the information we publish, but products and prices do change. Shop around and check with the supplier before buying to make sure that the product you're considering will meet your needs. Macroamar cannot accept responsibility for any errors or omissions or for any losses that may arise as a result, but it is our policy to correct any errors of fact whenever we possibly can. 1 Macrormat welcomes contributions for publication but we regret that we cannot return any submissions. Contributions are normally accepted only on the basis of full assignment of copyright to Future Publishing Ltd. Any correspondence sent to our editorial address will be considered for publication unless you specifically state otherwise, and we reserve the right to edit published letters for reasons of space, clarity or legality. @ We regret that because we have so much to do and can barely cope as it is, we simply cannot reply to letters or faxes personally, even if you include an SAE, or to e-Mail. Nor can we answer technical queries over the phone — sorry! MACFORMAT * ISSUE 24° MAY 1995 Gomark Design introduces a selection of multimedia production tools. Step |: Create stunning 3D models and illustrations using Sketch! Add animation using StrataVision 3D, or Infini-D. Step 2: Edit your media and create special visual effects using VideoShop. Capture screen activity and sounds into QuickTime movies with Instant Replay or CameraMan. Step 3: Finally compile your multimedia clips into interactive or self running presentations using SuperCard. e& q\ SUITE ONE SuperCard 2.0 VideoShop 3.0 Infini-D 2.6 CameraMan 2.5 SUITE TWO a SuperCard 2.0 ° VideoShop 3.0 :. StrataVision 3D 4.0 © Instant Replay 1.0 *” SUITE THREE = SuperCard 2.0 On VideoShop 3.0 “% Sketch! 2.0 ‘ 3 Instant Replay 1.0 es ‘ g { Cs; hh Sh St sis Products with A CHOICE OF THREE COMPLETE MULTIMEDIA SUITES limited period only FOUR products e Fu, VideoShop 3.0 “" £4 9 6 Create high quality QuickTime » movies with this powerful video AS 4 editing tool. Beginners can cut and paste a € s video in their first hour. SuperCard 2.0 The ultimate authoring tool for delivering multimedia.Provides uniquely powerful tools for sophisticated interactivity and graphic control. Infini-D 2.6 An integrated 3D modelling, rendering and animation package. This easy to use product creates dazzling images in a three dimensional environment. Instant Replay !.0 The multimedia screen recorder. Instant Replay gives you the ability to capture any screen activity plus sound and video from internal and external sources, saving them as QuickTime movies. StrataVision 3D 4.0 The power to model, render and animate in 3D. Transform your digital dreams into virtual realities with StrataVision 3D’s high-end modelling tools, Sketch! 2.0 A new dimension in illustration and design. Powerful 3D NURBS-based modelling, real-world texturing, and photorealistic rendering. wy > ° ra Q Q wv © CameraMan 2.5 Records all screen activity and system S sounds to a QuickTime movie. accelerated for cv? . Power Macintt ysh From Gomark’s wide stable of leading design products, we offer to the multimedia professional, a powerful selection of tools to create stunning multimedia projects. Gomark Limited 10 Hurlingham Business Park Sulivan Road, London SW6 3DU Tel: 0171 731 7930 Fax: 0171 736 1215 Applelink:GOMARK Internet:gomark @gomark demon co uk design i MACFORMAT COVER DISKS Your CD-ROM This surely must be one of the best CD-ROMs that we’ve offered you so far. Derek Smith takes you through the demos of the industry’s top titles, plus so much more... FLOPPY OR CD? Macrormart is available in two editions every month: one with a CD-ROM and one with a high-density floppy disk. If you bought the CD-ROM edition, your CD includes a folder containing everything on the HD disk, details of which are on page 14. QUITTING DEMOS Some of the rolling demos require you to press [command] Q to quit them. OUT OF TIME The demo of form@Z on last month's CD-ROM had a time limitation that expired before the magazine went on sale. In order to make it run, put your Mac's internal clock back a year by using the General Controls Control Panel, or Date and Time in System 7.5 (both found in the Control Panels from the Apple menu). his month’s CD-ROM is a special edition covering the whole world of desktop pub- lishing. But it also has so much other excellent software that it delivers more than Postman Pat does on Christ- mas Eve. We even have a demo of the almighty Photoshop (reviewed last month) and its challenger, PhotoFix. To get started with these, see page 12. Fora review of Photofix turn to page 94. Mean- while, here’s a closer look at what’s on the CD-ROM this month. ® Highlights: aliases of the best bits of the CD-ROM to get you started quickly and easily. @ Floppy: everything that’s on the flop- py disk (plus a little extra). See page 14 for exactly what’s on this month’s disk. @ Demos: interactive and rolling demos of software featured in this and past issues of MACFORMAT. ® Shareware City: all the best software from the Internet that’s been released in the last month. @ Shareware in MACFoRMAT: contains all the software reviewed in ‘Shareware and PD’, which starts on page 119. ™@ San Francisco Video: a video about the recent Mac Expo that was held in San Francisco. @ Readers’ Corner: the great software sent in by you, our readers. ClarisWorks 3.0 INTEGRATED PACKAGE Requires: any Mac, 1Mb free RAM, System 6.0.5 or later ClarisWorks is widely accepted as the best Works package on the Mac. It has re- cently been updated to version 3.0, and we bring you the save disabled version to try out. You can decide for yourself whether to buy it or upgrade from an earlier version. If you already have version 2, you may not see many differ- ences, except for a word count facility — at last! The main change is that there is now much more on-line help, which is ideal for beginners. The first thing you may want to use the demo for is opening our database of reviews. Once you've installed the demo on your hard disk, you'll find the data- base at the bottom of the CD’s main win- dow. To open it, simply double-click on its icon. To find a particular review, select Find from the Layout menu. Complementing our massive head- to-head review of the top desktop publishing packages, we have five demos of the leading DTP software for you to try out. Each demo has a function or two disabled, but other- wise they are the full programs, so they should give you an excellent idea of their respective merits. QuarkXPress has become the leading DTP program. Our demo contains ver- sions for Mac and PowerMac. Each enables you to save and print, but you get a demo water- mark on each page. For those people whe frequently work on nage {Hes on relatively ereinary |. 