Trilithon Software has picked up where RightBrain left off and become an authorized Adobe reseller of Type 1 fonts. The move by Trilithon, makers of the utilities FontCase and ViewFont, as well as Mac- and PC-font-conversion programs, helps solidify the font marketplace and offers one-stop shopping for NEXTSTEP users, according to the company. Trilithon: 415/ 325-0767; info@trilithon.com.
Hot Technologies has gotten a jump on PDO technology with its $149 SerialPortServer 2.0, a multithreaded server that allows applications built with SerialPortKit to access peripherals anywhere on a network. Hot also offers a $99 SerialPortServer Lite that lacks remote-access capabilities. All Hot products will be available from the Electronic AppWrapper in January. Hot Technologies: 617/ 252-0088; Robert_La_Ferla@ hot.com.
ASI, Alembic Systems International, is now offering two new products. Tailor, an editing tool for PostScript and EPS files, allows users to graphically edit any PostScript document, including multipage files imported from any platform that outputs to PostScript. Users can manipulate any element in a file and then save it back in PostScript form. Demo copies are also available via ftp from cs.orst.edu and nova.cc.purdue.edu. The software sells for $495 or $248 educational. ASI is also now offering Xedoc's NetInfo network-administration tools for Auspex, HP, IBM, DEC, and SPARC servers. The package allows sysadmins to use NEXTSTEP's graphical administration tools to manage different UNIX workstations on a network. ASI also announced that its European subsidiary has become the exclusive U.K. distributor for the Epson NX. ASI: 303/799-6223; info@alembic. com. ASI Europe: 44/335/254-75; chris@alembic.com.
Gestel Italia in November shipped Version 1.2 of solidThinking MODELER, its 3-D modeling system. The company also moved into new offices. It can now be reached at Viale dell'Oreficeria 30/P, I-36100 Vicenza, Italy. 39/ 444/96.49.74, 39/444/96.49.84 fax; info@solid.gestel.it.
TimeFlies, even for those hip developers at Mouthing Flowers, who have released a fat-binary upgrade of the company's time-management app. TimeFlies 2.2 allows users to set alarms for sending e-mail, displaying a message panel, or playing a sound. Demo copies are on the archive servers sonata.cc. purdue.edu and cs.orst.edu; a licensed copy costs $45 or $24 for students, seniors, and disabled users. Mouthing Flowers: 206/325-7870; timebugs@ mouthers.wa.com.
Single Source, a systems-integration and software-development firm that has been an authorized NeXT dealer for two years, was ranked 248 in Inc. magazine's October issue on the 500 fastest-growing private companies. The firm provides project-management and development services for the commercial, manufacturing, and health-care markets. Single Source: 317/253-0665.
CKS, NeXT's advertising agency, has earned another kudo, this time in the Communication Arts 34th Design Annual. CKS was tapped for its design of NeXT's Evaluation Kit, which has a close-up of an InterfaceBuilder screen reflecting in a man's glasses. The image was used on the kit's book, video, disk, and cover packaging. The Design Annual is a compilation of editor's choice awards in a variety of advertising and promotional fields.