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<F129P16M>p<F255P255D>  <F126B><N><F255D>Steve, here's a check for $10.00, please
send me the next 12 issues of WYSIWYG! magazine.



<F129P16M>p<F255P255D>   Here's another $45.00, please send me a logon password
for the DataCOM Systems BBS.



Name ______________________________________



Address ____________________________________



City _________________ State ___ Zip __________



DTP Software Used __________________________



Graphic/Paint Software _______________________



Scanner or Other Equip. ______________________



___________________________________________

@BYLINE = DataCOM Systems

@BYLINE = 2643 Cedarview Court

@BYLINE = Clearwater, FL 34621-3710

@ITEMS = Ventura Publisher v2.0

@ITEMS = Halo DPE v1.30

@ITEMS = Publisher's Paintbrush v1.53

@ITEMS = HiJaak v1.0b

@ITEMS = Poster Maker Plus

@ITEMS = Panasonic FX-RS505 scanner

@ITEMS = AST TurboLaser/PS

@ITEMS = Princeton Laser Monitor

@ITEMS = IBM-PC AT compatible

@ITEMS = Apple Macintosh Plus





@ARTICLE PAL = Fonts used are from Adobe Systems and Bitstream's Fontware
system

@ARTICLE PAL = We use the following software and hardware to produce
the <BI>WYSIWYG!<D> magazine.

@ARTICLE PAL = Has the DTP ``cat and mouse'' game got you down ?    Then
why not subscribe to the <BI>WYSIWYG!<D>  and get the latest info
?

@CLIP-N-MAIL = <F129P14M>"<F255P255D>  clip-n-mail  <F129P14M>"<F255P255D>

@PAGE LEFT = Page 1  --  January 1989

@LT PG HEADER = DTP  Products  News

@ARTICLE PAL = Adobe Systems Incorporated has announced the development
of the third package in the Adobe Type Library Publishing Pack series.  Announced
in January, the Adobe Type Library Publishing Packs are packages consisting
of a collection of typefaces specially selected to improve specific
types of printed communication.  <BI>Publishing Pack 3: Presentations<D>,
the newest package released, is designed to help the user in enhancing
business presentations such as slide shows, flip charts, and proposals.



@ARTICLE PAL = Each Publishing Pack is authored by a leading expert
in typography and design.  The author both selects the appropriate
typefaces and has written design guides and tips which are presented
in a booklet form.  The new Presentations Publishing Pack is authored
by Allan Haley, executive vice president of International Typeface
Corporation (ITC) and noted type design author and educator.



@ARTICLE PAL = Publishing Packs for <BI>Newsletters<D> and for <BI>Forms
& Schedules<D> are the other packages comprising the Adobe Type Library
Publishing Pack series.  In addition to Publishing Packs, the Adobe
Type Library offers a total of 56 individual typeface packages.  All
of the typefaces are available for both IBM PC and Apple Macintosh
computers.



@ARTICLE PAL = Publishing Pack 3: Presentations is now available through
all authorized Adobe dealers and retails for $475.

@ARTICLE PAL =

@ARTICLE PAL = <MI>For more information contact Adobe Systems Incorporated,
P.O. Box 7900, Mountainview, CA 94039; [phone].<D>

@PRODUCTS = Hewlett-Packard's New Laserjet IID



@ARTICLE PAL = Hewlett-Packard Company has introduced the <BI>HP Laserjet
IID<D> printer.  The new printer complements the HP Laserjet Series
II printer by providing twice the paper capacity (400 sheets), two
paper trays, <B>duplex (two-sided) printing<D>, and a new accessory
for automatically printing up to 50 envelopes.  Each HP Laserjet IID
printer also comes with 24 fonts.

@ARTICLE PAL =

@ARTICLE PAL = Duplex printing allows business offices to save money
on paper and mailing costs, and to conserve document filing space
by printing on both sides of a page.  Finance, banking, accounting,
insurance, legal, and other offices that create and file numerous
documents will find duplex printing useful.  Offices that already
use duplex printing now can rely on their printer instead of on photocopiers
or outside printing services.

@ARTICLE PAL =

@ARTICLE PAL = HP Laserjet IID printer users can set up the duplex-printed
page for different binding options by using the front control panel
or supporting software.  Pages can be printed for binding on the left
edge to read like a book, or at the top to read like a calendar.

@ARTICLE PAL =

@ARTICLE PAL = The optional automatic-envelope feeder serves as a
third-input source to the printer without replacing one of the paper
trays.  The printer can pull paper consecutively from both trays and
the envelope-feeder, providing pre-sorted, ready-to-mail documents.  The
automatic envelope feeder holds up to 50 envelopes.

