COLE'S NEWSWIRE, Oct. 17, 2001

Oct. 17, 2001
Vol. 7, No. 37

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ADOBE INC.
Carnegie Mellon University has announced that it has selected Adobe's InDesign page layout application as part of its core curriculum in its communication design program.

By fall 2002, InDesign will be the principal design tool for all communication design majors at the school.

Carnegie Mellon students use a suite of tools -- InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Acrobat -- to complete class projects that include layouts of magazine pages, developing corporate signs and logos, creating sample advertisements and other communication-related projects. Finished projects are converted to the Portable Document Format (PDF) and submitted electronically to instructors.

Adobe, based in San Jose, is on the Web at http://www.adobe.com/.

BASEVIEW PRODUCTS INC.
Fifty-seven newspapers purchased software from Baseview in June and July. Some highlights:

-- The SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS (284k) added a second IQue editorial database as well as more plug-ins for its Spanish-language publication, NUEVO MUNDO.

-- Arkansas' JONESBORO SUN (27k) installed CirculationPro.

-- NEWSDAY (25k) of Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, installed AdManagerPro; the paper is also using the Accounts Receivable module and Galley Flow for making up pages.

-- Missouri's SEDALIA DAILY DEMOCRAT (12k) upgraded both its editorial and advertising systems.

Baseview, a subsidiary of Harris Publishing Systems Corp., a division of MediaSpan, is based in Ann Arbor, Mich., and is on the Web at http://www.baseview.com/.

CREOSCITEX INC.
This division of Vancouver-based Creo Products Inc. has announced that its Brisque Workflow System is now available in a modular manner, allowing customers to select the components they require and add imposition, proofing, trapping and output functions as needed.

The company has also said that it has released a new version of the Brisque product, which includes a Quark XTension for versioning and a new high-speed computer platform based on six of IBM's Power3 668 megahertz central processing units.

Creoscitex, with U.S. offices in Bedford, Mass., is on the Web at http://www.creoscitex.com/.

DALIM SOFTWARE GmbH
This German company has announced a series of enhancements to its product line:

-- The company has released its P2 Technology, which assures file formats, in particular PDF, co-exist in the same workflow with consistent and predictable output.

-- FiCELLE, an Internet-based publication production management system allows real time evaluation of both editorial and advertising pages and alerts users of potential schedule problems earlier in the process.

-- A new pricing structure and availability on Linux for LiTHO, the company's PDF editing tool for pages, images and vector data.

-- TWiST now comes with a pre-packaged CTP workflow, with built-in PDF/P2 option. Also, TWiST's database tools allow for a database-driven workflow and all new versions of TwiST now ship standard with a reduced feature-set version of DALiM LiTHO.

-- SWiNG offers an affordable yet extremely powerful tool to process pre-press data automatically and consistently. Running on Linux, it offers an unbeatable return on investment, even when compared to Windows NT- or Windows 2000-based systems.

Dalim is on the Web at http://www.dalim.com/.

DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY INTERNATIONAL
London's DAILY TELEGRAPH (1m) and SUNDAY TELEGRAPH (810k) have signed a contract with DTI to upgrade its 130-plus seat advertising publishing system.

The TELEGRAPH will replace earlier versions of DTI's ClassSpeed and AdSpeed with DTI's new 5.0 generation software, which includes object-level integration of Adobe InDesign and an XML-enhanced workflow.

The paper is currently implementing a 600-plus seat NewsSpeed 5 editorial publishing system and with the upgrade of the advertising components to the 5.0 software, the TELEGRAPH can also install DTI's PlanSpeed planning and real-time tracking system.

DTI, of Springville, Utah, is on the Web at http://www.dtint.com/.

DOW JONES REUTERS BUSINESS INTERACTIVE LLC
Knight Ridder Digital of San Jose has agreed to provide on-line content from 29 Knight Ridder newspapers to Factiva, the global news and business information system owned by Dow Jones & Co. and Reuters.

The daily full text of the Knight Ridder papers adds to Factiva's almost 8000 sources, which include the WALL STREET JOURNAL, the NEW YORK TIMES, LE MONDE, the FINANCIAL TIMES and the SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST.

Factiva, of South Brunswick, N.J., is on the Web at http://www.factiva.com/.

ENFOCUS INC.
This Belgian company which has U.S. offices in San Mateo, Calif., has announced the release of free PDF virus protection information and a free "action list" to remove all attached files from a PDF document.

While PDF is exceedingly safe against viruses, the Adobe Acrobat application does allow attachments to PDF files, which means that a virus could be an attached to a PDF and transmitted.

The company says that current users of its key products -- Enfocus PitStop Professional, PitStop Server and Certify PDF -- already have the ability to remove annotations or attached files in the pre-flighting process by setting custom profiles to Remove and Log Annotations in the Varia tab.

Information about PDF and viruses -- as well as the free "action list" -- are available at http://www.enfocus.com/support/knowledgeBase/kb047.htm.

