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- At Seybold Seminars '92, Aldus Corporation announced that in a show of
- growing support for the new Aldus Additions technology, nine third-party
- developers have recently announced or shipped Additions for Aldus
- PageMaker 4.2 for the Macintosh. Aldus Additions enable users and
- third-party developers to tailor PageMaker 4.2 to meet specific publishing
- needs.
-
- "The response to our Additions technology has been tremendous." said David
- Cloutier, third-party marketing manager. There are over 50 third-party
- developers who have Additions under way, and we've sent over 250 Additions
- Developer Toolkits to others who have expressed interest in working with
- the technology. This is a great testimony to the popularity of
- Additions."
-
- These companies have announced or shipped Additions:
-
- ∙ Articulate Systems Inc.--"Voice Navigator II," an Addition that allows
- PageMaker customers to use spoken commands to execute any function
- normally performed with a keyboard or mouse. Contact: Patrick Sweeney,
- (617) 935-5656.
-
- ∙ Compumation Inc.--"BureauExpress PM," which enables users to compress
- PageMaker publications and automatically send them to local service
- bureaus that support BureauMaster, all without quitting PageMaker.
- Contact: Jim Betlyon, (814) 238-2120.
-
- ∙ EDCO Services Inc.--"PMproKit," a collection of Additions for creative
- professionals; the kit includes Kerning, Type Distortion, Pica Gauge,
- Rotation and Merge, and Set Up Columns. Contact: (800) 523-TYPE.
-
- ∙ Equilibnum--"Rotate This!," an Addition that rotates placed bitmap
- graphics to any degree; and "Import That!," which enables users to import
- graphics in a wide variety of non-Macintosh file formats that PageMaker
- doesn't normally accept. Contact: (800) 524-8651, Department EPl.
-
- ∙ Fast Electronic "Screen Machine," which allows PageMaker users to
- incorporate still-video images using QuickTime. Contact: Tom Bowen at
- Commercial Electronics, (604) 669-5525.
-
- ∙ Publishing Revenue Partner "Tableau," an Addition to manage and format
- classified ads within PageMaker. Contact: Reginald Braithwaite-Lee, (416)
- 538-8730.
-
- ∙ Scitex America Corporation--"Scitex Visionary/A," a set of Additions for
- creating color blends with up to 12 different colors, in linear or radial
- orientation, from within PageMaker, it also provides enhanced grid
- functions for precise positioning of graphic elements. Contact: Paul
- Thiel, (617) 275-5150.
-
- ∙ TRUMATCH--"TRUMATCH 4-Color Selector," an Addition that enables users to
- choose digitally accurate, on-press colors by TRUMATCH number within
- PageMaker. Contact: Jane Nichols, (212) 351-2360.
-
- ∙ Zephyr Design--"Zephyr Palettes for PageMaker," which features seven
- customizable floating palettes, including fonts, font size, and tracking
- palettes. Contact: Beverly or Boyd Multerer, (206) 324-0292.
-
- These Additions are loadable modules and will be added to PageMaker's menu
- choices once they're copied to the proper folder on a Macintosh. Some may
- require additional hardware and software.
-
- There are three kinds of Additions: user-written scripts, which use
- text-based commands to automate routine tasks normally carried out with
- the keyboard and mouse; loadable modules, which combine commands and
- queries written in the C programming language; and standalone
- applications, which can be used to make other programs such as Microsoft
- Excel or Claris HyperCard interact with PageMaker using Dynamic Data
- Exchange or interapplication communication.
-
- PageMaker 4.2 itself is shipped with six loadable Additions: "Balance
- columns" to evenly distribute text among columns; "Drop cap" to embed a
- large character at the beginning of a paragraph; "Make booklet" for
- preparing simple "two-up" signatures for proper pagination after printing
- and folding; "Display pub info" to review the linked files, fonts, and
- styles used in a publication; "Run script" for executing Addition scripts
- users write; and "Sort pages" so users can display thumbnail images of the
- pages in a publication and reorder them by dragging their images.
-
- Aldus Corp, 411 First Ave South, Seattle, WA 98104-2871
- 206-622-5500
-
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