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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Alembic Systems International Ltd.
14 Inverness Dr. East G-228
Englewood CO 80112
(303).799.6223
(303).799.1709 fax
800 452.7608
e-mail:info@alembic.com
34 Alexandra House
333 Kings Road
London SW3 5ET
+44(0)71.351.9980
+44(0)71.351.3117 fax
e-mail:info-europe@alembic.com
ESSENTIAL OFFICE PAK - Bundled NEXTSTEP Applications to
Enhance the Office Objective.
Denver Colorado, April 27, 1994 - Office applications for
users of NEXTSTEP are now bundled to offer the customer a
comprehensive set of tools at a special price. Alembic
Systems International has bundled Write-Up, VarioData,
Questor and Graphity to produce "The Essential OfficePak."
Until June 1st, 1994, the Essential OfficePak is available
$995.00-normal list price of $1,838
"With service and support behind our products, many
customers have wanted a bulk deal instead of having to go
through the buying process four times." Said Dale Pratt,
Vice President of Alembic "This bundle eliminates such
hassles, and saves the customer money."
Further money saving opportunities are available to NEXTSTEP
users via a quarterly CD that reviews the latest notable
events, provides a wealth of new demonstration applications,
special pricing opportunities, as well as industry trends
happening in the NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP Market. "Its all intended
to give the NEXTSTEP user what they have been asking for all
along," Pratt said "a true resource to compliment NEXTSTEP."
*** Write-Up Native NEXTSTEP Word Processing.
Write-Up is the new word processor designed from the ground
up on NEXTSTEP objects. Fast and Flexible, Write-Up
provides the processing power NEXTSTEP users have asked for.
Features: # # # Text Processing -- Fonts: multiple faces and
sizes. Attributes: bold, italic, underline, superscript,
subscript, small caps. Justification: left, center, right,
full. Line spacing: preset or variable. Hyphenation:
automatic. Color: drag-and-drop from standard color panel.
Style sheets: global and document-specific. Case change
operations: lower, upper, capitalize. Date/time codes.
Inline graphics, with baseline support. Emacs keybindings,
including forward delete and transpose operations.
Graphics Processing -- Drag-and-drop scalable graphics.
Automatic text overlay or runaround # # # Document
Processing. Full WYSIWYG display, including headers,
footers, and graphics. Page navigator: thumbnail view for
easy maneuvering through documents. Multiple document
views: different pages and/or zoom factors. Margins:
document and paragraph-specific. Floating Rulers: tab,
margin, and indentation settings. Headers/Footers: single
or odd/even pages, option to exclude first page. Zoom
in/out: 10% to 1600%, WYSIWYG placement, sizing, and
editing of all document elements. Automatic page numbering,
Roman or Arabic style, Manual page breaks. # # #Document
Management/Other -- Standard file handling: new, open, save,
save as, revert to saved, etc. Template documents:
load/save. Import formats: ASCII, RTF, WordPerfect,
WriteNow, TIFF, EPS. Spell checking. On-line help.
Internationalization: Dictionaries and hyphenation for
numerous languages (call for details) All program messages
in easily modified string tables. User interface (nib)
files available for editing. User-selectable decimal align
character
*** VarioData The multi-user database
application for NEXTSTEP VarioData contains two
applications: VarioBuilder and VarioData. VarioBuilder is
used to create a new database and modify an existing one,
while VarioData is primarily used for the actual database
front-end itself.
VarioBuilder: # # # Create and modify any user-definable
database layout. Multimedia database elements:
texts(ASCII, RTF), numbers, date, time, switch, pop-up list,
images, sounds, key words, files, formula, text
drag-and-drop, e-mail connection buttons. Multiple
database windows. Create any database by drag-and-dropping
elements. Easy-to-use inspectors for each element.
User-definable formulas for every element. Default values,
serial numbers, automatic input like user name, time of
modification, date of creation etc. Unique fields, fields
that have to be filled. Date, time, number input, text
length, upper case formats. Drag-and-drop of background
images, colors, text colors. Input order definition.
Extended on-line help
VarioData: # # # Report design elements--squares, circles,
lines, freehand lines, polygons, texts, and more.
Drag-and-drop text, images, colors, text colors.
Formulas: text, number, date, time, logical, mathematical
functions, merge with database contents. Formula
inspector: define formula, choose function from list.
