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Aldus and Adobe both figure in this issue, with a rumor about
   FreeHand, a charting module from Aldus, and a new font licensing
   policy from Adobe, which makes it easier for print shops to own
   lots of fonts. We note the new version of CDU from Connectix and
   list shipping software for the Power Macs (lots of international
   companies on that list!). Rounding out the issue, Matt Neuburg and
   Adam focus on the small Macintosh developer.

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Topics:
    MailBITS/13-Jun-94
    Adobe Fonts Get New License
    Power Mac Native
    The User Over Your Shoulder: Apple vs. The Little Guy
    The Diminishing Diminutive Developer
    Reviews/13-Jun-94

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MailBITS/13-Jun-94
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  Mark Anbinder sent in a correction from last week: "After we wrote
  in TidBITS-229_ that Maxima owners could order upgrades to the new
  3.0 version with Visa, MasterCard, American Express, or Discover
  credit cards, a reader told us Connectix doesn't currently accept
  Discover. Roy McDonald at Connectix apologizes for the
  misinformation." Also, I (Tonya) had a regrettable accident with
  my Eudora folder last week. If you sent me mail between 30-May and
  06-Jun, and did not receive a reply, please send the mail again.
  [TJE]


**Pythaeus suggests** that Scitex may buy Altsys and attempt to
  settle some litigation in the process. Apparently, Altsys, the
  original developer of FreeHand, is suing Aldus over Aldus's recent
  merger with Adobe, since Altsys either wants FreeHand to stay
  alive or to come back to Altsys. In a seemingly unrelated plot
  development, Scitex is suing Aldus over TrapWise. To bring the
  plot lines together, rumor suggests that if Scitext buys Altsys,
  then Scitext will try to settle out of court with Aldus, such that
  in exchange for dropping the charges in the TrapWise suit, Scitex
  gets the FreeHand rights back from Aldus. [TJE]


**Connectix** recently released version 1.0.4 of CDU (Connectix
  Desktop Utilities), which offers the ability to gracefully
  shutdown after a user-specified period of inactivity, and to
  re-open all previously open applications and documents when you
  turn on the Mac. Because this feature could save a lot of power if
  used on many machines over time, CDU is the first software program
  ever that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) calls
  "Energy Star Compliant." CDU also offers a variety of utilities
  that enhance Macintosh operations, including sticky menus,
  customized pointer, quick access to changing monitor depth or
  active printer, and more. CDU lists for $99, and registered owners
  of previous versions can upgrade for $29.95. Connectix -- 800/950-
  5880 -- 415/571-5100 -- 415/571-5195 (fax) -- <[e-mail]>
  [TJE]


**Aldus** is shipping ChartMaker, an applet that provides
  sophisticated charting capabilities at a list price of $149.
  ChartMaker works via OLE 1.0, Publish and Subscribe, or the
  clipboard to add charts to documents created in other programs
  (you can't print directly from ChartMaker). Features highlighted
  in Aldus's press release include: 84 chart types (including 3-D
  charts with a z axis that you can rotate, tilt, and scale), an eye
  dropper tool to transfer color, custom gradients and fills, the
  ability to add text or graphics to the chart background, and chart
  templates. ChartMaker is clearly a product of the times - it
  requires System 7, a 68020 or better Macintosh, 8 MB of hard disk
  space, and at least a 2 MB RAM allocation; Aldus recommends a 16
  MHz 68030 Macintosh and a 4 MB allocation to ChartMaker.

  Aldus also plans to ship additional "Aldus Accessory Products," in
  both Windows and Mac versions, which - like ChartMaker - will
  enhance other applications by offering tools for a particular
  task. ChartMaker is currently available for the Mac; the PC
  version should be out "later this year." It will be interesting to
  see if this approach to a collection of applets pays off for
  Aldus, since many industry leaders and pundits have stated that
  such applets are the wave of our collective desktop applications
  future. Aldus Corporation -- 800/628-2320 -- 206/622-5500 [TJE]


Adobe Fonts Get New License
---------------------------
  by Mark H. Anbinder, News Editor <[e-mail]>
     Director of Technical Services, Baka Industries Inc.

