Welcome to Virtuoso 2.0!

Since its release in November 1992, Virtuoso has received praise for being the best graphics software available for NEXTSTEP. And in 1993, Virtuoso won the Best of the Breed Award from NeXTWorld Magazine and the Impact Award from Publish Magazine. We feel Virtuoso 2.0 is an integral part of the "GS Publishing Solution." GS Corporation and Altsys are working closely to provide tight integration between our products. We have big plans, including compatibility between our color management system, support for 2 Byte characters, and much more.  

Collaggi Palette and Virtuoso are perfect companions. You can save Virtuoso 2.0 pages in EPS format for easy previewing in Palette, and then drag and drop them onto a Virtuoso page and have full editing capabilities. Try experimenting with eXTRAREAD and Virtuoso. You can simply copy rich text (RTF) directly out of eXTRAREAD and then paste it into Virtuoso. All formatting remains intact. From here you can use Virtuoso's superior typographical controls to make columns, do copy fitting, text wrap and much more! Think of the time savings in a production environment: a writer faxes in ad copy, which is OCR'd in eXTRAREAD, then copied directly into any Virtuoso layout. No more lost time reformatting previously formatted text. Best of all, Virtuoso documents are fully compatible with Freehand 4.0 on the Macintosh. The world of NEXSTEP publishing is now even more interoperable with industry standard Macintosh environments!

For demonstration purposes, we have included some sample artwork and layouts created in Virtuoso. The files are stored in EPS format, so they can be placed in any application that accepts EPS. However,  when dropped into Virtuoso, they can even be edited! In order to demonstrate this feature, you must first run this script before launching Virtuoso. 
 

 Double click here to enable EPS editing within Virtuoso 2.0.

Note: When you double click on the script, the Terminal application will automatically launch. When the script is finished, you will see "[Process completed]" in a "Dead Terminal Window". Quit the the Terminal application and launch Virtuoso. You will only need to run this script once (unless you log in again under a different user account).

 Double click here to read the Virtuoso 2.0 Addendum