Shrugging off the distressing four-day kidnapping ordeal of its president, Adobe Systems Inc, Mountain View, California has come out with a whole string of announcements this week, headlined by the news that it is to make the Display PostScript system available to users of Sun Microsystems Inc Sparcstations. The system will include the Adobe Showpage PostScript language file viewer and will be offered through distributors, which will receive the Display PostScript Server Integration Kit for Sparcstations this month. The kits enables the distributor to modify an X Window System 11.5 server running on a Sparc processor to use the Display PostScript extension. Distributors can sell an X server with integrated Display PostScript software as a stand-alone product, or bundle it with Adobe’s TranScript software for PostScript language printing in Unix environments, an Adobe Software Development Kit, or additional fonts. Sparcstations with Display PostScript will ship with 13 scalable Type 1 fonts and further type sets will be available – a font installer programme will give access to the full 1,500 type faces in the Adobe Type Library plus 13,000 Type 1 fonts from other vendors. Adobe Illustrator, Motif version, already out for other Unix systems, will be offered by the same distributors later this year.