  Citing a change in the way computer users work with fonts, Adobe
  Systems Inc. last month announced a change in its licensing policy
  from a per-printer approach to a per-computer system approach.
  Adobe's new licenses permit use of a typeface product on five
  computers within a single organization, rather than on a single
  printer as before. In addition, all Adobe fonts will ship with
  Adobe Type Manager (ATM), software that scales PostScript fonts
  onscreen.

  In the early days of typeface distribution, people used PostScript
  fonts primarily for high-quality output on a laser printer or
  imagesetter, and low-resolution bitmap fonts to display the type
  on computer screens. Display PostScript technology on NeXT
  workstations, and the subsequent arrival of (ATM) for Macintosh
  and then Windows, brought about the common use of outline fonts on
  individual computers. The result was that the licenses for Adobe's
  and other vendors' typeface packages didn't reflect ways in people
  now use fonts.

  Adobe says that five is the average number of users connected to a
  single printer, so the new licensing agreement should not tend to
  make typeface purchases more expensive. The new license agreement
  also provides the flexibility larger organizations need for volume
  purchasing. For typeface users who wish to permanently download a
  given typeface to the hard drive connected to a PostScript
  printer, the license permits downloading to a single PostScript
  device. (There is no restriction on the automatic font download
  that occurs during ordinary printing, because the fonts don't
  remain in the printer.)

  Adobe did not include Japanese typefaces in the change, and
  typefaces bundled with Adobe's application software packages come
  with a single-user license. Also, the Adobe Font Folio retains its
  two-printer license.

  Existing Adobe customers may stick with the previous licensing
  scheme for products purchased under the old license. In other
  words, the license under which you purchased existing Adobe
  products remains in effect. Users have the option, however, of
  converting existing licenses to the new form. To do so, customers
  should list the typeface packages they own, then tally the number
  of computers on which the PostScript font files are installed, and
  send Adobe the information at the address below. As long as there
  are five or fewer computers per package owned, Adobe will send an
  updated license agreement. Users may purchase additional licenses,
  in order to make up for any shortfall, at a rate of $5 per
  typeface per computer.

  At the same time, Adobe has announced special pricing for
  authorized service bureaus who wish to have affordable access to
  the Adobe Type Library in order to output customers' print jobs.
  (Adobe's license agreement does not permit users to give
  PostScript font files to service bureaus for output purposes, even
  temporarily. This has not changed under the new license.) Service
  bureaus will receive a special version of Adobe's Type On Call
  CD-ROM disc when their registration is approved, and may purchase
  individual typefaces by telephone for $10 each. Interested service
  bureaus should contact Adobe for more information.

    Adobe Systems Inc. -- 800/833-6687 -- 415/961-4400
      415/961-3769 (fax)

  Information from:
    Adobe propaganda


Power Mac Native
----------------
  by Tonya Engst <[e-mail]>

  More and more companies have shipped products that run in PowerPC
  native mode, and to assist you in keeping the score card up-to-
  date, here's Apple's list of all commercial shipping products.
  Although it include a phone number for each company, we have not
  researched alternate means of contact, so you're on your own if
  you live outside the U.S. and all that's listed is an 800 number.
  The list changes every week, needless to say, but we wanted to
  give you a sense of how many applications have been released in
  PowerPC native mode so far, almost three months after the Power
  Macintosh introduction in March.

  Of particular note is Casady and Greene's Conflict Catcher, which
  not only helps to manage extensions and track down conflicts on
  any Mac, but also (on the Power Macs) reports on what extensions
  are running in emulation mode and thus dragging down your system.
  Also notice the large proportion of companies that are not located
  in the U.S. Hmm, I wonder what this says about the Macintosh
  software market?


