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Path: digifix!not-for-mail From: andrew@stone.com (Andrew Stone) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: STONE DESIGN announces trade-up program for AppSoft Draw users** Date: 30 Sep 1993 22:05:02 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Lines: 55 Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Approved: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <28g38e$c0o@digifix.digifix.com> Reply-To: info@stone.com News For immediate release For more information write info@stone.com or Stone Design Corp. 3725 Rio Grande Blvd. NW Albuquerque, NM 87107 or call Elena Settanni at (505) 345-4800 Subject: Stone Design Offers Draw Users Special Trade-Up ALBUQUERQUE, NM, October 1, 1993 - Stone Design has announced a special trade-in price on the latest version of its drawing program, Create 2.0, for users of Appsoft Draw. The announcement follows on the heels of Appsoft's announcement this week that it is discontinuing its NEXTSTEP business, which includes development and support of Draw. Stone Design shipped Create version 2.0 today, a feature-packed upgrade to the company's tremendously popular drawing application. Version 2.0, which ships in multiple-architecture binary form and introduces full compatibility with NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors, offers a multitude of other new features: hot links to and from images and documents in other applications; support for Bacchus' ImageAgent image filtering service; unlimited custom pattern creation including easy drag-and-drop storage and reuse; a dual-mode paintbrush tool; multiple pages per document, plus a simple reordering mechanism; presentation-style display of pages; conversion of text objects into editable curves; dynamic or fixed date markers and smart page-number markers; user-specified number of undos; and extensive on-line Help based on the NEXTSTEP standard. "We want to offer Draw users a great package with a long life ahead of it, plus full documentation and unlimited technical support, at a price that reflects their investment in Draw," said Andrew Stone, CEO of Stone Design. "Deals like this are usually leveled against live competitors as a way of eroding a rival's customer base. But we're making this offer to Appsoft customers because we think it's the right thing to do in the NEXTSTEP market," Stone said. Draw users who purchased that application at regular or standard discount prices are eligible to purchase Create, Stone's full-featured and easy-to-use drawing program, for a special trade-in price of $249 along with proof of purchase of Draw. The proof of purchase must show date of purchase before 9-27-93 and/or a purchase price that reflects pre-close-out purchase. Users who purchase Draw under Appsoft's close-out offer of 90 percent off regular price are not eligible for Stone's trade-in offer. This offer expires on October 31, 1993; interested Draw users should contact Stone Design for additional details. Registered users of Create are entitled to the upgrade to Create version 2.0 for a price of $99, and should contact Stone Design for details.
These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Marcel Waldvogel and Netfuture.ch.