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- COMPANY OVERVIEW:
-
- Founded in November of 1983,
- Metagraphics has grown to become a
- leading supplier of graphic software
- development tools for the PC
- marketplace. The company's current
- products have been widely acclaimed in
- a broad range of professional and
- technical publications, and its
- MetaWINDOW graphics system has been
- featured with PC TECH Journal's Product
- of the Month award.
-
- MetaWINDOW:
-
- MetaWINDOW PC Tech Journal "Product of
- the Month"
-
- MetaWINDOW is an advanced, high
- performance graphics development
- toolkit which bridges the gap between
- low-level graphic primitive libraries
- and pre-packaged window managers. The
- MetaWINDOW system provides an expanded
- set of graphic display functions, plus
- the added functionality and performance
- required for implementing multi-window
- desktop display applications. Through
- its rich function set, MetaWINDOW
- greatly speeds application development
- while at the same time providing device
- independence over a wide range of
- graphic peripherals. MetaWINDOW's full
- typeset style graphics interface and
- multi-window management functions are
- now being used in a wide range of
- performance demanding applications
- including:
-
- Desktop Publishing
-
- Page Layout
-
- Computer aided design/drafting
-
- Expert banking and insurance systems
-
- Computer aided electrical engineering
-
- Medical instrumentation
-
- Electronic imaging
-
- Front-end photo typesetting systems
-
- This package includes the MetaWINDOW DOS
- resident graphics driver plus interface
- libraries which link to the application.
- The MetaWINDOW DOS resident driver may
- be distributed on a royalty free basis
- with developed applications.
-
- MetaWINDOW/PLUS:
-
- MetaWINDOW/PLUS contains all of the
- functionality of the MetaWINDOW
- package. Designed for use by OEM
- application developers, MetaWINDOW/PLUS
- allows additional memory and performance
- optimizations, plus the capability to
- tailor MetaWINDOW for access through
- overlays. MetaWINDOW/PLUS also supports
- additional graphics adapters and higher
- resolution modes. Distribution of
- applications developed using
- MetaWINDOW/PLUS are covered by separate
- license agreements which include
- consulting, maintenance and support.
-
- TurboWINDOW/C, TurboWINDOW/Pascal, QuickWINDOW/C
-
- Turbo/WINDOW/C, TurboWINDOW/Pascal, and
- QuickWINDOW/C are functionally
- equivalent to the standard MetaWINDOW
- package. Each contains only the one
- language binding of these most popular
- languages.
-
- FontWINDOW
-
- FontWINDOW is a MetaWINDOW compatible
- font/icon editor plus an expanded set of
- bitmap font styles. Using the font
- editor, developers can interactively
- modify existing fonts, create custom
- styles, scale bitmap fonts or convert
- and modify fonts from other sources for
- use with MetaWINDOW. More than 100 public
- domain fonts will be provided with the
- product. FontWINDOW will become
- available first quarter 1989.