PageComposer serves as a page-pairing engine and works in a stand-alone configuration or as an integrated component of the Anygraaf suite of publishing products.

The first stage of the five-step project is already underway. RMG is replacing IBM RS/6000s servers with Dell Power Edge 2400s running Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced server configured with Microsoft Clustering. Installation of 92 Dell Optiplex GX240 workstations and upgrades to the current 10 megabit hubs and switches will see communications rocket to 1 gigabit. The rest of the network is being upgraded to 100 megabit.

With the technical infrastructure complete, a phased implementation of Atex products will include upgrades to the Enterprise advertising system and the Prestige editorial system. New Atex products for RMG will include: Enterprise Integrated Accounts Receivable (IAR), Atex Architect for publication design and ad placement, Atex Classified Pagination, Prestige Web Client for Internet publishing and Atex Lighthouse for automatic placement of EPS advertising content on a page.

In addition, Atex announced that the Border Mail Pty. Ltd, publisher of the BORDER MAIL and TWIN-CITIES POST newspapers of Wodonga, Australia, has contracted for a 36-seat Prestige editorial system. The system will replace an Atex J-11 editorial system that uses Quark-based Atex Press2Go for layout. The contract also includes installation of Atex's latest edition planning software, NT Architect.

The accord with Purple Mountain Media Co. of Portland, Ore., calls for production of a one-page weekly insert called PURPLE MOUNTAIN PRESS WEEKLY, featuring content of interest to children plus games and puzzles. CityXpress will provide daily updates on-line under the brand Purple Mountain Xpress.

The iQsmart scans up to 96 35mm slides at one time and generates up to 40 scans per hour. iQsmart scanners employ the oXYgen scanning application, which uses image editing and soft proofing tools with International Color Consortium (ICC)-compliant color management.

TWiST DiALOGUE is an optional module for TWiST that provides customers with remote and collaborative viewing and soft proofing of high-resolution files via the Internet. It is able to view file formats including such as PDF, PDF/X, PostScript, CT/LW, TIFF, TIFF-IT, TIFF-IT/P1 etc. Utilizing the latest Java2 and XML technologies, DiALOGUE is compatible with Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, Sun and SGI client platforms.

TWiST WEBLiNK is an optional module for TWiST that provides users with access to the TWiST Workflow Manager via a standard web browser allowing users to manage production workflows from any location. Using XML communication, WEBLiNK allows users to manage the production workflow remotely including uploading files, start/stop workflows, error/pre-flight checking, change priorities, the ability to change files or amend PostScript Printer Description files. WEBLiNK is compatible with Linux, IRIX, Solaris, Windows, Macintosh OS 8.5 or above and Macintosh OSX operating systems.

In addition, DTI's PlanSpeed will be used at DELMENHORSTER KREISBLATT to unify the pagination of both editorial and advertising content including classified. PlanSpeed will interface with the paper's adbooking system from Hencke & Partner to receive all of the ad information necessary for ad planning and ad pagination. Using PlanSpeed, staff at DELMENHORSTER KREISBLATT will be able to plan and track pages, and watch editorial, classified and display ads come together in a single plan.

DTI's SpeedLibrarian will replace DELMENHORSTER KREISBLATT's Digital Collection's DC3 archive system. Information to be archived will automatically move from the production database into the archive database with no re-formatting necessary. Access to the archive is available directly from user's production stations.

Viper is an integrated sales and marketing tool designed to provide access to large volumes of data from multiple data sources. 5 Fifteen has built an automatic interface to the Enterprise system, enabling the CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION to extract, process and analyze information coming from more than three years of live and archived advertising and customer history.

MassTransit Enterprise version 4.1 delivers three key security-enhancing capabilities: protection of digital data in transit through the use of OpenSSL-based encryption; validation of identity of both web clients and servers with support for X.509 digital certificates, and improved network security by eliminating the requirement that organizations open a dedicated firewall port for MassTransit traffic. MassTransit Enterprise v.4.1 will also add support for web browser clients operating in the Macintosh OS X operating system.

The update will be provided free of charge to existing MassTransit Enterprise v.4.0 customers with maintenance and support agreements.

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Gyricon Media, through its strategic partner Array Marketing Group, provides Dow Jones with SmartPaper signs, which highlight particular content in the paper each day.

The JOURNAL and BARRON'S have used paper signs to promote special content in the past. Gyricon SmartPaper signs will automatically "flip" the sign at 1 a.m. each day to reveal the next day's content. If the pilot is a success, Dow Jones will consider a broader application of the SmartPaper technology.

Array Marketing Group is a provider of in-store marketing services and is based in Los Angeles. Headquartered in Ann Arbor, Mich., and with offices in Palo Alto, Calif., and Boston, Gyricon Media was founded in 2000, after being spun off from Xerox.

Prior to the integration of the Rimfire technology, NEWS-SENTINEL advertisers were unable to add photos to their on-line classified ads. Now through the Photos Online service, classified advertisers can add up to five photos with their on-line ads for a nominal fee of just $5 per photo.

The system will be implemented by using MCC's TextStream product, already in use at the REGISTER. The software will allow a more flexible method of selection for the classes to be exported, and will afford a more precise selection method for ads to be exported. It will also bring the class mapping to the SII system.

Both Sicuriq and Sicuriq Pro can convert bitmap native data files to bitmap target data files or alternatively to PDF, EPS or PS target data files, and vice versa. Four-color separated data files may also be converted back to a full-color data file, similarly in the opposite direction, a raster data file may be transformed into a separated data file.

Sicuriq Pro includes all the functionality of Sicuriq and in addition, is capable of converting: the customary TIFF/IT-P1-variants (LW, CT, HC, FP) as well as the different Scitex-handshake formats (LW, CT, PG, NLW, NCT). It can also adapt data files in TIFF-IT- and Scitex formats to the production of a PDF or PostScript workflow.

Useful in remote situations or where the customer's required bandwidth is already in place, the Direct! IP service enables content distribution via a virtual private network (VPN) between the customer's local Internet connection and the WAM!NET private network. As with WAM!NET's Direct! service, Direct! IP can distribute moderate to high volumes of content.