Archetype introduced Stylist, a proof-of-concept app for its Document Engine technology. Stylist will ship with the DE in the first quarter of 1993 for $795. Frame Technology announced FrameBuilder for developing structured documents. The NeXT version of this multiplatform product will ship in the second quarter of 1993. RightBrain demonstrated PasteUp in the NeXT booth.
Graphisoft was expected to release TopCAD in October. Priced at $1995, the 2-D CAD program offers all the selection, layering, and generation-modification tools found in the Mac version. A command and macro language will be added later.
Altsys Virtuoso shipped in October. The $695 drawing program offers a full suite of drawing, layering, text-handling, and color-separation tools for single-page documents. Lighthouse Design released Concurrence 1.1, an updated version of its$995 presentation program that improves printing performance, especially with imported TIFF and EPS images; and the $499 Diagram 2.0, which sports lots of new features: rotation, image cropping, easier label placement and tool selection, copying and pasting styles, more intuitive rulers, and infinite undo.
PagetPress Electronic AppWrapper, the CD-ROM version of the popular catalog of goods and services for the NeXT, was shown. It goes beyond its printed counterpart to include working demos of many of the products included in the catalog.
Varityper's Image Manager uses the NeXT as an image server in a Mac environment. Canon showed its previously reported solution for using the NeXT as a front end for the Canon Laser Copier products.
TypeDrawer, from Imaginet, lets users install fonts by dragging and dropping and manage font-family groupings and availability. Users can organize fonts by document or project, for example. Imaginet: 612/342-2442.