ProType is a professional publishing application designed to provide users with a complete set of tools to produce quality typography on PostScript printers and Imagesetters. It will also produce an HTML document for the internet. ProType is the ideal publishing solution for magazines, catalogs, scientific and mathematic publishers, advertising typographers and book publishers. Sophisticated features include 6,084 kern pairs per font, four levels of whitespace tracking, spaceband control, real time H & J, aesthetic ragged control, formatting capabilities, and complete integration of graphics.
ProType's tabular capabilities allow complex forms, tables, columns and financial reports to be set, edited and justified with ease. Any element can be arbitrarily rotated and still be completely editable. Characters can be automatically and manually kerned for optimum professional appearance, patterns and tints defined, and type can be shaped around irregularly contoured images. You can also work in many foreign languages, including Hebrew which displays from right to left!
Original or electronic artwork, line art, contone and halftone images can be integrated from PC, CAD/CAM, mainframe, Macintosh, scanners, and other PostScript programs, directly into a ProType page. ProType accepts TIFF, GIF, Encapsulated PostScript, and other image file formats. Images can be arbitrarily sized, shaped, cropped, rotated, and adjusted for aspect ratio.
ProType is easily user customized to perform repetitive functions. An exclusive format-on-the-fly feature allows format creation automatically. ProType is provided with a toolbox which includes programs for data translation and adding fonts. Because ProType is UNIX based, it is able to take advantage of a multitasking environment which allows complete access to the screen while background processes are running. Also a Word Perfect to ProType translator is available.
ProType provides a complete set of time-saving layout tools. The layout tools allow for the creation of any number of columns with a single drag of the mouse. The columns are based on one of the ten user-definable quick-pick grids. The columns may be squared-off, aligned, stretched, boxed, resized or their number changed at anytime!
Four-up signature impositions can be output directly to film and plates, complete with all elements in place. Pages may also be output to color systems for full process color requirements.
Program control allows the user to choose between keyboard and menu commands for fast, professional results. The keyboard is completely customizable allowing for optimum efficiency.
Special features include code free WYSIWYG editing of text, tables and equations, seamless access of pi characters, and the use of programmable keys. Additional items include batch pagination, foreign language prompts and foreign language hyphenators. Custom networking and integration, as well as native language high speed imagesetter drivers are available from Paragon.
Paragon Publishing Systems is dedicated to providing customers with the highest level of typographic quality and workgroup productivity solutions available today. ProType is available on open system workstations using Solaris (Sparc and x86), SunOS, AIX (IBM), Interactive (PC), and A/UX (Apple). From design to press Paragon offers an unmatched network publishing solution on UNIX - the multitasking, multiuser operating system of the future.