A program that transcends incompatibility; Adobe Acrobat transmits formatted documents
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Adobe Systems Inc's Acrobat software is a well designed system for the exchange of formatted documents across microcomputer platforms. The system consists of the $195 Acrobat Exchange; Acrobat Reader, priced at $2,500 for up to 50 users on a network; $695 Personal Distiller; and the $2,495 Network Distiller. Acrobat allows any microcomputer user to view any file in its Portable Document Format (PDF) on their machine without the need to possess the generating software or appropriate fonts. Acrobat is available for Apple Macintosh microcomputers and those that run the Microsoft Windows operating environment. Versions for the MS-DOS and UNIX operating systems are planned in late 1993. Although Acrobat remains limited to the Adobe PostScript page description language, sometimes has trouble recreating fonts, and lacks optical character recognition capabilities and sufficient security features, it remains a substantial improvement on previous means of exchanging documents.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1993
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Bringing Microsoft's 'Windows' to critical mass; Microsoft provides a demonstration of how word processing is likely to evolve
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Word for Windows from Microsoft Corp may be the breakthrough application that will lead microcomputer users to accept the Windows operating environment. Windows works with DOS and replaces character-based commands with graphical commands. Windows has been on the market since 1985, but is only beginning to reach acceptance by microcomputer users. The introduction of Windows 3.0 in spring 1990 will further enhance the acceptance process, by making better use of memory than previous versions. Windows will be included with a greater variety of computers, and a plethora of applications will likely follow. Word for Windows is a package that includes WYSIWYG word processing, desktop publishing features, an easy graphical command structure and powerful tools for customization. A typical Word for Windows user will have an 80286- or 80386-based microcomputer with at least 640Kbytes of RAM and a hard disk.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1990
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Answering questions about fonts
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Adobe Type Manager (A.T.M.), a utility that lets the user see on screen how type will look when printed on a high-resolution printer, is useful for desktop publishers who rely on the Macintosh microcomputer. A.T.M., $99, helps the microcomputer calculate how to display an enlargement of a small character. With outline fonts, the user can ask for characters in any size; without them, the user is restricted to whatever point sizes are available, which are typically the standard even sizes beginning with 10 point type. Adobe Systems Inc, A.T.M.'s manufacturer, is locked in a fierce battle with Apple and Microsoft Corp over standard formatting for computer fonts, is also planning to introduce an ATM product for IBM PCs and compatibles.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1989
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