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This week's issue begins with a number of MailBITS concerning
   Anarchie 1.3.1 and several other Internet resources. It
   continues with an article about Apple discontinuing the
   PowerBook 540, commentary on the fallacies of the Windows95
   name as the successor to Windows 4.0, and Part II of Tonya's
   look at QuickDraw GX. Finally, we conclude with an article
   about Peirce Software's Peirce Print Tools, a set of printing
   extensions for use with QuickDraw GX.

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Topics:
    MailBITS/19-Sep-94
    PowerBook 540 Discontinued
    Chicago in 94? No, Windows95
    Preliminary Practical Primer to QuickDraw GX, Part II
    Peirce Print Tools
    Reviews/19-Sep-94

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MailBITS/19-Sep-94
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  We have relatives visiting this week (which accounts for this
  issue being a day early), so please don't expect quick email
  replies for a few days. [ACE]


**Anarchie & Apple Guide** -- Peter Lewis
  <[e-mail]> has done it again - released a
  significant update to Anarchie, his combination FTP and Archie
  client for MacTCP-based Internet connections. Anarchie 1.3.1 adds
  a number of useful new features, and takes the prize for being the
  first (or at least among the first) released non-Apple program
  that fully supports Apple Guide, Apple's new help system in System
  7.5. Anarchie now supports the SITE INDEX command as well as
  SOCKS, a method of getting out through a firewall. Also, you no
  longer need worry about which Info-Mac and Umich mirror sites you
  use most often, because you can configure Anarchie to go to those
  sites in response to your pasting in a generic Info-Mac or Umich
  pathname. Anarchie is $10 shareware and is among the most useful
  Internet tools available for the Macintosh. [ACE]

ftp://ftp.utexas.edu/pub/mac/tcpip/anarchie-131.hqx


**Preston Gregg** of Apple writes to tell us that the new Apple
  Web server we mentioned last week in TidBITS-243_ isn't official
  yet, and as such may go up and down a bit over the next week or
  so. They're busy moving the server to its own T-1 line, which will
  make for plenty of throughput. Also, it turns out that the Bug
  Reporting area is _only_ for bugs or feedback with the Web server,
  NOT for general bugs with the Mac or any Mac software. Sigh. [ACE]


**Chris Johnson** <[e-mail]> writes:
  The Office of Telecommunication Services (OTS) of the University
  of Texas System now supports an archive site for Macintosh
  freeware and shareware, which can be accessed with both FTP and
  the World-Wide Web.

ftp://ftp.utexas.edu/pub/mac/
http://wwwhost.ots.utexas.edu/mac/main.html

  The archives are maintained by Chris Johnson, former and long-time
  administrator of the University of Texas at Austin Computation
  Center's Macintosh archive, microlib/mac, and creator of its WWW
  interface [And an extremely nice one it is, too. -Adam].

  The OTS archives are not an attempt to compete with or substitute
  for the much more comprehensive collections at Info-Mac and Umich
  but will continue to grow over time.


PowerBook 540 Discontinued
--------------------------
  by Mark H. Anbinder, News Editor <[e-mail]>
     Director of Technical Services, Baka Industries Inc.

  Apple announced to dealers last week that both configurations of
  the PowerBook 540, introduced just this May, have been
  discontinued because "demand has exceeded availability." The
  popular notebook differed from the PowerBook 540c only in that its
  active matrix display was grayscale, rather than color.

  Right from their introduction, the 500 series PowerBooks were
  enormously popular, and sales of all models quickly outpaced
  Apple's ability to supply the units to dealers. The surge of
  demand reminds me of the rush on the original three PowerBook
  models, introduced in October of 1991, as customers quickly
  decimated the seemingly sufficient introductory supplies.

  Widespread speculation several weeks ago suggested Apple stopped
  production of the PowerBook 540 in order to shift manufacturing
  resources to produce more of the higher-priced PowerBook 540c.
  Apple countered this speculation with an official denial, and it
  seems likely that 540c manufacturing would be more constrained by
  the supply of high-quality active matrix color display panels than
  by production resources used for the 540. (Active matrix displays
  have been a primary hold-up in manufacturing several PowerBook
  models.)

