Reply-To: soft-logik@cup.portal.com Rf:126329@cup.portal.com,$bfee Rm: !!! Vastatessasi, älä muuta/tuhoa ennen tätä riviä olevaa tekstiä !!! - PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Nov 1, 1994 PRESS CONTACT: Ellen Kazmaier tel: 314-894-8608; fax: 314-894-3280 SOFT-LOGIK ANNOUNCES PAGESTREAM FOR WINDOWS AND MACINTOSH, AND OUTLINES PLANS FOR THE FUTURE (St. Louis) Soft-Logik today announced plans to port its leading Amiga desktop publishing program to the Windows and Macintosh platforms. Development for the Amiga will continue, but development for Atari computers has been ended. "Our main priority at this time is PageStream3 for the Amiga," said Soft-Logik president Deron Kazmaier in an online conference on GEnie. "We are committed to finishing the unimplemented features, and fixing any problems in the program. We want to make it the best desktop publisher possible." Atari development was ended because the potential sales did not justify the development expense. Soft-Logik had hoped that the success of Atari's Jaguar game console would lead to revitalized sales of its computers, but the Atari computer software market has continued to shrink. Deron announced that versions of PageStream3 for Windows and Macintosh computers would be forthcoming. "I hope that the Atari and Amiga users here who are thinking about changing computers will continue to use PageStream into the future." He told the GEnie conference attendees that "if you've been wanting to buy a Macintosh or Windows computer but shudder at the thought of leaving PageStream, I have good news for you. There will be PageStream for Macintosh and PageStream for Windows." Release dates for the Macintosh and Windows versions have not been set, but work is already underway. Soft-Logik is pre-announcing these versions so that customers considering a change in computers will know that PageStream will continue to be available to them. The first version for Macintosh and Windows will be very similar to the finished version of PageStream3 for the Amiga with just a few features specific to each platform. Subsequent versions will add support for other machine-specific features. Deron assured the attendees that Soft-Logik would provide an affordable cross-platform upgrade path, so that users of the Amiga and Atari versions could purchase upgrades to the Macintosh and Windows versions if they chose to change computers. He also announced that TypeSmith would be available for Windows in the future. Pricing for the new versions and upgrades has not yet been set. Soft-Logik will continue to develop its Amiga products, including PageStream and TypeSmith. Amiga users should not view the announcement of Macintosh and Windows versions negatively, because PageStream3 was designed from the start to be portable. PageStream itself is platform-independent; the machine-specific code is restricted to separate libraries. This means that if new features are added to the Windows and Macintosh versions, they can be easily added to the Amiga version. In fact, the Amiga version will inherit a windfall of import/export filters as filters are added for the required Macintosh and Windows formats. Soft-Logik Publishing remains committed to the Amiga and hopes that production and R&D for Amiga computers resumes soon. PageStream 3.0c was released today with more implemented features, bug fixes and much faster text speed. TypeSmith 2.5a will be available later this week and will correct some printing problems. ---end--- ---------- Here's a list of 3.0c version numbers for those people needing to check theirs after applying the patch: PAGESTREAM 3.0c --------------- PROGRAM FILES: PageStream3 program....... v3.0c BME program............... v2.0 PageLiner program......... v2.0b SOFTLOGIK:LIBS (program libraries) softlogik_app.library..... v8.68 softlogik_obj.library..... v1.126 slarexxsupport.library.... v1.0 SOFTLOGIK:FILTERS (filter modules) ArtExpressionEPS.gfilter.. v1.0a Ascii.tfilter............. v1.0c BMP.gfilter............... v1.0a EPS.gfilter............... v1.0b Excellence.tfilter........ v1.0a FinalWriter.tfilter....... v1.0a FreehandEPS.gfilter....... v1.0b GIF.gfilter............... v1.0 IFFCTXT.tfilter........... v1.0 IFFDOC.dfilter............ v1.0c IFFDR2D.gfilter........... v1.0a IFFDTXT.tfilter........... v1.0 IFFFTXT.tfilter........... v1.0b IFFILBM.gfilter........... v1.0 IllustratorEPS.gfilter.... v1.0b IllustratorEPS.header..... 12577 bytes MacPaint.gfilter.......... v1.0 PageStream2.dfilter....... v1.0c PCX.gfilter............... v1.0 ProDrawClip.gfilter....... v1.0b ProWrite.tfilter.......... v1.0a ProPage.dfilter........... v1.0b IFFILUS.gfilter........... v1.0c TIFF.gfilter.............. v1.0 Word.tfilter.............. v1.0a WordPerfect.tfilter....... v1.0a Wordworth.tfilter......... v1.0a PageStream2.fontlist...... 87009 bytes ProPage.fontlist.......... 5262 bytes WordPerfect5.tfilter...... v1.0a SOFTLOGIK:EFFECTS (effect modules) brightness.effect......... v1.0 contrast.effect........... v1.0 negative.effect........... v1.0a pixelize.effect........... v1.0 reducenoise.effect........ v1.0 tiles.effect.............. v1.0 trace.effect.............. v1.0b Emboss.effect............. v1.0 Sharpen.effect............ v1.0 SOFTLOGIK:PRINTERS (printer drivers) HP.printer................ v1.0c PostScript.ehandler....... 3086 bytes PostScript.printer........ v1.0c PostScript.prolog......... v1.0c Preference.printer........ v1.0c IFFILBM.printer........... v1.0b Epson.printer............. v1.0b Fargo.printer............. v1.0a SOFTLOGIK:ENGINES (font and text code modules) CG.font................... v1.0b PGS.font.................. v1.0b PS.font................... v1.0e PageStream.codes.......... v1.0a American.language......... v1.0 Frangais.language......... v1.0 PageMaker.codes........... v1.0 ProPage.codes............. v1.0 XPress.codes.............. v1.0 Custom.Dictionary......... 2774 bytes English.Dictionary........ 142862 bytes SOFTLOGIK:COLORS (color libraries) Pantone. Coated.library... 14642 bytes Pantone. Process.library.. 53235 bytes Pantone. ProSim.library... 14764 bytes Pantone. Uncoated.library. 14950 bytes Kevin Davidson, Asst. Moderator AmigaZone Vendor Support - PORTAL SOFT-LOGIK BBS: (314) 894-0057 e-mail Tech support questions to: tech@slpc.com