Astrobyte also announced that version 2.0 is extensible by third parties. Astrobyte is licensing the BeyondPress Developer Kit (BDK) freely to qualified XTension developers, for in-house and commercial development.

Version 2.0 adds support for the latest HTML features, plus advanced image controls and automated conversion using Apple Events scripts. Within BeyondPress, the Document Content palette allows users to view all the content elements of a Quark XPress document, and arrange them to form linear HTML articles.

Using BeyondPress, users can map their Quark XPress style sheets to HTML styles to preserve text formats and select image conversion options such as GIF or JPEG. BeyondPress also allows users to create links to Uniform Resource Locator addresses (URLs) from within XPress.

With BeyondPress 2.0, users can add to their web pages such things as background colors, colored links and styled text. Users can now crop and scale their images in the Image Settings dialog box, specify image attributes such as border width and alternative text, and choose a custom color palette for the converted image.

BeyondPress 2.0 will be available starting March 15, from Astrobyte and from distributors in North America, Europe, Australia and South Africa. Single-user copies cost $595 worldwide. Site licenses are available.

Astrobyte's web site is http://www.astrobyte.com.

The company will take a restructuring charge of about $691,000 in the fiscal quarter ended Feb. 2, 1996, relating to the costs of terminating 97 employees. This plan was announced at the time of the January 1996 merger of Autologic Inc., which was a wholly owned subsidiary of Volt Information Sciences Inc., and Information International Inc. of Los Angeles.

Doolittle said these employee terminations, when added to staff reductions prior to the merger, leaves A-Triple-I with a global workforce of 450 employees, a reduction of about 20 percent over the combined workforce of the two predecessor companies.

-- CENTRAL MICHIGAN LIFE at Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant, Mich. (14k three times a week): two copies of ClassManagerPro and two copies of ClassFlow.

-- CLEVELAND NURSING WEEKLY of Cleveland, Ohio: One copy of ClassManagerPro and in-house training.

-- BUSINESS FIRST of Columbus, Ohio: Two copies of ClassManagerPro, one Classified Accounts Receivables module and one copy of ClassFlow.

-- THE LANTERN at Ohio State University, Columbus (30k daily): upgraded to two copies of the IQue Pro administration module and searcher; 35 copies of NewsEditPro IQue; three pagination packages (including DragX pagination XTension, NewsEditPro IQue and QTools); one copy of WireManager IQue; one copy of Transporter; one Support Communications Package; four copies of ClassManagerPro; one Classified Accounts Receivables module; one copy of the ClassFlow pagination XTension; one copy of Ad Force; custom programming, and service contracts.

Transit technology uses an automation technique known as template-based conversion. A reusable template lets people specify how their web pages will appear and behave, and then quickly generate large volumes of hypertext-linked information based on the template settings.

InfoAccess can be found on the World-Wide Web at http://www.infoaccess.com.

Color publishing professionals who call Linotype-Hell's service (1-800-633-1900, ext. 2779) will receive a PostScript file for downloading to their digital proofer or imagesetter. The resulting proof or press sheet of color targets is sent back to Linotype-Hell, and ICC profiles and/or LinoColor Print Tables (for those with LinoColor v.3) are sent back to the site within a week.

The cost for fingerprinting a press is $1000 for the first substrate and $200 for each additional substrate or device. Proofing devices or printers cost $750 for the first substrate and $100 for each additional substrate.

Linotype-Hell is on the Web at http:// www.linotypehell.com.

Monotype, of Rolling Meadows, Ill., manufactures output devices and production management solutions. Scitex America Corp., which is based in Bedford, Mass., develops and markets color management systems. Among Monotype's products is the RIPExpress raster image processor, which couples seamlessly, the companies say, with Scitex's Dolev output engine.

MediaExpress will provide advertisers and ad agencies with a "one order-one bill-one check" system to plan and place advertising on multiple web sites simultaneously. Real Media will use its AdStream technology to permit advertisers to target their messages to particular segments of Internet users, and eventually target particular demographics and product preferences of users.

MediaExpress has more than 20 sites as members, most of them newspapers and local Internet service providers in the mid-Atlantic region.

ND Comtec announced it had received orders for SCC products from EXPRESSEN, the 550k evening daily in Stockholm, Sweden; from ScanFoto, the Norwegian photo agency, and from the Northcliffe group, the United KingdomÕs third-largest regional newspaper group. SCC and ND Comtec are also cooperating on a number of software development projects.

ND Comtec is the publishing solutions division of NDUK, which is a subsidiary of Telenor, the Norwegian state-owned public telephone system, based in Oslo, with offices throughout Scandinavia, Europe and the U.S.

SCC also reported that the Associated Press photo department has purchased a worldwide enterprise license for a custom version of the SCC Plug In Kit (PIK) for Macintosh. The SCC PIK is an Adobe Photoshop Plug-in Module which, on output, adds IPTC data, thumbnails and previews to images and supports many popular image file formats.

TDO, at http://www.tdo.com, features selections from the daily paper. Planned later in 1996 will be access to ads and classifieds, and searches of the DEMOCRAT's news library.

The Knight-Ridder paper also is offering two tiers of Internet access -- 10 hours for $9.95 and 100 hours for $24.95 -- through InfiNet of Norfolk, Va.

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