Altsys

Altsys Corporation was a Texas-based software company founded by James R. Von Ehr II. It was an early Apple Macintosh developer and publisher.

Three major products from Altsys for PC / Macintosh and NeXT were:

Altsys' best known product that was basically rebranded Virtuoso, that was licensed to Aldus Corporation under the FreeHand name,[2] was a vector drawing program that competed with Adobe Illustrator. It was published for many years, originally only on the Macintosh, then also for Microsoft Windows. When Aldus was acquired by Adobe, the licensing agreement that Altsys had with Aldus precluded FreeHand from being part of the deal, so the publishing rights reverted to Altsys. Altsys also published Metamorphosis for Macintosh, a font utility.[3]

Altsys was acquired by Macromedia in January, 1995.[4] Von Ehr became a major Macromedia shareholder and joined the Macromedia board of directors.

References

  1. Willett, Shawn (31 May 1993). "Users Praise NT’s Graphic Support at Comdex". Infoworld.
  2. MacDougall, Paul (5 May 1994). "Software makers' merger gives rise to lawsuit from competitor". Folio   via HighBeam Research (subscription required) . Retrieved 17 February 2013.
  3. "V2.1 type library on CD-ROM". Graphic Arts Monthly   via HighBeam Research (subscription required) . 1 August 1991. Retrieved 17 February 2013.

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