A Through F
> About Software - 5PM Term for IMB Mainframes
> About Software - 5PM Term for VAX and Unix
> About Software - 5PM Term for AS/400 2.2
> About Software - 5PM Pro for Mac 2.2                      408/725-4242
> Absoft - Fortran                                          810/853-0050
> Access Privelege SA - Easy Transfer 3.1                 33-92-96-01-00
> ACI - Object Master
> ACI - Object Master Universal 2.5                         408/252-4444
> Adobe Systems - Illustrator
> Adobe Systems - Photoshop                                 800/833-6687
> Aetis - Protections Logicielles Copy Protection          3393-53-09-87
> Agfa-Gevaert N.V. - FotoLook 2.0                        32-3-444-39-07
> Aldus - FreeHand                                          206/628-2320
> Aldus - PageMaker                                         800/833-6687
> ALSOFT - Atlas 1.0.4
> ALSOFT - GeoConcept                                    331-45-84-26-00
> Artifice Inc. - DesignWorkshop                            503/345-7421
> Artwork Systems N,V. - ArtPro 1.2                        329-225-79-46
>  AS-PLUS B.V. - AS-PLUS Bankaschriften                   31-2159-49490
> Ashlar Vellum - Vellum                                    408/746-3900
> Autodessys - Inc. Form*Z                                  614/488-8838
> Baltic Business Systems - MacHansa Accounting II 2.0      46-176-82230
> B.E.M.E. R&D - ALIX (colors for printers)              331-69-91-26-30
> Brossco Systems Oy - Voyant 2.0                         358-0-512-3130
> Bungie Software - Pathways into Darkness                  312/563-6200
> Canto Software GmbH - Cumulus                             800/332-2686
> Casady & Green - Conflict Catcher                         800/359-4920
> Casady & Green - Spaceway 2000                            800/359-4920
> Central Point Software, Inc. - MacTools 3.0               800/937-9842
> Charles River Analytics, Inc. - Open Sesame!              800-913-3535
> Claris Corporation - Claris Impact
> Claris Corporation - ClarisWorks                          800/3 CLARIS
> Dantz Development - Retrospect                            510/253-3000
> Data Description - DataDesk                               607/257-1000
> DeltaPoint - DeltaGraph Pro 3                             408/648-4000
> Diehl Graphsoft - MiniCAD+                                410/290-5114
> Domark - Flying Nightmares                                800/695-GAME
> Dunaway Systems B.V. - Signalize 2.6
> Dunaway Systems B.V. - Spooler 1.2
> Dunaway Systems B.V. - PostScript Interpreter
> Dunaway Systems B.V. - Scanning & Vektorizing 2.3
> Dunaway Systems B.V. - Remote Font & Clip Art           31.4902 167975
> Extools - Shade III 1.1
> Extools - Shade III Light                                 092/722-4540
> FIT Software - Full Contact                               408/562-5990
> Fractal Design - Dabbler 1.0                              800/647-7443
> Fractal Design - Painter 2.0                              800/647-7443
> Frame - FrameMaker                                        408/433-3311
> FWB - Hard Disk Toolkit                                   415/474-8055


G Through L
> Gibbs Systems - Virtual Gibbs                             805-523-0004
> Graphisoft - Atlas 1.0.4
> Graphisoft - GeoConcept                                331-45-84-26-00
> Graphisoft U.S.,Inc. - ArchiCAD 4.5                       800/344-3468
> Graphisoft (Atlas S/W B.V.) - PS Mail                     800/344-3468
> Gryphon Software - Morph!                                 patch on AOL
> GTFS/GRAFTEK - Ultimage/Pro(Optilab/Pro)               331-46-92-14-89
> Hash Inc. - Playmation                                    206/750-0042
> Hi Resolution Limited - Mac=Bac 1.1
> Hi Resolution Limited - MacPrefect Remote 1.0.1
> Hi Resolution Limited - MacVisa 1.1                       800/455-0888
> Insignia - SoftWindows 286                                800/848-7677
> Interstudio - flexsplan 1.0
> Interstudio - Nonio C 5.0                                 39-573-31307
> ITEDO Software GmbH - IsoDraw 2.6                        49-2241-68841
> Jasik Designs - MacNosy                                   415/322-1386
> Just Systems - ATOK8                                      03-5470-6028
> Language Engineering Corp - LogoVista E to J              617/489-4000