Report layout inspector: define lines, arrows, etc.
Barcode generation. Multi-page report. User-definable
labels. Help lines for texts, ruler, alignment, definable
grid, fonts, etc. Database: new, change, delete, find,
find all, find plus, find minus, extended find conditions:
<=, >=, between, one or more conditions simultaneously.
Drag-and-drop images (tiff, eps, ps, ai), sounds, texts
(ASCII, RTF<) into the database and out to other apps or
file viewer. All records are shown in the user-definable
listbox. Define the order of the listbox columns, which are
displayed or hidden, ascending or descending order for each
column. Extended print panel: merge of fax, print, e-mail
according to the database contents. Print all, the
selection of records or only the current one. Extended
import/export facilities: user-definable filters,
pre-defined filters: e.g. WordPerfect, Improv, Excel,
FrameMaker MIF, automatic character conversion. Update of
existing records with user-definable formulas. Multi-user
support with safe record locking. Work with more than one
database at the same time. Album and album inspector.
Extended on-line help for everything. Action shortcuts:
new, change, find, next record, etc.
*** Questor Matrix-based spreadsheet application
for NEXTSTEP Questor is a spreadsheet application for
NEXTSTEP that combines the intuitive metaphor of
matrix-based spreadsheet with a number of very powerful
features and a true NEXTSTEP interface. Questor includes a
powerful scripting language, a seamless SQL database
interface and a flexible API that makes Questor the perfect
tool for any type of problem solving.
The backbone of Questor is a conventional matrix-based
spreadsheet application that can easily be used by anybody
that have once used spreadsheet applications like Microsoft
Excel, Lotus 1-2-3, or Wingz.
Features: # # # QScript--a structured scripting language
with an "intelligent" editor including automatic
pretty-printing and programming support. Input
controllers--buttons, text fields and sliders-- can be
drag-and-dropped anywhere on worksheet and connected to
QScript code or to cells directly. Output objects such as
graphs and gauges can be placed anywhere. Graph types:
bar, stacked bar, line, combination, stock, area, stacked
area, scatter (xy-plot) and pie. Hot links to Xanthus
Graphity-- a business graphic application that supports 3D
graphs. Seamless connections to SQL databases using
NEXTSTEP Database Kit. Timers to trigger complex
calculations, database queries and other event at regular
intervals. Double-direction API to control and send/feed
data to/from other apps. User-definable object palettes.
Drawing tools. TIFF/EPS image and sound support. Imports
from Lotus 1-2-3 WKS/WK1, and Microsoft Excel SYLK, and
BIFF2-4 files. Exports to WK1 format. Full support for
Lotus 1-2-3 bracket macros. User-defined number of undos.
Report layout functions with direct manipulation and
drawing tools. Object linking support. QScript Debugger
allow QScript functions to be debugged seamlessly. Basic
support for multi-user access.
*** Graphity Business graphics application for
NEXTSTEP Graphity is a powerful yet easy-to-use business
graphics application for NEXTSTEP that can be used as a
stand-alone application or together with Questor
spreadsheet application. Graphity supports many popular
graph types, including stunning 3D graphs with light
sources, shaders and textures.
Features: # # # 3D graphs based on RenderMan. A powerful
API that allows other apps to easily control and send data
to Graphity. Hot links to Questor spreadsheet application.
User palettes support--Users can easily create new palettes
with customized graphs and graphics. Drawing tools that
allow to draw directly on a graph sheet. Images and sound
can be drag-and-dropped anywhere on a graph sheet.
Unlimited undo with user-definable number of undos. 2D
graph types: bar, stacked bar, line, combination, stock,
area, stacked area, scatter (xy-plot) and pie. 3D graph
types: bar, area, scatter (xyz-plot) and pie. Multiple
light-sources for 3D graphs that can be positioned
individually. User-defined shaders and textures for 3D
graphs. True NEXTSTEP user interface. Smooth scrolling of
documents. Direct manipulation of all objects on a graph
sheet. Use of the NEXTSTEP Color Panel and Font Panel for
editing graphs. Inspectors for all graph types.
Drag-and-drop from Workspace and from the ToolBox in
Graphity. Object linking support
# # # 1993 Alembic Systems International. All rights
reserved. NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP are registered trademarks
of NeXT Inc. All other product names mentioned herein are
registered trademarks of their respective owners.