GRAPHIC ENTERPRISES INC.
The BlackMagic news Extra systems for color management have recently been purchased by the BOSTON GLOBE (467k), the WALL STREET JOURNAL (1.8m), the CECIL WHIG (17k) of Elton, Md., the GLOBE AND MAIL (309k) of Toronto, the CITIZENS TRIBUNE (17k) of Morristown, Tenn., California's MODESTO BEE (88k), American Color of Houston, Missouri's ST. JOSEPH NEWS-PRESS (40k), the PLAIN DEALER (364k) of Cleveland, Ohio, and Georgia's GAINESVILLE TIMES (11k).

Recent sales also include an NC Translator to Connecticut's HARTFORD COURANT (203k) and the Ink Manager to the DAILY BREEZE (83k) of Torrance, Calif.

TECSA 2000 copy-dot scanners have recently been purchased by Texas' BEAUMONT ENTERPRISE (55k), Vermont's BURLINGTON FREE PRESS (50k), Virginia's HARRISONBURG DAILY NEWS-RECORD, Missouri's SPRINGFIELD NEWS LEADER (65k), and the EASTSIDE JOURNAL (27k) of Bellevue, Wash. The 5000 series of scanners have recently been purchased by the DAILY REVIEW (9k) in Towanda, Pa., and Georgia's ROME NEWS-TRIBUNE (19k).

Southern Connecticut Newspapers, Connecticut's GREENWICH TIMES (12k) and Ohio's TOLEDO BLADE (137k) all have recently purchased the GEI NewsProof.

Graphic Enterprises, based in North Canton, Ohio, is on the Web at http://www.geiworldwide.com/.

MONOTYPE SYSTEMS INC.
This Rolling Meadows, Ill.-based supplier of output systems has announced the release of a new version of MGS3 (OPI Print Manager) Web Client, which allows for the set up, monitoring and control of an open pre-press interface (OPI) server.

The new MGS3 Web Client can search the image database, log high-resolution images, retrieve low-resolution elements, change the MGS3 configuration, start or stop the MGS3 and provide current status information on the Logger and Spooler queues. The Web Client is designed to replace legacy PC and Macintosh clients, providing the familiar Solaris graphical user interface.

Monotype, a member of the IPA Group of companies, is on the Web at http://www.monoexpress.com/.

NET-LINX PUBLISHING SOLUTIONS
The CHICAGO DAILY LAW BULLETIN has purchased a software upgrade to its existing Servernet system and upgraded its hardware to a Tandem S74.

A longtime customer of Net-Linx predecessor SII, the DAILY LAW BULLETIN's Servernet system builds an interface between the paper's current System/77 software -- including new Coyote XA advertising and Coyote XE editorial applications -- and other software applications working together on the same hardware platform.

Net-Linx, with offices in Ann Arbor, Mich., and Sacramento, is on the Web at http://www.nxps.com/.

NEWSSTAND INC.
THE AUSTRALIAN (153k), the national newspaper of Australia, has agreed to use NewsStand as its global Internet circulation distributor. The technology will allow the paper to offer single-copy and subscription sales delivered via the Internet simultaneously with the printing of the paper at six sites around Australia.

News Corp. Ltd., owner of THE AUSTRALIAN, said that more of its publications would also affiliate with NewsStand in the future.

NewsStand, of Austin, Texas, is on the Web at http://www.newsstand.com/.

NEW YORK TIMES DIGITAL
NYTimes.com, the flagship site of this division of the New York Times Co., has announced that it will incorporate Apple's Sherlock search engine into its site and archives.

Sherlock, the search engine that is designed into the Macintosh operating system, is organized into channels such as News, Reference, Entertainment and Shopping. The channels make searching easier for users by grouping similar sources together. NYTimes.com headlines and abstracts will be included in News Channel search results and branded as NYTimes.com content. Sherlock users will be able to click from these NYTimes.com search results directly to the NYTimes.com web site to read the relevant article.

Apple is on the Web at http://www.apple.com/, while New York Times Digital is at http://www.nytdigital.com/.

PROLATUS INC.
This Minneapolis-based software company serving the graphic arts industry, has announced that it has been awarded a patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office for a unique scripting process related to collaborative production workflows.

The U.S. patent covers a technical process that is a core component of current PROLATUS solutions, and will also have an impact on future Prolatus applications and methods for delivering collaborative production workflow solutions to the marketplace.

PROLATUS' Catalyst Technology software modules eliminate the traditional limitations and/or inefficiencies associated with moving and handling large digital images.

Prolatus is on the Web at http://www.prolatus.com/.

QUARK INC.
The Denver-based maker of publishing software has announced that it will deliver a version of its Quark XPress page layout application to run natively under Mac OS X.

The company has not announced a release date for either Quark XPress 5.0 for Mac OS 9, Mac OS X or Windows.

Quark is on the Web at http://www.quark.com/.

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