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Can you walk and chew Num?

According to a recent article in Psychology Today (Sept/Oct p,14), "dual task interference" is what the psychologists call the phenomena of the inability to walk and chew gum at the same time. While most people can walkand chew gum, some combinations of tasks just can't be performed at the same fime no matter how simple. Psychologists talk about a "bottleneck" — it seems our response to a second task is upheld until the response to the first task is selected. When we have to figure out a response, there is a delay. How is it that we can drive a car and s till engage i n d e b ates about t h e Canadian Unity question? The answer is that most of us don't think about driving — it has gone down to an automatic level of consciousness. Selecting and responding are two different things and accomplished by different neural networks in the brain. The bottom line: when expected to perform two tasks, don't bother starting on the second before you' ve performed your first — and steer clear of Unity debates with student drivers.

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Well, I happened to read that Psychofogy Todayarticle on my way back from the September MacWorld Show in Toronto. At the same show, I Converting to a computerized system. BY ERIC HOY g ot a close-up look a t R a d ius's new RocketShare. What t h i s software/hardware combination does is allow you to use your Macintosh as a multiprocessor. Multiprocessing systems are one of those "big trends" that will probably reach average desktop users in the next few BY ALAN SALMON years. OS/2, Unix and Windows NT all promise multiprocessor support, with Compaq, Everex, IBM and a slew of other vendors at various stages of shipping such systems. Unfortunately For most PC users it means buying a new machine that is built to handle multiprocessors, according to William Zachmann of PC Week (Aug 10, 1992 p. 60), and it will be 1993- The conclusion of our two-part series, BY JAMES MACFARLANE 94 before hardware vendors start building them with this capabfiity builtin. OO K I F l g I AI D O l 1 8 % U r l v e S s s • sssssss••ss• s• s• s• s• s• s• s• sssss • ss24 Back to Radius. It seems they have licensed the necessary software from Apple, added their Rocket accelerator boards which fit into slots in Understanding RAM and Hard Drives. BY ROB MAYHEW the Macintosh II line of computers and made Macs into multiprocessor computers. You can add three or four to a Mac Quadra and have a mammoth system.

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Going back to our "walking-and-chewing~m d i l emma, our computer may be able to do two things at once, but most of us can' t. I asked the salesman from Radius what people are using RocketShare for. He said that so far, most of them have been sold to people working with image processing software like Photoshop or rendering software. (Robert Goodman, the award-winning publisher of I tlrkkrErsong, apparently uses one of these systems to publish beautiful four-color coffee table books in record time — PC Week Sept 21, 1992 p. 29.) These types of tasks are things that take the computer a long time to complete. Not a lot of decisions are happening, it is just a computer-intensive task, that they send to one processor and then flip to another one to do some other unrelated task. (Some software is heing created to be sophisticated enough to take a chunk of a big task and split it between multiple processors.) The model of multiprocessor use that seems likely to evolve will resemble similar to the way the human brain works (surprisel). Make a decision, perform a task make another decision, perform another task. etc.— asymmetric processing.

How useful will multiprocessors be to most of us?

It is risky to say that multi-processors will be useless to general business users. On the surface, it would appear that there aren't that many tasks that we really need multiple processors for. I thought of things like modems and downloading. Much of telecommunicating consists of selecting a file to download and then waiting 5-10-20 minutes for the task to be completed. I can already do that with my software. It downloads files in the background and I can continue to work on other thingsthough occasionally the computer will get a bit j umpyas it gets overworked. Then there are maintenance-type things on my computer like printing, copying files and initializing disks that are just a pain to wait for.Many of these tasks can already be done in the background. OS/2 lets you initialize disks while you work — something that DOS cannot do. System 7 gives the Mac the ability to copy files in the background. Background printing is available on virtually all the major platforms.

Do we really need multieprocessors? For specific computer-intensive tasks the answer is a definite yes. For general business users, I guess the answer will ultimately depend on how easy it is to use the additional processors and how inexpensive they become, If the power is there for a reasonable price, I am sure we can think of something to do with it. It wouldn't be the first time our tools have caused us to evolve. Enjoy the issue.

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BOISE, IDAHO — Laser printer market leader Hewlett-Packard has fmally entered the portable computer market. From the beginning of November, North American PC users will be able to buy a portable version of HP's popular DeskJet 500 inkjet computer that runs on batteries, prints at three pages per minute, uses standard DeskJet ink cartridges and includes four scalable internal fonts along with support for PCL and True Type. Known as the HP DeskJet Portable, it weighs four pounds and and will sell in the U.S. for $599 (not including battery). It is smaller than the Canon's BJ-10ex Bubble Jet printer and similar offerings from Mannesmann-Tally and Kodak-Diconix, and the company claims that it will offer users everything they can get in the existing DeskJet 50Dse6es systems. A number of optional extras are available including a 5Wheet~padty cut~hect feeder, a rechargeable battery, n world-

wide rapid recharger" (which you' ll need in order to run the system on anything other than 110 Volts) nnd a carrymg case. In the U.S., the company is charging $99 for each of the add-ons except the rechargeable battery, which will sell for The interesting thing about the battery is that it's actually a standard Panasonic camcorder battery, so that if you can't get one from HP, anylarge video store or electronics shop should stock it. The DeskJet Portable indudes scalable versions of Times, Univers (similar to Helmtlca), Courier and Letter Gothic typefaces — from 6 to 14 point — and will also h andle T r u eType an d A d ob e T y p e Manager fonts in Windows. The printer is also capable of printing in either portrait or landscape mode. Contack HP Canada (416) 678-9430

VTechoffershigh-speednotebook withon-boardmodem Markham-based VTech Computer Systems hasannounced a new 586XSbased 55 MHx notebook computer with built~fax/data modem and 2 MB of RAM. The company is offemag a 60 MB hard disk with the machine and provides a video system that allows users to display information on both the internal Sat screen and an external color screen. The machine sells for $2995.

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45, IBM's 20 MHz 586SX system with 4 MB of RAM, a 2.&8MB floppy disk drive and a 40MB hard disk. Itcomes down from Q,200 to $1265. Contact: IBM Canada (1-800-563-2139)

CA battles 'office' products Computer Associates has entered the market for Microsoft Windows office" products. The company has announced a 'bundle' of Qve of its Windows-based applications to be sold together as CA@imply Business. The package indudes ACCPAC Simply Accounting, the CA-Textor word processor,