486 particwleriy for our nypotheticnl worker wae wishes to Wark on large images stored on CD-ROM and than rancor them at eremate Hecwlion, Res Vs # must-bey package Out Its reletively mosest selection of {le fermats, beck of text functions (ter the prevent at least), inaoiinty te print oF S08, one lens-triencty wer tehertece meen Une It's still @ tong way fromm challenging Proteenae. Z| On the CD this month you'll find a database of all our reviews, up to and including Macrormat 23. Coral Reef Requires: LCI! or better, 1Mb free RAM, System 7 or later, 13-inch colour monitor Coral Reef was reviewed in MACFORMAT 22, and it received a commendable 76%. This is your chance to sample the incredible beauty of this multi-coloured multimedia product, which touches upon how man is having an effect on the fragile ecology of the reef. Included with the many stun- ning pictures are QuickTime movies of life underwater. To run the demo, simply double-click on its icon. VivaPress is relatively unknown in Britain, so here's your chance to check out the German product that is challenging PageMaker and Quark at their own game. sue Adobe has now taken over PageMaker from Aldus and here is the demo of the new rebadged version, hot off the presses. Once the leading DTP package, it has faced stiff competition from QuarkXPress. Our HomePublisher demo includes many auto-create documents. These enable you to produce high quality documents in a short time. HomePublisher is the ideal entry-level desktop publishing package. <4 a0) FrameMaker is gaining wide acceptance as a f high-end DTP solution for producing large publications, books, and technical documentation. Get to grips with the program using our demo version. MACFORMAT * ISSUE 24° MAY 1995 Dive into the educational demo of Coral Reef, which made me realise that Macrormat’s happy art editor must have taken up swimming recently. Daring to Fly Requires: LCI! or better, 1Mb of free RAM, System 7 or later, 13-inch colour monitor Daring to Fly is a multimedia CD from the makers of Coral Reef. It tells the story of the early pioneers of aviation. This rolling demo gives you a glimpse of the product, but for a clearer picture, read the review in MACFORMAT 23. San Francisco Video tee ~ IME MOVIE Requires: LCI or better We've put together for you a special video about the recent Mac Expo in San Francisco. The video includes several interviews about the latest products and developements in the Mac world. Run- ning the video is easy: you simply drag its icon onto any QuickTime Movie player. If you don’t have one of those, don’t panic. Just open the FastPlayer folder, drag the movie onto the FastPlayer icon and Bob’s your uncle. Sen Francisco MW.movie We have to justify our jaunts to America, so here are our holiday snaps from San Francisco. Up, up, up and away with Daring to Fly, a superb rolling demo that shows you the early days of man's attempts at flight. Expresso Requires: LC or better, 2Mb free RAM, System 7 or later, colour monitor There are many personal organisers on the market, but Expresso (reviewed on page 135) seems to be one of the best. It has clear colourful screens and an easy- to-use interface. This demo is fully func- tional, but is limited for 60 days, after which it will stop working. Still, that should be long enough to discover if you have the self discipline to keep your records up to date each day. Flashback Requires: Colour Mac, 2.5Mb free RAM Platform action games are a bit thin on the ground in Mac-land, so Flashback is very welcome. It comes from the people who brought you Another World, reviewed in MAcrorMaT 21, and it has a similar style. But it’s more dynamic and the main character is well animated, better than a MACFORMAT COVER DISKS & File Edit Calendar Nemes To-Do Window Help Rolf Harris animation in fact. This version gives you several complete levels to try out. Controls are listed in the game, but they take a bit of getting used to. Try using combinations of [shift] with the movement keys. Peter and the Wolf Requires: LCII or better, System 7 or later, 2.3Mb free RAM Peter and the Wolf was reviewed in MACFORMAT 22. It received 83% and was described as ‘absolutely superb’. The ani- mation was created by none other than Bugs Bunny’s animator, Chuck Jones. The demo gives you a taste of the full product and includes a video showing you some of the big name stars who lend their voices to the narration, like Kirstie Alley (Rebeccah Howe in Cheers) and Ross Malinger (Jonah in Sleepless in Seattle), who is the voice of Peter. Operation is simple: once the demo’s loaded, just place the mouse cursor over a character to hear the music associated with that character. Shock news! Wolf eats duck and is then gunned down in hail of bullets. Young boy sought in connection. Flashback is a futuristic platform game where you get to shoot Ogres. What are they doing there? Expresso gets a MACFORMAT Classic award in this issue. Test our time limited demo to see if you agree. INSTALLATION Some of the demos come compacted. You'll need to extract them onto your hard drive before you can use them. NEED FOR SPEED If a demo or game is running slowly, then drag the whole folder onto your hard disk and run it from there. It should run much faster. ALIAS TIP To access your favourite folder from the CD more quickly, why not make an alias of it and keep the alias on your Desktop. Just click on the folder and go to Make Alias from the File menu. MACFORMAT ¢ ISSUE 24* MAY 1995 MACFORMAT COVER DISKS Requires: Colour Mac Continuing our season of 3D software and graphics, we bring you a range of pic- tures created in Sculpt 3D. There was a save-disabled demo of the program on MACFORMAT 22’s CD-ROM, but it might take you a while to achieve results like these. You'll need a graphics program to open the pictures, but GraphicConverter, also on the CD-ROM, will do just fine. Unfortunately we can’t tell Requires: see individual Read Me files Readers’ Corner is now firmly established as a base for unusual and inventive soft- ware. This month we feature Stickers, a truly beautiful children’s program from Italy, which will delight and occupy any child. There are some fun Desktop tex- tures from Fergus Corbett, and a mini video editing suite by Mathias Tschopp, which looks very pro- fessional indeed. And finally, there are a range of fascinating HyperCard stacks from Chris Aldridge, Mark Coates, Martin McDonald and Stephen Hunt, who sends in a sample from his lat- est fantasy book. You'll find a new section in Readers’ Corner called Art Gallery where we'll be featuring graphics created by you. If you have produced anything artistic on a Mac and want to show it off to the world, then just send it to: Disc Editor, MACFORMAT, 30 Monmouth Street, Bath, Avon, BAI 2BW. There’s a competition for the best entry. For further details see the Simple- Text ReadMe file in