Digital Arts to develop Software for Acorn Publishing Platforms 

Digital Arts AG,  the Swiss owned software development and publishing 
company, has entered into an agreement with Acorn Computers Ltd to develop 
professional software aimed at the printing, publishing and graphic design 
markets. 

The software will make full use of the ARM-based 32-bit RISC architecture 
and the RISC OS multitasking operating system of the Acorn Archimedes 
platforms. 

Simon Woodward, Acorn's Business Unit Manager for Professional Sales said "I 
am very pleased with the creation of this new partnership as it will further 
increase our portfolio of professional software to enable Acorn to increase 
its presence in this market. It will also add further value to the recently 
signed agreement with Kodak which will enable Acorn products to support 
Photo CD in the near future and it is quite possible that aspects of the 
Digital Arts technology will actually be integrated into the Acorn RISC OS 
multitasking operating system." 

Digital Arts AG has developed professional publishing software for both the 
Nextstep environment and Atari platforms. Among the authors working for the 
company are the teams that developed such industry standards as Didot 
Professional and Retouche Professional (CD), which are used by many hundreds 
of professional prepress and graphics design companies in Germany, Austria, 
Switzerland and the Benelux countries. 

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