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1992 Canadian Computer Show 8 Conference — the Biggest Show in Town Business people confused about the plethoNovember 25 will focus on Management ra of computer shows lately are advised to I ssues, Tuesday, November 24th o n pay attention to the Canadian Computer Technical Challenges and the Computing Show Sc Conference happening Monday, at Home Seminars, Wednesday November November 2 5 t hro u g h T hu r s day, 25th on Advanced Computing and a special November 26 (the show is in fact four full series for VARs Only. days, not three as wasstated last month in Toff- the-line speakers include Jim The Computer Paper). It is really the show Manzi, CEO of Lotus, who will give the of shows for the Toronto market. The keynote address on the evolving role of Toronto I n ternational Centre ( 6 9 00 computers in workgroup and portable comAirport Road, Toronto) will be filled with p uting, Gordon Eubanks, CEO o f over 500 exhibitors and 30,000 plus attenSymantec, T e r ese M y e rs, C E O of dees. This year, along with checkmg out the Quarterdeck,and Frank Clegg, General latest offerings from major vendors such as Manager ofMicrosoft Canada. Microsoft, NEC, Compaq, Canon, IBM, Show limes are: Monday, November 25, Lotus, WordPerfect, Fnjitsu, QMS, Toshiba 10 am4 pm, Tuesday, November 24, 10 amand Lotus, attendees can experience 6 pm; Wednesday, November 25, 10 am@ Virtual Reality, plug into a wireless LAN, pm; Thursday, November 26,10 am rI pm. sajnple the Software Pavilion, drop by the Registration at the door is $20. A sepahome office display, handle the latest palmrate registration fee is required for the top and pen-based computers, quiz the Conference. experts at the Consultants Forum and test Contact For further details and rogietrahon drive OS/2 at I BM's OS/2 Test Drive information, calI Canadian Computer Show & Centre. Conference, 20 Bultorick Road, Toronto, The Show also features the threeAay Ontario MSW 328. Tel. 416-253-7117, Fax: 416'The Strategic Edge" Conference. Monday, 252-9848.

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Microsoft adds network software and e-mail to new version of Windows Microsoft has fired off a major salvo in its war to seize the PC network market from Novell. At a recent briefing for industry editors and analysts in Bellevue,WA, Microsoft described its plan "for making it easier for people in both large and small companies to build workgroup and enterprise solutions." As part of the presentation, Microsoft demonstrated several new products, including the Microsoft Windows for Workgroups operating system — which includes integrated networking — as well as database products for Windows 5.1. During the all-day session, Microsoft outlined its strategy for workgroup computing, which will be based on an open, evolutionary, scalable solutions-based approach. Microsoft says it is adding basic workgroup functionality to the operating system, extending and adding to its line of applications, and supporting custom solutions to satisfy the needs of workgroups. According to Bill Gates, chairman and CEO of Microsoft, it is all about meeting the needs of the networked 1990s."We are seeing the world evolve from islands of information on individual workstations to groups of people collaborating on shared information," he said. "Microsoft is providing the infrastructure in the operating system for the development of the next generation of applications — those that empower these groups of people and bring our vision of 'information at Your Fingertips' to the desktop." Windows for Workgroups, the first ver-

sion of Microsoft Windows to incorporate workgroup functionality into"the operating environment, was demonstrated during the briefing. Windows for Workgroups is a version of Microsoft Windows S.l that is supposed to make it easy for groups to share information and work together by providing built-in file and printer sharing. It comes complete with electronic mail, group scheduling and network-enabled dynamic data exchange (DDE) that allows users to link objects across the network. Windows NT, m e anwhile, will also incorporate these workgroup capabilities when it is shipped in early 1993, while Windows for Workgroups is scheduled to be available at the end of October 1992. Microsoft also outlined a strategy for integrating Windows for Workgroups and the planned Windows NT operating system into existing network and messaging systems, and demonstrated future systems management tools for the large enterprise. In addition, for companies with host-based or integrated office systems as their computing infrastructure, Microsoft demonstrated why it thinks WOSA can enable a smooth migration to LAN-based client-server solutions. Another key component of Microsoft's workgroup strategy is to make existing applications, such as Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word, "workgroup-enabled" through standard APIs such as MAPI (Microsoft's electronic mail interface). The company says this would create new applications and technologies critical to both

individuals and groups, as well as "leverage" applications as building blocks for customized solutions. In addition, Microsoft says it recognizes the importance of treating data as a reusable asset with general-purpose databases. "We view workgroup computing as an evolutionary process," said Steve Ballmer, executive vice president, worldwide sales and support at Microsoft. "Users should be able to use the applications and operating systems they are already familiar with, and be able to pick and choose the elements they need for their particular workgroup without the inflexibility of onesize-fits-all products." Microsoft also said that development of workgroup solutions requires an in&astructure to provide the service, support and specialized expertise needed for complex business computing. To that end, Microsoft announced yesterday the launch of a new initiative to support businesses integrating Microsoft software into all kinds of PC "solutions." As the first element in this strategy, Microsoft will offer direct access to Microsoft tools, support and information for companies in the business of selling value-added software services to customers. This support plan is called the Microsoft Solutions Channels. Microsoft says it will offer a broad outreach to corporations and specialists who provide personal computing solutions, of which the Microsoft Solutions Channels is a part. It comprises a long-term strategic shift toward building business relationships with companies whose use of personal computing technologies is being reshaped by current industry trends. The new Microsoft Solutions Channels supports diverse companies of four types-

value-added resellers, systems integrators, consultants and training organizationswhom Microsoft says require a wide range of information about Microsoft products in a variety of personal computing environments. Microsoft will offer these organizations sales and product information, development services, customer support tools induding priority telephone support, education and business development support and early access to Microsoft products. Microsoft says the program is a result of extensive research conducted over the last year and incorporates the company's experience to date in serving the emerging needs of the thousands of companies providing software solutions that integrate Microsoft software. It expands Microsoft's channel offerings into an overall program, incorporating two pre-existing Microsoft programs — the Network Specialist and Industry Specialist programs. Microsoft promised that members of those programs will retain all their current benefits and receive all benefits from the new program, at their option. "Personal computing technologies have evolved to a point where they are central to business computing," said Jeff Raikes, senior vice president at Microsoft, "One result has been extraordinary, new opportunities opening up for software service companiesable to provide the tailored personal computing solutions businesses now want. Our goal is to work with those companies, to make it easier for them to provide tailored solutions that incorporate industry standards including Microsoft products, platforms and tools." Contact: Microsoft (206) 883-8080

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W HAT' S Apple recalls early PowerBook 100 notebook Macs Apple Computer is urging owners of early production PowerBook 100 notebook computers to r eturn t h ei r u n i t s f o r what it calls "minor circuit board modification." A pple s a y s i t h a s "become aware" ofa malfunction in some PowerBook 100 systems that results in an electrical short and subsequent melting of a small hole in the bottom of the system's outer case. Apple says this only affects PowerBook 100 systems bearing serial numbers below SQ211xxxxxx and SS216xxxxxx. It says that Apple PowerBook 100 systems with serial numbers equal to or greater than SQ211xxxxxx and SS216xxxxxx are not affected,nor are any other PowerBook models. Apple further says that the problem has only occurred on three of almost 60,000 PowerBook 100 systems and that no personal injury or property damage (to anything other than the PowerBook itself) resulted from the malfunction. If you think you may need to return your PowerBook 100, contact your nearest Apple Canada dealer.

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Galacticomm, Inc., "Fracterm This technology is going to blow the doors off the BBS market. High-quality on-line graphics, with incredibly fast response time — such as the Fracterm package — are going torevolutionize the way people use bulletin boards." The package consists of four modules which can upgrade a variety of host BBS software packages to what the vendor calls "full graphical status." The four modules are: 1) software compression based on frac-

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Contact: Apple Canada Technical Support Line (800) 263-3394

Great Plains Software announces accounting software for Mac and Windows ' Accounting software s pecialist Gre a t Plains Software will move i n to t h e graphical software m arket l a te r t h i s P „"' year with the launch of packages for the Apple M a cin tosh a nd Mi cr o s o f t Windows. Known as Great ~s g Plains Dynamics, the system will provide full use of accounting functions in a graphical environment, as well as support Novell's Btrieve NLM or FairCom's ctree file server file managers. To enable development of its applications for both the Mac and Windows, Great Plains has also created Dexterity — a "cross-platform" development system optimized for developing large transaction-oriented applications using object-oriented programming techniques.

