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Stone Design Ships Create 2.1
ALBUQUERQUE, NM, April 20, 1994 - Stone Design has begun shipping Create 2.1 on
CDROM.
According to Andrew Stone, CEO of Stone Design, "This release adds
even more functionality to Create, proving the axiom that Create
is the best-supported drawing package on NEXTSTEP. The CDROM allows
us to ship an online Manual database and many tutorial documents,
as well as demos of all of our apps"
New Features for 2.1:
* The Arc Tool was added. Now it's easy to do pie charts and accurate
arcs with precision.
* The Create DataWell and Selection Status Fields:
- DataWell -The new datawell in each Create document has 6 different
file types that you can drag out and drop in all conforming
NEXTSTEP apps: EPS, TIFF, CreateImage, PS, RTF and ASCII. You can
even drag them into any Create document, as a shorthand for
copy/paste! What you get depends on the current type in the well,
use the Data Type pop up to change to another data type.
- Selection Status Field _ This field helps you identify what
type of object is currently selected in your document. If more
than one object is selected and they are all of the same type,
it will display those objects's name. The Select Previous and
Select Next buttons allow rapid selection of small objects.
* Complete On-line Manual Database
A complete, searchable online database is provided as an installable
package. Once installed, this will place a new menu item in the
Info submenu, Online Manual... This will launch DataPhile (included
on the CDROM as a demo).
* Double-Click a text object to edit
Brought back by popular demand, you can quickly edit Super Text or
Paragraph Text by double clicking it.
* User patterns now flow with .createImage files
This allows you to paste or drag and drop patterns that reside on
the pasteboard or in a .createImage file into DataPhile or into
another user's Create doc.
* Many bug fixes to Version 2.0
Many bug fixes of mostly minor but annoying problems were addressed.
Many system administrators won't buy a product that ends in "0" -
and for good reason. This version is rock solid and ready to roll.
New Features since Version 1.2:
* NSFIP compatibility - Create 2.1 offers full compatibility with
NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors on NeXT-qualified Intel-based hardware
configurations and Motorola-based NeXT hardware.
* Hot links to and from Create - < Include link buttons, icons and
linked files in any Create document for automatic and manual updating;
link to Create files from any other NEXTSTEP app that supports hot
links.
* Filter support - Create supports Bacchus' ImageAgent image filters;
e.g. drag and drop GIFs and many other foreign graphic images into
Create.
* Multiple Pages - Add, duplicate, rearrange as many pages in a
document as you like.
* Animate - Allows you to display your pages in sequence and specify
the delay between pages.
* Unlimited Custom Patterns - Create stunning patterns with unlimited
variety. Share with friends.
* On-line Help - < Create 2.1 includes extensive on-line help based
on the NEXTSTEP standard. You can click on any interface object to
learn about it, and cruise through hyper text learning about Create.
* Text into Editable Curves - Take any Super Text and turn into
editable shapes. Create your own wild type!
* Unlimited Undo - Tell Create how many edit actions to remember,
then Undo to your heart's content; free up memory using the new
Free Undo Buffers command.
* Paintbrush Tool - Drag out a swath of color, smear a pattern and
edit individual points along the outline.
* Dynamic Date and Page Markers - You can add an automatically
updating or fixed date markers, and auto-increment page numbers,
to any document.
Create 2.1 is offered in multiple-architecture binary form, making
it compatible with both NeXT and Intel-based hardware running
NEXTSTEP version 3.1 or later. In addition, Stone said, "We shall
port to PA-RISC as soon as it's available."
Create 2.1 can be shared on a network comprising both NeXT and
Intel hardware; documents created on either machine can be opened
on any other machine running the same version of Create.
Create 2.1, which is available for media costs to registered users
of Create 2.0 and $99 for registered users of Create 1.0, lists for
$495. Trade-ups to Intel versions of all Stone software purchased
between February 12, 1993 and May 21, 1993 are available free of
charge to end users.
To receive automated pricing information on Stone products, send email to:
ns-products@digifix.com
with a message containing the name of the file(s) you want to get:
STONE_CD_SHIPS.rtfd
Create_Version_2.1_PriceList.ps
Create_Version_2.1_SHIPS.rtfd
Create_Version_2.rtfd
The files will be promptly returned by NextMail.
If you have WWW, you can view these files directly, for example: <http:
//digifix.digifix.com/Vendors/Stone_Design_Corp.html>
To send questions to a human: info@stone.com or call us at (505) 345 4800
***
Stone Design Corporation of Albuquerque, New Mexico, founded in
1984, develops a variety of productivity applications for NEXTSTEP.
Create is a trademark of Stone Design Corporation. All other brand
names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their
respective owners.