  One likely explanation for the 540's disappearance is the
  redirection of production lines towards models other than the
  540c. Certainly it's not because the 540 was unpopular; the model
  has been backlogged through most of its existence. Nor is it
  because there's no need for such a model. Many users prefer the
  less-power-hungry grayscale displays when portable color isn't
  necessary.

  What does this mean for prospective buyers? Less flexibility.
  Those who need the 33 MHz 68040 power of the 540 will have no
  choice but to buy the 540c and cope with the extra power
  requirements of the color active matrix display. Those who really
  want grayscale will be limited to the 520, with its slower 25 MHz
  processor. (This assumes the backlogs of the other 500 series
  PowerBooks will ease sooner, rather than later.)

  We hope a method to Apple's madness will be revealed in short
  order. Meanwhile, we're concerned by the short life cycle of an
  obviously popular product.

  Information from:
    Apple propaganda


Chicago in 94? No, Windows95
----------------------------
  by Adam C. Engst <[e-mail]>

  Microsoft has decided to reinvent the square wheel once more. The
  next version of Windows, currently code-named Chicago (apparently
  it was Jaguar before that), will not be called Windows 4.0 as one
  might expect, but will instead be called Windows95. Microsoft
  claims customers have trouble figuring out which recent version of
  Windows is the latest, though I can't figure out how anyone could
  get stuck because no matter how you parse the numbers, they
  proceed sequentially from 3.0 to 3.1 to 3.11. Evidently, the
  problem is more that, given a single version number, many users
  have no idea if it's the latest one, which is at least
  conceivable. Windows95 would in fact solve that problem, albeit
  incompletely and temporarily.

  (As an aside, the main naming convention that causes problems uses
  a d for development, since development versions are usually
  followed by beta versions, which use a b, so in fact NewsWatcher
  2.0d17 came _before_ NewsWatcher 2.0b13, the latest version.)

  Lest we think Microsoft invented the concept of giving a software
  product name the name of the current year, think about the history
  of Adobe Illustrator. First Adobe released the aptly named
  Illustrator 1.0, then 1.1, and then, in an apoplectic stroke in
  1988, Illustrator 88, which made sense at the time because it was
  pretty clear that Illustrator 88 was the latest version. But
  Illustrator 88 hung around for several years, and started looking
  seriously dated (and confusing people, when there was no
  Illustrator 89 or Illustrator 90), so Adobe came to its senses and
  next released Illustrator 3.0, skipping 2.0. They later skipped
  over 4.0 to 5.0 (probably because of the Windows versions of
  Illustrator). Illustrator 5.0 synchronized the Macintosh and
  Windows versions.

  As yet another example, a friend reminded me of a magazine that
  started out life as Science 80, and every year changed its name to
  match the year, Science 81, Science 82, and so on. My friend knew
  someone who worked at the magazine, and this person said they
  found dealing with the name change every year nightmarish, since
  business cards and letterhead had to be redone, ISSN registration
  resubmitted, and so on.

  So although Microsoft claims it will become easier for users to
  determine the latest version of Windows, the argument is flawed.
  Although they don't necessarily plan to release a new version of
  Windows every year, many people will want to know where Windows96
  is once we get to that year (and it's unlikely Microsoft will
  release a major upgrade in 1996 if past history is any
  indication). Also, what happens if Microsoft needs to release two
  upgrades in one year? Should they increase the year number for a
  minor bug fix, and what if there are two bug fixes in a single
  year? Will we see Windows95a, or Windows95 1.1, or perhaps the
  ever-popular Windows-October95? And, as Tonya pointed out, such a
  naming convention makes no long term sense. What happens in a few
  short years when we hit the year 2000? Windows00 is going to look
  stupid, so they'd have to go for Windows2000, which should confuse
  customers who figure Windows2000 is older than Windows 3.0, given
  that two is less than three. Perhaps the Microsoft marketers have
  too much time to twiddle their thumbs and come up with wacky
  marketing ideas, given the delay in shipping the product.

  The only useful piece of information that comes out of this
  official name change is that we can be certain Chicago won't ship
  until next year. Reports place the realistic ship date in the
  range of March to August of next year. So perhaps Apple can move
  past System 7.5 by then - who knows?