Contact: Great Plains Software (800) 456-0025

Mississauga getsnew technicalbookstore The Canadian Professional Information C entre recently op ened it s d o or s i n Mississauga. The centre stocks hundreds of titles on engineering, health care and computer science and says its most popular titles include Machinery's Handbook, Unix Utilities, H a ndbook o f E n v i ronraental Grmpiiance and Occupational Therapy. Contact: Canadian Professional Information Centre (416) 624-1 058

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ne of the highlights for me at the Toronto MacWorld S how held Sept 1 5 - 1 7 a t th e Me tr o Convention Centre had to be seeing a Macintosh control Legs> robots. Whether this is testament to the fact that there was little new and thrilling at the show, or a general devolution of my own tastes, I'm not sure. There were lots of good evolutionary new items at the Show, but seeing a computer reach out. and control something outside its own internal world of chips and software struck me as a real feat — even if it was only little plastic blocks. The concept of being able to affeci many more things on the other side of ihe screen is what makes the promise of rtibotics so appealing to so many. I am sure that the changes we have seen with compuiers will seem minute once we get to the stag«if personal robots. The g a n g I' it>tn Sa v e d lsy Technology (416-9" 8-i>434) were making lots of loud noises wiili their MIDI and the Mac demonstrations. The incidence of ponytails went up consicferabfy in the vicinity of their booth.

Claris did very well with their Filemaker Pro Consultants Centre as well. It seems more than a few businesses have managed to make the easy-to-use database the core of their operations. Microsof t was showing the new version 3.0 of Works. This venerable old-timer, which Microsoft claims has more than 750,000 users, has started to face some serious competi t io n f r o m C l a r i sWorks,

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Uses' 6roup (510-8-19-9114), was there selling memberships, I'-shirts, CD-ROMs, shareware disks and hr»ks t The books that have come out of largely volunteer effort are some of the best ii > the field. They have the BMUG Shareu>are t)i >tt Catalogover 700 pages long, which catitlogues much of the available Macintosh shareware. They also sell Zen and the Art of l<esource Fditing The BhfUG Guide to Bulletin Boards and Beyond offers a Macintosh ust i 's view of the world of telecommunications lt got an excellent review in Boardyoatch i n.igazine. Apple took a nuii>ber of us into their confidence and showed us their newest computers, which werc to ship Oct 19th. We can't talk about tlicm till then; suflice to say that everything vou read about them in MacWeehis true.

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5535), the folks who brought you After Dark, the screen saver that features flying toasters, are not resting on their laurels. Not only were they selling flying toaster ties, they will be out soon with Star Trek screen savers. Judgin by the number of Trekkies who lined up in front of their booth to watch Mr. Spock beam onto their computer screens,they have another winner on their hands. Microtek (213-32 I -2121) was on hand t o show their new S ~n Maker I I C o l o r Flatbed Scanner. This retooled version of their popular 300Z and 600Z line of scanners offersmore speed, easier-to-use software and support for TWAIN (a new standard which allows TW.ttl¹ o m p atible software to scan directly into a variety of software.) At least one vendor at the show was selling the Scanmaker II for $1099 including the Photoshop buiiclle. Clat'is (1-800-668-8948) was showing the new Macintosh version of Filemaker Pro. Most of the enhai < ernents were of the evolutionary type, except for extensive Apple Events support, the promise of a fivefold speed improvement over networks, a nd fil e c o m p ati b i l it y w it h t h e n e w Windows version. I think that Filemaker Pro and Quark Xpress are the crown jewels of the Mac, and now within a matter of months both will be available on Windows. What is left?

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replace the pIain background with a second video clip showing penguins walking around on an ice floe. The software supports full 32-bit color and can handle large screens, according to CoSA. Up to 256 layers of video can be edited together. Tecson said that. After Effects will be useful to video production houses. At present, he admitted, Macintosh hardware is probably not fast enough to be satisfactory for final production, but a Mac equipped with After Effects will offer a way for producers to experiment with possible effects before deciding what to produce using fullfledged video editing systems. In future, Tecson added, improved hardware may makethe computer a reasonable platform for final production. He said the software today can provide video quality corn parable to 16-millimeter film. Contact: David Tecson, CoSA, 401-831-2672, fax 401-831-2875.

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NO V EINBER '92THE COMPUTER PAPER METRO TORONTO EDITION

Getting Started in Over the past few years, prices on computers have been dropping consistently and rapidly. The price wars started by the noname clone brands have spread,not only to Compaq, IBIN and other big players in the PC arena, but also tothe INacintosh camp. It's war out there,and, as usual, the consumer is the victor.

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You' ve probably no t i ced p rice d i f f e r ences between the fastest models and their s l ower kin diminishing. You have to be careful , though. W h e n th e \ salesperson at your local c omputer store c l a i m s that you can get a 486 for $1,500 and asks you, "Why settle for less?", you need to take a deep breath and make your choice based on quality, not price. Unusually low-priced PCs tend to have poor-quality components. I have heard many stories of "bargain-priced" monitors that malfunction after a few months, keyboards that begin to stick, mice that begin to squeak, disks that develop read errors, video displays that manifest strange interference patterns, and other grievous tales. You get what you pay for. Seriously. Keep in mind what you want the computer to do and choose the system that best meets those needs. This probably means that you should decide on the software first. While it is beyond the scope of this article to give a complete feature list of all the leading desktop publishing (DTP) programs, there are several worth checking out. Here are some of my favorites.

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Aldus PageMaker is a good choice if easeof-use is more important than precise typo graphic control. Its main benefit is that it closely emulates the notion of positioning items on a "pasteboard" that designers doing manual pasteups are already comfortable with, Another advantage is that files created with the PC version of the program can easily be loaded into the Mac version, and vice versa. PageMaker's main drawback is that its feature set lags behind most of its competition. For instance, PageMaker can have only one document open at a time and its capabilities for rotating text and graphics are weak. The PC version lacks the ability to perform its own process color separations â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a capability included with the Mac version by means of a bundled application called PrePrint. All of these shortcomings, incidentally, are slated to be addressed in a revision to the program due in the first q uarter o f 1 9 9 8 . F o r n o w , t h o u g h , PageMaker's main strength is its intuitive interface.

With a street price of around C$650, PageMaker is not cheap, but it is one of the most popular DTP applications. If you plan to work for a company doing desktop publishing, PageMaker is a valuable addition to your resume.

