The Calamus package includes the manual and two disks. Though ISD recommends you use the program with a Mega 4 and an Atari SLM804 laser printer, the minimum system requirements are a monochrome monitor, one megabyte of RAM, a double-sided disk drive and a dot matrix printer-well within almost everyone's reach. (Editor's note: See the announcement in News, Notes and Quotes in the April, 1989 issue of START.)Ĭalamus is an advanced publishing tool that uses all the speed and flexibility your ST/Mega can muster. ISD completely revised the manual for Calamus and will soon be offering a wide range of new fonts. ISD obtained the English language rights for Calamus from Ditek International, a German software company. The Canadian firm has also marketed other well-known ST and Mega products including DynaCadd, VIP Professional and Masterplan. One gentleman who spent a great deal of time attempting to find fault with Calamus finally commented, "I always knew that Atari would get it together someday and produce a decent product."Ĭalamus is the latest software coup executed by ISD Marketing. Macintosh and IBM users alike, intent on ridiculing Atari publishing, retreated from the attack to injured defense of their favorite publishing software. The expressions on the faces of those who viewed Calamus varied from sheer delight to jealous surprise. Nathan Potechin, president of ISD, spent the Expo surrounded by enthusiastic customers and envious developers as they watched him put Calamus through its paces. No Atari developer made a bigger impression there than ISD Marketing. I first saw Calamus in September 1988 at the Seybold Desktop Publishing Exposition in Santa Clara, California. The user's manual describes Calamus as a "third-generation DTP program that has pushed development significantly forward." By any standard it is a revolutionary new product that could profoundly change the.publishing market. It is a serious contender that could bring new attention to "Power Without The Price" publishing on Atari computers. ISD Marketing has released Calamus, a versatile program that redefines the desktop publishing metaphor. While the screen fonts are not perfect, Calamus' use of vectorįonts makes laser output crisp and clean. The left) and an intuitive design that makes its power a pleasure to Calamus features a unique nested icon menu structure (on These programs have maintained a stranglehold on the publishing market that, up to now, has seemed inviolate. In the desktop publishing world, two products have traditionally lead the pack: Aldus Pagemaker and Ventura Publisher. PDF-X, encrypted PDF, PDF Fax).Powerful Desktop Publishing Software from ISD Print output supports all printers, and iCalamus can optionally output documents in various PDF formats (e.g. Images from digital cameras, scanners or iPhoto libraries can be imported, as well as complete web pages. Easily grab text content from large PDF documents for further text processing. ICalamus can import all image and text formats which are supported by macOS. Users may build virtual copies for multiple document elements and change them afterwards with just a few mouse clicks (e.g. Out of the box, iCalamus offers flexible masking options with many predefined, dynamically changeable frame shapes. Working with precise measurement units is a breeze. iCalamus is the multi-lingual, frame-oriented desktop publishing solution for macOS. ICalamus offers an easy approach to DTP, and is an excellent choice for creating simple posters to complex magazines, scientific works and for book publishing. iCalamus is a multi-lingual, frame-oriented desktop publishing solution for macOS. ICalamus 2 is the new generation of our easy approach to DTP, and is an excellent choice for creating everything from simple posters, to complex magazines, scientific works and book publishing.
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