COLE'S NEWSWIRE, Dec. 19, 2001

Dec. 19, 2001
Vol. 7, No. 44

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ADOBE SYSTEMS INC.
A U.S. District Court judge in Los Angeles tentatively ruled yesterday that Adobe has infringed on the copyright of a database maker and that the San Jose-based company must cease selling Adobe InDesign 1.5 and Adobe InCopy 1.1.

Trio Systems LLC of Pasadena, Calif., has sued Adobe for violating a 1997 licensing agreement that allowed Trio's software, C-Index, to be included in the Adobe products. The judge granted a preliminary injunction against Adobe because Trio had established a "likelihood of success on the merits" of its case.

Adobe has denied Trio's allegation and has filed a counter-suit against the company.

Further, Adobe has said that no Trio code is present in InDesign 2.0 or InCopy 2.0. The company is planning to release the new versions of the page layout application and writing and editing application in the late winter or early spring of 2002.

Trio Systems is on the Web at http://www.triosystems.com/, while Adobe is at http://www.adobe.com/.

AGFA GRAPHICS SYSTEMS
Two New York Times Co. newspapers -- the NEW YORK TIMES (1m) and the BOSTON GLOBE (500k) -- have agreed to use Agfa as the exclusive supplier of digital imaging plates for computer-to-plate production at the two papers.

The TIMES supervised a testing of Agfa's N91 plate against competitive products and found that the N91 plate provided superior print quality, run length and production speed. Agfa will provide the plate for printing facilities in Edison, N.J., College Point, N.Y., and Boston.

Agfa also said that it had signed a long-term agreement with Strobbe Graphics NV of Ypres, Belgium, for the manufacture of the Agfa Polaris platesetter. The Polaris line was designed by Strobbe for Agfa to meet the needs of the newspaper industry.

Agfa said that its recent acquisition of Autologic Information International Inc. of Thousand Oaks, Calif., would not affect its commitment to the Polaris product line, saying that the two companies' products "complement" one another.

Lastly, Agfa Graphic Systems' parent, Agfa-Gevaert AG of Belgium, said that its consumer-oriented Agfanet would be offering an additional 24 on-line photography courses to its existing 44 Agfa Photo Courses. These new courses will be in digital photography and four have already been posted; a new course is posted every month.

Agfanet is on the Web at http://www.agfanet.com/, while Agfa Graphic Systems, based in Ridgefield Park, N.J., is at http://www.agfa.com/.

AUTOLOGIC INFORMATION INTERNATIONAL INC.
Indianapolis-based AMERICAN TRUCKER and MINE AND QUARRY TRADER newspapers, which publish 20 monthly editions totalling 725,000 copies, have installed Autologic's APS 3850 CTP Wide/180 Imager.

The Primedia Business publications image two sizes of Fuji LP/NS plates. All plates are imaged at 2032-dots-per-inch (dpi), and the 25 1/4-inch-by-36-inch plates take about 1000 seconds to image.

Autologic, which was recently acquired by Agfa Graphics Systems of Ridgefield Park, N.J., is on the Web at http://www.autologic.com/.

CREOSCITEX AMERICA
This Bedford, Mass.-based division of Creo Products Inc. of Vancouver, British Columbia, has introduced the EverSmart Select scanner, the latest in the EverSmart line of professional, high-quality flatbed scanners.

The scanner, which features optical resolutions up to 5600 dpi, can scan as many as 70 35mm transparencies at one time. The device can handle up to 45 scans per hour in full 16-bit color and supports the full International Color Consortium (ICC) color management tools.

The company has further announced that it will provide the oXYgen DOT scanning application and oXYgen DOT Toolkit early next year. The applications apply the advanced copydot scanning algorithm developed for CreoScitex Renaissance copydot scanning system.

CreoScitex also said that it has installed 6000 EverSmart scanners worldwide. To celebrate this milestone, it donated an EverSmart Select to the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Creo, which will eliminate the Creoscitex brand next year, is on the Web at http://www.creo.com/.

DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY INTERNATIONAL
Florida's Palm Beach Newspapers Inc. has announced that it has standardized all of its classified operations on Digital Technology International's ClassSpeed.

Palm Beach Newspapers publishes the PALM BEACH POST (170k), the PALM BEACH DAILY NEWS (6k) and the FLORIDA PENNYSAVER, a total market coverage shopper. The PENNYSAVER had previously been using ClassSpeed; the other two papers now share a database with the shopper.

