Changes Afoot for TGD Pro
A couple of months ago, I had heard from several very reliable sources that [Duxbury Systems, Inc.](http://www.duxburysystems.com/ “Visit the home page of Duxbury Systems, makers of the Duxbury braille translation software”) would be taking over the development and support of TGD Pro. I just went to the home page for [Tactile Graphic Designer](http://www.tactileaudio.com/ “Visit tactileaudio.com for more information about TGD Pro”) and it seems to be official:
February 2005
Tactile Graphics Designer – TGD
NEWS
All TGD intellectual property rights have been transferred by legal agreement signed in December 2004.
The new owners of TGD are Duxbury Systems and we are delighted that their unequalled expertise will be taking tactile and tactile audio graphics to new heights, For further information please contact Duxbury Systems
We thank all our customers, distributors and friends over the past 17 years since Nomad in 1987 and wish you good health, peace and friendship
All exisiting (sic) TGD distributors will continue to distribute TGD until stocks close. ALL existing TGD distributors are distributors of Duxbury products. Updates will still be posted on this site until June 2005. There have been no Updates since July 2004. Contact your distributor first.
It will no longer be posible (sic) to use the TGD email address after June 2005.
Seeing as how I needed a new registration number to install TGD Pro on my new system anyway, I dropped a note to David Skrivanek, president of [Repro-Tronics](http://www.repro-tronics.com) and North American distributor of TGD Pro, to get the latest scoop. The impression I get from Dave is that Repro-Tronics and Duxbury will be working together on the development and support of TGD Pro. I think that’s great because Dave is my go-to guy when I have questions about TGD Pro, and everything I create using TGD Pro winds up in a Duxbury document….
But there was even better news: QikTac, a component of TGD Pro that can be purchased as a stand alone product, is going to become a free product that does not have to be registered. I’m not sure when, but stay tuned. Right now, of course, registered users of Duxbury can register QikTac at no additional charge. But if you don’t own Duxbury, or if you want to install QikTac on multiple machines without having to go through the registration process each time, free is good. It’s also going to be renamed QuickTac.
—jd