info-mac@uw-beaver (02/06/85)
From: "Kevin W. Laurent" <KLaurent@DENVER.ARPA> A good source for information about the LaserWriter, the PostScript language, AppleTalk, and Aldus Corp's PageMaker is the January 28, 1985 issue of THE SEYBOLD REPORT ON PUBLISHING SYSTEMS (available from SEYBOLD PUBLICATIONS, INC., PO Box 644, Media, Pennsylvania 19063, (215) 565-2480). They devoted the entire issue to these and related topics and produced almost the entire contents of the issue using MacWrite, PageMaker, and the LaserWriter (including bit-mapped graphics merged with the text). They also wired their 5 Macs to the LaserWriter and so have lots of things (mostly good) to say about AppleTalk. This issue is so chock full of interesting things that it'll take me awhile to digest. For example, they mention the UltraTalk interface (developed by Lutzky-Baird Associates) which supposedly provides the Mac-to-Unix facility we've all been hoping for--access to the full Unix file management subsystem coupled with the Mac user interface. Also discussed were the newest version of MacPublisher and a prototype Linotronic 300 equipped with an Adobe produced PostScript interpreter. In all I was pleasantly suprised with the upbeat, positive tone of the issue. In the past, SEYBOLD has had a tendency towards ripping apart new products. Maybe its just the novelty of the approach--I thought they were impressed. KLaurent@DENVER.ARPA