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Item 4144921 94/03/07 05:38
From: DARREN_SMITH@NEXT.COM@INET# Internet Gateway
Subject: Pages Software Announces Shipment of Pages by Pages(tm)
For Immediate Release
Contact:Susan Peterson
Pages Software Inc
9755 Clairemont Mesa Blvd.
San Diego, CA 92124
619/492-9050 X 225
619/492-9124 fax
susan@pages.com
Ann Kohut
Manning, Selvage & Lee
10 Universal City Plaza
Suite 2600
Universal City, CA 91608-1084
818/509-1840
818/509-1972 fax
PAGES SOFTWARE ANNOUNCES FIRST WORLDWIDE SHIPMENTS OF PAGES by
PAGES(tm)
OBJECTBASED PROGRAM REPRESENTS SHIFT IN DOCUMENT CREATION
PARADIGM
SAN DIEGO,CA, March 7, 1994 _ Pages Software Inc today announced
it has begun worldwide customer shipments of Pages by Pages(tm),
the company's much lauded ObjectBased(tm) software application
that allows users - including those with little or no layout or
design expertise - to write, publish, and present information
easily and effectively.
Pages by Pages, as both company executives and publishing industry
observers agree, represents a complete shift in the document and
presentation creation paradigm. Because the program is
object-oriented throughout, it transcends existing page layout and
desktop publishing programs.
"Pages is one of the few new software products that is not
evolutionary," said Larry Spelhaug, Pages CEO. " Pages is
rule-based and is driven by Design Models(tm), which are the heart
of its uniqueness. What we do is separate a document's content
from its format, allowing the user to concentrate on writing the
document."
"During the development process we had always committed to
delivering a product that was stable and productive; we now have
that and much more," stated Bruce Webster, Pages' chief technical
officer. "Pages by Pages is a product that's more elegant, mature,
and feature-rich than we had planned. It's a complete product, and
I'm confident that those who viewed it during development as well
as those trying it for the first time will be favorably
impressed."
Pages by Pages, which operates on both Motorola and Intel- based
processor systems running NEXTSTEP(tm) - the industry acclaimed
object-oriented operating system - is targeted to all levels of
users in corporate, government, and education markets. Recent
agreements between NeXT and Hewlett-Packard will soon enable Pages
to run on HP's PA-RISC based machines running NEXTSTEP. NEXTSTEP
will run on Sun's SPARC stations this year, and NeXT and Sun have
jointly agreed to publish the OPENSTEP(tm) specification by
mid-1994.
"We believe that Pages by Pages is such an outstanding product, it
will expand the market for both NEXTSTEP(tm) and OPENSTEP. Pages'
success on these platforms will create a bow wave that the company
will ride into other markets," Spelhaug stated.
Pages by Pages is based on the philosophy that document processing
applications should let the person writing the document focus on
the content, and details of the style of the document should be
built into the application. Styles and rules for the document have
been created for the user in Design Models, which let the user
choose the style of any element of a document in the icon-based
element inspector. Users can also easily re-format or change the
look of the entire document at the click of a button. Pages can be
used for single-page letters and memos or for multi-page reports,
newsletters, manuals or presentations. Because Pages is so simple
to use and offers so much functionality, it makes users more
productive by allowing them more time to concentrate on the
content of their work.
Design Models are the unique part of the Pages system. Design
Models use the expertise of a professional designer and production
person into rules and priorities, that ensure effective page
layout. These rules govern the behavior of elements that make up
documents or presentations. Users will be able to select from a
number of standard Design Models that are included with Pages.
Bundled Design Models will meet the needs of users who produce a
wide variety of documents: letters, reports, proposals,
newsletters, manuals, and presentations. Additional Design Models
will be available and will be priced separately. Design Models for
professional markets such as financial services, legal, and
medical are planned.
The company also said that a Designer Toolkit(tm) enhancement to
Pages by Pages will soon be made available to qualified customers.
The Designer Toolkit will provide tools that allow users to adapt
existing Design Models or to create new Design Models to fill a
specific need. The tools will translate a designer's concepts and
intentions into rules and priorities. Pages Designer Toolkit will
be available at the end of the year.
An introductory special of $595 (a $200 savings off the standard
retail price of $795) is offered for the first 90 days, with
discounts for site licenses and educational institutions. The
introductory price includes the product, four Design Models, one
year free support, one additional Design Model (as they become
available), and a free Pages upgrade. A 30-day license evaluation
unit is available for $14.95.
Pages will be sold through authorized resellers worldwide, as well
as directly from Pages Software Inc. Orders can be placed by
calling 1-800-772-5335.
System requirements are NEXTSTEP 3.0 or higher with a minimum 20MB
of hard disk space and 16 MB of RAM. For NEXTSTEP Intel platforms,
1024 x 768 or greater resolution is recommended, with a minimum of
20MB of hard disk space and 16MB of RAM. The product is available
initially on magnetic media, and will soon be released on CD-ROM .
