On the Web today, discourse is widespread and dynamic, but variations in typography and layout are almost completely absent. We argue that solving the font problem is fundamentally important to enable the creation of high-quality printed documents. The Pitch At FutureTense, Inc., we have been developing a Web publishing tool called FutureTense Texture. The authoring tool must feel familiar to graphic designers currently using tools like QuarkXPress and PageMaker Texture should solve the font problem Texture should enable the selective printing of document content. The documents that are created using the tool are designed specifically for online reading.
Texture is a result of the above design goals.
While the existence of Java is transparent to both author and reader, Java was necessary for us to be able to meet the goals described above.