Quark XPress Quark XP ress, a longtime favorite of Macintosh "power publishers," will soon be available for the PC. Both versions have a street price around $800. A considerable number of XPressusers were first attracted to the program because it offered typographical controls and features not available in programs like Ventura Publisher and PageMaker. A few years ago, this also meant having to sufFer through Quark's oftenmbtuse user interface. Today, however, with version S.l, XPress employs a "pasteboard" metaphor much like that of PageMaker, and ofFers a feature set that is significantly more robust. Such subtleties as ligatures, color blends and drop caps are well addressed by the program, and its extensible "XTensions" architecture makes it easy for third-party developers to add specialized features. At this time, I rate Quark XPress as the best overall DTP program on the market. XPress is slightly faster than PageMaker when redrawing the screen. Program stability is quite good (especially compared to earlier versions, which rightfully came to be

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Mac versions earlier than S.ll suffered some bugs that occasionally caused the program to quit unexpectedly. When the user re-runs the program in such a case, Quark typically announces that it is already running on the machine when, in fact, it isn' t. Rebooting cures this problem, caused by the program's copy-protection scheme, but it is aggravating, nonetheless.

Ventura Publisher

Ventura Publisher, originally written for the now-obsolete GEM graphical environment, has for a couple of years also been available for Windows and the Mac. The Mac versionnever really got offthe ground, but the Windows version has garnered praise from some users for its prowess at handling long documents. W ith v ersion 4 . 1 , ( a r o un d $ 6 0 0 ) Ventura Publisher has finally got something over its competition: its paragraph tagging system can now define global formats for text flow and positioning as well as paragraph styles. With this feature, a hundred boxes can have their l in e t h i c k nesses changed from, say, one point to two in a single step instead of a hundred. None of Ventura's competitors have such a capabili-

The new version also contains estimable color-separation capabilities and word processing features. Ventura users who have suIFered with the inadequacies of previous versions should check out this upgrade, but be warned: Ventura Publisher 4.1 still has clumsy font handling (it identifies typefaces by numeric codes and uses an awkward "environment width table" to manage font metrics.) Ventura also continues to lack the ability tohave more than one document open at once, and remains blissf'ully ignorant of Windows interface standards like keyboard navigation of dialog boxes and cursor control while editing text.

FrameMaker FrameMaker (about $800) is a technical document-processing program that is now available on numerous platforms â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Sun, HP, Apollo, DEC, IBM RISC/System 6000, X terminals, Intel iABI, NeXT, Macintosh and PCs running Windows. The advantage Frame has over other document-processing programs is that it is compatible between all of its platforms. For instance, you could load an X-Windows FrameMaker file into the Macintosh vers ion o f F r a m e M aker, an d a l s o i n t o FrameMaker for Windows. There are no more conversion blues for users to face with this kind of application, and you don' t have to start over with a switch from one flavor of the program to another, as all the FrameMaker versions have the same interface. F rameMaker i s essentially a c r o ss between a powerful word processor and a desktop publishing program. With powerful features such as the ability to create documents with conditional contents (you could, for example, create a single document that could be printed with metric measurements in Canada and inches-andf eet m e a surement s i n t h e U .S. ) , FrameMaker is arguably the most powerful document processor available on a PC. I apologize to budgetwonscious readers who will note that virtually all of the programs mentioned here cost over $500. It is true that there are other, less-expensive p rograms worth consideration for DT P tasks. Unfortunately, I have purchased or used nearly all of them, and have concluded that they generally don't represent a very good investment. Once you get even a little bit serious about DTP, you' ll want to take a course on your chosen application, or read a book on the subject. If you choose a cheapo publishing package, you severely limit your future options.

M ETRO TORONTO EDITION THE COMPUTER PAPER NOVENIBER '92 1 7 That said,here are a few budget-priced titles I recommend for non-professional users. Microsoft Publisher (about $175) is my top pick as a reasonably priced entry-level title for the PC. For the Mac, the choice is a little tougher, with Personal Press (street priced around $120) and Publish It Easy ($200) being my two favorites.

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A Slow or Lowcapacity Hard Disk — How much capacity is enough' Try twice what you think you need. Look for a drive with a long (2-, 3- or even 5-year) warranty and as low a millisecond rating (9 ms is better than 19 ms) as possible. I'd recommend at least a 14 ms 105MB drive for DTP purposes. Some desktop publishers find that a removable SyQuest cartridge drive is a handy item to have as a secondary storage device. A removable SyQuest disk can hold up to 44MB of data, making backups of files easy, and facilitating the transportation of large scanned images (etc.) to and from service bureaus, virtually all of which

have their own SyQuest drives. SyQuest drives are, however, somewhat prone to readwrite errors, usually due to careless handling or dust contamination. A SyQuest disk is not a good choice for primary storage. Optical drives are available at evermore-attractive prices (currently, a 128MB optical drive goes for about US$1500), but I'd hold off for a while yet. The same goes for the so-called floptical disks (US$550), which are essentially 21MB floppy disks. Maybe next year.... Most IBM-compatible computers (and some models of Atari and Amiga) use a type of hard disk known as IDE, which stands for integrated drive electronics.

These drives have been discussed at considerable length in previous issues of The Computer Paper,most notably the Sept '92 article "Planning for the Future" by Roedy Green. Slow Video — As regular readers are aware, I highly recommend getting a system with accelerated video. The fastest available systems come equipped with builtin display circuitry known as local bus video, but accelerated video cards from ATI are a good choice for other PCs. Cheapo VGA cards are a Bad Thing, as are cheap keyboards, bargain-brand mice and "economy brand" cables. All spell T-R-OUB-LE. Continued enpage 20

CorelDRAW CorelDRAW is a viable alternative for single-page graphics-intensive publishing tasks. The latest version (5.0) of the pro gram includes spelling checker, thesaurus, hyphenation and column features, control over kerning and character paths and numerous other DTP-oriented features. It is worth noting, though, that CorelDRAW's vast array of features makes it uncommonly easy to create a document that simply won' t print to a PostScript printer or imagesetter. For the $500 or so CorelDRAW retails for, you get over 150 fonts and a whopping 15,000 pieces of clip art. With a collection like that, you can create some fairly impressive-looking pages even if you can't draw at all, I'd go as far as saying that it is worth buying CorelDRAW 8.0 and a CD-ROM drive just for its clip art and fonts alone. OS/2, CTOS, Unix OSF/Motif and Open Look and Macintosh versions are also available or coming soon. There areother programs worth consideration for DTP tasks, too. Users who will be creating primarily text-based documents might consider one of the many Windowsbased word processors available that incorporate graphics features. All the top contenders — Lotus Ami Pro, Microsoft Word for Windows and Wordperfect for Windows — include graphics-handling features. Refer to the Oct. '92 issue of The ComPuter Paper for moredetails on these titles.

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If you can afford it, I recommend a 486SX or 486DX machine that has the option of being upgraded with Intel's "Overdrive coprocessor" clock-doubler chip. Machines already "clock-doubled" are known as a "DX2." This low-cost upgrade could come in handy if, down the road, you feel the "need for speed." And, if you get into working with long documents, color scans, or complex objectwriented images, you will. How will a f aster machine help? Graphically oriented applications such as desktop publishing or drawing programs will benefit greatly, but the performance of other common applications, such as word processing, spreadsheets and databases will also begreatly enhanced. Did you know that programs like PageMaker and CorelDRAW do not benefit at all from a math coprocessor? Only applications specifically written to exploit a math chip, such as AutoCAD, SD Studio, Lotus 1-2-5 and Excel will make such an investment worthwhile. Sheer CPU (central processing unit) speed is not the only factor to consider. A properly configured computer system should not have undue constraints in other areas such as hard disk, video card or monitor size. Here are a few common bottlenecks to watch out for.

