With high-speed networking built in, the NeXT Computer is made for a world of interpersonal computing.  Tied together, your entire workgroup has access to common files and Digital Libraries.  Also, multimedia NeXT Mail revolutionizes the way you interact with others.

Let's assume you've just completed the first draft of your 50-page document.  You want to send it out for comments, to a few of your colleagues, or a few hundred.  Enter NeXT Mail.

Just double-click the Mail icon, write a brief memo, drag the document icon into the message and click Deliver.  On the receiving end, you colleagues double-click the document icon, and all 50 pages appear, graphics and all.

Getting comments back is equally simple.  You can tell when new mail is waiting just by looking at your Mail icon.  When a reply does arrive, all you have to do is double-click the icon and select the message you want to read.

As you can see, NeXT Mail doesn't look like ordinary e-mail.  It looks like any other NeXT document with varied type size, styles and graphics (all of which can be cut and pasted directly into your layout).  But it's not just what you see, it's what you hear. NeXT Mail lets you attach voice to your message, to make you point abundantly clear. 

FrameMaker documents, too, can easily be annotated with voice.  So you colleagues can simple return your draft with remarks attached to specific sections.

If it turns out that revisions are necessary, there's no need to bounce back and forth between word processing graphics and layout programs. You do it all from your FrameMaker layout.

The word processing tools let you make global changes across hundreds of pages.  Graphics created in FrameMaker can be edited on the spot.  Even for the TopDraw image, it's simple--just double-click it and you move instantly to TopDraw.  Make your changes there, and the image is automatically updated back in your layout.

Never before has the revision process been more efficient.  Or more sane.