The new version of the page layout program, which is created for high-end graphic designers, production artists and pre-press professionals, provides better compatibility with widely used pre-press applications so designers and printing professionals can produce consistent, high-quality work.

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

DAX is on the Web at http://www.dax-it.com/, while the new TAGA site is located at http://www.taga.org/.

On the advertising side, the ANTELOPE VALLEY PRESS plans to install AdSpeed for ROP display ads and ClassSpeed for classified advertising. Sixteen ClassSpeed seats will be used to sell, schedule and build approximately 700 line ads every week. Twelve AdSpeed 5.0 applications will be used to manage display ads from creation to full-page pagination. Adobe InDesign is integrated directly into AdSpeed 5.0's core architecture as its advertising composition engine. NewsSpeed editorial system, which consists primarily of PageSpeed and SpeedWriter (DTI's text writer), will be installed in the newsroom, and ImageSpeed will manage the paper's photos and graphics.

DTI is on the Web at http://www.dtint.com/.

MAXWorkFlow is a patent-pending tool for automating the process of proofing and output to film, plate or direct print. The drag-and-drop features of the MAXWorkFlow System Design Palette make pre-press setups simple. Integrated with the Harlequin RIPFlow and Jaws RIP technologies and options, the product has more than 20 different modules that perform tasks such as proofing, high-resolution outputting, EPS and PDF optimization, down sampling, composite proofing, imposition, trapping and pre-flighting multiple file formats, including PDF.

Global Graphics is on the Web at http://www.globalgraphics.com/.

Ifra is developing into a global organization with strong focus on local needs. As part of such efforts, two new regional subsidiaries in London and Chennai, India, are in the process creation to follow the successful establishment of regional offices in Stockholm, Paris, Moscow and Singapore, and a cooperation in Miami. Ifra India was expected to be in full operation earlier this month as a full-fledged subsidiary of Ifra Asia.

Ifra is on the Web at http://www.ifra.com/.

CCDot is a DotMeter that offers quality control within the pre-press area and combines a CCD camera with a microscope. CCDot is unique in that it contains no moving parts and can work in both reflection and transmission lodes to evaluate film, proof, plate and print, all from one single unit.

Purup-Eskofot is on the Web at http://www.purup-eskofot.com/.

The company, of Lansdale, Pa., will work as a liaison between the editorial staff and information technology departments to develop requirements and USE case, user interface prototypes and design and test plans. Really Strategies will help define the business and functional requirements for the USATODAY.com site's new content management system.

Really Strategies is on the Web at http://www.ReallySI.com/.

DCL is an approach to digital rights management (DRM), which will allow consumers to order digital documents that are customized to their interests, packaged on the fly, and delivered within seconds. Content providers can focus on maintaining their content database rather than on the production and distribution of the final packaged product.

SoftLock has also announced that it has selected YellowBrix Inc.'s IntelliClix technology to power a new contextual market product. The agreement will provide consumers with up-to-the-minute news as well as opportunities to purchase additional relevant content at competitive prices. By integrating their products into the network of web sites feature in IntelliClix, SoftLock adds a contextual commerce capability to its suite of digital content marketing tools.

YellowBrix is on the Web at http://www.yellowbrix.com/, while SoftLock is on the Web at http://www.softlock.com/.

Team ASA Inc. is the first company to support both copper- and fiber-based gigabit Ethernet network interface cards (NIC) for Macintosh OS 8, OS 9, OS X Server and now OS X Beta.

The Copper Stallion GT uses Category-5 cabling with an operating distance range of 100 meters and uses multi-mode cable. It can be operated at distances of up to 0.5 km. The Stallion Gigabit series fiber and copper adapters are an advanced series of PCI NICs utilizing the IEEE P802.3z and P802.3ab specification for support of 1 gigabit Ethernet.

Team ASA is on the Web at http://www.teamasa.com/.

MDI is on the Web at http://www.mdi.com/, while Totally Storage is located at http://www.totallystorage.com/.

The network was created by the two Paris-based organizations and the Central African Union of Press Publishers to establish and Africa-wide dialog and an exchange of ideas and information among journalists and other newspaper executives.

The network, called RAP 21, the French acronym for the African Press Network for the 21st Century, will act as an alert system for press freedom attacks on the continent and will also provide information about management and training opportunities. The network will be in both French and English and will work via e-mail with a password-protected web site as an archive for members.

WAN is on the Web at http://www.wan-press.org/.

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