Contact: Jeff Blume
(303) 484-7321
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Stylus announces the Stylus Pro-Pak

Ft. Collins, CO. - Stylus, Inc. announces the Stylus Pro-Pak; a professional software bundle for graphic artists. The Stylus Pro-Pak includes ProVector 3, a major update of our structured-drawing program; StylusTracer(tm), for autotracing, image-processing, and touch-up; PSImport(tm), for PostScript importing and editing; and RexxRequest(tm), an ARexx command host for designing Intuition(tm) requesters for ARexx macros.

NEW FEATURES IN PROVECTOR 3:

• Advanced Graphic Architecture(tm) support
• A complete "interface-lift"
• New gradient fill options
• New object effects, including perspective, blending, skewing, mirroring, warping, etc.
• Object masks (clipping paths)
• Additional file formats supported include HP-GL, and Adobe Illustrator
• Improved text support, including resident and downloaded PostScript Type 1 support, text blocks, text effects, imbedded formatting commands
• Anti-aliased, 24-bit ILBM output
• PostScript Color Separations w/ Trapping, UCR, etc.
• Math Coprocessor support
• Support for Amiga OS 2.1 & 3.0 features, including ARexx; context-sensitive, on-line help via AmigaGuide(tm); public screen support; standard Amiga file and screen mode requesters

LONG-STANDING FEATURES

• Multiple Undos
• True Layers
• Structured and bitmapped pattern fills
• Magnetism
• ARexx
• Multiple Projects
• Page sizes up to 15x15 miles
• RELIABILITY

PSIMPORT(tm), the utility that gives ProVector the ability to load and edit PostScript files, has been updated to complement the new features of ProVector. Support has been added for the following PostScript(R) features:

• Text objects
• Gradient fills
• Clipping paths (masks)

STYLUSTRACER includes a full suite of image-processing and touch-up tools to prepare bitmaps for tracing. IFF-ILBM and TIFF bitmaps may be traced. Traced drawings may be saved in either IFF-DR2D, or Adobe Illustrator(tm) file formats. Tracing options include object tracing, center-line tracing, sub-polygon (objects with holes) tracing, and thin-line tracing. StylusTracer utilizes ARexx for macros and interprocess communication, as well as AmigaGuide for on-line help.

Finally, REXXREQUEST is an ARexx command host utility which gives ARexx macros access to the Amiga gadtools.library, for building 2.X style requesters. Included macros provide examples of RexxRequest's use, as well as useful functions in their own right.

The Stylus Pro-Pak is available NOW at a suggested list of $299.95 (US). For a limited time, the Stylus Pro-Pack will be available directly from Stylus, Inc. at an introductory price of $199.95. Registered ProVector 2.1 users who have also registered PSImport can upgrade to the Stylus Pro-Pack for $99.95. Registered ProVector 2.1 users without PSImport can upgrade for $129.95. A Power-Up offer has been established which allows owners of earlier versions of ProVector, Art Expressions, Professional Draw, DesignWorks, or Aegis Draw, to upgrade for $149.95. These special offers will only be available through July 31, 1995.

Upgrade and power-up requests with a check drawn on a US bank, or international bank draft, should be sent to:

att. Stylus Pro-Pak Upgrade
Stylus, Inc.
P.O. Box 1671
Ft. Collins, CO 80522

along with registration numbers or proof of purchase as appli- cable. Please include $7.00 for domestic shipping of new purchases; $10.00 for Canada and Mexico; $20.00 for all other international destinations. Include $5.00 for domestic update shipping; $10.00 for international update shipping. Colorado residents must include sales tax.

A demonstration archive, "StylusDemo.lha" has been uploaded to BIX and Aminet. On Aminet, the archive may currently be found as "/pub/aminet/recent/StylusDemo.lha." Eventually, it should be found as "/pub/aminet/biz/demo/StylusDemo.lha."

This release includes complete online documentation in AmigaGuide format. The printed manuals are current to the 2.1 release of ProVector. All of the new features in the Stylus Pro-Pak are documented in the convenient, context-sensitive, AmigaGuide on-line help.

ProVector 3 and StylusTracer require Amiga/OS version 2.1 or later and 2 megabytes of RAM. A hard disk, additional RAM, and OS 3.1 are recommended. ProVector is a registered trademark of Stylus, Inc. StylusTracer and PSImport are trademarks of Stylus, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.