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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
For more information please contact:
Xanthus USA Xanthus International
David Peter Jesper Lundh
Phone: +1-619-632-9700 Phone: +46-8-635 30 62
Fax: +1-619-632-9702 Fax: +46-8-98 70 67
Email: info@xanthus.com Email: info@xanthus.se
Xanthus Offers Special Introductory Pricing of $249 for Questor 3.0
Spreadsheet Application for NEXTSTEP
San Diego, July 19, 1994 - Xanthus International today announced that
it has begun shipping Questor 3.0, the latest release of its
award-winning spreadsheet application for NEXTSTEP. The new version
offers Microsoft Excel 4.0 file compatibility. (Complete product info
is at the end of this message)
Xanthus also announced special introductory pricing on Questor 3.0 of
$249 (Retail $595) for a single-user license, available through
August 31, 1994. Questor 3.0 is delivered as fat (MAB) binaries for
Motorola and Intel processors. Registered owners of Questor 2.0 will
automatically receive a free upgrade to the new version.
Xanthus is also offering special promotional pricing on Graphity, its
business graphing and charting application which can be used together
with Questor or as a stand-alone application. When purchased with
Questor at the promotional price, Graphity can be purchased for an
additional $50 (Retail $395).
The total price for the Questor/Graphity bundle is $299, a savings of
over $600.
To order, email, fax or phone Xanthus USA at:
Xanthus USA
345 First St., Suite O
Encinitas, CA 92024
Ph. (619) 632-9700
Fax (619) 632-9702
Email: sales@xanthus.com
When ordering, please provide the following information:
Name _______________________________________________
Company _______________________________________________
Address _______________________________________________
City _______________________________________________
State _______________________________________________
Zip _______________________________________________
Country _______________________________________________
Phone _______________________________________________
Fax _______________________________________________
Email _______________________________________________
I would like to order (____) copies of Questor 3.0 at $249 each.
I would like to order (____) copies of the Questor/Graphity bundle at
$299 each.
Method of Payment: ( ) COD ( ) Credit Card ( ) Company Check
If Payment is via Credit Card, which type: ( ) VISA ( ) MC
Expiration Date: _________________________________________
Name on Card: _________________________________________
Total Price $___________
Shipping charges will be added to your invoice.
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_____________ Questor 3.0 Product Info _____________
Questor 3.0 is the most user-friendly and powerful spreadsheet
application for NEXTSTEP. It combines the intuitive metaphor of a
"matrix-based" spreadsheet application with a number of unique
features and a true NEXTSTEP user interface. Together with OpenWrite,
the "Microsoft Word-like" word processor announced by Xanthus at
NEXTSTEP EXPO 94, Questor is one of the cornerstones in it's Open
Office product suite.
The backbone of Questor 3.0 is a conventional matrix-based
spreadsheet that can easily be used by anybody familiar with
traditional spreadsheet programs such as Microsoft Excel, Lotus 1-2-3
or Wingz.
To this backbone is added a number of unique features, including
easy-to-use SQL database access, a powerful scripting language,
multi-level undo and a versatile API.
Questor 3.0 is designed to be extremely easy to integrate with SQL
databases and custom-made applications on NEXTSTEP.
Questor 3.0 is the third release of the application. Questor 1.0 was
released in May 1993.
--- New features in Questor 3.0 include:
- Significantly improved performance regarding worksheet
recalculation and file access, especially for large documents.
- A very high level of Microsoft Excel 4.0 file compatibility. Excel
4.0 files can actually be imported into Questor, edited, and exported
back to Excel 4.0, without losing any formatting or style
information.
- Full support for Excel 4.0 compatible cell styles.
- More than 100 new functions to better support the Excel 4.0
function set in the area of finance, math and statistics.
- Full support for the new Open Object Embedding (OOE) standard from
Xanthus. Worksheets can be created and edited from within OpenWrite
word processor documents.
- Print/scrolling titles.
- Improved user interface. Easier access to commonly used functions,
and improved menu structure.
--- Standard Questor features:
- A state-of-the-art user interface for easy access to all features,
including a ToolBox with object palettes and a number of other tools
that removes the need of modal panels for filling, searching and
sorting data.
- Multi-level undo. All commands can be undone and the number of
undos are user defined.
- Reads the BIFF2-4, WKS, WK1 and SYLK file-formats, which enables
you to import worksheets from Lotus 1-2-3, Lotus Improv, Microsoft
Excel and Wingz.
- Writes the BIFF4 and WK1 file-format, which enables you to export
worksheets to Microsoft Excel, Lotus 1-2-3, Lotus Improv and Wingz.
- Powerful report layout functions that allows total control over the
layout of your documents, including direct manipulation and drawing
tools.
- Many graph types are supported, including bar, stacked bar, line,
combination, stock, area, stacked area, scatter (xy-plot) and pie.
The components of a graph can be edited separately.
- Hot-links to Graphity (like Lotus Improv and Presentation Builder).
Graphity is a business graphics application from Xanthus that
supports 3D graphs based on Renderman.
- Seamless connections to relational databases like Oracle and Sybase
using the Database Kit in NEXTSTEP.
- Timers that can trigger complex calculations, database queries or
any other event at regular intervals.
- A powerful structured scripting language - QScript with an
"intelligent" editor, including automatic pretty-printing and
programming support. QScript allows you to customize your worksheet
to perform very specific tasks.
- Input controllers like buttons, text-fields and sliders can be
drag-and-dropped anywhere on the worksheet, and connected to QScript
code or directly to cells by control-dragging.
- Output objects like graphs and gauges can be drag-and-dropped
anywhere on the worksheet, and be connected to cell areas by
control-dragging for continuous updating.
- A powerful double-directed API that allows Questor to easily
control and send data to other applications. The API also makes it
easy for other applications to control Questor and to feed data into
worksheets.
- External functions can be written in C or in QScript and be loaded
into Questor for easy extensibility.
- Full support for user palettes. Users can easily create new
palettes with customized graphs, graphics and control objects.
- Drawing tools that allows you to draw directly on the worksheet.
- Images and sound can be drag-and-dropped anywhere on the worksheet
to create stunning documents including graphics and sound effects.
- Full support for object linking. Graphs, cell areas and graphics
can be copied and linked into other documents for continuous
updating.