Frame Technology Inc, San Jose, also exhibited in support of its numerous partners in Japan, exhibiting a new version of Japanese Framemaker 2.1X desktop publishing, which has a number of new features to suit the Japanese environment, including tategaki and automatic numbering of kanji and numerics. Framemaker already supports 7,000 JIS kanji characters, use of FEP for kana-kanji henkan and the Japanese version has compatibility with other versions of the software including French, German and Italian. Frame Technology has a number of sales channels in Japan, including Rikei Corp on Sony NEWS, Oki Electric on the OkiStation, Sparcstations, Matsushita Computer with its PanaStation. SRA Corp is Frame Technology’s development partner for implementing on new Japanese environments. Frame claims 38% of the world market for desktop publishing under Unix; nearest rival is Interleaf Inc, and in Japan expects to win at least the same market share, according to senior vice-president Pat House.