  The new name has already prompted many tongue-in-cheek comments
  about how 95 stands for the percentage that will be complete at
  ship, the number floppies it will ship on, the number of megabytes
  of hard disk space required, or perhaps the number of minutes to
  install.

  A more serious problem for Windows users is the fact that Windows
  apparently uses two version numbers internally, major and minor
  revision numbers, where both numbers are stored as decimals. Thus,
  Windows 3.1 was major revision 3, minor revision 1. The problem
  appears when some program checks to be sure the major revision is
  greater than 3 and the minor revision is greater than 1 before
  proceeding. Programs that check in this way will fail if the
  internal version numbers go to 4 and 0 (since the 0 is smaller
  than 1), as one might expect them to. If these programs actually
  formed the full decimal, it wouldn't be a problem, of course, but
  since some programs, perhaps many, don't do this, it becomes a
  real question. This entire issue predates the new Windows95 name,
  so now the question is what those internal version numbers will be
  in the shipping version of Windows95.


Preliminary Practical Primer to QuickDraw GX, Part II
-----------------------------------------------------
  by Tonya Engst <[e-mail]>

  What a week! The more I learn about GX, the less it turns out that
  I (or other people) know. I had hoped to explain GX fonts this
  week, but I'm holding off for next week in hopes of presenting
  more complete information. This week I'm going to talk about a
  number of the utilities that come with QuickDraw GX and explain
  how they work and why (if you use GX) you'd care. Note that if you
  didn't read Part I in TidBITS-243_, some of Part II won't make
  sense.


**Turning GX Off** -- From the behind-the-scenes software
  standpoint, QuickDraw GX prints so differently from previous
  methods that you cannot mix and match GX and non-GX methods. As a
  result, once you install QuickDraw GX, you have two main printing
  options:

* Use a QuickDraw GX printer driver and print with QuickDraw GX
  turned on. If you print with GX on, you get to take advantage of
  the new GX Page Setup and Print dialog boxes, the desktop
  printers, and so on, which I explained in Part I of this article.
  On the other hand, you cannot then take advantage of special
  features offered by the PPDs that go with the PostScript 8.x
  non-GX printer drivers (such as the PSPrinter, LaserJet, and
  LaserWriter drivers). In the future, the PPD features should be
  built into or provided with the GX drivers, but for now, if you
  need those PPD features, you probably need to turn GX off.

* If you don't have a GX driver for a printer (or fax modem) that
  you want to print to, turn GX off. There are a number of gotcha's
  here, so pay attention if you think you might install GX, but also
  might need to turn it off some of the time.


**QuickDraw GX Helper** -- There are two ways to turn off
  QuickDraw GX. The complete way involves restarting and using an
  extension manager to disable the QuickDraw GX extension. If you
  reboot with GX off, the Chooser shows non-GX drivers, you can use
  Print Monitor, and printing goes exactly as it did before you
  installed GX. Alternately, if you're lucky, you can use the
  QuickDraw GX Helper utility, a System extension that adds a
  command called Turn Desktop Printing Off to the Apple menu. Using
  QuickDraw GX Helper can either be an elegant solution or a
  complete waste of time.

  To turn off GX using QuickDraw GX Helper, you go to the Apple menu
  and choose Turn Desktop Printing Off. The command then
  conveniently metamorphoses into a Turn Desktop Printing On
  command, and you get a message proposing an alternate, non-GX
  printer driver. For as-of-yet unknown reasons, on my Mac, Turn
  Desktop Printing Off does not appear in the Apple menu unless I am
  in a non-GX-savvy application (such as WriteNow 3.0, Excel 4.0,
  Nisus 3.4, and so on). I don't know if QuickDraw GX Helper only
  works in non-GX-savvy programs or if this problem is peculiar to
  my setup (System 7.1.2 on a Power Mac 7100).