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In e iDraw B Y 6 E O F W H R f LWRI S H T he fact that it was called "Spock" during its beta-testing period was n o mistake. Now k nown a s IntelliDraw, this new "intelligent drawing" software from Aldus subsidiary SiTicon Beach Software is designed to bring the same kind of logic and common sense to the PC-based drawing and illustration world that the famous Vulcan science officer brought to the USS Enterprise. As wit h m o s t A l d u s p r o d ucts, IntelliDraw is ofFered in versions for both Apple Macintosh and P C s r u n ning Windows. During our test of IntelliDraw, we were able to look at both versionswhich were not only functionally identical, but could easily accept one another's files. So what is IntelliDraw? To start with, it' s a very capable Windows and Mac drawing package — with all of the object-oriented tools you would expect. These include tools for drawing lines, squares, circles, polygons — as well as an editable preview mode, slide shows, limited animation, graphs and limited page-design functions. But all of these functions can just as easily be performed with existing Windows and Mac drawing and illustration tools — although most would cost you mor'e than the price Aldus is charging for IntelliDraw. The real difference is the way in which IntelliDraw helps you build relationships between objectswhen you draw them. If, for example, you are drawing a typical PC display, the objects involved might include a couple of rounded rectangle's (one inside the other), a couple of circles to represent the contrast and brightness adjustments and a square to represent the on-off button. This sounds quite simple — until you start to consider the relationship that is required between the elements for the drawing to work. The inner rounded rectangle must be directly in the center of the outer one, the contrast and brightness knobs must be aligned together vertically and horizontally along the bottom of the outer rectangle, and the on-ofF button must be aligned to the lower right-hand side of the drawing. Using IntelliDraw, you can define these alignments — or any other spatial or

ability to establish links as complex as those offered by IntelliDraw. Say, for example, you are designing a backyard pool and want to show the amount of entertaining space available by having deck chairs placed around the outside of the pool. The links function of IntelliDraw is powerful enough that when you change the size or shape of the pool, the number of deck chairs drawn around it will automatically increase or decrease to fill the available space.

dimensional r e l ationships r equired between objects — as connections or "links." Once such a link is made, then it is preserved — no matter how else you change the drawing. You could rotate, shrink or expand the size of it and still maintain the proper relationship and perspective between all the links. Most drawing applications offer some way to establish a basic relationship between objects through a "group" and "ungroup" command — but few offer the

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your mind all that information that you' ve picked up along the way — data like the number of ounces in a pound, and your maiden aunt's birthdate. Or more important stuff, like the approximate amount of your next paycheque, and how much of that is going to go to the landlord for rent. Maybe you can see some parallels between the last two paragraphs. The first was a summary of what's in a computer's random access memory; the second was a description of some of the departments in your mind. RAM is, in a sense, your computer's "mind," or at least the place where it thinks about what it's doing, and whether or not it's going to do it for you. If you really want to know, it's contained in a bunch of multi-legged silicon chips somewhere in your mach'me. Your computer can look at the data stored on those chips very quickly — access times are usually rated at somewhere under a tenth of a microsecond.Yes, you heard me right — less than a ten-millionth of a second. And like the contents of your mind, most RAM is "volatile" — pull the plug on it, and it's gone without a trace. Now let's look at your hard drive. Think of it as a floppy drive that has awesome capacity, and uses disks you can't see or remove trust me, they' re there!). It's where you keep the programs and data files you' re not using at the moment. A hard drive holds far more than RAM — 80 MB isn't a big hard drive any more, and the biggest drives for desktop computers now run up to more than 15 times that capacity.

METRO TORONTO EDITION THE COMPUTER PAPER NOVEMBER '92 The usual desktop computer today has a hard drivr storage capacity that is 20 to 50 times its memory capacity. That's why the term "nass storage" is sometimes used for hard dries, although that term generally refers toany device that stores significantly mort program/data material than can be read into RAM at any one timejust as your@lingcabinet contains far more than most Ieople care to remember at any one time. The information onyour hard drive is "non-volatile" — it doesn't disappear when you switch off your computer any more than do the contents of your filing cabinet when you turn out the lights. Like digging for information in your filing cabinet, it takes the computer far longer to look at what's on your hard drive than whit's in memory. Average access times fo, the best hard drives today are around i hundredth of a second — a figure which is about I 0,000 times slower than RAM access time, Also, it can take several seconds or more to read a whole file, particuiarlI if it's large and/or scattered all over the surface of the hard drive.

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Some will give you the option of putting the revised document into storage along with the original under another name. But one thing to remember is that none of this happens until you "save" your work; until you do, what's on your hard drive is what was there when you started — all the new stuff is in RAM alone, and will go straight to the Great Bit-Bucket in the Sky if your computer loses power or crashes before you save your work. (Moral? Save your work to your disk drive often — and particularly before you print or switch tasks.) P erhaps the best way to keep it al l straight is this: think of RAM as "memory,"

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Selectlny ansi lmplementlny the System Selecting and installing a new accounting system can be a major undertaking for any organization. There are a number of factors to consider, including: • determining organization and user requirements • determining hardware requirements including networking • evaluating software relative to user needs • determining total costs of installation • deciding on the software vendor and evaluation of commitment to o ngoing upgrades and support • deciding on implementation team and

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A good accounts payable package will track vendor invoices, forecast cash requirements, issue computerized cheques and allow a detailed bank reconciliation to be performed. At any time the amount of purchases from a vendor and the outstanding balance should be available. vendors' terms and discounts. A good accountspayable package willtrack vendor invoices, forecast cash requirements, issue computerized cheques and allow a detailed bank reconciliation to be performed. At any time the amount of purchases from a vendor and the outstanding balance should be available.

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5. Payroll Preparing the payroll manually can be a time-consuming process, especially for a large number of employees. A computerized system can reduce the amount of work by calculating all statutory deductions and automatically printing out your pay cheques. Most payroll systems are fairly sophisticated, allowing specific types of income and deductions to be calculated and tracked. Most systems will also accommodate hourly or salaried employees, generate remittance forms, records of employment and year-end T4s.

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players have their movements recorded by an electronic belt and see their surroundings and their opponents on a helmet-like display. Visitors to the Canadian Computer Show will be able to play the game, which was also on display at the recent Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto. Conference coordinator Karen Dalton outlined highlights of this year's conference. They include keynote speakersJim Manzi, president and chief executive of Lotus Development; Hamid Mirza, vicepresident and chief database architect at Borland International; and Theresa Myers, p resident a n d c h i e f e x e c utive o f Quarterdeck OfBce Systems. Manzi will talk about groupware, Mirza about objectwriented programmirig, and Myers about advanced softwaretechnology. Gordon Eubanks, president and chief executive of Symantec, will speak about computer security on the first morning. Other conference highlights include an address by Frank Clegg, president of Microsoft Canada, on software piracy, and one by Paul Kennedy, president of International Data Corp. (Canada) on "the disnntegration of the information technology industry." Show visitors can preregister for C$11 or pay $20 at the door. The full threeAay conference costs $595, with certain portions available separately for lower fees. Contact: Industrial Trade and Consumer Shows, 418-252-7791, fax 418-252-9848.

