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PR: SPG Introduces "CD-ROM Only Packaging"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Krautheim)
Mon Mar 4 10:17:56 1996
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 4 Mar 1996 12:50:21 GMT
From: terminator@igc.net (Joel Krautheim)
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Submitted by: Joel Krautheim
Source: SPG
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SPG Introduces "CD-ROM Only Packaging" with the Release of ColorWorks V2
MIAMI, Fl., February, 23 1996 -- SPG announced today it will offer products
using a new "CD-ROM Only Packaging" format, starting with the new ColorWorks
V2 program. CD-ROM Only Packaging simply means to offer software products on
CD-ROM with the program documentation provided using an On-Line MEGA-Manual on
the CD-ROM itself (no hard-copy documentation).
"The current state of the art of on-line document authoring tools makes
delivering software products without hard-copy documentation viable", said
Joel Krautheim, President of SPG. "We can basically transform an entire
printed user manual into a beautiful on-line document, color graphics and all.
This allows us to offer a lower cost alternative-version of our products, and
know that the user still has the full program documentation available in order
to get the most out of the program".
The ColorWorks V2 On-Line MEGA-Manual is a 24MB+ viewable .inf file that is
nearly all of the programs' printed documentation, including the graphics
(dialog pictures), instructional learning lessons (with all applicable
screen-shot graphics), and all appendices.
In addition, ColorWorks V2 comes with over 22MB+ of On-Line Technique Lessons
in viewable .inf files. Each lesson details how a particular image was created
with the program. As additional On-Line Technique Lessons are made available
they will be put on the SPG Internet Web-Site for download.
All ColorWorks V2 packages (including the ones with printed manuals) include
these on-line resources. The CD-ROM Only version provides a customer an
alternative way to get involved with the very same SPG product at a lower
price point.
SPG Inc. is a developer of computer graphics software, committed to
excellence, and to the continued development of the most unique, exciting, and
the highest performance computer software in the world. The SPG Internet
Web-Site is http://www.spg-net.com.
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