From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.COM (Conrad Geiger - Manager, International NeXT User Groups)
Subject: Adobe Display PostScript Software Development Kit (SDK) for NeXTSTEP
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Organization: Motorola Computer Group, Schaumburg, IL
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 15:54:28 GMT

Adobe Offers Free Upgrade to Display PostScript
Software Development Kit for NeXTSTEP

Mountain View, Calif. (September 18, 1992) (NASDAQ:ADBE) - Adobe
Systems Incorporated announced today Display PostScript Software
Development Kit (SDK) for NeXTSTEP, Version 1.1. The kit contains a
comprehensive set of tools and reference materials designed to help
application software developers reduce development time and create
more powerful applications for the NeXTSTEP environment. Registered
owners of Version 1.0 will receive the kit free of charge directly
from Adobe.

The new kit includes Displaytalk software version 2.0, a powerful
programming tool for the Display PostScript system that provides
interactive development and source-level debugging of PostScript
language programs. Displaytalk is an important tool that allows
applications to take advantage of the graphic and typographic wealth
of the PostScript language and Display PostScript system. Displaytalk
is available as part of the SDK only and not sold as a stand-alone
product, as it is a part of this comprehensive development toolkit.


Displaytalk version 2.0 includes an online reference manual that
includes PostScript Level 1 & Level 2, Display PostScript and
NeXT-specific PostScript language operators. This manual is also
exported as a "service" to other NeXTSTEP applications. (Within
another application, you can highlight a text string and choose
"Define in Displaytalk" from the Services menu.) Also included is
Programming the Display PostScript System with NeXTSTEP, a book
covering dozens of topics critical to developing applications that
take full advantage of the features of the NeXTSTEP environment.

"The Display PostScript SDK for NeXTSTEP continues to be a
significant help to developers creating applications for this dynamic
environment," said Steve MacDonald, senior vice president and general
manager of Adobe's Systems Products Division. "With Display
PostScript as its imaging model, NeXTSTEP brings all the powerful
text and graphics capabilities of the PostScript language to the
screen and is fully compatible with the imaging model found in
PostScript printers."

The Display PostScript Software Development Kit for NeXTSTEP Version
1.1 is available through the Adobe Developers Association. Members
who are first-time buyers of the kit receive a substantial discount.
Members also receive Adobe software application product discounts,
hardware discounts from participating OEMs, monthly mailings,
technical phone support, conference invitations and additional
benefits. Contents of the NeXTSTEP kit Version 1.1 include:

  - Programming the Display PostScript System with NeXTSTEP;

  - Displaytalk 2.0 software, a powerful programming environment for
    the Display PostScript system that provides interactive
    development and source-level debugging of PostScript language
    programs;

  - Code samples for the examples used in the book, Programming the
    Display PostScript System with NeXTSTEP;

  - Two font packages, the Utopia Font Package and the Utopia
    Expert Font package are provided with a full complement of
    weights, characters, kerning pairs, which allow developers to
    test font downloading features and ensure their application can
    handle diverse fonts; and

  - Strategies for optimizing performance and guidance on importing
    and exporting EPS and TIFF format graphic files.

To order the Display PostScript System SDK for NeXTSTEP Version 1.1
through the Developers Association and for more information about
Adobe support, please call 1-800-833-6687.

Adobe Systems Incorporated, founded in 1982, is headquartered in
Mountain View, California. Adobe develops, markets and supports
computer software products and technologies that enable users to
create, display, print and communicate electronic documents. The
company licenses its technology to major computer and publishing
suppliers, and markets a line of type and application software
products. Revenue for 1991 exceeded $229 million.

PostScript, Display PostScript, Displaytalk and Utopia are trademarks
of Adobe Systems Incorporated, which may be registered in certain
jurisdictions. NeXTSTEP is a trademark of  NeXT Computer, Inc.

For more information please contact:
   Micael Wong
   Adobe Systems Incorporated
   Phone: (415) 962-2197
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