Herculean hues: with the Hercules Art Dept., you'll get high-quality PC color
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Hercules Computer Technology Inc claims that its $3,995 Hercules Art Dept is described as the first software-hardware system from one manufacturer that transforms a microcomputer into a full-fledged art department. The software combines affordable, photo-realistic, 24-bit color with the paint tools from a high-end graphics program. The system includes Lumena, the high-end versatile paint program from Time Arts, and the Hercules Graphics Station Card, a powerful new graphics board also from Hercules, for 80286 and 80386 microcomputers. In order to take full advantage of the Lumena-Graphics Station combination, users need two monitors, 2Mbytes of expanded memory and a digitizer tablet and stylus. These bring the cost up to about $10,000, including the microcomputer, which is still a bargain considering the color quality usually found on costly, high-end TARGA-based Lumena systems.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1990
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PowerPoint 3.0 for Windows 3.1
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Microsoft Corp's $495 PowerPoint 3.0 for Windows 3.1 is an exceptional and easy-to-use presentation program offering an array of features that match, and sometimes beat, such packages as Aldus Persuasion and Lotus' Freelance. PowerPoint 3.0 successfully fixes many of the problems found in its earlier version. It now offers a fully integrated outliner, a new Toolbar and an easy way to change views. One particularly impressive tool is the Eyedropper, which lets users copy an attribute of one slide object and apply it to another. Other new features include excellent slide-show effects, stronger graphing and 22 TrueType fonts. PowerPoint's drawbacks are its lack of multiple master slides and statistical-chart features.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1992
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Elite Presentations
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Software Publishing Corp's indispensable business graphics presentation package, Harvard Graphics 2.1 ($495) lets users make analytical graphics for reports, slide shows, and desktop publishing applications. A comprehensive set of data manipulation capabilities and customization of predesigned charts allow vast user flexibility. The menu-driven program is easy to use and organized so well that the manual hardly need be checked. Both keyboard and mouse commands are supported. Despite Harvard's more limited drawing tools, this is one of the best overall business graphics programs and a value at the price. A LAN version is available for $1,795.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1988
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