  In any event, everyone should run into the oddball problem that
  you only get one choice for that proposed alternate printer
  driver, and that choice is based on your current default desktop
  printer icon. For example, just for fun, I installed every
  ImageWriter driver that I have. With GX on, I made a serial
  ImageWriter correspond to the default printer icon, launched Nisus
  3.4, and turned off desktop printing. The Mac offered to make
  ImageWriter 2.7 the default driver, so I accepted the option and
  checked out what changed. Here's what I found:

* In Nisus, I could print using the ImageWriter driver version
  2.7.

* I was still signed up to use the ImageWriter GX driver in all
  other applications.

* My Chooser still only gave me access to GX drivers.

* The reason QuickDraw GX Helper offered me the 2.7 printer driver
  was that the driver's icon name (IW 2.7) fell earlier in the
  alphabet than the other Image Writer drivers that I installed (IW
  6.0, IW 7.0, and IW 7.1). This seems a strange way to determine
  which driver you get when you turn GX off, since chances are you'd
  want to use the latest installed version, not the earliest. On the
  other hand, once you know that QuickDraw GX Helper picks the first
  driver it encounters alphabetically, you can rename your drivers
  so it picks the one you want to use. For example, when I tried
  this same procedure, but with LaserWriter GX as driver that goes
  with the default printer, the Turn Desktop Printing Off command
  could have chosen from drivers named LaserWriter, LaserWriter 6.0,
  LaserWriter 7.2, or LaserWriter 8.1.1. It chose LaserWriter, which
  happened to be the icon name of LaserWriter version 7.0.

  Although the GX Helper seems like a reasonable idea, it doesn't
  let you access printer drivers that do not have matching GX
  drivers (such as the DeskWriter, whose GX driver is expected in a
  few weeks, and which is reportedly not the recently-released
  version 6.0). Since one of the main reasons you'd want to turn GX
  off is to print with a non-GX driver, it seems that Apple missed
  the boat with QuickDraw GX Helper. Nice try, poor execution. Let's
  now look briefly at the other QuickDraw GX utilities.


**Portable Digital Document Maker** -- This item works much like a
  printer driver (you choose the PDD Maker GX driver in the Chooser
  and turn it into a desktop printer in exactly the same way),
  except that when you print to it, you create a document on disk,
  which Apple calls a "portable digital document" (PDD). When you
  create a PDD, you indicate to what extent the fonts should be
  preserved in the document, with choices for all fonts, non-
  standard fonts (all fonts except Times, Helvetica, Courier,
  Symbol, Palatino, Geneva, New York, Monaco, and Chicago), or no
  fonts. The document can be viewed and printed from any Macintosh
  running QuickDraw GX, and (assuming the fonts work out properly)
  it looks fine. You can't do anything with a PDD except print or
  view it. On my Mac, PDDs opened in SimpleText. Although I could
  read and print a PDD, the lack of a Find or Copy feature makes
  PDDs of limited utility. In random testing using "standard" fonts
  but saving with All Fonts chosen, the PDD Maker turned a 9K
  SimpleText document into a 54K PDD, and a 23K Word 6 document
  turned into a 117K document. Neither Nisus 3.4 nor WriteNow 3.0
  could print to it at all - they aren't sufficiently GX-savvy.

  Especially since options for printing to an EPS or PostScript file
  have disappeared, it seems that an important use of PDDs will be
  for bringing files to service bureaus - if you preserve the fonts
  in the PDD, the bureau won't require the fonts in order to output
  the job. It will be interesting to see how the PDDs will affect or
  compete with Adobe Acrobat, Common Ground, and Replica, all of
  which do much the same thing.


**PaperType Editor** -- This program enables you to create custom
  paper sizes, which then show up as options in your Page Setup
  dialog box, right along with Letter and Legal.


**LaserWriter Utility** -- QuickDraw GX comes with LaserWriter
  Utility 7.7 for downloading fonts and PostScript documents and the
  like, and you must use that version if you have QuickDraw GX
  turned on.


**New color controls** -- QuickDraw GX completely changes the
  interface used to pick a desktop or highlight color. The old
  method involves a color wheel - you've probably seen it at one
  time or another - one way to see it is to open the General (or
  General Controls) control panel, and then double-click one of the
  eight desktop pattern color squares. The new method lets you
  select different color picking methods. The Apple HSL method
  resembles the old color wheel, but the Apple RGB makes it easier
  to see and anticipate how red, green, and blue will work together
  to form different colors.