@ARTICLE PAL =

@ARTICLE PAL = Twenty-four fonts come with the HP Laserjet IID printer.  Fourteen
fonts are internal to the printer and 10 come on the HP 92290S2 font
cartridge that is shipped with every printer.  All existing HP Laserjet
font cartridges and soft fonts work with the new printer.  Like the
HP Laserjet 2000 printer, the HP Laserjet IID printer can rotate any
font to print in either portrait or landscape orientation.

@ARTICLE PAL =

@ARTICLE PAL = Like the HP Laserjet Series II printer, the HP Laserjet
IID printer works with all of the popular PC software packages.

@ARTICLE PAL =

@STANDOUT = Duplex printing allows business offices to save money
on paper

@ARTICLE PAL =

@ARTICLE PAL = The HP Laserjet IID printer comes with 640k of standard
memory.  The user can upgrade this with 1, 2, or 4-megabyte memory
boards to expand this to 4.6Mb of memory.

@ARTICLE PAL =

@ARTICLE PAL = The HP Laserjet IID printer with a one-year warranty
is $4,295 and is available immediately through HP authorized dealers
and HP's direct sales force.  The optional envelope feeder is $350.

@ARTICLE PAL =

@ARTICLE PAL = <MI>Hewlett-Packard, 3000 Hanover Street, Palo Alto,
CA 94304; [phone].<D>

@ADOBE = Adobe Publishing Packs

@PAGE RIGHT = WYSIWYG!  --  Page 2

@ARTICLE PAL = Intel Corp. demonstrated a printing enhancement system
at Comdex that allows HP Laserjet Series II printers to produce photographic-quality
halftones and speeds up printer output by as much as 600 percent.

@ARTICLE PAL =

@ARTICLE PAL = Scheduled to begin shipping in December 1988, the <BI>Visual
Edge<D> printing enhancement system takes the printer's capability
to print half-tones from 19 levels of gray to 64 levels at 70-line-per-inch
(lpi) resolution <197> a more than 300 percent improvement over the
standard Laserjet II output.  At a resolution of 100 lpi, it can reproduce
37 levels of gray.

@ARTICLE PAL =

@ARTICLE PAL = Intel's Personal Computer Enhancement Operation developed
the system.  It consists of a half-height board for AT-class 286 and
386 PCs, an add-in board for the Laserjet II, a video adapter cable
to connect them, and software.

@ARTICLE PAL = The software and card in the PC first separate the
graphics data from the text and font information, assembling the graphics
in expanded memory on the PC.  They then send text and font information
to the Laserjet II over a standard serial or parallel cable, while
graphics travel over the video cable at 1.8 mbps, speeding throughput.

@ARTICLE PAL =

@ARTICLE PAL = Halftones are reproduced by printing more dots per
inch at a higher density.  By varying the size and density of the
dots, the printer mimics the halftone process of photographing screened
art.

@ARTICLE PAL =

@ARTICLE PAL = The system is based on the Intel Image Processing Interface,
a programming specification that lets the Visual Edge system translate
photographic image data from graphics applications into halftones,
maintaining the complex levels of gray.

@ARTICLE PAL =

@ARTICLE PAL = ``We see it as extremely important to both Pagemaker
and Snapshot,'' said Mark Craemer, Aldus' Snapshot product marketing
manager.  ``Speed is very important, but the quality of the images
is phenomenal.  The system makes the printer a great deal faster.''

@ARTICLE PAL =

@ARTICLE PAL = In a test ``one TIFF image took about 2-1/2 minutes
to print on a regular Laserjet II,'' Craemer said.  ``Using the Visual
Edge system, it only took about 15 seconds.''

@ARTICLE PAL =

@ARTICLE PAL = The Visual Edge system will cost $695 and requires
an AT-class 80286 or 80386 PC with a minimum of 1 megabyte of expanded
memory (2 megabytes recommended) and a 512k Laserjet II printer.

@PRODUCTS = SX-1000 ``Epson Printer'' Image Scanner <197> $249.95



@ARTICLE PAL = Desktop Technology Corp. recently announced a product
that replaces the removable printer head on most Epson printers, converting
them into gray-scale image scanners.

@ARTICLE PAL =

@ARTICLE PAL = The product, called the <BI>SX-1000<D>, snaps into
the printhead carriage of any Epson FX, MX, or RX and most LQ printer
models.  The scanning head connects to the PC game port through a
card supplied with the SX-1000 package.