the Art Gallery folder on the CD-ROM. file (ait found Trensition Sennen oon coor a] Semen 9.00 w0.0e Porat tr —_ enter wore com | ome lineme Ss) err Sa Th) | ec — you about every good piece of software on the CD because there’s just so much on it. So here is a run down of some of the best of the rest... Titect Uimity Window asic Shapes Fiew Chart i Designer LINSPIRATIG imeges || | __ Tee Vauai'eryte Gud Beer # (CusTaM At) Com Beer 2 (NIZORAL) Arrenge. Adjust for Page Breaks ° Sand te Beck Waite Text Background Sat Sefeult MACFORMAT * ISSUE 24* May 1995 10 PhotoFix™ I ColorStation™ PRO great performance at a great price... It’s not an expense, more an investment ! Photo... design All-in-one... Fix... your images and editing tool for graphics package including: on any colour Mac or everybody. You can a great value browser, 100 PowerMac with as little enhance your scanned high resolution royalty-free as 1.5 Mb of available images and clip-art Photo-CD images, three RAM. At the office or or create superb informative and easy to read at home, PhotoFix™ is artwork thanks to the guides, a Macintosh™ version the ideal software to high quality painting and an accelerated version work efficiently and and editing tools for Power Macintosh™! eS produce professional available! quality images! ~ lan 100 Photo-CD Simple... and probably the easiest and most intuitive image editing tool! Fast... to save you time. Easy to learn in just 5 minutes and 5 seconds to open a 20 Mb+ image! Complete... enough to do all kinds of image work: scanning, browsing, editing and high quality printing! images... are included in your package! Brushes... pencil, air brush, paint brush, clone, magic wand, text, montage with transparency, melted borders, gradients... Special effects. artistic or spectacular thanks to the total compatibility with all third parties plug-ins! Special offer to HQP®... High MacFormat readers Linographic... Quality Printing See the demo version on UK distributor of capabilities for this months cover disk Le Pixel products. desktop printers: Free technical and Quickdraw or sales support for users Postscript, colour or Nor . and resellers. black & white. ormal price £199+vat Call us Now ! all prices are excluding delivery and Vat Also available: Linographic: Unit 1 Farnborough Business Centre ColorStation: £ 69 (+VAT) Upg rade Eelmoor Rd, Farnborough, Hants, GUI4 7QN GrayStation: £ 49 (+VAT) F Tel : 01252 376103 or £99 Special launch offer: Fax : 01252 370078 MACFORMAT COVER DISKS | INTERFACE All the Photoshop palettes are turned on or off using the palettes item in the Window menu. While you are working, all palettes can be temporarily turned off by simply pressing the [tab] key. BEING SELECTIVE Using the select tool in conjunction with the [shift] key will enable you to add areas to a selection, and the [command] key will remove areas from a selection. Photoshop Toolbox The selection tool: enables you to select areas of an image. Magic wand: click on a part of an image to select all connecting areas with a similar colour. Hand tool: scroll around an image that is larger than the window it is being displayed in. Crop tool: crop unwanted areas from an image by dragging, then clicking within the marquee. Fill tool: produces a paint-pot fill. Works on a similar basis to the magic wand tool. Line tool: you can draw straight lines in the current foreground colour. Eraser tool: deletes areas of an image according to the shape set in the brushes palette. Airbrush: soft edged airbrush style painting effects. Rubber stamp: clone areas of an image onto a different part of the screen. [Option] click selects the pick-up zone. Focus: sharpen or blur the appearance of an image ina specific area. Active colour wells: shows the two currently active colours. Top is foreground, bottom is background colour. Arrows at top right will swap the current colours. Screen view: images can either be displayed in windows, shown full screen with a menu bar or full screen with no menu bar. yyy vr yee yd Y — A peeeRA AAA A Lasso tool: a freehand selection tool drawn by the mouse. Move: used to move all of an image within its image window. Magnifying glass tool: click to zoom in, or press [option] and click to zoom out. Text tool: brings up a text-entry window. Text is drawn in the current foreground colour. Gradient tool: to create smooth graduated fills. Parameters set in the options menu. Eye dropper: select colours from the current image as the foreground colour. Pencil: freehand painting strokes with hard edges. Paintbrush: similar to the pencil tool, but the paintbrush gives softer edges. Smudge: smudging effect, as if a finger had been dragged across a pastel drawing. Exposure: acts like a darkroom printer's dodge and burn techniques to selectively lighten or darken portions of an image. Selection modes: the two icons below the colour wells indicate the current selection mode. 1 Open any image. Using the text tool, enter some text and position it on your image. This may take a few attempts to get right. Don't worry, just delete it and try again until you're happy. Now choose Save Selection from the Select menu, and click OK. A new channel will appear on your channels menu (shown here in the top-right of the screen), if you have it open. Delete your text. Choose Load Selection from the Select menu, then Inverse. Press [delete]. Select channel 4 in your channels menu, and use the little arrow to select duplicate channel. oe 7 Ta tat poe Titer toe Siow Tr =| ,§ Make the background colour white, then drag the current channel (#4 Copy) down and to the right. Select Gaussian Blur from the Filters/ Blur menu. Slide the arrow to 6, and click OK. Now select Load Selection from the Select menu. When the requester comes up make sure that #4 is in the Channel window, and click OK. When the selection has loaded, hit [delete]. Click Channel 0 in the Channels palette. Sel- ect Load Selection. Load channel #4 Copy. Choose Adjust/Brightness/Contrast in the Image menu. Slide Brightness to -60 and Contrast to +60. 