COLE'S NEWSWIRE, Sept. 6, 2000

Sept. 6, 2000
Vol. 6, No. 30

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ACCESS INTERNET MAGAZINE
The Needham, Mass.-based weekly magazine (13m) has announced the launch of a companion web site, accessmagazine.com, which includes continuously updated Internet news, longer-form versions of stories running in the magazine and "In Focus," a daily report analyzing the impact on the average web user of industry news and trends.

Other launch content includes the "E-newsletter," a weekly news summary and a look at the Internet events expected in the week ahead, free e-mail, message boards and business-to-consumer auctions. accessmagazine.com has affiliated with Internet infrastructure providers including 24/7 Mail, Accrue, Akamai, AuctionNet.com, Broadwing, CommTouch, Engage, Infosis, OnePage.com, OpenPages, Mall.com and Qarbon.com.

Access Internet Magazine is on the Web at http://www.accessmagazine.com/.

ADOBE SYSTEMS INC.
This San Jose-based software developer has announced the availability of six new OpenType font families designed to enhance the company's suite of professional publishing tools, including Adobe InDesign 1.5 software.

Developed by both Adobe and Microsoft Corp., the OpenType font format, provides improved cross-platform document portability that can be installed on both Macintosh and Windows computers; an expanded character set based on the international Unicode encoding standard for rich linguistic support; advanced typographic capabilities related to glyph positioning and glyph substitution that allow for the inclusion of numerous alternate glyphs in one file; a more compact font outline data structure for smaller font file sizes; built-in support for Windows 2000, and support in Adobe InDesign 1.5 software that allows for easy use of OpenType's advanced typographic features.

Adobe Systems Inc. is on the Web at http://www.adobe.com/.

ALTAMIRA GROUP INC.
The CHICAGO SUN TIMES' (528k) pre-press staff has selected the Burbank, Calif.-based digital imaging and Internet integration strategies company's Genuine Fractals PrintPro, imaging technology that allows the scaling of images without loss of quality.

Genuine Fractals transforms digital images into resolution-independent files by eliminating the relationship between pixels and resolution. Once an image is established and finalized in a program such as Adobe Photoshop, it is then encoded using Genuine Fractals proprietary mathematical algorithms, replacing the pixels of that final image with a new mathematically based file format.

Altamira Group Inc. is on the Web at http://www.altamira-group.com/.

BITSTREAM INC.
NSIcom Ltd. has entered into a long-term agreement to license Font Fusion. Cambridge, Mass.-based Bistream's smallest, most advanced font rasterizing engine, Font Fusion is the convergence of its T2K and TrueDoc technology in an object-oriented architecture. NSIcom will incorporate Font Fusion in JSCP, NSIcom's Java Virtual Machine (JVM), for the embedded environment.

Font Fusion provides developers with full font fidelity and high-quality typographic output at any resolution on any device, while maintaining the integrity of the original character shapes. It is designed for operating systems, software applications, web applications, low-resolution screen devices, multimedia servers, high-definition television screens (HDTVs), set-top boxes, continuous tone printers, personal digital assistants (PDAs), other embedded systems and Internet and wireless appliances.

Bitstream has also announced the launch of a New Font Collection (NFC) program, which offers designers publishing typeface designs as well as the ability to build typefaces in OpenType, TrueType and PostScript formats. The program provides a variety of royalty options as well as access to a network of worldwide resellers.

Bitstream is on the Web at http://www.bitstream.com/.

DESIGNFREAK INC.
The Fremont, Calif.-based company has announced the launch of a new-media VORTAL and business-to-business community for high-end computer graphic artists and designers. designfreak.com plans to supply the new-media industry with information, resources and standardization.

The web site offers project management and collaboration tools, design hardware and software, answers to production problems and business-industry editorial content.

Designfreak is on the Web at http://www.designfreak.com/.

JUSTKICKINGTIRES
The St. Louis, Mo.-based company has announced the debut of its new website, which is built on ColdFusion programming. justkickingtires.com demonstrates the JustKickingTires software package, a ready-to-use template for any used-car dealer to put inventory information on-line.

Used-car dealers will now be able to utilize a full range of e-commerce capabilities; the package allows for photos and full specs on each car, which can be updated by dealership personnel through a browser interface.

JustKickingTires is on the Web at http://www.justkickingtires.com/.

MACTIVE INC.
This Melbourne, Fla.-based provider of advertising systems for the newspaper industry has announced that the UNION-NEWS (113k), published Monday-Saturday, and SUNDAY REPUBLICAN (150k) both of Springfield, Mass., signed a contract for an AdBase system.

The contract includes 50 Microsoft Windows NT clients and two Sun servers with an Oracle database. AdBase will be implemented in phases, beginning with classified, followed by display, pre-prints and accounts receivable.

PROIMAGE AMERICA
USA TODAY (1m) has purchased five more NewsWay systems to add to its NewsWay digital workflow installation. Two of the new ProImage systems are in Milan, Italy, and Brussels, Belgium, and the other three are in Lansing, Mich., Las Vegas and Raleigh, N.C.

NewsWay manages the transmission of pages and also facilitates page assembly from bitmaps from various production sources. The individual bitmaps are moved to remote sites and assembled there.

ProImage has also announced that Delaware's WILMINGTON NEWS JOURNAL has ordered a NewsWay Ink Management system, which will calculate and deliver "key" values to the JOURNAL's Goss MPCS ink control system and Goss presses. It allows for the user to preset a value on two presses with different press control management systems.

ProImage is on the Web at http://www.proimage.com/.

SOFTWARE CONSULTING SERVICES
Pennsylvania's POTTSVILLE REPUBLICAN (30k) and EVENING HERALD (10k) of Shenandoah are now using in live production the Nazareth, Pa.-based company's JLayout, a display advertising dummying system developed in the Java programming language, from the developers of Layout-8000.

Software Consulting Services' (SCS) JLayout, like Layout-8000, is platform-independent, running on Macintosh, Linux, UNIX and Windows without changes in code. Any operating system that runs Java 2 Standard Edition can run JLayout. It displays an enhanced interface and settings in control files can now be changed through "drag-and-drop." SCS will be sending JLayout and Layout-8000 Version 9 to its support customers.

SCS is on the Web at http://www.newspapersystems.com/.

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