Freelance Release 3J             business/graphics, NEC PC-9801
A New Version of Freelance
 
Microbytes Daily News Service
Copyright (c) 1989, McGraw-Hill, Inc.
Lotus Development Japan offers Freelance release 3J, a Japanese
version of the company's business-graphics software package,
which integrates charting, drawing, and presentation capabilities
for creating professional-looking graphics and presentations.
 
Modifications to the original version include charting
features, such as additional chart types that are specific to
Japan (e.g., radar and column charts), and direct importing of
data from Lotus 1-2-3 release 2J and 2.1J and from the Japanese
versions of Multiplan and dBASE II and III. The program also
gives you four types of kanji fonts and more than 200 new
Japanese symbols and maps.
 
You get internal katakana-to-kanji conversion so you can input
katakana to display kanji. An image utility lets Freelance accept
scanner input and then converts the files from other Japanese
graphics software packages into TIFF files. You can import and
export files from the popular graphics packages Hanako and Kaede.
The software supports more than 20 Japanese output devices.
 
Freelance release 3J is available for NEC's PC-9801, IBM
Japan's PS/55, and Fujitsu's FM-R series of computers.
 
Price: 98,000 yen.
 
Contact: Lotus Development Japan Corp., Toranomon MF Building
No.10, 3-10-11 Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105, Japan,
81-03-436-4105.
 
                              --- Martha Hicks
 
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