12 MACFORMAT *¢ ISSUE 24* May 1995 MACFORMAT COVER DISKS PhotoFix Main Tools Menu Lasso tool: a freehand selection tool drawn by the mouse. Rectangle select: click and drag this across your image to select a square or rectangle. Ellipse select tool: make a circular or elliptical selection of the active image. Line tool: for drawing straight lines in the current foreground colour. Rectangle tool: used for drawing rectangles. Pencil tool: used for creating freehand hard-edged shapes. Fill tool: used to flood fill a selection with the active colour. Airbrush: soft-edged airbrush style painting effects Blur/Sharpen tools: selectively soften or sharpen the apparent focus. Graduate fill tool: creates gradient from the foreground to the background colour. Magnifying-glass tool: click to zoom in, [option] click to zoom out. <p <t- pe oat — a oe a pe ~h —_ or — ate a ~<« => ~< coos “< — Magic wand: click on a part of an image to select all connecting areas with a similar colour. Crop tool: crop unwanted area from an image by dragging, then clicking within the marquee. Rotate tool: click on the image to define the centre of rotation, then drag to rotate. Ellipse tool: use for drawing circles and ellipses. Text tool: used for applying typography to an illustration. Brush tool: used for creating freehand soft-edged shapes. Eraser tool: deletes the illustration to leave the current background colour. Rubber stamp tool: pick-up the image from one part of the picture and copy it down elsewhere. Lighten/Darken tools: increase or decrease the apparent exposure of areas. Eyedropper: pick up colours to use as the current foreground colour. Hand tool: scroll the image around in the screen window. | Load up a picture, and use the text tool to apply some appropriate text. When in the text requester box, make sure you check the Floating Selection box. Select Separate mask from the Selection menu. This will save out your text selection as a separate document, but make sure you check your spelling out in the dictionary first! 3 Use Re-size from the Image menu to discover the size of your image. Now switch to the mask document and use Re-size again to make this the same size. Check the Canvas button. a = SS SSS 4 Open the original image. Load mask, which you can load from any other open document, if you wish. Select Copy from the Edit menu, create anew document and paste the selection into it 5 | In your original document, delete the image. Reload your text selection, and with the back- ground colour as mid grey, delete the selection. Use the Image/Settings/Blur menu to soften the edges. 6 Now copy your text from the document you pasted it into — its selection should still be active. Paste it into the document with the grey shadow text, and drag it to a suitable position. PHOTOFIX 2.8 MASTERCLASS PhotoFix is an image processing/ photo re-touching package along the lines of Photoshop. It doesn’t have quite so many op- tions as Photoshop, but it’s happy to run on a far more modest Mac. It has all the features a non-professional user would re- quire. Once again, Marcus Dyson shows you how to get started with the demo on our CD-ROM. Fora review, turn to page 94. DOUBLE-CLICK Double-clicking on various tools in PhotoFix has various effects. For instance, double- Click the eraser to delete the entire image. ALL STATIONS PhotoFix is actually the latest upgraded version of the ‘pro’ version of ColorStation. \f your needs are even more modest, you can buy Color- Station 2 at a bargain price from Macrormat’s mail order pages, which start on page 123. You can do greyscale work with ColorStation, but if your needs are purely mono we're also selling GrayStation 2 for a bargain price. MACFORMAT * ISSUE 24* MAY 1995 13 EXTRA SOFTWARE If you have the CD-ROM edition of this issue, the Floppy folder on the CD contains all of the software on these pages. MACFORMAT COVER DISKS With the sheer quality and quantity that we squeeze onto the floppy disk every month, there’s something to please everyone, all the time. Derek Smith tells all... ur reader survey shows that 9% of our readership have black-and-white Macs. So if you're one of that 9%, don’t worry: while some of these programs re- quire a colour monitor, we haven’t for- gotten you and will always endeavour to include programs you can run on your Mac. Here’s what we have this month... Décor 2.5 UTILITY Requires: colour Mac, System 7 or later, PowerMac native System 7.5, along with several shareware programs, enables you to create a fancy Desktop made up of a repeating pattern. Décor is an Extension that enables you to have a single large picture on your Desk- top instead. To use Décor, just drop the Extension on your System Folder, so it can be auto- matically placed in your Extensions fol- der. Restart your Mac and then drag a graphics file onto the program’s icon. Décor supports several common graphics formats such as PICT. After a few seconds it will appear as your Desktop back- ground. Please note that this does use a fair amount of RAM though, so if you’re short of memory on your Macintosh you may want to keep an eye on your ma- chine’s available RAM. You'll be hard pressed to find a graphic file that GraphicConverter can't open. [Tae tat Fctore_titert teociet_ wire Default Folder 2.5.1 Shareware $25 This utility is genuinely useful. It adds three menus to every Open and Save dialogue box. The first menu enables you to go directly to a user defined list of favourite folders. The second menu en- ables you to allocate a particular folder as a default for that program. This means that when you first open the program and select Open, it will also show you that folder. The last menu shows you a list of all the disks currently on the Desktop, en- abling you to skip the Desktop button and jump straight to another disk. I don’t You have to stare at it, so you may as well make your Desktop as appealing as possible with Décor. GraphicConverter 2.0.6 PRES) | ee Requires: any Mac, 2Mb of free RAM, colour monitor Have you ever come across a graphic file that you can’t open? You just know that it’ll be the most im- pressive picture ever, but you can’t find out. Well cheer up, because GraphicConverter will open just about every imaginable file format there is, includ- ing many for other computer platforms such as the PC, Amiga and ST. Operation of the program is simple. Drag the de- sired graphics file onto the GraphicConverter program icon and it will open up. Then select Save As and you have a wide choice of formats to save in. You should now be able to convert any graphic file for- mat into any other format. This is particularly handy for converting a file so that it can be recog- nised by your usual software package. You can also save files in Startup Screen format - see page 83. know if Apple will absorb this into the next System update, but I bet a few of its programmers have this installed on their own Macintoshes. High density floppy disks normally contain a maximum of 1.4 mega- bytes of software, but to bring you as much as possible, we use a com- pression program to fit more on. This means you must decompress the software before using it — you'll need 2-3Mb of hard disk space. We also recommend that you should make a backup of the MACcFORMAT cover disk, just in case anything goes wrong. Here’s what to do... @ Make sure the original cover disk is write-protected (move the tab so that you can see through the hole). ®@ Insert the Macrormat cover disk. ®@ Drag the disk’s icon over your hard disk’s icon. ™@ The contents are copied onto your hard disk, but are still com- pressed and cannot be used yet. ™@ Drag the cover disk icon to the Wastebasket to eject the disk. @ Insert a blank high density disk. @ Drag the Macrormat 24 folder from your hard disk onto the blank disk’s icon to make your backup. ™ To decompress the cover disk, open the Macrormart 24 folder on your hard disk. ™® Double-click on the MACFORMAT 24 icon. ® Click Continue. @ A box then asks you where you want to save the software. Choose the place on your hard disk where you want everything stored and click Save. Before installing the cover disk we recommend that you back up any important work on your hard disk. This sensible precaution will avoid problems should any software not be compatible with your setup. We make every effort to check our disks for compatibility and viruses, but the information here is intended as a guide only, and MACFORMAT cannot be held responsible for any damage to data, any inability to use this software or any resulting losses. So please, back up first. 