AdStar has begun to equip the site with a private-label version of its Advertise123 software, through which classified ad buyers may place orders in scores of newspapers over the Web. AdStar will collect the bulk of a 15 percent fee for processing credit card payments and ensuring that the ads are delivered to the destination newspapers.

Initially, the site will offer ad insertion services for more than 100 newspapers currently served by AdStar. Other members of the NAA may join the network for a nominal fee paid to AdStar.

Agfa said that it would "integrate" its newspaper business into the AII business and that AII would continue to serve the newspaper market on a worldwide basis.

Volt Information Sciences Inc., the majority stockholder in AII, said it received about $24 million for its shares and that it would use the money to pay down debt and for other corporate purposes.

AII, a publicly held company that was controlled by Volt, provides electronic pre-press systems to the publishing industry.

In use at more than 100 organizations throughout Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Austria and the United States, Anygraaf products are designed to meet all aspects of asset management and publishing production. Anygraaf applications include ad order entry, ad tracking, edition planning, layout and editorial. Pagination, archiving, image management and Internet publishing are standard features of the core product.

Doris, the file format-neutral asset-management and publishing production system, allows for the tracking and organization of any file type, including text, images, graphics, video and audio from a common user interface.

DreamSuite effects are resolution-independent and include a "memory dots" feature, an unlimited number of light sources, support for Photoshop Actions, user-defined pre-sets and support for a variety of file formats.

The estimated retail price of DreamSuite is $299.

Michigan's BATTLE CREEK ENQUIRER (25k) has also installed Baseview systems, including 46 NewsEditPro IQue reporter workstations and 23 pagination stations with DragX and QTools. The ENQUIRER is also using the IQue Server with Hot Backup, Transporter with assorted plug-ins for mail, FTP and auto-HTML and WireManager IQue.

This first-phase project will cover the years 1840 to 1860 and represents about 30,000 full-page images.

ShadowFX provides control over the color, offset, opacity and blur radius of the shadows it creates. The transparent shadows can be used in any PDF workflow that supports PDF 1.4

The eight Wildcats will be installed at various locations around Spain, including Madrid, Valencia, Sevilla and Lugo.

A preliminary release of the application shows a pagination engine natively based on eXtensible Markup Language (XML), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) that integrates with Quark XPress and Quark CopyDesk, running on either Macintosh or Windows-based machines.

Other new features in Methode include the Knowledge Portal, which links information objects, Methode Rundow, a television news planning tool and Methode Syndication, an engine for syndicating content.

The PRISM (Publishing Standards for Industry Standard Metadata) and ICE (Information and Content Exchange) Working Groups are hosted by IDEAlliance.

The new installation will replace an existing circulation system developed in-house.

AdMax is an advertising order entry, retail and classified ad management, and billing and accounting system. JLayout automates display ad dummying based on site-defined criteria and advanced dummying algorithms. SCS/LinX is a Quark XPress XTension that imports JLayout's ad geometries, edition designs and ads digitally into XPress documents for news pagination.

SCS also said it has released SCS/Track 9.3. New functionality includes spec ad creation and tracking, Edition Manager, Graphics Manager, File Manager and Applications Manager.