Pages Software Inc was founded in June,1990 with the intent to
lead the document processing software industry with easy-to-use,
productive solutions for all levels of office professionals. The
company's products, initially being developed on NEXTSTEP, are
planned for multiple computer platforms and operating systems.
Pages Version 1.0 Feature List
Architecture
Completely object-oriented document processor
Design elements (such as font, columns, tables, graphics)
all are objects.
Design Models provide design intelligence embedded into
every document.
Object-link compatible
Support for short, easy documents as well as long, complex
documents full support of NeXTSTEP 3.0+
environment.
User interface
moveable tool bar, with tear-off sub-bars
WYSIWYG display
various display levels, including full page, facing pages,
multiple pages, thumbnails.
ability to scale display between 25% and 200%
ability to edit and layout at all display and
magnification levels.
unlimited windows and documents open at any time
Documents
unlimited pages, sections, stories per document
unlimited number of documents open simultaneously
automatic creation of backup document
automatic document save at user-selected interval
open document defaults set at user or network level
manual page breaks
document management subsystem
thumbnail representations for quick document
re-arrangement.
zoom and page arrangement feature allows for continued
editing.
single page, 2 page, or book arrangement
gutter control for binding
letter, legal, landscape, A4, overhead and 35mm slide page
sizes pre-set.
full find/replace functionality
multiple levels of Undo/Redo
Design models
3 Design models with shipping release, 1 to follow
post-release 1.0
rule-based style choices for a wide range of design
elements
multiple design models open simultaneously
Design Model transformations
Stylesheets
separate stylesheets for each section
stylesheets and style sets can be saved, edited,
protected, named, viewed, re-used
unlimited number of stylesheets per document
style sets with multiple stylesheets available
Styles
Styles defined in Design Models
System of automatic style coordination
automatic global paragraph styles
support for bulleted lists, outlines, and TOC leaders
alternate and exception styles pre-set or user created
embellishments controlled by user and/or system
administration
Templates
pre-defined and user-defined templates
network or local distribution
Import/Export of text
export text to ASCII, RTF, PostScript
import text from ASCII, RTF, MIF, WordPerfect 5.0,
WriteNow
Typographic functions
adjustable point size, leading
automatic kerning
patented copyfitting feature
automatic handling of "smart quotes"
user-selectable text justification
full support for the ISO Latin-1 character set
automatic fit matching during font substitution
text emphasis includes underline, strikethrough, super-
and subscripts, bold, italic, more
widows and orphan control
automatic generation of drop caps
case change (all caps, lower caps, etc.)
Color and fills
full screen color support
ability to apply spot color to titles, heads, text,
background, headers, footers, graphics, borders,
and more
separate selection of stroke and fill colors for text
Graphics
ability to import and place EPS and TIFF graphics
fixed or floating placement
ability to scale, rotate, flip graphic images
user-selectable text wrap around graphics, frames
Object manipulation
drag-and-drop placement of objects on page
ability to move objects throughout document
ability to cut, copy and paste objects
ability to add decorative borders to object
object linking for live links with other next applications
Layout
fixed and floating frames for headings, graphics, tables,
rules and more
display column guides, grid lines
snap to column lines, grid lines
display and print crop and registration marks
user-selectable units, including points, picas, inches,
centimeters, ciceros, didots
Preferences
Global or document preferences at the user or network
level
show or hide columns, text symbols, graphics, grid
Columns
unlimited number of columns [based on design model]
manual column breaks
book or magazine flow
Headers and footers
automatic insertion, including different styles for facing
pages
ability to set up and edit text fields with variables
multiple numbering styles
multiple numbering sequences for sections, documents
Footnotes
supports bottom-of-page footnotes
user-selectable numbering and format styles
automatic renumbering
full copy and paste supported
Tables
ability to copy tab-delimited data from other spreadsheets
pre-set table styles with user editing and formatting
features
dynamic layout and manipulation of table elements
ability to join, split, and grow cells
full emphasis capability, including text justification
direct text entry and deletion, with automatic
reformatting of document
full support of cut, copy and paste
ability to edit across column
Auto numbering
variables (marker language)
date and time markers
automatic numbering of captions, including multiple
sequences
automatic numbering of sections, chapters
automatic page numbers across sections, documents
multiple numbering styles
Hyphenation
automatic hyphenation control with exception words
ability to limit consecutive hyphens in a paragraph
Spell check
ability to add and delete words in user dictionaries
ability to select custom dictionaries
on-line access to definition/thesaurus dictionary
Documentation, help and tutorial
full user and reference manuals
on-line context-sensitive help system
on-line "resident expert" information for style selections
Printing
supports all NeXT-compatible output devices, including
imagesetters, film recorders, third-party
PostScript printers
supports both monochrome and color output
crop and registration mark printing option
# # #
Pages by Pages, ObjectBased, Design Models, and Designer Toolkit
are trademarks of Pages Software Inc. NeXT, NEXTSTEP, and
OPENSTEP are trademarks or registered trademarks of NeXT Computer,
Inc.
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