14 MACFORMAT *¢ ISSUE 24+ MAY 1995 ‘Nisus 5.2588 Defeult MF24 Shareware Voyeger Appticetions Move MF24 Shareware te Trash *T Get info on MF24Sherewere mt Like a ferocious gerbil, the Mac needs a little taming. Default Folder is the utility with a tiny chair and whip. Delirium ARCADE GAME Requires: LC or better, colour monitor, System 6.0.7 or later, 2Mb free RAM Delirium is a direct copy of an old game called Defender. The idea is to fly along the surface of a planet and shoot the alien spaceships. These spaceships are intent on kidnapping your fellow humans who stand on the planet surface (and they don’t seem to put up much of a fight). If an alien captures one of your men, shoot the craft and catch the man in mid air for a bonus. If an alien succeeds in carrying a human to the top of the screen, it turns into a mutant purple monster that will hunt you down. MacCheckers DRAUGHTS Requires: Any Mac A while back we gave you a chess game from GNU, and for those of you who are tired of being thrashed, we now bring you an excellent draughts game. Not only is it freeware, but it will run on a black and white screen, and only needs a tiny amount of RAM, so it is suitable for any Mac from a Plus. It comes with a variety of saved games for you to enjoy, and there are a number of difficulty settings, so it should cater for everyone from be- ginners to experts. If the cover-mounted high density disk or CD-ROM you have is defec- tive, return it to us and we will re- place it. Please make sure you have followed the installation procedures described in these pages correctly, to ensure that there is a physical problem with the disk itself. Other- wise, the replacement will be just the same! I'm sorry, Dave, but your spaceship in Delirium seems remarkably similar to the pods in 2001. Photoshop Plug-ins Requires: Photoshop Alan Smith from Norwich has sent in a range of Photoshop Plug-ins that perform very specific tasks. These include a range of filters that can alter the individual bit planes of an image. Full details and expla- nations are included in the Read Me file, but to install, just pop the particular Plug- ins you want into your Plug-ins folder. Announce NETWORKING Requires: AppleTalk network If you use a network then you'll probably be interested in this. Once you’ve in- stalled the Extension on all the Macs you want to communicate with, you can send messages across your network by simply opening the application and typing a mes- sage in. It’s not as sophisticated as a com- mercial program, but it’s more than adequate for many people’s needs. There are plenty of options, including the ability to send the same message to many people on the network, adding audio to messages, and playing alert sounds on the target machines. If you don’t have a network but are interested in setting one up, then see our basics guide that starts on page 57. It may well be much easier than you think. Return CD-ROMs to: MACFORMAT CD returns Future Publishing FREEPOST (BS4900) Somerton Somerset TA11 6BR Enclose a self-addressed padded envelope (but we'll pay return postage) with the disk or CD, anda MACFORMAT COVER DISKS YZ Y i = o 6 ee “ @ With our Plug-ins you can invert individual colours of an image, or, as in this case, invert the whole thing. Also featuring VARIOUS Requires: see individual Read Me files CatFinder 1,51 is a replacement for an ear- lier version that was on MACFORMAT 22's disk, which contained a fault. Get Info is a simple utility that opens the information window for a file, application, whatever. But this has the added advantage of telling you about the original if you drop its alias on Get Info’s icon. Whenever you open or close a win- dow, you get a zoom effect, which is pret- ty but wastes time. Kill FinderZooms will hack your Finder file to stop this effect. PaperClip is a last ditch utility that tries to eject a floppy disk stuck in the drive, be- fore you resort to a real paperclip. NoDesktopCleanup adds _ confirmation boxes to many commands such as Shut- down, so you don’t select them acciden- tally. Ideal for the terminally nervous. Finally, Movie2Snd enables you to extract the sound from a QuickTime movie and save it as a stand alone file. For one possi- ble use see the ‘Saving CD Music On Your Mac’ boxout on page 85. = Announcer ] Accept Messages &] Accept Messages with Audio C Log Messages to File (clear) One of the best features of MacCheckers is the ability to set up the board any way you like. Here | have given myself a slight advantage. YOUR MOVE To complement MacCheckers, we included GNU Chess on the floppy disk of Macrormat 11. READ ME Always read the Read Me files, especially if they are labelled ‘important’. Some people didn’t with MacPrefect and got into trouble! J Allow Set Clock a fanovevtment | . {2 Allow Restart [7 dials oni 5s FE] Stir more rs (J Allow Shut Down Beoutord louse mortars Message Queue Size| 3 Message To Users: MF Mac Iieci Remove Msg After| Never Audio Message Volume Limit} ? MF Derek Smith Announcer 1.2.3 ©1992-95 T&T Softwar] Message From: IMF Derek Smith] Announce is an incredibly easy to use utility which enables you to send ‘ency @ pint afetr work Bob? 