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Sanctuary Woods In New CD-ROM Deals VICTORIA, BR1TISH COLUMBIA (NB)Sanctuary Woods is making a large splash with a bunch of announcements that relate to their distribution methods for multimedia CD-ROM programs. In the most important of these releases, Sanctuary Woods has revealed an agreement reached with Sony of Canada under whichSony will bundle a Sanctuary Woods CD-ROM program with each Sony CD-ROM drive or drive mechanism that is sold in Canada between now and mid-December. Sanctuary Woods will supply Sony with the Macintosh versions of their interactive fantasy game The Vampire's Coffin, which is the first in a series of games featuring Victor Vector ss Yondo. In other developments, Sanctuary W oo d s has announced that it wnl be supporting Tandy's VIS format for CD-ROMs in addition to Apple's QuickTime format and Microsoft's MPC formats. Sanctuary Woods intends to have its first two titles converted to the new format in time for the Christmas selhng season. Company ofBclals expressed hope that they would be able to have the CDs in time for display at each of Tandy's Radio Shack stores during the Christmas selling season. Sanctuary Woods is also talking with non-Tandy distributors for the VIS format to ensure wide distribution of their products. Sanctuary Woods is attempting to convert both The Vampire's CofBn and Shelley Duvall's "It's a Bird' s Life" to this new format.

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bution agreements with C o m pton's NewMedia, Soft-Kat, and Educorp. All three organizations will distribute the company's products to.their respective resellers and dealers.

Finally, Sanctuary Woods is attempting to prepare a line of products for future releases. The Vampire's Coffin is being converted to the MPC format with a proj ected release date of December. The next dtle in the Victor Vector and Yondo series is being tanned for February '95 in the Macintosh ormat. It will be called The Dinosaur Egg. And Sanctuary Woods has a third title in production out of the 20 that it plans to ultimately market. Each of Sanctuary

Woods' titles will retail for $59.95. Contact: Sanctuary Woods, 804480-7582.

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The key tosuccess for any business is cash flow management and while more and more businesses are movinI to computerizetheir accountinl many people don't realise that they can have both in the same packa9e. One of the first purchases that a small business often makes is a Phased accountin9 system. This artide will look at the key factors that should influence accounting software selection; identify the players in the Canadian accountin9 software industry; and provide you with a snapshot of the current proyrams being offered by these

comp anies. he right accounting system can provide important financial information about your business. R ather than waiting fo r a n accountant to deal with a pile of bills and invoices, the right accounting package will help you manage yourcash fi ow, make sure you take advantage of discounts and help you collect overdue accounts. At any given time, you will know the finandal health of your business. In many businesses the person responsible for maintaining the numbers is not a professional accountant. The job is likely to fall on the shoulders of the owner, the owner's spouse, or an employee who has other responsilities besides accounting. Computerized accounting programs range from inexpensive, less than $50 packages to systems that cost thousands of dollars and require extensive professional help to get them up and going. Defining your specific requirements and then matching these requirements to an accounting software program is cridcal in order to gain the benefits of computerizing your business. There are three levels of accounting software available today, entry-level, midrange, and highwnd. Among the difFerent environments, accounting programs are available for the DOS, Windows, Macintosh, and Unix platforms. Let us take a look at the profiles of these products.

The Players High~nd With rare exceptions, the programs are usually modular and will consist of a system manager,general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, order entry, inventory control, and various other modules. You purchase the modules you need and then integrate them together. The software cost for a basic system will be over $2,000 and can easilyrun to $5,000 ifyou need 6 or more modules. Most companies will need professional assistance to install the proam and fees for installation will run from 2,000 to over $5,000. The total cost of software and professional services for a highend system will start at around S5,000. These programs are complex and contain extensive features that provide a powerful accounting solution. They often need extensive support after the installation is completed. Traditional PC dealers lack the necessary expertise to install and configure these systems and the high-end software vendors have developed an extensive network of certified installers to provide this expertise.

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The Canadian Market The high-end range is dominated by Computer Associates with their ACCPAC Plus accounting system. Evans Research estimated thai ACCPAC Plus had 86.4% of the Canadian high-end market in 1991, Two relative newcomers to the Canadian scene are giving Computer Associates a run for their money. Great Plains software has picked up 4.5% and Platinum has L'7% and these number are likely to increase again in 1992. A CCPAC BPI , B u sinessVision I I , DacEasy, and NewViews are the key players in the English Canadian mid~g e market. BusinessVision II, DacEasy, and NewViews each hold about a 209o market share with ACCPAC BPI in the 59o range. In Quebec, Fortune 1000 holds the dominant position.

market, takingabout 48% wi th their highend product. ACCPAC Simply Accounting, a low end producthas about a 26% share. The other major player is Checkmark with about 11% for their mid-range program. In the Unix world the market is split among RealWorld, SBT, and Great Plains. This is a growing market, but still represents a very small part of PC accounting software being used in Canada today.

What Features Oo You Need

Matching your needs to your accounting software package is the key to making it work. Here are the things you should be looking for when you go shopping for accounting software. Easemf-use has to be at the top of your list, If it is not easy to use you will not work with the program. Setting up the program should straight forward. The operating commands should be intuitive and there should a good manual and on-screen help system. WellAesigned accounting programs let you perform tasks in a nonwtructured manner. In other words, they let you work your way, within reason. An example would be adding a new customer while creating their first invoice.

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The system should provide a sample charts of account to make getting started easy. It is Entry-level easier to modif'y a sample chart of accounts In the entry level segment ACCPAC to suit your business than create a new one. Bedford, or Simply Accounting asit is now Entering your opening balances, customer known holds a 71%o market share with and vendor lists and inventory items can be BusinessVision II next in line with 84.5%. time consuming and you need to make sure The balance of the market is split among a that the program can handle all of your number of American and Canadian soft- needs in this area. A good online tutorial is ware developers. another invaluable tool in getting going.

The Other Environments The Apple Madntosh world has never really focused on the accounting market although this is changing with a new attitude from Apple Canada. Only 5% ofthe accounting software market runs on the M acintosh p l a tform. G r e a t P l a i n s Accounting holds the lions share of the

debits and credits. Invoicing and cash collections are the key to staying in business. Make sure the invoicing modules covers all your requirements and look at the cash flow management features of the program. Will they provide you with current information on your customers, help you chase past due accounts and tell you what your cash should be in the future?

Doing the Work The processing side of it should be easy to do and the program should provide critical information such as account, vendor, customer and product numbers at the touch of a key. An accounts payable screen that looks like a cheque is far easier to use than a cluttered screen that forces you to use

This part of the system should track your expenses, tell you how much cash you need and write your cheques for you. It should also forecast your cash requirements and predict the cash you need to pay your bills in the next period. This will help you identify when there will be a cash shortage and give you time to deal with it.

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The reporting side of the program should provide timely information about the current and future health of your business. The reporting should be comprehensive and you should be able to modify the reports to suit your particular needs. It is also useful to be able to move financial informationfrom your accounting program to a spreadsheet where you can play "whatif" and develop different forecasts for your company.

How Do I oet Help7 With all but the simplest accounting program, you will need training and/or professional assistance in setting up your accounting system. Check out the services provided by the software company that produces the program and consultants who install and configure the system. Find out about the software companies certified consultant training program, check out the available training and in particular look at the cost and quality of the telephone support that is available. All of these issues are important and should be thoroughly reviewed before you decide which accountingsoftware package is going to become your business advisor.

