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Path: digifix!not-for-mail From: Greg_Anderson@afs.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: AFS Announces Feature Set for WriteUp Word Processor Date: 14 Oct 1993 15:42:35 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Lines: 74 Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Approved: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <29ka3b$3jb@digifix.digifix.com> Reply-To: Michael_Pizolato@afs.com Anderson Financial Systems Inc. 909 Sumneytown Pike, Suite 207 Springhouse, PA 19477 215 653 0911 215 653 0711 fax Contact: Michael Pizolato Voice: 215 653 0911 Michael_Pizolato@afs.com For Immediate Release ANDERSON FINANCIAL SYSTEMS ANNOUNCES FEATURE SET FOR WRITEUP(tm) WORD PROCESSOR SPRINGHOUSE, PA, October 14, 1993 -- Anderson Financial Systems today released the feature set for WriteUp(tm) V1.0, its recently announced low-cost NEXTSTEP word processor. According to Michael Pizolato, Chief Technical Officer of AFS, "The response to our October 1st announcement has been much stronger than expected. Just like our hometown Phillies, AFS is going to surprise a lot of people with how well a bunch of scrappy veterans can produce." The following features will be included in WriteUp V1.0: Text Processing Fonts: multiple faces and sizes Attributes: bold, italic, underline, superscript, subscript, small caps Justification: left, center, right, full Line spacing: preset or variable Hypenation: automatic Color: drag-and-drop from standard color panel Style sheets: global and document-specific Case change operations (lower, upper, capitalize) Date/time codes Inline graphics, with baseline support Emacs keybindings, including forward delete and transpose operations Graphics Processing Drag-and-drop scalable graphics Automatic text overlay or runaround Document Processing Full WYSIWYG display, including headers, footers, and graphics Page navigator: thumbnail view for easy maneuvering through documents Multiple document views: different pages and/or zoom factors Margins: document and paragraph-specific Floating Rulers: tab, margin, and indentation settings Headers/Footers: single or odd/even pages, option to exclude first page Zoom in/out: 10% to 1600% WYSIWYG placement, sizing, and editing of all document elements Automatic page numbering, Roman or Arabic style Manual page breaks Document Management/Other Standard file handling: new, open, save, save as, revert to saved, etc. Template documents: load/save Import formats: ASCII, RTF, WordPerfect, WriteNow, TIFF, EPS Spell checking On-line help Internationalization Dictionaries and hyphenation for numerous languages (call for details) All program messages in easily modified string tables User interface (nib) files available for editing User-selectable decimal align character WriteUp 1.0 will carry a list price of $199 ($99 academic). Five-user license packs will cost $795. From now until December 1, all preorders will receive a unique guarantee: If the product fails to ship by December 31, AFS will rebate $1 per day until it does. Preorders must be accompanied by a check or credit card number. This is a no-risk offer, because all payments received will be held until shipment. Through December 1, all new orders for PasteUp, AFS's flagship desktop publishing product, will include a free copy of WriteUp. The NS/Intel version of PasteUp 2.1 is currently shipping at a price of $495 ($249 academic). As a custom software developer, AFS has always included its customers in every step of the design and production process, to ensure that its products meet their needs as closely as possible. In that spirit, we look forward to feedback regarding the WriteUp feature set through the channels listed above. ABOUT ANDERSON FINANCIAL SYSTEMS Anderson Financial Systems Inc. is a privately held software development company based in Springhouse, Pennsylvania (suburban Philadelphia). Founded in 1982, the company's primary business has been designing customized trading software for more than 60 Wall Street firms on IBM PCs and NeXT workstations. Representative clients include Citicorp, First National Bank of Chicago, PaineWebber, American Capital Management, Delaware Management Company, Oppenheimer Management Corp. and Texas Commerce Bank. Since adding NeXT to its roster in 1991, AFS has made a substantial commitment to building applications that leverage the unique capabilities of the NEXTSTEP operating environment. ###
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