M Through R
> MedImage - MedView                                        313/665-5400
> Metrowerks - CodeWarrior                                  514/747-5999
> Microland -  Le serveur maestria 2.0                 33-16-87-39-39-00
> MicroMacro, Ltd. - MicroGuard ADB Copy Protect.        (972.3)562.5661
> Neon Software - LAN Surveyor 1.1
> Neon Software - NetMinder Ethernet 3.1                    510/283-9771
> Now Software - Now Contact                                800/237-2078
> Orange Micro Inc. - OrangePC                              714/779-2772
> ORKIS - ImageBasePro 2.5                                33-42-60-45-56
> Pole Position Software GmbH - Mac DCF77                   49 9134-7447
> Route 66 Geo Info Systems - AtomicTime                    1-8385-54724
> Route 66 Geo Info Systems - ROUTE 66 1.2.0               31-8385-54724


S Through Z
> SCITEX America Full Auto Frame                            617/275-5150
> Segue Software - QA Partner                               617/969-3771
> SOFT Technologies - Simulateur de conduite 1.2           3365-40-05-05
> SofTeam Hardware & Software Dist - MacSign 4.0
> SofTeam Hardware & Software Dist - Punto 1.6             39-39-2012366
> Specular - Infini-D                                       800/433-7732
> Sorting S.r.l. - CADSap4.0                               39-6-44291061
> Spider Island Software TeleFinder Group Edition           714/669-9260
> System Clinic - DTP603 1.0j                               078-811-2318
> Trillium Research - Remus (ltd version)                   715/381-1900
> Trio Systems Europe - C-Index Pro 1.0                   31-20-638-6507
> TrueD Software - Live on RISC                            33.865.784950
> UserLand Software - Frontier 3.0.2                        800/845-1772
> usrEZ Software - ultraSecure 3.0                          714/756-5140
> VAMP - MacCAD Trailblazer                                 213/466-5533
> Vicom Technology Ltd - VICOM MultiTerm
> Vicom Technology Ltd - VICOM Pro SDK 5.0
> Vicom Technology Ltd - VICOM RunTime                      604/684-9517
> VideoFusion - Recorder                                    800/638-5253
> VideoFusion - VideoFusion                                 800/638-5253
> Wilkensen SCOOP - SCOOP Archive 1.1                      [phone]
> Wolfram Research - Mathematica                            800/441-6284
> WordPerfect - WordPerfect                                 800/451-5151


The User Over Your Shoulder: Apple vs. The Little Guy
-----------------------------------------------------
  by Matt Neuburg <[e-mail]>

  You may recall my article "The User Over Your Shoulder: The New
  Technologies Treadmill" in TidBITS-207_ pointed out that Apple has
  recently been churning out new hardware and software technologies
  at a great rate, and trying to whip developers into a frenzy to
  adopt them. I mused as to whether this was necessarily altogether
  a good thing for the end user.

  The article provoked quite a bit of response. Only a few letters
  disagreed, but they were mostly long, vehement diatribes,
  lecturing me on my narrowness of vision and unfitness to opine in
  such a matter. Several dozen notes came in that agreed with and
  supported my opinion, but those negative letters rocked me. I had
  touched a nerve, and received a reactive drubbing in return.

  I did admit at the time that Apple's strategy might,
  _economically_, be absolutely necessary. My question was, and
  remains, whether excessive novelty might be frustrating a need for
  consolidation. Suppose, as one correspondent helpfully did, we
  compare computers to motorcycles, with new models emerging each
  year. My question then would be (and this is what those negative
  letters have not shown me): what terrible thing would happen if
  Apple were more like BMW, continually improving the same models?
  With so much revolutionary stuff coming down the pipeline
  (PowerPC, QuickDraw GX, OpenDoc, PowerShare, Drag and Drop, Apple
  Help, System 8 and beyond), its more like each year BMW put out a
  new bike running on a fuel that hasn't even been invented yet.

