Stylist
Stylist was a service that provided font and ruler style-sheets in virtually any application. Users could quickly retrieve pre-stored font and ruler definitions and apply them to their work.
Stylist communicated with other applications through the Services menu and could be used with any application that supported the Rich Text Pasteboard. Users defined styles by using the standard NeXTstep font-panel and other text-formatting tools within Stylist itself or by `capturing' styles from documents in other applications. To apply a style to your work, you simply selected some text in the document you were working on and chose the `Apply Style' command from the services menu. Stylist would display your selection in it's own window where you could try out different styles and see how they looked before you modified your document.
Stylist let you spend less time tinkering with the font-panel and ruler, and more time writing your documents. Stylist fully supported color and allowed you to easily use color text in applications that did not have a color-panel or directly support color (such as NeXTMail, NewsGrazer, and Edit) . Stylist also allowed you to keep consistent styles between documents and even between people, departments, and whole companies by distributing pre-defined `Style-Books.'
Stylist was inexpensive and extremely easy to use. All of Stylist's commands had a command-key equivalent for easy access by experienced users or with Simon Says... Command-key equivalents for Stylist's commands in the services menu could be defined by the user. Since Stylist was a service-provider, it was instantly available without taking up precious dock or shelf space. Stylist also had online documentation.
Stylist was US$50.00 for individual licenses. Educational pricing was US$30.00. Group orders (5 or more) through a NeXT user-group were US$30.00 each. Site licenses were available.
Cube Technologies, Inc.