TypeSet

[jfenske@muug.mb.ca (John Fenske)]

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 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
 Contact: Tony Gentile / Rob Renstrom
 619/487-9200
 
 WestCode Announces TypeSet: A TrueType
 Productivity Package For Your Apple IIGS
 
 San Diego, California: WestCode Software, Inc. is pleased
 to announce TypeSet, a powerful three-part TrueType
 font management and productivity package for the Apple
 IIGS. TypeSet provides Apple IIGS users with several
 essential tools currently missing from their TrueType
 toolbox, including: a What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get
 (WYSIWYG) Font menu, font sets, and font reporting.
 WestCode spokesman Tony Gentile said, "If you're working
 with TrueType fonts on the Apple IIGS, you need TypeSet."
 
 TypeSet is a IIGS New Desk Accessory (NDA) which easily
 installs on a startup disk. The first and most dramatic
 TypeSet feature is its ability to display fonts in their
 own typeface inside the Font menu of IIGS desktop
 software. Apple IIGS users will now be able to see what a
 font looks like before selecting it. This feature works with
 most popular desktop applications, such as: AppleWorks GS,
 BeagleWrite GS, and Platinum Paint. Users may specify
 whether the font names appear in 10 or 12 pt.
 
 TypeSet also provides users with another powerful feature:
 font management. Font management is accomplished by
 allowing users to define font Sets composed of specific
 user selected fonts. Grouping fonts into different Sets
 allows the user to control the number of fonts in their Font
 menu, making font selection easier and reducing clutter.
 Users may define as many sets with as few or as many fonts
 as desired in each set.
 
 Finally, the last point in TypeSet's triad of features is its
 ability to generate reports. TypeSet allows users to generate
 reports in any of four layouts, including: All Characters,
 Keystroke Equivalents, Line Showings and Various Sizes.
 These reports are perfect for building a users personal font
 catalog. The reports generated with TypeSet can be output to
 both the screen and printer. WestCode CEO Rob Renstrom said,
 "TypeSet continues WestCode's tradition of bringing state-of-
 the-art, Macintosh-like technology to the Apple IIGS."
 
 TypeSet is the latest outstanding software product by the
 programming team of Steven Disbrow and Joe Wankerl of EGO
 Systems, publishers of GS+ Magazine and authors of the ever
 popular EGOed Desk Accesory text editor.
 
 Founded in 1990, WestCode Software has earned a reputation
 for excellence through the success of their innovative
 InWords OCR program, as well as the award-winning
 Pointless TrueType interpreter program. With additional
 products forthcoming and a steadfast commitment to improving
 existing products, WestCode continues to fulfill its pledge to
 provide high-quality, low-priced software.
 
 System requirements for TypeSet are an Apple IIGS with 1.25
 megabytes of RAM, GS/OS System 5.0.4 or later, and
 Pointless 2.0 or later.
 
 TypeSet will be available in late July, at a suggested retail
 price of $49.95.
 
 WestCode Software, Inc.
 15050 Avenue of Science, Suite 112
 San Diego, CA 92128
 
 Sales and Information: (619) 487-9200
 Technical Support:       (619) 487-9233
 FAX:                           (619) 487-9255