A Look At The Programs Here is a snapshot of the programs generally available in Canada. It by no means covers all the available programs that are currently being sold. Each program listed here has been Canadianized, handles GSI', and support is readily available in Canada.

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ACCPAC Plus is a multi~odule DOS based program that contains the usual system manager, general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, order entry, inventory control, purchase order, payroll and sales analysis modules. It is fully integrated and each module can run on its own or with the other modules. The new general ledger module gives the ability to track foreign currencies. With a high market share in Canada, it is a solid performer. The price per module varies from $179 to $1,200. BusinessVision II Delta is a new highCoarseusd oa p~a 44

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Mac DTP Despite its design foibles, the Mac is my top choice for a publishing machine. Here then is a short list of features a DTP Mac should have: 1) Color capability. Even if you plan on

exclusively producing blacked-white

printed output, get a Mac with at least the option of adding a true grayacale or color display. Ask to see a scanned gray-scale photo on the screen of a blacke d-white model like the Classic and then look at the same image on a grayacale or color display (like that of the LCII or llsi) to appredate

why. 2) 4MB or more of memory (8MB is practically required for serious work), and twice the hard drive capacity you think you need. You' ll run out sooner than you think, any. way. 5) A printer. If you have only occasional printing needs (e.g., for personal use only) you may dedde against a laser printer. I do not recommend a dot-matrix printer for any purpose other than printing multiyart forms. A dot-matrix is a poor choice for

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Today's inkjet printers are a good alternative. They are comparablypriced, quieter, and produce better printed output. I personally f a vo r t h e H ew l e t t-Packard DeskWriter (or DeskWriter C if you want color output) over the Apple StyleWriter. The DeskWriter is faster, has better paper handling and a more robust mechanism. Further, the DeskWriter's ink is water-reiis. tant, unlike that of the StyleWriter. Best of all, the DeskWriter's printhead is completely replaced with every new ink cartridge, virtually elhninating the lon~erm print head problems common to other printers. I have found that inkjet printers produce their best output on a type of paper called Hammetmill Laser Plus. As the name implies, this paper is an exceptional choice for laser printing, too. W ith t h e s e c o n siderations, t h e DeskWriter is a good choice for those on tight budgets who require "near4aser qualioutput If, however, you intend on publishing work for other people professionally or semi-professionally, definitely invest the extra few hundred in a laser printer with a PostScript upgrade option. The latest models of laser printers have two things in common: resolution higher than 800x800 dots per inch, and enhanced grayscale abilities. Certain new models from Apple, Hewlett-Packard, LaserMaster, NewGen, +MS, and Xante indude both of these features. Other manufacturers are certain to follow suit. I t is worth noting that of al l t h e PostScript clones I have ever tested, only the PhoenixPage (used in Xante printers and controllers) and Adobe interpreters

successfully meet my criteria for PostScript compatibility. Refer to my article in the April '92 edition of 17ic Cmsputer Paperfor more detaih on this complex issue.

Scanners

I steadfastly maintain that anyone who considers buying a handheld scanner because they can't afford a flatbed scanner should keep saving until they can. Handheld scanners, besides producing images that invariably look like they were captured with a handheld scanner, make you feellike a klutz half of the time. And don't computers already seem to do that more often than we want them to? Get a flatbed scanner or this advice will haunt you forever.

Look for a unit that can capture 256 "true" shades of gray. The HP Scanjet IIp is a good choice in grayscale scanners, as is the Apple One Scanner. Lo~nd color units of reasonable quality arenow available for between $1,000 and $1,500. I' ve seen good results from the Epson color scanner (La Cie markets this unit via mail~rder with its own exceptional software), the HP ScanJet IIc and the Umax UC650. Other units, such as the Abaton Scan/800 Color and the Microtek 500Z have a tendency to produce scans that are too "red." Such lopsided color can, of course, be corrected with a program like Adobe Photoshop (still The Best Program Ever Written, in my opinion), but the others mentioned have better color fldelity. None of these desktop color scanners produce images that would be considered acceptable in a professional publishing environment. To achieve a good quality scan, you might utilize a drum scanner at your localservice bureau, or — ifyou have an appropriate CD-ROM drive — have a roll of fihn processed as a Kodak PhotoCD. In fact, at about a dollar per picture, PhotoCD could do serious damage to the desktop color scanner market.

Aldus Bundles PagelNaker, FreeHand, PhotoStyler SEATHX, WASHINGTON (NB) — Aldus Corporation says it will group its Windows applications PageMaker, FreeHand, and PhotoStyler programs into a promotional bundle called Aldus Publishing Showcase.

The company says Showcase will be

available only in the U.S. and Canada during the fourth quarter of 1992. The combined package will have a suggested retail price of C$995, less than half the price of the three programs purchased separately. PageMaker 4.0 isa page layout program; FreeHand 5.1 is a design and iHustration tool; and PhotoStyler l.la is an imageprocessing program that allows Windows users to enhance digitized photographic images. "The Publishing Showcase is a very aggressive attempt on our part to give customers — ranging from business professionals to graphics designers — an easy, costwffective way to set up a complete publishing environment r unning u n der Windows," says Mike Peronto, Aldus USA sales director. T he c o mpany says t ha t t o u s e Publishing Showcase, you will n e ed Windows 5.0 orlater, and a 586- or 486based PC, although the programs will run on a 286-based machine. You' ll also need

4MB of RAM, an 80MB hard drive,highresolution graphics adapter card, and a

mouse. For professional image enhancement, a 24-bit color display system and a Super VGA card or better is recommended. Aldus says the bundle started shipping October 1. The special promotion ends December 51st. Users who purchase the standard retail version of any one of the products bundled in the Showcase on or after September 1st are eligible for a rebate coupon on the purchase of one other Showcase product. Aldus has had several disappointing quarters recently; it blames the poor results at least pardy on less than antidpated sales of i ts Win d o ws-based p r o d u cts. Undoubtedly the company hopes that Showcase will help those saleL It is also in the middle of a lawsuit flled by some of its stockholders, claiming that the company inflated its growth projections and withheld information, which affected the sale of Aldus stock The company isexpected to announce an upgrade t o i t s f l agship pr oduct PageMaker in early 1995. Contact: Aldus info centre: 1 800488-2588 or ¹1 64¹0-1288.

Fonts For DTP, I recommend PostScript fonts rather than TrueType. I fully expect this situation to change in the not-too-distant future and yes, I know that TrueType has better performance than Adobe Type Manager running under Windows S.l, but at this time,virtually all service bureaus use PostScript Type 1 fonts. I recommend Adobe fonts, primarily for this reason. They are what most service bureaus use. There are numerous other reputable font houses, too. Agfa and

Monotype have very good collections, particularly if you get one of their CD-ROMs where you unlock fonts and pay as you go. You don't need a thousand typefaces to be a competent desktop publisher. As a matter of fact, you might find that less is more. Many designers stick with a small collection of dassic faces; perhaps a couple of sans serif families (Frutiger, Futura, Univers, Helvetica) for headlines and a handful of serif faces (Goudy, Caslon, Garamond, New Baskerville, Century Expanded) for body text, or headlines where you want to impart an air of elegance or fashion. Start by adding the one thing that you don't get with standard laser printer fonts: a sans serif face with really bold holds. I advise you to stay away from cheapo fonts. The imperfections they invariably contain practically scream AMATEURI Some fonts print better at low resolutions thaa others. Faces with subtle curves, such as Zapf Chancery, Optima, Eras and most script faces look particularly hideous in small point shes at SOO dpi or lower.