@ARTICLE PAL =

@ARTICLE PAL = Once installed, the SX-1000 converts the Epson printer
into a bidirectional scanner with a maximum resolution of 216 vertical
and 300 horizontal dots per inch.  The scanner supports eight levels
of gray, or black and white for line drawings, the company said.

@ARTICLE PAL =

@ARTICLE PAL = The package includes menu-driven scanning software
for setting the dimensions of the area to be scanned, controlling
image contrast, saving images as PCX files, and editing gray-scale
dither patterns.

@ARTICLE PAL =

@ARTICLE PAL = <BI>Pizazz<D>, which is a memory-resident utility from
Application Techniques Inc., also comes with the product.  Pizazz
lets users crop and rotate scanned images, save them as TIFF file,
or print them on most graphics printers.

@ARTICLE PAL =

@ARTICLE PAL = The SX-1000 package costs $249.95 and began shipping
last November.

@ARTICLE PAL =

@ARTICLE PAL = The SX-1000 enhancement is similar in concept to the
Thunderscan/ImageWriter unit that has been available to Apple Macintosh
users for several years now.

@ARTICLE PAL =

@ARTICLE PAL = <MI>Desktop Technology Corp., 986 Mangrove, Suite B,
Sunnyvale, CA 94086; [phone].<D>

@RT PG HEADER = DTP  Products  News

@PRODUCTS = Photo-Quality Halftones for HP Laserjet Series II Printers

@PAGE LEFT = Page 3  --  January 1989

@PRODUCTS = Xerox Scanner and OCR Systems



@ARTICLE PAL = Xerox Imaging Systems Inc., has announced a 6-bit Datacopy
image scanner with Macintosh and IBM interfaces and software.  Also
announced was two Kurzweil intelligent character recognition scanners
with IBM interfaces, including coprocessors.



@ARTICLE PAL = The independent wholly owned subsidiary, Xerox Imaging
Systems, was formed from Datacopy Corp. and Kurzweil Computer Products,
two recent Xerox acquisitions.

@ARTICLE PAL = The new <BI>Datacopy<D> flatbed scanner, the <BI>730GS<D>,
features 6 bits of gray scale, or 64 levels, at 60- to 450-dpi resolution.  The
scanner has a list price of $1,995, which includes either Mac Image
or PC Image software.  A text scanning version has a list price of
$2,195.



@ARTICLE PAL = Xerox Imaging Systems also announced the <BI>Kurzweil
5000<D>, with intelligent character recognition which ``learns'' typefaces
from 6 to 24 points.  It works with PC and XT systems.



@ARTICLE PAL = The K-5000, with a list price of $15,950, is intended
for high-volume applications.  The machine can handle mixed text and
graphics with auto-formatting to create documents in IBM's Document
Content Architecture format, User-Definable ASCII, many popular word
processors, and Interleaf.

@ARTICLE PAL =

@ARTICLE PAL = For less intense applications, Kurzweil introduced
the <BI>Discover 7320 Model 5<D> for scanning documents, which costs
$4,995.



@ARTICLE PAL = <MI>Xerox Imaging Systems Inc., 1215 Terra Bella Ave.,
Mountainview, CA 94043.<D>

@ARTICLE PAL = Princeton Publishing Labs (PPL) unveiled a new high-speed
Poscript controller board for HP Laserjet II printers at Comdex.  The
board not only speeds up Postscript printing but also adds a page
preview display on multisynch monitors.

@ARTICLE PAL =

@ARTICLE PAL = PPL's <BI>PS-388 Accelerator<D> combines a Postscript-compatible
interpreter made by RIPS Technology Inc., of Boulder, Colorado, with
a 32-bit 10-mips RISC processor.  The result is Postscript performance
that is from 8 to 30 times faster than conventuional controller boards.

@ARTICLE PAL =

@ARTICLE PAL = When used in conjunction with PPL's Multiview monitor,
the PS-388 lets users preview a full page on the screen.  The preview
function works with other VGA monitors but without the full-page capability.  It
is supported by the IBM PC, XT, AT, PS/2 Model 30, and compatibles,
as well as the Compaq Deskpro 386 and compatibles.  Also standard
are 2 megabytes of page-buffer memory and 1 megabyte of loadable microcode.

@ARTICLE PAL =

@ARTICLE PAL = The PS-388 includes 35 outline Bitstream fonts, all
scalable and rotatable, with support for font compression, downloadable
fonts, and line/arc fonts.  It supports Windows and GEM applications
and page composition programs such as Ventura Publisher and Pagemaker.

