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Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.misc: 15-Apr-92 Re: PixelMagician
ships !!! by Todd M. Swan@twins.lanl. 
>Am I the only one that thinks this is incredibly overpriced?   It's only a  
>viewer and converter right?  It would be worth that for an *editor*.  Not to
>mention the fact nearly all these conversions can be done with stuff that is
>free from the net.  The $99 student price seems like it should be the list  
>price.
> 
>Just my $.02...
> 
>Todd

What makes this even more ironic is that the free converters that Todd
is referring to happen to provide the basic functionality for of
PixelMagician.
They are from the PBMPLUS package written by Jeff Posansker.
So PixelMagician is, at $299, basically a NeXTstep app wrapper for PBMPLUS.

Disclaimer:  I don't have access to my computer at the moment to check
all of this (dead keyboard).  It is what I remember from looking at the
demo of PixelMagician and at PBMPLUS.  I probably at the very least
misspelled Jeff's name.  But this I am quite sure of:  the basic modules
used by PixelMagician are from the public domain.

     -- Martin