FaceSpan integrates publishing programs such as Quark XPress, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Macromedia Freehand; word processors; spreadsheets, and DT publishing software solutions. It enables these programs to become database clients, providing the benefits of SQL database control in a true client-server architecture.

In the toolkit are:

-- FaceSpan: Users may employ this interface designer and rapid application builder to build a user interface to a program, creating windows, buttons, pull-down and pop-up menus, scrollable lists and data entry formats.

-- AppleScript: Free from Apple with System 7.5., AppleScript is used to give commands to the computer as stored scripts.

-- AppleScript Editor & Debugger: This utility makes it even easier to write, test and debug scripts.

-- DT Menu Installer: Users add new functionality to existing software by plugging a new pull-down menu into nearly any application. When an item on the menu is selected, it will execute the AppleScript program to do whatever tasks have been programmed.

-- DT DB Agent: This utility provides scriptable access to SQL databases such as Sybase.

Also available is the source code for Javelin, DT's database program. Javelin code is easy to modify, using FaceSpan and the FaceSpan Digital Toolkit.

FaceSpan 2.1 is currently available direct from DT at 1-800-FACESPAN. DT is on the Web at http://www.dtint.com/.

-- BIRMINGHAM (Ala.) NEWS (158k evening): C-PAG classified pagination software; additional XP-21 servers with Replication software; XP-Link application software; upgrades of Harris 8000 and 8900 series workstations to Harris NewsMaker Pagination.

-- LOS ANGELES TIMES (1m morning): XP-21 server with Replication software; AdFlow software; XP-Link application software, and Harris NewsMaker Pagination software licenses, for pagination of business and special sections. The NewsMaker software will be configured with the Decade/33 text editor from CE Engineering Publishing Systems Inc. of Loomis, Calif.

-- STATEN ISLAND (N.Y.) ADVANCE (77k evening): XP-21 server with Replication software; IMAGES (Image Management And Graphics Enhancement System); AP/Leaf Desk input software; Harris NewsMaker Pagination software; C-PAG; DASH (Display Ad System by Harris); PageTrak, Harris' page management and tracking system; NewsMaker Editorial system (including automatic fax output and text scanner software), and XP-Link applications.

Harris also announced that these newspapers ordered additional software and/or hardware: Alameda Newspaper Group, Pleasanton, Calif.; RECORD SEARCHLIGHT of Redding, Calif. (38k evening); NAPLES (Fla.) DAILY NEWS (44k morning); JERSEY JOURNAL of Jersey City, N.J. (59k morning); ASBURY PARK PRESS of Neptune, N.J. (166k evening); THE TIMES of Trenton, N.J. (85k morning); PATRIOT-NEWS of Harrisburg, Pa. (63k morning); LANCASTER (Pa.) NEWS (45k morning); SCRANTON (Pa.) TIMES (44k evening); and the MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL (220k morning).

Harris is on the Web at http://www.harris.com/hpsc/.

Customers may buy one non-developer release of Roaster from Natural Intelligence for $129. A subscription to the Roaster development environment is now $199, with an academic price of $69. Purchasers of Roaster before these price changes went into effect will receive an extension on their subscription.

Quark Connect for Windows lets QPS customers add third-party Windows applications to their workgroups, so that Windows files and their revisions can now be managed and tracked like any other QPS element. Quark Connect for Windows is compatible with Windows 3.1, Windows 95 and Windows for Workgroups 3.11.

Microsoft Word for Windows 6.0 is the first application supported by Quark Connect for Windows. Quark Connect modules supporting additional third-party Windows applications will be announced with the release of QPS 2.0.

BUSINESSWEEK, a division of the McGraw-Hill Cos., will be among the first QPS sites to use Quark Connect for Windows.

Quark is on the Web at http://www.quark.com/.

An eight-session track will provide a "basic training" course for people new to page design. Topics will include page design, information graphics, typography and visual editing. Other sessions will include group slide critiques, "Powerhouse Pagination" techniques, design ideas to steal, and design tools for the World-Wide Web. Additional seminars are planned on management, diversity issues, illustration, new media and team-building topics.

A full-day seminar on Oct. 17, will look at how to improve advertising and promotional design. And the return of the popular MacLabs will bring intensive hands-on training on the Macintosh and the software packages newspapers commonly use. An extra fee and a first-come, first-served, sign up plan will be used for these workshops.

Workshop attendees receive free admission to the exhibition and trade show. Suppliers will include pagination and desktop publishing firms.

Registration is $250 for SND members, $350 for non-members and $150 for students. SND offers a $50 discount to non-members when they register with an SND member. Discounted air fares will be available for workshop attendees.

For more information, contact Dave Gray or Elizabeth Cromer at SND headquarters, 129 Dyer Street, Providence, R.I. 02903. Phone: (401) 276-2100. Fax: (401) 276-2105. Web: http://ws2.starnews.com/snd/.

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