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Path: digifix!not-for-mail From: jesper@cooper.xanthus.se (Jesper Lundh) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Graphity 1.0 beta available on public archive... Date: 12 Oct 1993 15:59:21 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Lines: 70 Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Approved: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <29f2ap$5iu@digifix.digifix.com> ****** Beta version of Graphity 1.0 business graphics ****** application now available on public archive Stockholm, October 12, 1993 - Xanthus International AB today announced that a beta version of its business graphics application Graphity 1.0 is available on a public archive. The beta is available as fat binaries for both NeXT and Intel hardware, and will run on NEXTSTEP 3.1 and higher. The Graphity 1.0 beta can be found on the following archive: sics.se:/pub/next/beta_fat The beta version can be run in demo mode for 10 minutes with full functionality. If you want to participate in the beta programme, please send a mail to Xanthus at graphity@xanthus.se to get a valid registration number. Graphity 1.0 will be distributed in North America by Alembic Systems International Ltd, email: info@alembic.com Retail price will be $395. Please contact Xanthus for academic and volume discounts. ---------------------------------- Graphity from Xanthus is a brand new business graphics application for the NEXTSTEP environment that can be used as a stand-alone application or together with the Questor spreadsheet application from Xanthus. Graphity includes a number of powerful features: - A state-of-the-art user interface for easy access to all features. - Multi-level undo. All operations can be undone and the number of undos are user defined. - Full support for object linking. Graphs and graphics can be copied and linked into other documents for continuous updating. Graphs can also be linked to data in text-files or Questor worksheets. - 3D graphs based on Renderman. - A powerful API that allows other applications to easily control and send data to Graphity. - Full support for user palettes. Users can easily create new palettes with customized graphs and graphics. - Drawing tools that allows you to draw directly on a graph document. - Images and sound can be drag-and-dropped anywhere on a graph document to create stunning documents, including external graphics and sound effects. - The following 2D graph types are supported: bar, stacked bar, line, combination, stock, area, stacked area, scatter (xy-plot) and pie. - The following 3D graph types are supported: bar, area, scatter (xyz-plot) and pie. - Multiple light-sources for 3D graphs that can be positioned individually. - User defined shaders and textures for 3D graphs.
These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Marcel Waldvogel and Netfuture.ch.