Calamus (DTP)

Calamus is a frame-oriented layout and desktop publishing program that was originally developed in Germany for the Atari ST computer. Atari sold the program as a black and white version from 1 July 1987 for a while along with the MegaST and a laser printer as a complete DTP system. The name Calamus derives from the Latin name of a writing instrument made ​​of reeds (see Kalamos ).

History

After the original, German rights holder of DMC GmbH with Calamus SL developed a color version and was successful at the former ( Atari ) placed market from May 24, 1991, they split the development into two independent branches up and let a Danish developer crew a native Windows version develop, however, had no commercial success. DMC eventually sold the rights to the Canadian software company MGI, among other things, the previously Calamus was sold in North America and has gained a reputation as a mass software maker with easy Windows programs such PhotoSuite and VideoWave. MGI was swallowed by the American software company Roxio, by Ulf Dunkel in 2002 was able to buy all the Calamus rights for its German software company inversely software. Inverse software had already taken over the exclusive support and product maintenance of the original Calamus SL, bought over the years more and more rights for External Modules and the original program Calamus SL continuously developed. The program will continue to maintain and enhance. It contains functions for PDF export ( Bridge module with PDF export since 1996) and PDF Import ( Calipso 3 PRO - module since 1998).

Calamus SL 1999 had about 4,000 users worldwide.

Versions

Meanwhile Calamus SL is available with an integrated emulator and Windows. With the additional software MagicMac (X) one can also use Calamus on Apple computers. On both host platforms Calamus exploited by the needed emulators both Atari code and native code to increase speed. Calamus detects installed on the host system printer and can use this.

MagicMac (X), however, can only be run on computers to OSX 10.6.8, OSX Lion is no longer supported because the Apple Carbon framework, which was originally introduced as a bridging technology of OS to OSX, is no longer supported. However, Andreas " Kaos " kromke working on a new Cocoa -based Emulator - working title "Atari X ", which is in an advanced beta stage and under the Calamus SL R8 has been running very smoothly.

For Mac OS X Software has developed a new inverse, native publisher under the name iCalamus.

A special feature of Calamus is the integrated software RIP ( raster image processor).

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