The ClassSpeed system, which replaces an Atex system at the POST and DAILY NEWS, includes 46 new workstations at the group. Combined with the existing 24 workstations, the 70-workstation system includes AdSpeed and NewsSpeed systems for display advertising and editorial publishing.

Digital Technology International, a division of Oldham Associates LLC, is based in Springville, Utah, and is on the Web at http://www.dtint.com/.

ENFOCUS SOFTWARE INC.
Febelgra, the Federation of the Belgian Graphics Industry, has chosen the Enfocus Certified Portable Document Format (PDF) file format as the national standard for graphical workflows. The Federation found the Enfocus Certified PDF the most reliable format for graphical workflows. Based on this technology Febelgra has defined two standard PDF settings, one for four-color print jobs, and one for Pantone Matching System (PMS) color print jobs.

Febelgra provides its members advise and support for the creation of digital pre-press files in accordance with its PDF standards. While searching for a method of checking files for possible errors and to restrict undesirable changes during production, Febelgra discovered PitStop Professional and Certified PDF from Belgian PDF specialist, Enfocus Software.

Enfocus, a wholly owned subsidiary of Artwork Systems Group of Belgium, has U.S. offices in San Mateo, Calif., and is on the Web at http://www.enfocus.com/.

HARRIS PUBLISHING SYSTEMS CORP.
Alabama's MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER (45k) has installed Harris' Webjaz web content management tool to publish newspaper stories on the Web.

Webjaz interfaces with the ADVERTISER's existing Harris NewsMaker 3.5 print production front-end system. Webjaz, which features the Datajaz database that will store native files of any kind -- including web page templates, XML and MP3s -- is tightly integrated with Dreamweaver from Macromedia Inc. of San Francisco.

Harris, a division of MediaSpan Group Inc. of Research Triangle Park, N.C., is based in Melbourne, Fla., and is on the Web at http://www.jazbox.com/.

LOUDCLOUD INC.
Knight Ridder Digital, the on-line arm of the San Jose-based newspaper publisher, has announced that it has chosen Loudcloud to host and manage all of its Internet operations, which include a network of 55 web sites.

Loudcloud will outsource and manage the Knight Ridder web sites using its Opsware automation technology.

Loudcloud, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., is on the Web at http://www.loudcloud.com/.

MACTIVE INC.
The PLAIN DEALER (400k) of Cleveland has purchased a 150-seat AdBase system from Mactive for classified ad order entry. The contract also calls for Mactive's WebBase web ad order entry system.

The PLAIN DEALER will use Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows NT clients, and a DEC Alpha server running a database from Oracle.

Mactive of Melbourne, Fla., is a wholly owned subsidiary of Fusio of Helsingborg, Sweden, and is on the Web at http://www.mactive.com/.

SAXOTECH INC.
Swift Newspapers of Reno, Nev., has contracted with SAXoTECH to provide Publicus web publishing systems for 15 of the company's community newspaper web sites and visitor information portals.

Swift, which runs Reno.com, Tahoe.com and AspenAlive.com, has purchased the Publicus Base System. It also has acquired add-ons including the Query Module (polling and competitions), Agenda Module (events calendar), Classifieds (searchable text-based advertising), Multi-Channel Module (wireless, hand-held, e-mail publishing), Newsgroups Module (threaded discussion groups) and Guides Module (entertainment and business directories).

SAXoTECH, a Danish company with U.S. offices in Rockville, Md., is on the Web at http://www.saxotech.com/).

SOFTWARE CONSULTING SERVICES
The CHICAGO TRIBUNE (700k) has announced that it has installed Software Consulting Services' SCS/ClassPag classified advertising pagination system. The paper said the installation was "on time and within budget."

The TRIBUNE produces 38 classified products and publishes an average of 60 to 70 pages of classifieds per day. The products include a combination of ROP banners, zoned classified sections, color and other features.

Engineered to be platform-independent, SCS/ClassPag runs on Sun Solaris at the CHICAGO TRIBUNE and interfaces to an existing System/55 classified system from Net-Linx Publishing Solutions of Ann Arbor, Mich., and Sacramento.

Software Consulting Services, based in Nazareth, Pa., is on the Web at http://www.newspapersystems.com/.

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