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From: steve@thelake.UUCP (Steve Yelvington)
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Subject: Re: COMDEX  And Atari
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Date: 27 Oct 89 08:05:18 GMT
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In article <467699a3.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM>,
     rehrauer@apollo.HP.COM (Steve Rehrauer) writes ... 

>>4) DESKSET II
>
>Hmmm, I don't recall hearing this name before.  What is "DESKSET", to say
>nothing of its sequel?

DeskSet was one of the first microcomputer-based commercial typesetting
front-end systems. It predates laser printers, Pagemaker, and so forth. As
I recall, it cost about as much as a car when it was first released.
So did a PC in those days.

DeskSet II is a contemporary page layout system. As I recall, it uses
Compugraphic Intellifont technology. My local Atari dealer has had
brochures on DeskSet II since last winter, but there is no evidence that
the Atari ST version has been released for sale. This is no major loss,
since Calamus does such an impressive (and speedy) job, also with
Compugraphic technology.

Compugraphic, currently a subsidiary of Agfa-Gevaert, is a company that
makes medium-to-high-quality commercial phototypesetting machines (and
some text editing systems). It has a large typeface library. In the last
couple of years, it has begun marketing digital representations of those
typefaces, in its own proprietary vector encoding as well as in PostScript
format.

      Steve Yelvington, up at the lake in Minnesota        
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