PRESS RELEASE: Lighthouse Design Acquires EquationBuilder for NEXTSTEP
Angela Grady
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
For product information, contact:
Robin Shields
415/570-7736
ro...@lighthouse.com
http://www.lighthouse.com/
--LIGHTHOUSE DESIGN ACQUIRES EQUATIONBUILDER FOR NEXTSTEP--
NOVEMBER 8th, 1995 -- SAN MATEO, CA -- Lighthouse Design, Ltd.
today announced that it has acquired the exclusive rights to Digital
Tool Works' EquationBuilder, an innovative equation editor for the
object-oriented NEXTSTEP environment. EquationBuilder, which will
begin shipping for NEXTSTEP 3.x later this month, supports Open
Object Embedding (OOE), a powerful linking and embedding technology
Lighthouse acquired earlier this year from Xanthus International,
along with its entire line of OOE-compliant NEXTSTEP products.
"This acquisition highlights our strategy of providing a comprehensive
and well-integrated product line," said Jonathan Schwartz, president
of Lighthouse Design. "EquationBuilder is one of the most useful
products we've seen for NEXTSTEP, and simplifies the chores normally
associated with visualizing and editing complex equations. Now,
technical and business professionals will have a fast, easy-to-use
equation editor to add to their Lighthouse desktop."
"We are excited to formalize our relationship with Lighthouse
Design, the clear leader in the NEXTSTEP market, by adding
EquationBuilder to their product line," said Terrence Talbot,
president of Digital Tool Works. "Lighthouse now offers a remarkably
complete product suite for technical and business customers, giving
EquationBuilder the opportunity to quickly reach a much broader
customer base."
EquationBuilder features dynamic, "on the fly" recomposition. As
expressions are edited, they are dynamically reformatted, assuring
WYSIWIG typographic consistency and professional quality results.
Users construct mathematical expressions with a simple point and
click, choosing from palettes of common symbolic elements, such as
fractions, matrices, and delimiters. EquationBuilder automatically
follows standard professional typesetting rules.
Using Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) as its native file format,
EquationBuilder expressions are easily saved and added to any page
layout or word processing application that accepts EPS. In addition,
EquationBuilder fully supports OOE, allowing complex equations to
be embedded within applications that support the protocol. Support
is also provided for NEXTSTEP Object Links, filter services, and
universal drag-and-drop.
EquationBuilder also features powerful and accurate translation to
the TEX typesetting language, giving TEX users a simple to use
equation composition environment.
EquationBuilder will begin shipping later this month for the SPARC-,
Intel-, Motorola-, and HP PA-RISC-based versions of NEXTSTEP 3.0
or later. Site licenses are available and EquationBuilder will be
included, along with all other Lighthouse products, on a heavily
discounted Academic CD. The next version of this CD will be available
in December.
Lighthouse Design is the leading supplier of commercial products
and services for the object-oriented OpenStep environment. With a
growing family of applications and object frameworks for OpenStep
on SunSoft's Solaris and Microsoft's Windows NT, Lighthouse is at
the forefront of broadening the marketplace for cross-platform
object technology.
For additional information about Lighthouse Design and its products,
contact the company directly at 1-800-366-2279 or 1-415-570-7736,
send electronic mail to in...@lighthouse.com, or visit Lighthouse
Design's World Wide Web page at http://www.lighthouse.com/.
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Lighthouse Design, Ltd. and the Lighthouse logo are trademarks of
Lighthouse Design, Ltd. EquationBuilder is a trademark of Digital
Tool Works. NEXTSTEP is a registered trademark of NeXT Computer,
Inc. All other trademarks mentioned are the property of their
respective owners.