Apple's Leading Graphics Technology To Be Delivered to Users through Third-Party Applications for Fast, Wide-Spread Adoption.BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 7, 1996--PaceWorks Inc., developers of Dancer, a new animation tool, and other developers leveraging off Apple's industry-leading graphics technology jointly announced today that Apple has released to them the key components of its graphics engine as a dynamically loading shared library. The library brings users powerful vector-graphics capabilities, sophisticated line layout and advanced color manipulation for superior imaging and animation. Now users of PaceWorks' Dancer, a powerful animation tool slated to ship by year's end, do not have to install Apple's QuickDraw* GX as a Macintosh OS extension to acquire the most popular functionality of GX that this and other applications harness. PaceWorks and other GX developers intend to immediately incorporate Apple's graphics library into their applications. In this framework, when a user opens the application, the graphics library seamlessly loads as well, and when a user quits quits adj. On even terms with by payment or requital: I am finally quits with the loan. [Middle English, probably alteration (influenced by Medieval Latin out of the application, the graphics library automatically shuts down, leaving a user's system unchanged. Font libraries and print set-up are not altered. "We are thrilled that the graphics component of QuickDraw GX QuickDraw GX was a replacement for the QuickDraw (QD) 2D graphics engine and Printing Manager inside the "classic" Mac OS. Although GX was based on the same general geometry and dimensions of the original QD engine, the underlying drawing platform became a resolution-independent is now widely accessible to all Mac users," said Phac Le Tuan, PaceWorks vice president of engineering. "Imagine providing a four-course gourmet dinner, but making people eat all or nothing. Now we're saying, `Just eat what you want.'" "The release of the GX library is critical to delivering Electrifier, our powerful Internet playback solution, on which we are collaborating with PaceWorks," said Mihail Lari, president of Lari Software. For users with QuickDraw GX already installed, or those who want the full functionality of GX and choose to install it as a system extension, the dynamically loading library contained in an application would be overridden by the GX system extension. Dancer is a powerful animation tool that speeds creation of captivating cap·ti·vate tr.v. cap·ti·vat·ed, cap·ti·vat·ing, cap·ti·vates 1. To attract and hold by charm, beauty, or excellence. See Synonyms at charm. 2. Archaic To capture. multimedia projects by providing time-based operations to manipulate and synchronize See synchronization. advanced typography typography (tīpŏg`rəfē), the art of printing from movable type. The term typographer is today virtually synonymous with a master printer skilled in the techniques of type and paper stock selection, ornamentation, and composition. , graphics, video and music. PaceWorks is headquartered in Palo Alto Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif. and currently receives financial backing from French parent Id ale Audience. Founded in 1996, PaceWorks develops innovative and powerful multimedia applications that allow creative designers to effectively communicate their ideas. PaceWorks can be contacted directly at info@paceworks.com. -0- Note to Editors: PaceWorks, Dancer and Scriptorium scrip·to·ri·um n. pl. scrip·to·ri·ums or scrip·to·ri·a A room in a monastery set aside for the copying, writing, or illuminating of manuscripts and records. are registered trademarks of PaceWorks, Inc. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are property of their respective owners. CONTACT: McLean Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most Jessie Brumfiel, 415/513-8800 jb@mcleanpr.com |
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