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Stephen Kahng is the head of Power Computing, the American company that promises to be the first on the market with Mac-compatible computers. Backed by Olivetti, the company is new to the computer industry but is confident it can succeed. MF STAYS ON TOP Macrormat is still the UK's best-selling Mac magazine by a long way, according to the latest sales figures confirmed by the indepen- ~ dent Audit Bureau of Circulations. Our average circulation between July and December last year was 40,146 — an increase of a mammoth 53% over the same period in 1993. Launched in March 1993, Macrormat set out to cater not just for the traditional high-end, professional Mac user but for everyone who uses a Mac — an ever in- creasing number, as Macs Continue to become more affordable. Our policy will continue to be to help you get more out of your Mac, whatever you use it for. Thanks for all your Support — and we always welcome your suggestions as to how to make the best even better. Our address is on page 6. he first Mac clones — personal computers that aren’t made by Apple but still use the Mac operating system — are due to go on sale in the United States on Monday 17 April. Made by Power Computing, there are two machines in the range. Both have PowerPC 601 chips, with one machine running at 80MHz and the other at 1OOMHz. The Apple equivalents to these clones are the PowerMac 7100/80 and 8100/100. Each system will also include a quad- speed CD-ROM drive, 2Mb of video RAM (enough to show millions of colours on a 15-inch monitor, for example), a 256K ‘Level 2’ cache for increased speed and bundled CD-ROM software. Apple has been working closely with the company to ensure that the computers run Mac software perfectly, and independent tests of prototype machines suggest that the two have succeeded. The machines are still without a name, but we'll know what the first Mac- compatible computers will be called by launch day. Details of pricing and the software to be included will also be an- nounced then, as well as vital details like technical support. The machines won't be too easily available at first, but manufacturing will soon increase to the point where there’ll be a steady supply. They won’t be on sale in Britain for the time being, but British distributors are being arranged. Look out for details in MaAcFoRMAT soon, but for more details on the ma- chines themselves, contact Power Com- puting in the US on 00 1 512 250 2015. MAc TV A combination of a Mac and a TV could be the result of early discussions between Apple and several Japanese electronics companies. Any new machine could use ideas from the Performa 630 TV Tuner card and Apple set-top units being used in trials for interactive cable TV. Apple leads multimedia boom Apple is selling more multimedia computers than any other firm, with almost one in four machines sold being a Mac. An independent survey by respected research firm Dataquest, which defines a multimedia computer as one with a CD-ROM drive and good sound abilities, says that the company sold 2.4 mil- lion such machines around the world in 1994. Apple enjoyed a 22.9% share of the total of 10.3 million computers. In second place was PC maker Packard Bell with 19.2%. Supporting this finding is a report by SIMBA Information, which says that one in three of all multimedia computers is now an Apple Mac. With the Mac being so popular in a field that grew by 312% in a single year, according to Dataquest, this can only mean more CD-ROM titles for you to choose from. More evidence of the multimedia boom comes with the report from research firm Inteco that the average price the British, French and Germans pay for a new computer has risen for the first time in three years. This is not because of price increases, but because more people are choosing costlier systems with multi- media capabilities, including a CD-ROM drive. Inteco found we pay an average of £1,540 for a new computer, compared to the £1,250 we'd have shelled out 18 months ago. And in Britain, Apple’s own figures show that 66% of the Macs sold in 1994 had CD-ROM drives, compared to 6% in 1993. The 630 Macs are part of the new wave of machines that have led to Apple's outstanding success in multimedia MACFORMAT ¢ ISSUE 24+ MAY 1995 2 1 This is an early prototype of Apple's new Pippin console. Can it take Mac multimedia to new heights? APPLE LOSES WAR Apple has finally lost the court case it brought against Microsoft and Hewlett Packard in 1988. Apple had alleged that operating systems released by the firms were so close in style and appearance to the Mac OS that its copyright was being infringed. But the Supreme Court, the highest court authority in the United States, has rejected Apple's final appeal. ippin, Apple’s new multi- media console design and the latest addition to the Mac fami- ly, was shown in Britain for the first time last month. The machine was demonstrated at this year’s Elec- tronic Books conference - and Mac- FORMAT took it home for a closer look. The new machine (previously reported on in Macrormat 20 and 22) is based on the latest PowerPC 603 chip, which is Pippin unveiled cheaper to make than the 601s used in PowerMacs, and uses a quad-speed CD- ROM drive — double the speed of a typi- cal drive. It will first appear under the name of Power Player, and will be sold by Japanese games company Bandai. As well as the strong games connection, multi- media is clearly going to play a key part in the future of Pippin. An early launch is a possibility, according to Apple’s New Me- dia Marketing Manager Kanwal Sharma. ‘Obviously I can’t speak on Bandai’s behalf, but we’re hoping to see the first machines shipping some time this summer. It’s going to be launched in Japan and in the US, fol- lowed by Europe.’ Sharma was not able to say how soon a British and European launch might follow the Power Player’s appearance elsewhere. Sharma says the Power Player is de- signed to capitalise on the rising interest in multimedia in the home: ‘We wanted LIVE PICTURE PRICE PLUMMETS The image manipulation program Live Picture, which had drawn as much attention for its £4,112 price tag as its powerful features, is falling in price to £934. The dramatic move comes as publisher Live Picture Inc acknowledges the importance of reaching the broadest audience pos- sible. The price fall echoes the trend to produce a unit that could take com- puting into the home on a television set.’ Viewing the current shape of the leisure computer market, divided be- tween low-cost but basic Sega and Nin- tendo games consoles and full-blown multimedia machines costing over £1,000, Sharma adds, ‘There are a lot of people who don’t want to buy a multi- media PC, but would like some sort of multimedia experience. There are also people who don’t want their kids to grow up with games machines but are not sure what sort of computer to buy for them.’ Pippin in action We looked at a prototype of Pippin from Apple designed to show what the ma- chine can do; the Power Player itself is likely to look different. We tried two pro- grams: The View From Earth and GF4: Sooner Or Later. When you put a disc into the CD-ROM drive, you get a variation on the familiar ‘Welcome to Macintosh’ screen as the player loads the Mac operating system (Mac OS) into its memory off the disc. The CD-ROM can include any Control Panels or Extensions — like QuickTime toward far cheaper prices elsewhere in the software industry. Version 2.0 of the software is due to go on sale in April. The new version builds on the program’s use of FITS programming code, which enables you to change images that take up huge amounts of hard disk space in a fraction of the usual time. Despite the increased power of Live Picture, the minimum memory re- quirement has dropped to 24Mb. There are new tools like sophisticated perspective features and image sub- stitution, so you can create a com- plex montage and simply drop in a new image in place of an old one as part of the whole. Photoshop users will be able to import Live Picture files with the help of a Plug-in that comes with the program. A set of special discount offers is available to customers who bought Live Picture at its original price — to cushion the blow! For more details contact Principal Distribution on 0181 813 5445. Now you'll be able to taste the incredible power of graphics program Live Picture at an amazing quarter of its original price. System 7.5 gets Apple will soon release a free set of floppy disks that will correct bugs in the latest version of the Mac operating system, Sys- tem 7.5. The new Mac OS logo also makes its official debut, replacing the ‘Welcome To Macintosh’ screen that you see when you switch on your Mac. The upgrade is one of several that you can expect to appear in the countdown to System 8 (codenamed Copland), which is due in 1996 and should see major changes to the Mac. You'll be able to get System 7.5 Update 1.0 from on-line bulletin boards or by MacOS Starting we SIPVBSouSomaaZ If you use System 7.5, the free update will mean you'll be greeted by the friendly face of the Mac OS when you switch on, instead of ‘Welcome to Macintosh’. 22 MACFORMAT « ISSUE 24* May 1995 video — that the program will need to run. Once the OS has loaded, it’s straight into the title screen of the program. On Sooner Or Later, Pippin plays a full- screen QuickTime pop video with no problems. Both discs also work perfectly on a PowerMac. You place the disc in the drive, double-click on its icon as usual and select the program icon to run it. Each of these discs also included standard Mac versions of its program — but the in- clusion of a non-PowerMac version will be up to each publisher to decide upon. Sharma says, ‘What the publisher has to do is license the Mac OS from us. With a little editing, he can put the OS onto his CD-ROM and publish a title that will play on Pippin and also on the Mac.’ MacrorMaT used a sleek, black Mac mouse to operate the programs, but a controller that doesn’t rely on the pres- ence of a flat surface to work is likely to be included with the Power Player. On this early evidence, Pippin appears to be a well-realised concept that can only add to the Mac multimedia scene. And it’s clear that these early discs are barely beginning to exploit the potential of the 603 chip and fast drive, so there’s better to come from Pippin. The quad-speed CD-ROM drive is too fast for The View From Earth - narration was cut off in mid-flow as the next scene loaded in no time at all. (Phe) Familiar multimedia conventions like interactive text and images will be at your command with the Power Player. Sooner Or Later is a promotional CD-ROM for Australian girl group GF4 and features full-screen QuickTime video. free update phoning Apple. The update only works on System 7.5, changing it to System 7.5.1. The improved version should be bundled with new Macs shortly. Bugs that have irritated you in the past are corrected. Problems like the way you can’t eject a CD-ROM if File Sharing is switched on are gone. There’s a new utility called Speech Manager, which enables your Mac to read text files out loud. PowerMac users will find more parts of System 7.5, including Apple Guide and the Modern Memory Manager, will now run ‘native’ (that is, specially opti- mised for the PowerMac) rather than under Mac emulation. Also included is MathLib, a PowerMac-only Extension that speeds up floating point mathe- matical calculations. If you have Internet access, the up- date is available on the World Wide Web. One address is ftp://ftp.sup- port.apple.com/pub/apple_sw_up- dates. Apple’s Internet servers have been overloaded frequently with the heavy demand for the update, so be prepared for a long wait. If this server is too busy, alternatives will be suggested. For more details contact Apple on 0800 127753. CD-ROM is becoming popular enough to threaten the printed book, according to the top people in the book industry. Delegates at the recent Electronic Books conference in London were told that some areas of publishing — particularly reference — are changing dramatically as the new medium takes hold. Figures from Apple add to evidence that CD-ROM is becoming dominant on the Mac. In 1993, only 6% of people buying a Mac in Britain bought a CD- ROM drive at the same time — but in 1994, that figure increased to 66%. The surge in popularity of CD-ROM is already transforming non-fiction books, as discs can carry more information at a lower cost. Penguin’s Peter Mayer claimed that Microsoft’s Encarta has al- ready become the most widely-used en- cyclopedia after just a few years of publi- cation on disc. Bob Stein of CD-ROM company Voyager predicted: ‘Books will stop being the place where the most seri- ous ideas are communicated.’ Book publishers and sellers alike can profit from these changes, delegates heard. Stein predicted that booksellers rather than computer dealers would dominate the CD-ROM market. Donald Norman's Defending Human Attributes is an example of how CD-ROM is revolutionising non- fiction publishing. Prehistoric firt Ancient and Cessicel Art Renaissence Rrt Reatism and Beyond © Pause at end of chapt New Mac encyclopedias like Grolier 1995 are proving more popular than traditional reference volumes. Watch for a roundup of CD encyclopedias in Macrormat soon. DAYSTAR CLONE The next computer to use the Mac OS will be the Genesis MP from American firm DayStar Digital. It’s aimed at media publishers — whether print or electronic — and is said to be an extremely powerful workstation costing thousands of dollars. DayStar joins Power, Radius, Pioneer and Bandai in licensing the Mac OS from Apple. KEYBOARDS SAFE A Minnesota court has found in Apple's favour in a court case investigating whether its keyboards caused Repetitive Strain Injuries (RSI). Nancy Urbanski had claimed that keyboards from both Apple and IBM that she used had caused RSI, but the jury found against her. 