COLE'S NEWSWIRE, April 3, 1996

April 3, 1996
Vol. 2, No. 15

The NEWSWIRE is a weekly distribution of information about the sales and installations of publishing technology and the latest news on new products developed by suppliers to the industry.

To get removed from this list, send e-mail to: macjordomo@colegroup.com with the words UNSUBSCRIBE NEWSWIRE as the first line of the text. These missives are archived on the World-Wide Web at http://colegroup.com/NW/.

To submit material for consideration, please deliver electronically to news@colegroup.com.

CE ENGINEERING INC.
CE Engineering of Loomis, Calif., has announced that upgrades to its SII Coyote look-alike software products, Decade 33 and Decade Mac, will ship by the second week of April. The upgrades feature improved stability and updated preferences. Mac users, CE reported, will notice improved Coyote emulation, revised fonts and support for Mac's drag-and-drop routines.

DATAWARE TECHNOLOGIES INC.
Dataware, of Cambridge, Mass., has acquired Status/IQ Ltd., based in Abingdon, near Oxford, United Kingdom. Status/IQ specializes in the development of client/server software used to manage and deliver databases containing large amounts of text and graphics.

Dataware will purchase all outstanding shares of Status/IQ from private investors in exchange for about $1.2 million in cash, common stock, and warrants to purchase additional common stock of Dataware Technologies. Dataware and Status/IQ will integrate their respective U.K. operations; Jim Tuck, general manager of Status/IQ, has been named general manager of Dataware Technologies U.K.

Status/IQ, which had 1995 revenue of $2.3 million, was formed in 1987 to market software tools developed by the U.K. Atomic Energy Authority. In the U.K. alone, 250 organizations are active users of Status/IQ.

GRAPHIC ENTERPRISES OF OHIO
Graphic Enterprises of North Canton, Ohio, has introduced GEI Image Express, a low-cost OPI server software package for use at small and medium-sized commercial printers and newspapers.

The Windows NT-based software is based on Graphic Enterprises' GUSS OPI output management and print spooler system. DESKTOP EDITION, at $895, offers control over two queues and one printer. The full-bodied PREPRESS EDITION, at $4295, is intended for use by larger dailies and commercial shops, as it will handle an unlimited number of queues and printers.

HARRIS PUBLISHING SYSTEMS CORP.
Harris Publishing Systems Corp. of Melbourne, Fla., has announced orders received in January and February, 1996:

-- THE PLAIN DEALER of Cleveland, Ohio (396k, morning): Harris NewsMaker Editorial system consisting of NewsMaker Copy Editor Workstation software licenses, Wire Server software and Windows Client Browser software licenses. THE PLAIN DEALER is uses Harris' XP-21 for its Pagination system.

-- The Patriot News Co. of Harrisburg, Pa., publisher of THE PATRIOT (63k morning) and THE EVENING NEWS (43k evening), has purchased Harris' XP-21 Server, OPI software, IMAGES (Image Management And Graphics Enhancement System) software, AP Leaf Desk Input software, NewsMaker Pagination software licenses, and a NewsMaker Editorial system. The Patriot News also ordered Automatic Fax Output software, Automatic Text Scanner software, Mac Server software, Mac AdFlow software, Mac Browser software, Photoshop Drag & Drop Plug-in software (Mac version), a Vantage image archiving system and PageTrak, Harris' page management and tracking application.

-- FLORIDA TODAY of Melbourne, Fla. (86k morning): Harris' XP-21 Server, IMAGES Workstation software, OPI Server software, Mac Server software, NewsMaker Pagination software licenses, C-PAG (Classified Ad Pagination) software, PageTrak, Mac Browser software, and Mac versions of Photoshop drag-and-drop Plug-in software, Quark drag-and-drop XTensions and Multi-Ad Creator drag-and-drop software.

Two previous Harris customers, the DULUTH (Minn.) NEWS-TRIBUNE (57K morning) and ST. LOUIS (MO.) POST-DISPATCH (342k morning), also ordered additional software and/or hardware from Harris.

JOHN JULIANO COMPUTER SERVICES CO.
JJCS of Decatur, Ga., has announced that Atan HTML2 is in live daily production at the LAW JOURNAL EXTRA of New York. Atan HTML2 reads and executes Atex markup commands and formats, then generates HTML Level 2 code for use on the World-Wide Web.

The LAW JOURNAL EXTRA is using one copy of Atan HTML2 on one Macintosh to generate the equivalent of 10 newsprint pages a day. It may be viewed at http://www.ljx.com.

MONOTYPE TYPOGRAPHY INC.
Monotype Typography of Chicago will be an exhibitor at Spring Comdex/Windows World June 3Ð6 in Chicago, its first appearance at Comdex/Windows. Monotype provided the fonts that ship in Windows 3.1 and Windows 95.

Monotype will feature additional TrueType fonts for use in Windows applications, as well as new Windows software products. Monotype has six font packs, containing 15 to 57 fonts, available to Windows users; many of these font packs feature scalable art fonts.

MonotypeÕs booth number will be 2161 in the Windows World Pavilion at McCormick Place in Chicago.

SOCIETY OF NEWSPAPER DESIGN
SND, based in Reston, Va., has scheduled six one-day regional workshops in April and May. Quick Course '96 will address designing with color, designing for readers, infographics and the big picture, photojournalism, and the techno-revolution.

The six cities on the tour are Tallahassee, Fla., April 18; Chapel Hill, N.C., April 20; Muncie, Ind., April 21; Saskatoon, Sask., Canada, May 16; Las Vegas, Nev., May 19, and Dallas, May 20.

Attendance is limited to 150 people at each site. Fees are $50 for SND members, $75 for nonmembers and $40 for students. For details, contact Elizabeth Cromer at (703) 620-1083, or write to her at The Newspaper Center, Box 4075, Reston, Va.

TECHNO DESIGN
This Netherlands-based supplier to desktop publishers has introduced the PDF Design XTension for Quark XPress, which enables users to create control codes for Adobe Acrobat within XPress. PDF -- Portable Document Format -- codes for such things as bookmarks and links are embedded in Quark files and manipulated by the Design XTension so that Acrobat Exchange need not be used in transferring XPress files to such media as CD-ROMs and the World-Wide Web.

XITRON INC.
Xitron, an output management systems supplier based in Ann Arbor, Mich., has introduced the Imagesetter Personality Unit, a tool that enables Xitron's Navigator RIP to drive up to four output devices each with its own resolution level.

IPU also permits greater physical distance between the RIP and the output device, from no more than 50 feet to as much as 250 feet. This would allow various departments to have proofers driven from a single RIP, with imagesetters in yet other locations.

Xitron will interface with output devices made by Agfa, Linotronic, Printware, Monotype and Autologic Information International Inc., which is Xitron's parent company. AII is based in Thousand Oaks., Calif.

--30--

COLE'S NEWSWIRE is compiled by Pete Wetmore and distributed by The Cole Group, publishers of THE COLE PAPERS, COLE'S GUIDE TO PUBLISHING SYSTEMS and consultants to newspapers and magazines worldwide. To receive more information about The Cole Group, send e-mail to: info@colegroup.com.

Copyright (c) 1996, The Cole Group. All Rights Reserved. This transmission may not be copied, archived or retransmitted without the express written permission of The Cole Group. If you are not a subscriber to COLE'S NEWSWIRE, you have received this transmission illegally.

The Cole Group, 2590 Greenwich, Suite 9, San Francisco USA 94123-3333. V: (415) 673-2424; F: (415) 673-2449; I: info@colegroup.com.