Contact: Anne Watzman For immediate release: (412) 268-3830 or 2900 {September 1994} Carnegie Mellon~s Andrew Consortium Releases Enhanced Version Of Its User Interface Incorporating New Drawing and Image Editors PITTSBURGH--Carnegie Mellon University~s Andrew Consortium has released an enhanced version (6.3.1) of its Andrew User Interface System containing new editors for drawings and images. The system is a mature compound document architecture which enables users to create formatted documents embedded with objects like pictures and tables. With Andrew 6.3.1, text can be intermingled with graphics, tables, equations and other kinds of information in one Unix/X-Windows document,~ said Andrew Consortium director Fred Hansen. ~Compound documents and their components can be exchanged between applications without losing integrity and editability. The system comes with a complete set of the most commonly requested user interface applications, including word processor, program editor, help browser, mail/news reader/writer/manager, drawing and image editors, spreadsheet, and table and font editors. It seamlessly implemements the MIME standard for formatted e-mail messages. The entire source code (in C) and an application building environment are also provided so new applications can be built on the 6.3.1 base. Imagine making a query and finding that the response has been composed into a document complete with drawings and equations,~ said Hansen. ~Imagine documents that remain in source form so they can be utilized easily as the starting point for new documents. And imagine creating documents for the World Wide Web by using a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor instead of a clumsy markup language. Andrew 6.3.1 makes all of these scenarios possible. New facilities of the Andrew User Interface System include a faster and more reliable drawing editor; an inset for reading, writing and displaying color images from a variety of popular formats; a WYSIWYG editor for HTML files intended for the World Wide Web; a suite of programming language-specific editors, plus tools to build new ones; an automated tour of the system; a tool to customize one~s environment; and a macro-generator which converts operations defined by example to programs in the Ness extension language. The Andrew User Interface System is supported on most Unix platforms. Information and the source code for Andrew 6.3.1 can be retrieved over the World Wide Web at http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/atk-ftp/web/andrew-home.HTML or via anonymous ftp; see file pub/AUIS/README on host ftp.andrew.cmu.edu. The Andrew Consortium can be reached at (412)268-6710 or by e-mail to info-andrew-request@andrew.cmu.edu. ###