  Readers agreeing with me focussed on four different issues. First,
  there's compatibility across Mac models. This isn't trivial. An
  Apple employee admits in print (Apple Directions 2/94, 16) that
  "whenever we do a new Macintosh, there are things that cause old
  software to break." And with new system software, even old
  programs present moving targets (without laying blame, plenty of
  current applications choke on LaserWriter 8.1.1).

  Second, there's the effect on the programs that users can buy.
  What with the compatibility issues and the constantly emerging
  technologies, previously solved programming problems don't stay
  solved, so what's "new" in a new version of a program is often
  just compatibility along with the incorporation of a few new
  features - not improvement in what the program does. Readers
  tended to focus on Microsoft Word as an example. As one respondent
  put it, we need an atmosphere where developers can fix basics
  rather than feeling compelled to add bells and whistles: "I would
  love to see a version of Word that had more basic writing aids
  (such as non-contiguous selection a la Nisus) rather than crappy
  memory-hungry drawing layers or QuickTime video support."

  Third, there's the quandary of what to buy when. It's rough enough
  for individuals, but when you have to make the calls for a
  department with a limited budget it's a real headache. I know this
  all too well, and so does a respondent who complained of the
  "relentless need to invest capital in machines and software just
  to keep up."

  Finally, there's the effect on smaller developers. Many readers
  lamented that it's getting too hard, and costing too much, for
  ordinary individuals to write programs. One spoke of "the
  financial and logistical difficulties involved in obtaining
  essential development information," adding that policies that make
  it cost $200 to program interactively with AppleScript seem
  heinous.

  Another agreed: "I lament the death of the small-time developers
  and hobbyists, who make significant contributions to the Mac's
  software library. It's simply becoming increasingly impossible to
  justify the expense of developing if one is not writing a full-
  blown commercial application that will be sold on computer store
  shelves."

  Changing technologies and multiple platforms can be the bane of
  small developers. Someone wrote that "Technology's steady march
  tramples us poor developers... It's just about everything I can do
  keeping our products compatible with the existing applications,
  printers, system software, and so on," adding that you never know
  when Apple will abandon a technology you've put time and money
  into (such as XTND). Apple, the writer said, should choose
  carefully the technologies they promote. System upgrades should be
  smaller, faster, more reliable; the present situation promotes
  proliferation of bugs which developers have to keep kludging to
  get around.

  Coincidentally, just as my article appeared, so did an editorial
  by Neil Ticktin in the Dec-93 MacTech saying much the same, and
  evoking much the same response in the Mar-94 issue.

  Voices such as these deserve Apple's attention. Better
  compatibility and cheaper development aids might help; why must
  Apple be money-grubbing about developer technical support?
  Individuals and what they can make computers do are the reason
  there are personal computers at all. If it becomes passe to feel
  that a computer is (at least partly) to program, what we've got on
  our desks are nothing but tiny mainframes. The Big Brother that
  got smashed in Apple's "1984" ad will have won in 1994 after all.

  Apple itself admits (Apple Directions 1/94, 8) that "many DOS
  programs support vertical markets - scheduling and billing
  packages for dentists, for example - and, because of the small
  market size, will probably never be translated to either the
  Macintosh or Windows environments." That's a pity; would it really
  mean nothing to sales if every dentist's office had reason to
  choose a Mac? The PowerPC might help Apple (with microkernel
  technology and super-fast processors, every computer can run every
  platform); but can it be that the age of individual programmers,
  the Two Guys In A Garage ethos that created Apple and that Apple
  initially fostered, is gone with the wind?


