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Xanthus USA
David Peter
Phone: +1-619-632-9700
Fax: +1-619-632-9702
Email: info@xanthus.com
Xanthus International
Jesper Lundh
Phone: +46-8-635 30 62
Fax: +46-8-98 70 67
Email: info@xanthus.se
XANTHUS ANNOUNCES SUPPORT FOR WORD, WORDPERFECT, FRAMEMAKER, AMI
PRO AND WRITENOW FILE FORMATS IN ITS OPENWRITE WORD PROCESSOR FOR
NEXTSTEP
San Diego, CA 1 August 2, 1994 1 Xanthus International today
announced that OpenWrite, the company's new word processor for
NEXTSTEP, will include support for all of the leading Windows, DOS
and Macintosh based word processors. Scheduled for release this
summer, OpenWrite 1.0 will be available for NEXTSTEP on HP PA-RISC,
Intel and Motorola platforms.
OpenWrite will read and write to a large variety of document formats,
including ASCII, RTF, RTFD, WriteNow, Microsoft Word, WordPerfect,
Maker Interchange Format (Framemaker), Lotus Ami Pro and others,
as well as most of the popular graphics formats found on the
Macintosh and PC platforms.
*Exchanging documents with users on other platforms is an extremely
important issue for NEXTSTEP users and OpenWrite meets all demands:
said David Peter, Vice President of Sales for Xanthus USA. Peter
added that *OpenWrite is currently being evaluated at most large
NEXTSTEP enterprise deployments, and we've added this support at
their request. We'll deliver an extremely robust, full-featured
word processor tailored to meet customer needs.:
OpenWrite is designed for the everyday word processor user and has
most of the features found in an application like Microsoft Word,
including headers, footers, footnotes, hierarchical styles, variables,
borders, multi-level undo, mailmerge, NEXTSTEP spell-checking and
multiple columns, as well as user controllable wrap-around graphics
(fixed and floating), kerning, tracking, and free-floating text
blocks. A future release will include support for multifile books,
cross-references, table of contents, indexing and redlining.
OpenWrite also supports Xanthus) new Open Object Embedding (OOE)
standard. The OOE standard allows for compound documents to be
created and manipulated quickly and easily, and is built around
standard NEXTSTEP building blocks such as Distributed Objects and
the NEXTSTEP Pasteboard. For example, from within OpenWrite, the
user can create spreadsheets, graphics, tables, etc., by using
other applications that are OOE compliant. Current OOE compliant
applications include Xanthus Questor (spreadsheet), Xanthus Graphity
(charts and graphing), Xanthus BusinessDraw (diagram drawing),
Digital Tool Works EquationBuilder (equation editor), Draw++
(drawing, free with OpenWrite) and Yap++ (postScript editing, free
with OpenWrite). Support for OOE is also planned in Tiffany II
(image processing) from Benchmark Development and Tailor (postscript
editor) from FirstClass NV.
In addition, OpenWrite has a robust API that is built on top of
NeXT's Distributed Objects framework and allows for programatic
opening, saving and creation of OpenWrite documents. The most
powerful part of the API is the capability to dynamically load a
module into OpenWrite, which can be called automatically at certain
events.
Xanthus International AB, with offices in Stockholm, Sweden, and
San Diego, California, is a privately owned software development
company that specializes in productivity software for the NEXTSTEP
platform. Xanthus is 49% owned by the Swedish networking company
Upnet (Upnod Networks AB). Upnet is one of Sweden's most successful
and expanding networking companies with offices located in Sweden
and Norway. The Upnet Group includes 12 companies, has a total of
151 employees and expects sales in excess of $48 million this fiscal
year.
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