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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label commercial</title>
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<h3>Commercial TeX implementations</h3>
<!-- windows,macintosh,commercial -->
<p/>There are many commercial implementations of TeX. The first
appeared not long after TeX itself appeared.
<p/>What follows is probably an incomplete list. Naturally, no warranty or
fitness for purpose is implied by the inclusion of any vendor in this
list. The source of the information is given to provide some clues to
its currency.
<p/>In general, a commercial implementation will come ‘complete’, that is,
with suitable previewers and printer drivers. They normally also have
extensive documentation (<em>i.e</em>., not just the TeXbook!) and some
sort of support service. In some cases this is a toll free number
(probably applicable only within the USA and or Canada), but others
also have email, and normal telephone and fax support.
<dl>
<dt>PC; TrueTeX<dd> Runs on all versions of Windows.
<blockquote>
Richard J. Kinch<br>
TrueTeX Software<br>
7890 Pebble Beach Court<br>
Lake Worth FL 33467<br>
USA<br>
Tel: +1 561-966-8400<br>
Email: <a href="mailto:kinch@truetex.com"><i>kinch@truetex.com</i></a><br>
Web: <a href="http://www.truetex.com/">http://www.truetex.com/</a>
</blockquote><p>
Source: Mail from Richard Kinch, August 2004.
<dt>pcTeX<dd> Long-established: pcTeX32 is a Windows implementation.
<blockquote>
Personal TeX Inc<br>
725 Greenwich Street, Suite 210 <br>
San Francisco, CA 94133<br>
USA<br>
Tel: 800-808-7906 (within the USA)<br>
Tel: +1 415-296-7550<br>
Fax: +1 415-296-7501<br>
Email: <a href="mailto:sales@pctex.com"><i>sales@pctex.com</i></a><br>
Web: <a href="http://www.pctex.com/">http://www.pctex.com/</a>
</blockquote><p>
Source: Personal TeX Inc web site, December 2004
<dt>PC; VTeX<dd> DVI, PDF and HTML
backends, Visual Tools and Type 1 fonts
<blockquote>
MicroPress Inc<br>
68-30 Harrow Street<br>
Forest Hills, NY 11375<br>
USA<br>
Tel: +1 718-575-1816<br>
Fax: +1 718-575-8038<br>
Email: <a href="mailto:support@micropress-inc.com"><i>support@micropress-inc.com</i></a><br>
Web: <a href="http://www.micropress-inc.com/">http://www.micropress-inc.com/</a>
</blockquote><p>
Source: Mail from MicroPress, Inc., July 1999
<dt>PC; Scientific Word<dd> Scientific Word and Scientific Workplace
offer a mechanism for near-WYSIWYG input of LaTeX documents; they
ship with TrueTeX from Kinch (see above). Queries within the UK
and Ireland should be addressed to Scientific Word Ltd., others should be
addressed directly to the publisher, MacKichan Software Inc.
<blockquote>
Dr Christopher Mabb<br>
Scientific Word Ltd.<br>
990 Anlaby Road,<br>
Hull,<br>
East Yorkshire,<br>
HU4 6AT<br>
UK<br>
Tel: 0845 766 0340 (within the UK) <br>
Fax: 0845 603 9443 (within the UK) <br>
Email: <a href="mailto:christopher@sciword.demon.co.uk"><i>christopher@sciword.demon.co.uk</i></a> <br>
Web: <a href="http://www.sciword.demon.co.uk">http://www.sciword.demon.co.uk</a>
</blockquote><p>
<blockquote>
MacKichan Software Inc.<br>
19307 8th Avenue, Suite C<br>
Poulsbo WA 98370-7370<br>
USA<br>
Tel: +1 360 394 6033<br>
Tel: 877 724 9673 (within the USA)
Fax: +1 360 394 6039<br>
Email: <a href="mailto:info@mackichan.com"><i>info@mackichan.com</i></a><br>
Web: <a href="http://www.mackichan.com">http://www.mackichan.com</a>
</blockquote><p>
Source: Mail from Christopher Mabb, August 2007
<dt>Macintosh; Textures<dd> “A TeX system ‘for the rest of
us’ ”. A beta release of Textures for MacOS/X is
available <a href="http://www.bluesky.com/news/220b.html">http://www.bluesky.com/news/220b.html</a>
<p/> (Blue Sky also gives away a Metafont implementation and some
font manipulation tools for Macs.)
<blockquote>
Blue Sky Research<br>
PO Box 80424<br>
Portland, OR 97280<br>
USA<br>
Tel: 800-622-8398 (within the USA)<br>
Tel/Fax: +1 503-222-9571<br>
Fax: +1 503-246-4574<br>
Email: <a href="mailto:sales@bluesky.com"><i>sales@bluesky.com</i></a><br>
Web: <a href="http://www.bluesky.com/">http://www.bluesky.com/</a>
</blockquote><p>
Source: Mail from Gordon Lee, April 2007
<dt>AmigaTeX<dd> A full implementation for the Commodore Amiga,
including full, on-screen and printing support for all PostScript
graphics and fonts, IFF raster graphics, automatic font generation,
and all of the standard macros and utilities.
<blockquote>
Radical Eye Software<br>
PO Box 2081<br>
Stanford, CA 94309<br>
USA
</blockquote><p>
Source: Mail from Tom Rokicki, November 1994
</dl>
<p/>Note that the company Y&Y has gone out of business, and Y&Y
TeX (and support for it) is therefore no longer available. Users
of Y&Y systems may care to use the self-help
<a href="http://tug.org/pipermail/yandytex/">mailing list</a>
that was established in 2003; the remaining usable content of
Y&Y’s web site is available at <a href="http://www.tug.org/yandy/">http://www.tug.org/yandy/</a>
<p/>
<p/><p/><p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=commercial">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=commercial</a>
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