Tumbleweed Publishing Essentials
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Tumbleweed Software's $695 Publishing Essentials enhances Novell's portable-document program. Tumbleweed's aim is to transform Envoy into a viable competitor against Adobe Systems' Acrobat. This is accomplished by adding a capability to convert PostScript files and including hypertext and electronic publishing features. In fact, Publishing Essentials is impressive because of its feature-richness but suffers because of problems involving faithful reproduction of original documents. Like Acrobat, Tumbleweed Publishing Essentials comes as a suite of programs. One is Envoy, which can be used to print documents. Another is Tumbleweed Publisher, which converts PostScript files into Envoy format. The third program is Envoy Viewer, which is meant to be freely distributed, like Acrobat's Reader. Envoy Viewer can also be used as a plug-in with Netscape's Navigator and Spyglass' Mosaic browsers.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1996
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PagePlus 2.0
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Serif Software Ltd's $59.99 PagePlus for Windows 2.0 desktop publishing software offers high quality page-layout design with surprising features at a low price, but lacks simple capabilities desktop publishers take for granted on most programs. PagePlus allows the user to link and frame text, customize colors and shade graphics or text. The program has good object orientation, easily accessed tool menus and object linking and embedding capabilities. Users may wrap around, rotate, stretch, crop or colorize any graphic or piece of text, and these pieces may be exported to other programs or similar cells may be imported for modification and use. However, the program is not able to number pages, insert hyphens automatically, display facing pages, create mirror-image pages, handle lead control with fixed point value or allow the user to drag images past boundaries of the working screen.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1993
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Pianzhang 2.0
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Miles 33's $895 Pianzhang 2.0 is a sophisticated batch-pagination utility that lets DTP users working on long documents define how pages should look and lay them out automatically with a single click. The new version offers such enhancements as support for multi-column pages, column balancing, one-of-a-kind pages, straddle heads and extended footnotes. Pianzhang works as an add-in to QuarkXPress and takes control of the parent program to convert it into a pagination engine. It consists of two programs: a standalone rules generator and job manager that determines such parameters as justification, and a QuarkXTension with which the user defines the document's structure. Pianzhang is very flexible, letting users specify different vertical justifications for different text styles and extract footnotes from text to place correctly. The program has very good copy-fitting features.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1997
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