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WHAT’S NEW PRODUCT PREVIEWS Another bumper selection of previews includes a trend-setting art magazine, salvation for anyone who's baffled by Phoneday and a revolutionary mouse replacement. Compiled by Richard Hill. Command Z he magazine Command Z H is the brainchild of de- signer lan Swift — better known to design aficionados and you, if you read his inter- view in MACFORMAT 21, as Swifty. It’s a magazine and disk package with a difference. This magazine deals with ty- pography and graphics at the hip- per end of the spectrum — the arena of record sleeves and stylish magazine layout — that many (let’s face it, all) de- sign students aspire to. Its scrapbook style makes the best of limited resources, com- bining colour, print and different types of paper to create a mag that’s a tactile expe- rience as well as a visual one. With Command Z comes Swifty’s Funky The pages of Command Z contain a treasure trove of ideas for using type creatively, including how to use the fonts you get on the disk. Fonts, a floppy disk containing two fonts in different weights. They come in Post- Script (a high-quality professional graph- ics format) and TrueType formats. The magazine also offers plenty of helpful ideas as to how the fonts can be used. 1990s modernity and the tradition of print meet head-on with the magazine’s jazz-influenced graphics. Command Z should go down well with anyone who eats, drinks and sleeps design — although its appeal might seem baffling to others. @ Price: £36.95 for single issue (£25.50 for students) Out: now. @ Disk requires: any Mac with Post- Script-compatible printer and soft- ware. @ For more details contact Swifty Typografix on 0171 613 2061. 26 MACFORMAT ¢ ISSUE 24* MAY 1995 WHAT’S NEW Box 6F DELIGHTS Help for printers Some desktop publishing programs, including QuarkXPress, only print documents on printers that recognise PostScript, a system designed to give top-quality results. For £151.58, StyleScript enables PostScript-only programs to work with the Apple StyleWriter printer family, giving you better results on paper. StyleScript also works with colour models like the Colour StyleWriter Pro and the new 2400. For more details contact Academy Software on 0181 656 9560. Charge up your RAM If you're using an older Mac like a Classic or LC, lack of memory can be a recurrent problem — especially if you're using the RAM-hungry Sys- tem 7. And working with large documents can be a hassle on many Macs regardless of age. OptiMem RAM Charger claims to change the way your Mac uses its memory so it's more efficient. It uses a different principle from virtual memory, which uses hard disk space as extra memory. This means RAM Charger can be used in conjunction with the popular RAM Doubler virtual memory program. The program costs $129 - for more details call Jump Development Group on 00 1 412 681 2692. Sniff out SCSI problems More Macs than ever are connected to net- works, so a set-up system is important. The SCS! Sniffer aims to ease problems you might get with large networks. If there isn’t enough power in the system it won't run properly, but you can't easily tell where in the network the problem lies. The SCSI Sniffer is a SCS! connec- tor that lets you know instantly if there’s enough power for it to run safely. There are Sniffers to place in the middle of a network chain or at its end, priced at £56.40 and £50.53 respectively. For details call Lan>U<Like on 01425 657905. The SCSI Sniffer makes setting up a large network easy. See page 57 for more on this growing area of the Mac scene. TextBridge turns Pro Two new versions of Xerox’s TextBridge pro- gram, which enables you to use a scanner to convert printed text into a Mac document, are available this month. The £116.33 TextBridge 3.0 uses a process called DocuRT to retain the original layout of a document. If you were to scan in this page of Macrormat, DocuRT could distinguish between its different columns of text and know which parts of the page were photos. If you spend a lot of time scanning, you can use the new £410 TextBridge Professional Edition to scan in all your documents and leave their conversion to Mac files until later. This program also automatically adjusts for faxed documents that aren't printed straight (as if that ever happens). For more details contact Xerox on 01734 668421. ot everyone can hope to match the Macrormat oOffice’s boundless creativity or robotic, almost ruth- less efficiency — but help is at hand. In- spiration is an idea processor designed to help you get your head in gear and or- ganise your thoughts. Provided in the pro- gram are all the tools you need to create graphic outlines similar to flowcharts. With these, you can map out a complicat- ed project or pepper your screen with ideas before assembling them into a struc- ture that makes sense. Alternatively, you can type out a basic point-by-point list and convert it into graphical form. ‘Fee (ort View Format Link Tifect Utility Winéeur Stes ee, eee! So eee Goal Setting Worksheet ‘Tecay's Date: There are pre-designed templates covering a dozen topics, so you can get right down to brainstorming. PRODUCT PREVIEWS Inspiration 4.1 At first, creating an outline isn’t as intuitive as it might have been - it’s not immediately ob- vious how to use the fa- cilities at hand, even Hew subtopics > ew Notes Text > Show Levels - though they perform quite simple tasks, and the functions Te = Ce L aren't ! arranged on the menus in a logical fashion. But with the help of a useful guide, you'll figure it out in no time, and making designs will become easier. You'll find putting your ideas down becomes instinctive, allowing you to concentrate on thinking. § Price: £149. Out: now. @ Requires: Mac Plus or better, Sys- tem 6.0.4 or later, 1Mb of free RAM. ®@ For more details contact Roderick Manhattan on 0181 875 4400. Art Backgrou illustration images have become well-established in the design community. Themed sets of pictures are an obvious aid to finding the image you want — but a CD-ROM of backgrounds?! The first in a projected series, Art Back- grounds Collection A gives you a set of tex- tures for you to use in your favourite graphics program. There are 60 textures in the popular Photo CD format, each of which is sup- plied in five degrees of detail, from 128 x 192 pixels to 2,048 x 3,072 pixels. There are many uses — from superimposing an ob- ject in front of the C D-ROM collections of photo and Different moods in your design work can be achieved with the help of these background textures... texture to using them to create effects when rendering in 3D. The cover leaflet of the CD presents the full set of mood-enhancing textures for you to browse in hard copy, while a slideshow presentation is also available. @ Price: £47. Out: now. ® Requires: any colour Mac (one capable of showing thousands of . colours is recommended). ® For more details contact Field Of Vision on 0171 263 5054. If you're the type who can't plan out anything, /nspiration could be about to strike with this idea processor. ...Or you can blend them into your illustration work — here the background texture has also been applied to the vase. MACFORMAT *