The Diminishing Diminutive Developer
------------------------------------
  by Adam C. Engst <[e-mail]>

  Matt Neuburg's article above touched a nerve in me almost
  immediately, not so much because I disagree with him (I don't) but
  because I've had a number of email discussions with people over
  the last few months that tie into it. The common thread, I think,
  is the fate of the small developer. It's hard to argue with Apple
  when they say that they must charge high prices for developer
  tools and developer technical support because those departments
  can't be a complete financial drain on the company. It costs Apple
  money to make those tools and to support developers, and in this
  day and age of departments needing to be self-sufficient in large
  organizations (creating humorous situations where different
  departments in the same organization start nickel-and-diming each
  other), I imagine Apple's Developer Technical Support group must
  feel the need to make some money on its own.

  However, what this boils down to, as Matt noted above, is that the
  entry price to become an Apple developer is becoming rather high.
  I had a conversation with a friend at Apple, and he admitted that
  it would cost at least several thousand dollars to get all the
  basic developer tools and support packages, and a commercial
  developer could easily pay quite a lot more than that.

  The problem is, I would say, that in many ways the health of the
  platform is linked to the enthusiasm of the developers, and by
  making it impossible for people to easily start programming on the
  Mac, it's more likely that they'll program for another platform,
  moving their talent away from the Mac community. Sure, a clever
  hack like Moire (remember the screensaver Moire?) may not do much
  for the economics of the platform, but in many ways Moire may have
  influenced After Dark, and Berkeley Systems has built a pretty
  hefty company around that program. I don't believe that the
  Macintosh market is suffering particularly from a lack of
  programmer enthusiasm, but if current trends toward ignoring the
  fate of the small developer continue, there's no telling what
  might happen.

  Solutions? It's hard to tell Apple what to do in a field that I'm
  unfamiliar with, but it seems to me that there should be some
  simple, low-cost (maybe a few hundred dollars for everything) way
  for an individual developer to get the necessary tools without
  having to pay for the development kit for each new technology.
  Maybe no support goes with such a program, I don't know.

  In the end I think the solution must be OpenDoc. As Matt points
  out, the primary desktop applications are becoming seriously
  bloated. (The complaints Matt talked about related to Word 5,
  which is over two years old. Just think about how much Microsoft
  could add in those two years.) When you factor in the size of the
  applications and the brutal checkbox feature wars with the
  realities of attempting to test on the ever-increasing number of
  Macs out there, you realize that there's no way a small developer
  can compete at all without the focus that OpenDoc can provide.
  Let's hope that OpenDoc doesn't turn out to be another of Apple's
  albatross technologies like XTND (nice idea, never went anywhere),
  Publish & Subscribe (nice idea, implemented poorly and minimally
  supported), and until recently, Apple events (minimal support from
  Apple and third parties).

  Just to tie in another thread from recent events - the small
  developer stands little chance with a commercial application as
  the companies in the industry all get into bed with one another.
  At the rate industry is imploding we'll soon have only four or
  five companies at most  sharing 98 percent of the market in every
  imaginable niche. The small company and the individual developer
  will be completely squeezed out of existence unless they can
  compete by developing and supporting OpenDoc tools.

  I'd like to think that the Internet could play a large role in
  this recovery, assuming it happens, since only the Internet can
  amplify a single person or a small company sufficiently to compete
  with a large company. A fast tech support person may be able to
  answer 50 calls in a day, but that same person can probably juggle
  twice as many cases online, and by making the discussions public
  and archived, those support questions can easily stick around to
  help other people without additional effort.

  Perhaps this is all idle speculation and off the mark entirely?
  But what if it's not? Maybe by talking about this and thinking
  about it now we as users can better deal with the changes in Apple
  and in the industry, and in the process help to make it a better
  place to live, work, and play.


Reviews/13-Jun-94
-----------------

* MacWEEK -- 06-Jun-94, Vol. 8, #23
    Desktop Video Programs -- pg. 38
      Radius VideoVision Studio 1.7
      SuperMac DigitalFilm Deluxe 1.5
      RasterOps MoviePak2 Pro Suite 1.5
      Data Translation Media 100 1.1
      Avid Media Suite Pro 2.2

* InfoWorld -- 06-Jun-94, Vol. 16, #23
    ClarisWorks 2.1 -- pg. 116


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