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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Desktop publishing
Message-ID: <1445@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 30 Mar 91 06:16:33 GMT
References: <1991Mar26.053352.13091@mendelson.com> <16775@chopin.udel.edu> <1991Mar27.052556.9495@vpnet.chi.il.us>
Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Organization: San Francisco State University
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In article <1991Mar27.052556.9495@vpnet.chi.il.us>
	hammen@vpnet.chi.il.us (Robert Hammen) writes:
>What about other publishing-related software for the NeXT? Is the whole
>Adobe Type Library available?

Of course.

>                              Even if it is, what about other fonts? There
>are thousands of typefaces available in the world. Adobe does not make them
>all.

Cassady & Greene (sp?), Bitstream, etc. also produce PostScript fonts.
So?  Apple has *no* monopoly here--and considering that Apple is
still gung-ho on TrueType, NeXT sure looks a lot more "serious"
using *your* criteria.

>What about graphics software? Adobe Illustrator is in development, but it's
>not here yet.

RSN.  It's goes into beta this week or next.

>More problems: there are no NeXT-to-prepress links currently available
>(though Scitex is rumored to be working on it). And, the infrastructure
>of service bureaus in this country does not have much support for the NeXT
>at this time. (Do this: call any typesetting shop in your hometown, and 
>ask them if you can get typeset output from a Mac disk. Now, ask them if
>you can get output from a PostScript file from a NeXT. Most of them will
>go "Huh?").

I live in San Francisco.  I guess we're not as backward as _your_
hometown.

(ba-people: Actually, what really impresses me is that Abacus,
Inc.--a truly diehard Mac-fanatic business if ever there was one
--is now a NeXT dealer!--they have an ad in Bay Area Computer
Currents.  It's going to be interesting to see what effect that
has on future issues of _The Node_ considering who we're talking
about.  It will also be interesting to see how Computer Attic and
BusinessLand (or is that Out-of-Business-Land?) compete or don't.)

>I (and the software company I work for) are just waiting for the variety of
>software to come out and make the market explode, so that we can justify
>developing our product (RIPLINK, a prepress system link) for the machine.

People are getting Lino output from NeXTs right now... what more
do you have to offer?  You may not even HAVE a market opportunity
if you wait.

					-=EPS=-