- Sierra Print Artist
"Sierra Print Artist" is a
computer program from Sierra Home (part ofSierra Entertainment , which is owned byVivendi SA ). The software allows the user to make cards, calendars, stationery and other assorted crafts and then print them with their printer. The current version is 22.History
The program was originally developed by
Pixellite Group in the early 90s. TheDOS version was written byChristopher Schardt . The original Windows version was written by Mr. Schardt, andFerdinand Rios andTracy Elmore ofSAPIEN Technologies, Inc. .Vince Mills handled later versions.The program was first published in 1992 under the name "Instant Artist" by
Autodesk . After half a year or so, Autodesk decided to abolish its consumer products division.Maxis then published the program under the name "Print Artist". In 1995, Sierra On-Line purchasedPixellite Group and the rights to the software and it became known as "Sierra Print Artist". It was published under Sierra's "Sierra Home" label and continues to be today despite several purchases and mergers of Sierra On-Line beginning in 1996. The underlying vector-graphics/font-effects technology was developed byDane Bigham and Christopher Schardt. It was first used inBannerMania , published byBrøderbund , also written by Christopher Schardt.Steve Hales wrote theMacintosh version of BannerMania.Marty Kahn (the author of the originalPrintShop ) wrote theApple II version. The technology also found its way into what would eventually become theWordArt add-in forMicrosoft Word . A popular feature of the program was the Graphics Grabber, developed byVince Mills , which enabled the program to handle a catalog of thousands of vector and bitmap graphics, organized by keywords. Sierra Home also publishesHallmark Cards -licensed versions of the program as "Hallmark Scrapbook Studio Deluxe" and "Hallmark Holiday Card Studio".Trivia
*Prior to the mergers and purchases in 1996 and beyond, Sierra On-Line often inserted photographs of their own products in the folder which contained assorted
JPEG images for use with the software. For example, version 4.0 contained photos from "Shivers" and "Cyber Gladiators ".References
External links
* [http://www.printartist.com Official Site]
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