AdStar has also announced agreements to provide access to AdStar Online to such on-line job services as Dice.com, JobScience.com, CampusCareer.com and Regional Help Wanted.

AdStar Online allows advertising agencies to use the tools with which they are comfortable to create print ads and post jobs to on-line job boards at the same time.

Agfa said that it would be offering $7.12 per share for the publicly held Autologic Information International (AII), and valued the all-cash transaction at $45.5 million. The companies said that all of AII's directors and executive officers -- as well as the company's majority stockholder, Volt Information Sciences Inc. of Blue Bell, Pa. -- have agreed to tender their shares in the offer.

AII has its antecedents back to the early days of electronic type composition and is the product of a variety of mergers, the most recent of which was when Autologic Inc. and Information International Inc. merged in 1995. The company has 370 workers worldwide and sales last fiscal year were $81 million.

Agfa said that the deal is subject to the "customary conditions" and that it was expected to be completed before year-end.

Prestige Web examines the editorial database, identifies the stories chosen for on-line publication and then delivers content dynamically to the BANGKOK POST web server. Prestige Web automatically shapes the headlines, text and photographs to fit pre-designed templates and then publishes it on the web site.

Prestige Web is installed as an on-line accessory to Atex Prestige, the company's editorial, pagination and content and document management system. At the POST, however, Prestige Web is tightly integrated with a third-party editorial system.

The Institute of Bibliographic Research, through its holdings of both the National Library and the National Newspapers and Magazine Library, has a "rich" collection of Mexican national history from the 18th and 19th centuries, and the first two decades of the 20th century. The collection exists both in the original paper format and on microfilm. The library also possesses contemporary publications, including newspapers and magazines from 1917 to 2000.

Silhouette, marketed under the name ArtLine since 1994, has a variety of image correction features, including straightening, sharpening, suppressing unnecessary points, converting "flat curves" into straight lines, aligning segments on the same axis and smoothing of tangents.

This will be the first Cyber$ell installation in the Middle East, following successful installations in North America, Australia and Asia-Pacific.

The GULF NEWS is a broadsheet daily with offices in the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent and South East Asia.

Ohio's COLUMBUS DISPATCH (248k) and the NEWS & RECORD (90k) of Greensboro, N.C., will have installations following the POST's.

OnTrak displays graphical views and status lists of publication workflow data that automatically update during the publication process using a standard web browser. Client software accepts manual input of publication information or integration, and is available to page-planning and press-control systems to automate configuration.

The web site will feature live seminars, product information, networking and roundtable discussions, including speeches. Geared toward manufacturing and supply-chain professionals, the web site will showcase conference tracks and exhibit halls spanning the full range of supply chain activities.

Publishing Dynamics will provide development services, including applying portions of its PROFERRE Web Publishing products as well as Fingerprint Technology, its web analysis and visitor relationship management software.

RealTimeImage provides a suite of web-based, collaborative proofing systems, which reduce the cost and time required for conventional proofing by enabling all workflow participants to collaborate securely on the original high-resolution production image.

FEZ-Probester is a Web site performance measurement application that is embedded into a site's HTML code. It provides end-to-end measurement of web site performance that reports actual user download times.

FEZ-Director is a global load balancer that allows site administrators to implement multisite versions of the web site through mirroring, caching and multihoming. FEZ-Director offers a purely software-based site selection system that runs on all flavors of UNIX and Windows, and is easily installed, configured, maintained and updated.

The 175-seat installation will be installed on servers from Sun Microsystems Inc. and will use a database from Oracle Inc.

The World Newspaper Congress and World Editors Forum were held in June in Hong Kong. Selected speeches, photos and other data about trends, management, advertising and revenue, content, design and other subjects about the newspaper industry are on the site.

The Xerox-Imation system offers low cost -- both for the system itself and for the proofs it creates -- and is the first toner-based system to meet the SWOP certification.

Under the terms of the certification process, Imation Corp. of Oakdale, Minn., supplied the SWOP Technical Committee numerical specifications and measurements to consistently match DocuColor 12 and Matchprint Professional Server color output to the appearance of a Certified Press Proof.