**QuickDraw GX Extensions** -- A GX Extension is a third-party
  add-on of some sort, and it enables you to take advantage of one
  or more cool printing capabilities, such as making a watermark or
  printing thumbnails. At this time, the main examples of GX
  Extensions appears to be Peirce Print Tools, which I've reviewed
  later in this issue.

  Now that you know how to turn GX off and about a few of the
  related utilities, stay tuned for next week, when I'll write about
  GX fonts.

  Information from:
    Pierce Guide to GX Printing, a free paper from Peirce Software.
      Contact Peirce Software (see above) to request a copy.
    Getting Started with QuickDraw GX (an installation guide in the
      Peirce Print Tools software package)
    "Inside QuickDraw GX Fonts," by Erfert Fenton, Macworld (Oct-94,
      pg. 122). (An excellent article!)
    Apple propaganda


Peirce Print Tools
------------------
  by Tonya Engst <[e-mail]>

  "OK," you may be thinking, "I read parts I and II of the QuickDraw
  GX article, and I now know a lot about printing with QuickDraw GX.
  I run five programs regularly and only one of them even supports
  the GX printing architecture. I'm all in favor of progress, but
  what's the use of upgrading?"

  Good question, and it's one you must consider carefully.

  The problems in upgrading may outweigh the benefits, unless you
  add a few more benefits to the QuickDraw GX mix. For example, you
  might use Peirce Software's nifty new Peirce Print Tools (it works
  with System 7.1 and newer). Peirce Print Tools offers a collection
  of tools that enhance printing, and shows off GX frills and
  features. Of course, to use Peirce Print Tools, you must have the
  hardware horsepower to accommodate QuickDraw GX and be prepared to
  deal with the transition to GX. Peirce Print Tools comes with five
  disks. Four disks contain QuickDraw GX (in case you don't already
  have it from System 7.5), and the fifth contains the Peirce Print
  Tools software along with a well-thought out collection of
  templates and utilities, including the GX-based utilities that
  normally come with System 7.5.

  After installing Peirce Print Tools, you take advantage of its
  tools through the Print dialog box. If you print from a GX-savvy
  program (see Part I of the GX article in TidBITS-243_), Peirce
  Print Tools shows up as a More Choices option, and gives you
  friendly, quickly-comprehensible dialog boxes for each tool. If
  you print from a non-GX-savvy program, when you open the Print
  dialog box, a Peirce Print Tools icon shows in the menu bar, and
  you can access different tools from the menu that drops down from
  the icon.

  The dialog boxes are easier to use than the menu, especially when
  you are new to all the tools. If you use many non-GX-savvy
  programs, you'll want to explore Peirce Print Tools in a GX-savvy
  program (you can always use SimpleText or the Finder), so you can
  see the dialog boxes. Once you get up and running, though, the
  menu shouldn't pose problems.


**Design Tools** -- Peirce Print Tools gets around the problem of
  most programs not offering features for page borders, watermarks,
  and fold-over pamphlets. The Border tool offers about ten
  possibilities - nothing super fancy or unusual, but a decent basic
  selection. You can't control where on the page the border lands,
  so the borders may prove frustrating in certain design situations,
  though they do print as close to the edge as they can, given your
  chosen paper type.

  You create watermarks with the WaterMarks tool. A watermark can
  print on all pages of a print job, only the first, or all but the
  first. You can pick among several watermarks or create your own,
  using text or images. You can also set the darkness of the
  watermark.

  The Pamphlet tool helps you print a one-fold pamphlet, such that
  the pages print out correctly and all you have to do is to fold
  the pamphlet (this task becomes onerously complex without the help
  of something like the Pamphlet tool for all but the most spatially
  gifted once you get past about four pages). To use the tool, you
  must set your margins appropriately, as explained in the manual.
  The margins are not hard to set, but Peirce Print Tools also comes
  with pre-made pamphlet stationery files for WordPerfect 3.0,
  Microsoft Word 5.1, MacWrite Pro 1.5, and ClarisWorks 2.1. To use
  the tool and print double-sided, you still must have a few
  spatially alert brain cells, and the DoubleSider tool should help
  with longer pamphlets.


