> SEYBOLD REPORT STR SHOW NEWS Eyewitness Reports from the show ============================ ATARI AT SEYBOLD ================ (from STR740) Compiled by Lloyd E. Pulley, Sr. After a two year lapse, Atari is again showing at Seybold, one of the premier desktop publishing shows in the world. Seybold consists of two halls totaling approximately 20,000 square feet. Anyone who is anyone in the DTP field comes to Seybold, and this year Atari is showing the DTPing world that Atari is indeed SOMEONE to be reckoned with!! According to sources on Genie, PUBLISH spent time in the Atari booth and seemed to be favorably impressed. An official Seybold Editor spent 2 1/2 hours with ISD's Calamus SL and TMS Cranach Studio, more time with Codehead's Avante Vector and is expected back in the future. The following is an uncomplete list of some of the ST notables showing at Seybold... Softlogic who has a TT workstation hooked up to a top of the line Linotype 530. Codehead is showing their new Avant Vector. Compo is across from Softlogic. Goldleaf Computerbild has three stations, one a workstation with Sherlook, a second with Didot Professional, and a third with Retouche Professional CD. ISD also has three stations. One has Calamus SL setup using its new Multimedia module with a video camera hooked up live and recording both picture and sound into Calamus for output to either the SLM605 or the Spectrastar color thermal printer. ISD's second station is displaying their not yet released, TMS Cranach Studio. It is connected to an Epson 300 dpi color scanner and Mitsubishi Dye Sublimation color printer. ISD's third station has straight Calamus SL hooked up directly to the LI2 port on a second L530 from Linotype. Here's a first hand report from Genie by Dave Flory: Atari-ST RoundTable Category 14, Topic 16 Message 3&6 Thu Oct 03, 1991 D.FLORY [ALERTsys*Cop] at 09:05 EDT Just got back from Seybold, first day, and the Atari booth compared quite well with those of names like Kodak, Aldus, etc. Atari develo- pers in the booth were demo'ing Atari software for people from Seybold itself, after the show. Specifically the Seybold people seemed quite interested in the Demo Retouche. I was very impressed with Calamus SL and Avant Vector. The former being demo'ed by Nathan Potechkin and one of his Canadian folks, and two of the programmers from Germany, sorry I didn't catch all the names. Pagestream was there, [also shown] along with a demo of FSMGDOS which has just had the last bug quashed and should ship next week to people like GoldLeaf, etc. I asked about the news reported here elsewhere that GE is in negotia- tions with Atari to do Atari service and was told that it is progres- sing and should be officially announced "soon". In my personal opinion this latter developement will be a real milestone in Atari development of credibility as a serious computer company. Maybe with GE service I can get my city to consider the best computer value I know of for my use at work too. There were about a dozen people manning the booth, and, while it was not mobbed when I was there, neither was most of the rest of the hall on Wednesday after-noon. I was told that a couple of serious DTP publications had shown _real_ interest in the Software and hardware they saw in Atari's booth. Seybold is the premier DTP and Graphics, animation, etc. show. The show this year is in the new San Jose Convention Center which covers a square block of San Jose. I'd hesitate to guess what the total for attendees is, but if I didn't see a couple of thousand people in there when I walked in, yesterday about 1:30, I've never seen a crowd. All the big names in graphics, like Radius, Silicon Grapics, every body who does sophisticated grapics processing goes to see the people who sell the hardware and software to do it. The demos feature some of the wildest computer simulations any of us have ever seen. Here's a first hand report from Genie by Nathan Potechin: Atari-ST Roundtable Category 11, Topic 8 Message 1 Thu Oct 03, 1991 ISD [Nathan] at 00:06 EDT For the first time in 2 years, Atari is officially participating in the most prestigious desktop publishing show of them all, Seybold...as well they should. :-) Depending on which door you use to enter the San Jose Convention Center, Atari is either towards the back or just off to the left side. Anyway, Adobe is on one side, LaserMaster on another etc.. Anyone that has anything to show in the field of DTP is present. As was the case at CEPS, the Atari booth is under the auspices of the Professional Systems Group in large letters. Much smaller letters indicate that this is a division of Atari. And no one is taking the Atari display lightly. Softlogic has a top of the line Linotype L530 with RIP hooked up to their TT workstation. Compo is across from them. Codehead is proudly displaying their new acquisition, Avant Vector. A sign that reads "Scaling Font Technology" or something like it is across from the Codeheads. Then over to my own stations; the first reads "Multimedia Publishing" and we have Calamus SL using its new Multimedia module, a video camera hooked up live and recording both picture and sound into Calamus for output to either the SLM605 or the Spectrastar color thermal printer. Our second station is displaying the new, not yet released, TMS Cranach Studio using an Epson 300 dpi color scanner and Mitsubishi Dye Sublimation color printer while the third station has straight Calamus SL hooked up directly to the LI2 port on a second L530 from Linotype. Then Goldleaf Computerbild has a workstation with Sherlook, a second with Didot Professional, and a third with Retouche Professional CD. If I've made a mistake or overlooked something, my apologies. Its been a long day and I'm still on east coast time. I invite any of my fellow participants to enlarge upon my small overview. I will try to do the same tomorrow. The point is though, that we are being taken very seriously indeed. Publish spent quite some time in the booth this morning and an official Seybold Editor spent an hour within the Atari booth this evening and plans on a few more hours tomorrow to see and meet with everyone there. This is very exciting and great news for us all. More later Atari-ST Roundtable Category 11, Topic 8 Message 7 Fri Oct 04, 1991 ISD [Nathan] at 02:02 EDT As Dave mentioned, this is a who's who in DTP and is attended by anyone either currently involved or about to become involved in DTP. Two halls, maybe 20,000 square feet or so. Jonathan Seybold is one of the most respected names in the business and his Seybold Report is a must have subscription for the trade. I am exhausted from another day at the show but I will say that one of the Editors of Seybold spent 2 1/2 hours with Calamus SL and TMS Cranach Studio this afternoon and this same person had already spent time with 3K product. He finished his day with a complete demo of Avante Vector from Charles and John and he is expected back tomorrow. This is exciting news. He took copius notes and I asked him if I should prepare a test for him the next morning to see if we overloaded him or he actually retained it. :-) This man was very sharp and very knowledgeable which was fine with us as we have a story to tell! All and all, another great day at the show. Nathan Potechin ISD (Calamus SL and Cranach Studio) :-) Here's a first hand report from Genie by John Eidsvoog of Codehead Software: Atari-ST RoundTable Category 32, Topic 23 Message 80 Fri Oct 04, 1991 J.EIDSVOOG1 [CodeHead] at 02:11 EDT Greetings for the Seybold Desktop Publishing Exhibition. I thought you might be interested in an experiment we ran on a TT at the show. We found a brochure from the show which had a wood cut type of graphic on the front. We used Repro Studio to scan the picture in two passes of a hand scanner at 400 DPI. Repro Studio was able to glue the two halves of the scan together quite nicely. We traced the 350K file in Avant Vector. It took about 5 minutes (most tracing takes under a minute) and was saved as a 25K CVG file! The resulting vector was virtually perfect, requiring only the editing of one fill area. The vector graphic prints out beautifully on an Atari laser printer and is undiscernible from the original. We've been checking out as many auto-tracing programs as possible and in our (understandably biased) opinion, Avant Vector beats them all...usually in time, but always in quality.