From: admin@tms-gmbh.de (Frank Pohl)
Subject: Announcing: 1Vision - Publishing Environment for NeXT Computers
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 02:14:42 GMT


Announcing:
	
	1VISION - PUBLISHING ENVIRONMENT FOR NEXT(TM) COMPUTERS

tms GmbH - Regensburg, Germany - announces the release of 1VISION -
the complete publishing environment for NeXT Computers (PEN). 1VISION
is already in delivery in Germany and international release is
expected early in 1993.

1VISION is a modular platform for electronic publishing in which the
optimal working environment can be attained by combining the programs
(VISIONlinks) and modules. The VISIONlinks currently offered by tms
GmbH are CRANACH (image manipulation), LANSTON (typesetting and layout
design), and MANET (vector graphics and vector trace).  A driver for
the HP ScanJet IIc, calibration and color separation tools, and film
recorder drivers are modules currently offered.

1VISION makes any form of multi-media - sound, vector and raster
graphics, video, layout and design - available to its users, as well
as those who wish to write modules for it.  The possibilites are
limited only by the creative abilities of those who use it. By
offering a single environment to work in, 1VISION allows its users to
combine the functions of the VISIONlinks and tools.  This combination
allows limitless freedom of creativity within one user- friendly
environment. With 1VISION, the artificial separation of work, which
was a former necessity of the computing environment, no longer exists.

CRANACH is a complete image manipulation package which offers such
innovative features as the ability to create and manipulate any type
of image of up to 16-bit CMYK. Working masks, a wide variety of
filters, auto lasso, smart brushes and retouching tools - all of which
can be used on the entire image, a selection chosen by lassos and
masks, or free-hand - are only a few of the features contained in
CRANACH which make it the ideal application for image manipulation.

LANSTON, the layout and design VISIONlink, allows complete control of
all text elements in the document.  Kerning and ligatures, piping and
text flow within or around the frames or contours of any element, and
clipping are some of LANSTON's special features.  In addition, as with
any element in 1VISION, all text elements can be individually
manipulated - rotated, skewed, mirrored, used as patterns, resized,
stretched, compressed - in relation to their own frames, groups, or to
the page.

The vector graphics application, MANET, includes a complete palette of
vector elements including geometric shapes and custom-designed
elements using PostScript.  Special features include: automatic vector
optimization with Bezier curve recognition and metamorphosis.
Metamorphosis allows the transformation of one element into
another,the blending of its form and color can be controlled at any
stage.

The palette of VISIONlinks for 1VISION offered by tms GmbH is
continually growing and 1VISIONBs environment makes it ideal for other
developers to create modules for it as well.

For more information about 1VISION and the VISIONlinks available now,
contact Frank Pohl or Bernd Gorny at

tms GmbH, Dr.-Gessler-Str.10, 8400 Regensburg, Germany.
Tel.: +49-941-95163
Fax: +49-941-95163
E-Mail (NeXT): admin@tms-gmbh.de


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