hds@penguin.UUCP (H.David Scarbro) (09/10/87)
[I had to guess at the address for the "From:" header line. This is the mess
that I started with:
<gatech!rutgers!relay.cs.net!io!penguin!hds%ileaf.uucp%umb.umb.edu>
The Message-id was "@penguin.io.uucp". Probably best to try the phone.
Good luck! -mod]
Interleaf Contacts: David Weinberger Apple Contact: Janel Hopper
Steve Schwartz (415)354-4463
Lisa Underkoffler
(617)577-9800
For Immediate Release
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INTERLEAF ANNOUNCES ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING SOFTWARE
FOR MACINTOSH II PERSONAL COMPUTER
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First Workstation Software to Run on a Personal Computer
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Santa Clara, CA - Sept. 8, 1987 - Interleaf today announced that "Interleaf
Publisher" document processing software will be available in November for the
Appler Macintosh II personal computer. At the press conference, John Sculley,
chairman of Apple Computer, said: "Interleaf is the premier vendor of high-end
corporate publishing software. The Macintosh II running Interleaf software is
going to establish a strong presence wherever business or government is
producing printed pages."
Interleaf electronic publishing is the first major software package running on
powerful, high-performance engineering workstations to be transferred to a
personal computer without sacrificing functionality or performance.
David Boucher, Interleaf's president, said: "The Mac II is a powerhouse of a
computer, and with Interleaf software it's a major player in the corporate
publishing market. Interleaf looks forward to a long and fruitful relationship
with Apple with both this and future Interleaf software products for the Mac."
Unlike the current generation of PC-based publishing programs - page layout
software - Interleaf on the Macintosh II is especially appropriate for creating
very long, complex documents. Page layout programs require the user to create
pages one at a time by moving text and graphics around by hand. Interleaf
automates this process for multi-page documents, using the computer to lay out
documents even thousands of pages long. And while page layout systems require
separate programs to create the text and graphics, Interleaf includes
state-of-the-art, integrated word processing and graphics creation.
These capabilities make Interleaf Publisher suitable for producing substantial
documents such as 50-page contracts, 100-page price books, 150-page
directories, 200-page users manuals, 300-page financial reports, 400-page
marketing studies, and multi-volume strategic plans - as well as the memos,
newsletters, brochures, display ads and other short documents handled by page
layout systems.
The new Interleaf product enables the Macintosh II to be "networked" to the
major engineering workstations on the market, including Sun Microsystems,
Digital Equipment Corporation, Apollo Computer, and the IBM RT. Since Interleaf
runs on all four of these workstations, they and the Macintosh can share
documents in a publishing network, connecting all those involved in producing
corporate documents - including writers, graphic artists, engineers,
scientists, lawyers, marketers, financial executives, product managers, and
strategic planners. In addition, Interleaf on the Macintosh makes advanced use
of Apple networking capabilities, enabling documents to be linked so that when
one copy is changed, all linked copies everywhere else on the Apple network are
automatically updated.
Interleaf Publisher is priced at $2,495. It uses a Macintosh II with 5
megabytes of RAM and a 40 megabyte hard disk. A complete system, including
hardware, software and one year's support, is priced at $10,900. With an Apple
LaserWriter Plusr printer, the system is priced at $16,500, including support.
Interleaf also announced it has signed a value added reseller (VAR) agreement
with Apple. The agreement entitles Interleaf to sell bundled hardware and
software as well as software alone.
Interleaf's software for the Macintosh II is available at a reduced cost to
educational institutions through Interleaf's Higher Education Marketing
Program.
Interleaf will distribute its Macintosh II software and systems through its
direct sales force in 23 cities. Additionally, the product, currently in beta
test, will be available through selected dealerships.
The Macintosh II software is part of Interleaf's corporate-wide publishing
solution - a family of products on personal computers, workstations and
mainframes that will allow even the largest corporations to create and share
documents, from the initial sketch all the way to their archiving and re-use
within a document database. The products in this set will include an IBM PC
text editor, a "viewstation" for disseminating documents electronically,
workstation products, a multi-lingual publishing system, and publishing
software for mainframes.
David Boucher, Interleaf's president, said: "As a stand-alone system or
clustered with several other Macintosh II's, Interleaf Publisher provides
full-power publishing for individuals and small groups. And as an essential
part of Interleaf's corporate-wide solution, it expands the circle of those in
a corporation who will be able to share the benefits of electronic publishing."
Interleaf on the Macintosh provides full functionality word-processing
including features to ease the production of long documents created by groups
of writers: unlimited document length, automatic hyphenation and spell
verification, automatic generation of indexes and tables of contents, automatic
cross-referencing, automatic multi-level numbering and outlining, revision
tracking, and the ability to accept files from most of the major office word
processors.
Interleaf's graphic capabilities enable users to create sophisticated graphics
from simple shapes; to scan in drawings which can then be altered at the most
minute level; to scan in photographs which can be sized, stretched, and
rotated; and to generate a wide variety of charts automatically.
At any point graphics and text can be combined. Unlike page layout systems,
Interleaf on the Macintosh II gives users access to all of the text handling
functions (including spell checking and multi-column formatting) even when
creating or revising text combined with graphic elements.
Users can cut and paste text and graphics from other Macintosh applications,
including Microsoft Word, MacWrite, MacDraw, and MacPaint. Output is to
laser printers and typesetters via PostScript, the industry standard language
for communicating with printers.
Interleaf, headquartered in Cambridge, MA, has been shipping electronic
publishing software and systems since May 1984. Interleaf users include major
corporations, government agencies and universities, such as General Motors,
Wyeth Laboratories, Monsanto, Hewlett-Packard, Citicorp, General Electric, U.S.
Department of State, Boeing and Harvard University.