Three-platform blend

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Primary Color, which operates a prepress facility in Irvine, CA, and a combined prepress/printing facility in nearby Culver City, chose a Sun Enterprise 3000 Unix server to provide fast network connections to 30 Macintosh workstations and two Windows NT servers used to perform raster image processing (RIP). The company wanted to eliminate the constant physical transfer of files between Iomega Jaz drives and tested both Mac and PC servers, but neither could provide the speed and hardware redundancy it needed. Research and development manager Jay Sato and Unix systems programmer Mark Sobelski are both satisfied that the machine they installed is the right choice, noting that Unix is designed from the ground up as a networked, multiuser server while Windows NT and the Mac OS both evolved from single-user products. Unix offers reliability, scalability and speed, but these factors were less important than ease of use in the RIP servers, where the managers selected generic dual-Pentium server clones running NT.

Software Publishers, Distributed DP Software Pkgs, Case studies, Computer software industry, Software industry, Product information, Microsoft Corp., Telecommunications systems, Desktop publishing, Technology application, MSFT, Printing industry, Product application, Network/file server technology, NFS, Network software, UNIX, Network operating systems, System selection, Desktop publishing technology, Network operating system, Microsoft Windows NT Server (Network operating system), Primary Color

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New QuarkXPress combines power, simplicity

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Quark Inc introduces version 3.0 of its QuarkXPress desktop publishing software package that uses a new interface based on the popular pasteboard layout metaphor. The $795 program provides editing and typographic functions not found in the recent version 4.0 of Aldus's PageMaker package, including the ability to rotate text and graphics in 0.001 increments and to edit elements after they are in their rotated position. Revisions are made easier in the new version, and multiple default-page formats can be rearranged at any time. Magnified or reduced views can be specified from 25 to 400 percent by entering the value at the corner of the document window; the new Measurements Palette feature displays the document formatting specifications in a window. No full-fledged word processing window is yet supported, but such word processing features as widow and orphan control are provided.

Product introduction, Desktop publishing software, product announcement, Software Packages, Enhancements, DTP Software, Quark Inc., QuarkXPress 3.0 (Desktop publishing software)

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