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Article #79Announcing: 1VISION - PUBLISHING ENVIRONMENT FOR NeXT
From: Conrad Geiger - Manager, Interna...
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1992 23:45
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1992 23:45
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News Announcing: 1VISION - PUBLISHING ENVIRONMENT FOR NEXT(TM) COMPUTERS tms GmbH - Regensburg, Germany - announces the release of 1VISION - the complete publishing environment for NeXT Computers (PEN). 1VISION is already in delivery in Germany and international release is expected early in 1993. 1VISION is a modular platform for electronic publishing in which the optimal working environment can be attained by combining the programs (VISIONlinks) and modules. The VISIONlinks currently offered by tms GmbH are CRANACH (image manipulation), LANSTON (typesetting and layout design), and MANET (vector graphics and vector trace). A driver for the HP ScanJet IIc, calibration and color separation tools, and film recorder drivers are modules currently offered. 1VISION makes any form of multi-media - sound, vector and raster graphics, video, layout and design - available to its users, as well as those who wish to write modules for it. The possibilites are limited only by the creative abilities of those who use it. By offering a single environment to work in, 1VISION allows its users to combine the functions of the VISIONlinks and tools. This combination allows limitless freedom of creativity within one user- friendly environment. With 1VISION, the artificial separation of work, which was a former necessity of the computing environment, no longer exists. CRANACH is a complete image manipulation package which offers such innovative features as the ability to create and manipulate any type of image of up to 16-bit CMYK. Working masks, a wide variety of filters, auto lasso, smart brushes and retouching tools - all of which can be used on the entire image, a selection chosen by lassos and masks, or free-hand - are only a few of the features contained in CRANACH which make it the ideal application for image manipulation. LANSTON, the layout and design VISIONlink, allows complete control of all text elements in the document. Kerning and ligatures, piping and text flow within or around the frames or contours of any element, and clipping are some of LANSTON's special features. In addition, as with any element in 1VISION, all text elements can be individually manipulated - rotated, skewed, mirrored, used as patterns, resized, stretched, compressed - in relation to their own frames, groups, or to the page. The vector graphics application, MANET, includes a complete palette of vector elements including geometric shapes and custom-designed elements using PostScript. Special features include: automatic vector optimization with Bezier curve recognition and metamorphosis. Metamorphosis allows the transformation of one element into another,the blending of its form and color can be controlled at any stage. The palette of VISIONlinks for 1VISION offered by tms GmbH is continually growing and 1VISIONBs environment makes it ideal for other developers to create modules for it as well. For more information about 1VISION and the VISIONlinks available now, contact Frank Pohl or Bernd Gorny at tms GmbH, Dr.-Gessler-Str.10, 8400 Regensburg, Germany. Tel.: +49-941-95163 Fax: +49-941-95163 E-Mail (NeXT): admin@tms-gmbh.de
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!rosie!NeXT.com From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.com (Conrad Geiger - Manager, International NeXT User Groups) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software Subject: Announcing: 1VISION - PUBLISHING ENVIRONMENT FOR NeXT Message-ID: <5685@rosie.NeXT.COM> Date: 30 Oct 92 23:45:21 GMT Sender: news@NeXT.COM Reply-To: user_groups@next.com Lines: 67