**Printing Tools** -- Two of the tools, BackToFront and
  DoubleSider, help you print in reverse or print to both sides of
  each page. Another tool, the PaperSaver, enables you to print
  thumbnails, where you end up with, for example, four pages printed
  in reduced form on one physical page. The InkSaver tool works much
  like Working Software's Toner Tuner utility (see TidBITS-175_).
  You can set a "Savings Level" for printouts, either by selecting
  radio buttons for High, Medium, Low, and Very Low, or by creating
  a custom percentage.


**Administrative Tools** -- Administrator types should especially
  like the Log tool which logs a large and flexible amount of data
  about each print job and can be exported as tab- or comma-
  delimited data. You can optionally query users for up to two items
  of information each time they print. Peirce Print Tools even comes
  with Excel and FileMaker templates for analyzing the data.

  The CoverPage tool lets you choose among five sample cover pages,
  each of which shows basic information about the print job and
  either a picture or a message. In a GX-savvy application, the
  dialog box shows a thumbnail preview of each cover page so you can
  see what you are choosing. You can also create your own cover
  pages, with a custom picture or message. You can set exactly what
  basic information will print, with choices for Page Count,
  Date/Time, User Name, and more.

  If you use the new QuickDraw GX printer sharing feature to
  "capture" a printer, you can force any job printed to the printer
  to have a cover page of your choice or to be logged.

  You can also take all the various settings that you set among the
  tools and assign them to a particular desktop printer icon. For
  example, you might set up a draft watermark and set the InkSaver
  feature to conserve a lot of toner. You could then assign these
  settings to a desktop printer aptly named "Draft Printer." You can
  make more than one desktop printer for the same physical printer,
  so you might make another desktop printer icon called "Final Copy
  Printer" and assign it to always print a watermark representing
  your company's logo and only save a tiny amount of toner.

  Similarly, you can take a set of settings that you feel go
  together and turn them into a Group. Peirce Print Tools comes with
  a few sample groups, such as "Turn All Off" and "4 up with
  borders," but you can create your own and then (when you want to
  use a group) just choose it. Groups are particularly handy for
  printing from a non-GX savvy application, because they
  conveniently show at the bottom of the Peirce Print Tools menu.

  In a GX-savvy application, the Summary tool lets you configure any
  of the tools via of pop-up menus. The menus might overwhelm you at
  first, but once you become familiar with the various tools, the
  Summary tool provides a convenient way to set up a print job.

  Many of the features in Peirce Print Tools can be found elsewhere,
  but by putting the features together in one package and adding the
  grouping and summary capabilities, Peirce Software has created a
  unique and, depending on your needs, tremendously useful utility.
  My main complaint is that you can't change the font of custom text
  in a custom watermark or cover page (though you could make a
  custom PICT that used any font you wanted). For the $129 suggested
  retail price (about $90 mail order), you won't buy Peirce Print
  Tools unless you plan to regularly use the features, but given the
  feature set and overall implementation, the program is definitely
  worth the price.

  Even if you don't want to ante up the money for Peirce Print
  Tools, if you have the System 7.5 CD, look for special versions of
  the PaperSaver and WaterMark tools. They only work with GX-savvy
  programs and aren't quite as flexible as the versions that come
  with Peirce Print Tools, but they should give you the basic flavor
  of how they work in the full-featured package.

    Peirce Software -- 800/828-6554 -- 408/244-6554
      408/244-6882 (fax) -- <[e-mail]>
    Working Software -- 800/229-9675 -- 408/423-5696
      408/423-5699 (fax) -- <[e-mail]>


Reviews/19-Sep-94
-----------------

* MacWEEK -- 12-Sep-94, Vol. 8, #36
    InfoDepot 2.0 -- pg. 37
    ClarisDraw 1.0 -- pg. 37
    AfterImage 1.0 -- pg. 42

* InfoWorld -- 12-Sep-94, Vol. 16, #37
    Wollongong PathWay Access for Macintosh 2.12 -- pg. 68
    TCP Connect II for Macintosh 1.2.1 -- pg. 68


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