DEC chose Unix Expo in New York to introduce a new version, UWS 2.2, of its Ultrix operating system, incorporating Adobe Systems’ Display Postscript for WYSIWYG screen displays. By using Display Postscript, users can view documents on screen exactly as they would appear on paper. Additionally, developers can write applications to scale or rotate text, employ colours, offer complex curve and path filling, and insert half-toned and rotated images into documents. The software was integrated with DEC’s X-Window-based DECWindows environment through a joint development effort between DEC and Adobe Systems Inc. NeXT Inc also offers Display Postscript on its hardware, and IBM has also taken out a licensing agreement with Adobe for the software. Adobe also announced plans to implement its Adobe Illustrator software-based drawing package for DEC’s Ultrix families MicroVAX, VAXstation, VAX, DECstation – but said that no delivery date had yet been set and it hadn’t decided on pricing for it.