Books My favorite PageMaker text is Reel WorQ I'agell&kcrfrom Bantam Books. Quarh XPnssHandbook is a good choice for power users of that program. Rca/ War@FneHaad is a must-read for FreeHand buffs. I have not yet seen a good book on CorelDRAW 5.0. The best magazine for aspiring publishers is Before &' APsr (call 9I6-'784-8880 to subscribe). Strongly oriented towards PageMaker and FreeHand users, this bimonthly publication is chock481 of fantastic design and layout tips, techniques and step-by-step examples. It's worth its weight in gold. Other good mags include EC&V (416-299-600'I), Pitblish(415-9785280) and The SeyboidReport on Desktop Publishing(5104574500). •

Corel Upgrade To araphics Users OTTAWA, ONTARIO (NB) — Eager to lure new customers to its recently upgraded CorelDRAW graphics software, software developer Corel is offering users of rival products a sweetheart deal. Users of any Windows or DOS-based graphics program can trade in their software for CorelDRAW 5.0 for C$299. That price covers a version with both diskettes and CD-ROM, normally sold for C$695, Corel said. A CD-ROM only version is available as a competitive upgrade for C$260. Products eligible for trade-in are: Picture Publisher, Aldus Photstyler, Micrografx Designer, Harvard Draw, Aldus Freehand, Adobe Illustrator, Professional Draw, Arts 8r,Letters, Charisma, Aldus Persuasion, D r a w P e r fect, H a r vard Graphics, Lotus Freelance, and Microsoft Power Point. The trade-in deal will be in effect for a limited, but at present unspecifled, length of time, company spokeswoman Janie Sullivan said. Launched in May, CorelDRAW 5.0 adds charting, photo editing, and slide-show modules to the drawing module that gave the software its name.

CorelDRAW also includes the Mosaic visual flle manager, which allows users to preview graphic flles in several formats, and CorelTrace, a tool for converting blackandmhite bit-mapped images into vector graphics. The new release supports Object

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PhoioFinish2.0 Automates Scanning Tasks ATLANTA, GEORGIA ( NB ) — Z S o ft Corporation and WordStar International have announced the release of PhotoFinish 2.0. The program is an image editor running under Microsoft Windows. The companies say it's designed for business users to enhance images in business presentations, brochures, flyers, and newsletters. The $199 program is expected to ship this fall. According to WordStar VP Alex Hoag, photo-realistic images are often the most compelling graphics available, but the expense, time, effort, and technical expertise needed to make even the smallest enhancements have been beyond a business user's capabilities. H oa g s ays PhotoFinish 2.0 is easy to use because of its automation and simplicity. Version 2.0 includes automatic scanning and enhancement of images, and can scan, crop, straighten and enhance all in one step. You also get a collection of obit, royalty-free, business-related images. The ImageViewer feature allows the user to

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QMS RollsOut Color Printers M OBILE, ALABAMA (NB) — Q M S i s expanding its line of printers that use its advanced Crown" technology, specifically in the color printer market. The company has just announced two new color printers that are based on this technology. T he C o l orScript 2 1 0 a nd the ColorScript 250 are the two newest members of the QMS family. Both are built around Mitsubishi color thermal transfer engines. Both also have the Crown processor board in them that gives the printers a very high speed controller (the Intel 80960 running at 25 MHz), as well as the abiTity to

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the larger format printers are used by the graphics arts professionals while the smaller format is primarily used in a business graphic sense. Graphic artists tend to be much more particular about exact color matching and therefore require the spedal paper and its greater accuracy. Those that do not need to be so discerning are quite happy in being able to use more regular paper in their printers. Both printers will begin shipping later this month. The ColorScript 210 vn'll retail for $4995 while the ColorScript 250 will retail for f7995. Contact: QMS Canada, 1-800-361-3392; 604872-0631.

Cap'n Crunch Discusses SneakersMovie With Newsbytes NEW YORK, NEW YORK (NB) — John Draper, author of one of the earliest word processing programs, EasyWriter, and, under his nom de plume "Cap'n Crunch," one of the first known hackers, told Newsbytes that while he "really enjoyed Sncaksss, people should realize that there is an important message contained within." Draper, who served time in prison for his phone phreaking," is considered the model on which the role of 'Cosmo," layed by Ben Xingsley, is based. Cosmo, 'ke Draper, served a prison sentence for his activities and, while in prison, became a collaborator with a nationwide criminal organization, becoming their technical whar d. Draper accepts the identification with Cosmo and says that the movie brings out the problems of technology transfer in rison. Hc: said, "While I was in prison, I earned how to pick a master lock I didn' t ask for the knowledge; it was forced on me. Someone would say 'Let me show you this' so you would. 'They would wheedle things out of me — you don't snitch or not go along in prison. I showed them how to build a random code voice scrambler as well as other things about methods of obtaining f'ree phone service. It bothers me that these methods are probably used today by Colombia drug dealers. "We have to be concerned about the fact that prisons are Universities of Crime. We don't want criminals to have the benefit of knowledge that our government doesn' t have. We don'twant a Robert Norns or a Phiber Optik sharing a cell with a friend of Noriega's. We should learn from history and come up with procedures to insure that this relationship between the computer underground and true criminals is not allowed to flourish." Draper also told Newsbytes that while he enjoyed the movie immensely, he did not care for violent portions in which guns were used; he said, "I hate guns." Draper became "Cap'n Crunch" when he found that whistles given away in Cap' n Crunch cereal emitted the 2600 tone necessary to "fool" the automatic billing and verification system of the phone companies. Since his release from prison, Draper has rewritten EasyWriter and a Forth compiler for the Apple II. (While writing the software products, Draper was known as "Cap' n Software"; he has since resumed being Crunch). He has also been employed as a programmer and consultant.

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amount ofsound, or only 8040 megabytes of data would require only a few minutes to record. Kodak did not disclose exact piices for the Kodak Writable CD discs, but did say that the materi~ nl y costs of produdng a single disc would be about $25. The costs of other CD-WO or CD Write Once recorders capable of recording CDROM, CD-I and CD-ROM XA (Photo CD) run about $10,000for complete packages, including the CD recorder hardware and the necessary premastering and recording software. Other available drives include those marketed by Sony (CDW-900),

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vantaged" by this, 'I think that there' s enough need out there,' that the extra digits won't have a major effect on Unitel s business, Hoey said. From 10 to 25 percent of phone company customers are dissatisfied enough to move to an alternative service despite the extra digits, Hoey said, and in addition, autodialers will insulate many people Rom the extra codes. Unitel announced three discount plans for home users. In one plan, users will pay C$4.50 per month for a sl4ninute block of See calls that must be made in the evening, on weekends, or on holidays within the territory of their regional phone company. Eli 'ble calls beyond the 50-minute limit be charged at a discounted rate, and

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