Postcraft International, a San Francisco-based developer and publisher of font enhancement software, has announced Effects Specialist, a font enhancement utility software package, and Printer’s Apprentice Layouts, a series of page layout templates: both packages are designed to provide tools to create documents using dedicated font packages compatible with the Apple Macintosh; Effects Specialist has more than 120 different typography effects that can be imported into page layout programs via EPS or PICT files, Clipboard, or direct to a printer; Printer’s Apprentice Layouts consists of 219 layout templates for designing business stationery on PostScript printers; both products will be distributed by MacAmerica and Egghead in the US and by Softcode and Tesseract Distributing in Canada; Effects Specialist costs $200, and the Printer’s Apprentice Layouts program is $150.