@ARTICLE PAL =

@ARTICLE PAL = PPL's <BI>Multiview<D> is a monochrome multiscan monitor
that provides full-page viewing with true VGA compatibility.  It features
ultra-high resolution in portrait (800 by 1,000 dpi) and landscape
(1,024 by 768 dpi) modes.  It also supports analog and digital signals
to run VGA, EGA, CGA, MDA, and Hercules standards.

@ARTICLE PAL =

@ARTICLE PAL = Multiview's horizontal scan range is 15.75 kHz to 59
kHz and it can automatically lock into frequencies within this range.  The
screen size automatically adjusts between full-page viewing and other
graphic standards.

@ARTICLE PAL =

@ARTICLE PAL = <BI>Grafixpro<D>, a high-performance register-level-compatible
VGA controller board, features 512k of display memory and includes
drivers for Windows, GEM, AutoCAD, Lotus 1-2-3, Word Perfect 5.0,
and Ventura Publisher.

@ARTICLE PAL =

@ARTICLE PAL = Used with the Multiview monitor, Grafixpro can display
66 lines of characters at up to 132-column viewing.  In full-page
graphics mode, a full page can be displayed with each pixel in 16
shades of gray.  Grafixpro can also be used with high-resolution color
monitors to obtain 640-by-480 resolution with 256 colors or up to
1,024-by-768 non-interlaced resolution with 16 colors.

@ARTICLE PAL =

@ARTICLE PAL = The PS-388 lists for $2,795, the Multiview monitor
costs $395, and Grafixpro is priced at $595; all are immediately available
from Princeton Publishing Labs, 19 Wall Street, Princeton, NJ 08540;
[phone].

@LT PG HEADER = DTP  Products  News

@PRODUCTS = Hi-Speed Laserjet II Postscript Controller & VGA Display

@PAGE RIGHT = WYSIWYG!  --  Page 4<N>

@ARTICLE PAL = Springboard Software announces a new Windows-based
publishing program that combines word processing, graphics editing,
and page layout.  The <BI>Springboard Publisher<D> priced at $199.95
is scheduled to begin shipping in January.

@ARTICLE PAL =

@ARTICLE PAL = Springboard Publisher can import and edit bit-mapped
images from PC Paintbrush and Windows Paint and also provides tools
for users to create graphics.  Editing tools include paint brushes,
fill patterns, pixel editing, resizing, and cropping.

@ARTICLE PAL =

@ARTICLE PAL = Springboard Publisher offers multiple-page views, supports
up to 9 columns on a page, and can mix column formats on one page.  Users
can change layouts at any time and the program will reformat text.  It
can flow text across columns and pages and wrap text around graphics.

@ARTICLE PAL =

@ARTICLE PAL = It comes with a runtime version of Windows and requires
a PC or PS/2 compatible with 640k of RAM, a hard disk, mouse, and
graphics adapter.

@ARTICLE PAL =

@ARTICLE PAL = Springboard also has 4 new clip art libraries for desktop
publishing.  Three of the libraries contain bit-mapped images and
a fourth is encapsulated Postscript images.

@ARTICLE PAL =

@ARTICLE PAL = <MI>Springboard Software Inc., 7808 Creekridge Circle,
Minneapolis, MN 55435; [phone].<D>

@PRODUCTS = Hand-Held 200-dpi Scanner



@ARTICLE PAL = NCL America recently introduced a hand-held scanner
that converts photographs, line art, and text into image files.

@ARTICLE PAL =

@ARTICLE PAL = The <BI>Omniscan<D> is a lightweight scanner that reads
pages through a sheet feeder at a rate of 10 seconds per page.  The
scanning unit is also available without the document transport unit.

@ARTICLE PAL =

@ARTICLE PAL = The scanner, which also works with any program conforming
to the TIFF and PCX file formats, has an input resolution of 200 dots
per inch.  It handles documents up to 8.5 inches wide by 14 inches
long and works in black-and-white mode for drawings or text or in
a 16-level dither mode for photo-graphs and complex graphics.

@ARTICLE PAL =

@ARTICLE PAL = The scanner can also be used as a portable OCR (Optical
Character Recognition) data-entry device using optional software.

@ARTICLE PAL =

@ARTICLE PAL = Available now, the Omniscan sells for $995, which includes
the software and interface, but without the sheet feeder.  The complete
scanner including the sheet feeder and base, sells for $1,290.

@ARTICLE PAL =

@ARTICLE PAL = <MI>NCL America, 1221 Innsbruck Drive, Sunnyvale, CA
94089; [phone].<D>

@RT PG HEADER = DTP  Products  News

@PRODUCTS = Springboard Publisher only $199.95

@PAGE LEFT = Page 5  --  January 1989

@LT PG HEADER = Software Review:  Bitstream Fontware for Windows