COLE'S NEWSWIRE, Aug. 28, 1996

Aug. 28, 1996
Vol. 2, No. 37

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BASEVIEW PRODUCTS INC.
Baseview, a subsidiary of Harris Publishing Systems Corp. based in Ann Arbor, Mich., has announced these recent installations (not all products acquired are listed for each customer):

-- HAWAII TRIBUNE-HERALD, Hilo, Hawaii (20k morning): AdminPro, 12 copies of NewsEditPro, two copies of WireManager and one library system with Archiver.

-- LEAVENWORTH (Kan.) TIMES (9k evening): one AdminPro and Style Sheet package, seven copies of NewsEditPro and four pagination packages.

-- HENDERSON (N.C.) DAILY DISPATCH (10k evening): library system, eight pagination packages and five copies of NewsEditPro.

-- THE PUBLIC OPINION, Chambersburg, Pa. (21k evening): one IQue server package, 12 pagination packages and CommLink Plus.

-- KENT COUNTY DAILY TIMES, West Warwick, R.I. (9k evening): three copies of ClassManagerPro, one Classified Accounts Receivables module and one copy of ClassFlow.

BROADVISION
Broadvision, a World-Wide Web products developer based in Los Altos, Calif., will unveil THE ANGLE on Sept. 1. The new personal information source uses advanced profiling and matching technology to deliver web information and entertainment that reflects a user's individual needs and interests.

For a preview, visit http://www.theangle.com/press.html. The password is: theangle888.

THE COLE PAPERS
Newspaper & New Media Seminar, co-sponsored by the prestigious Seybold Seminars http://www.seyboldseminars.com/ and THE COLE PAPERS, will be held Sept. 9 in San Francisco. Held in conjunction with Seybold San Francisco (which includes other seminars, a conference and a large trade show), the Newspaper & New Media Seminar will focus on bridging the gap between ink-on-paper and on-line.

Scheduled speakers include Frank Daniels III, formerly of the NEWS & OBSERVER in Raleigh, N.C.; Howard Finberg, of Phoenix Newspapers Inc.; Joe Fiveash of InfiNet; Roddy de la Garza of AdOne Classified Network; Bob Ingle, of Knight-Ridder New Media; Garrett Queen, of The Cole Group, and top executives from Autologic Information International, Cybergraphic, Managing Editor Software, Sysdeco Media Group and System Integrators.

More information is available at http://colegroup.com/ssf96/; on-line registration is at http://sbjdc.xweb.eds.com/seybold/. To speak with a real live person regarding Newspaper & New Media Seminar, call (800) 990-2653.

DATASTREAM IMAGING SYSTEMS INC.
DataStream Imaging Systems Inc. of Lexington, Ky., has announced a suite of pre-press tools called GymnastXT, designed to facilitate use of Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files for cross-platform document exchange within Quark XPress.

First to be released is GymnastXT, an XPress XTension that will allow users to import PDF documents directly into XPress as Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) files. The images can then be cropped and separated like any other graphics.

GymnastXT will convert the selected page from the PDF document into an EPS graphic and import the EPS file into an XPress picture box in one step, eliminating the need to convert PDF files first. GymnastXT is expected to be released by the end of September 1996.

The next planned product is GymnastXTend, which will import a PDF file as an XPress document, allowing it to be edited and modified. GymnastXTend is expected to be released in the first half of 1997.

Available for the Macintosh and PowerPC platforms for use with Quark XPress 3.31 or greater, and Adobe Type Manager, GymnastXT will be available through DataStream Imaging Systems and XChange of San Francisco.

ICANON ASSOCIATES
Icanon, a software developer based in Fort Washington, Pa., recently installed its NEWZware business office software at the EVENING SUN of Hanover, Pa. (21k evening), and three newspapers in Canada -- THE OBSERVER of Sarnia, Ontario (22k evening); THE GUARDIAN of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island (23k morning); EVENING NEWS of New Glasgow, Nova Scotia (10k evening), and DAILY NEWS of Truro, Nova Scotia (8k evening).

LEXIS-NEXIS
With LEXIS-NEXIS of Dayton, Ohio, SECURITY and SDM magazines, Cahners publications covering the private security industry, are launching a free information service on the World-Wide Web.

The magazines will provide access to the LEXIS-NEXIS information warehouse through LEXIS-NEXIS' Tell Me More Service. SECURITY and SDM editors will enhance their web sites with the latest news and trends aimed at corporate security executives, security firms and safety professionals.

SECURITY magazine may be visited at http://www.secmag.com/ and SDM is at http://www.sdmmag.com/.CAHNERS CONNECTION on the web -- http://www.cahners.com/ -- provides information about Cahners Publishing.

In other LEXIS-NEXIS announcements:

-- CNI Corp., a pre-press systems integrator based in Newton, Mass., has been designated an authorized distributor of the NewsView Solutions line of products. NewsView is a text library system, PhotoView stores images and graphics, and NewsView Connections is used to move text and images to on-line services.

-- PhotoView recently was installed at the BELLEVUE (Wash.) JOURNAL-AMERICAN (34k morning), SPARTANBURG (S.C.) HERALD-JOURNAL (61k morning) and VANCOUVER (Wash.) COLUMBIAN (55k evening).

-- NewsView Connections recently was installed at the Spartanburg paper as well as the WILMINGTON (N.C.) STAR-NEWS (64k morning) and FREDERICTON DAILY GLEANER in New Brunswick, Canada (30k evening).

NANDO.NET
Nando.net, a pioneer in on-line information delivery based in Raleigh, N.C., has introduced a web site covering the national political campaigns with exclusive reports and polling information.

Introduction of the Nando Election96 server -- http://www.nando.net/nt/Elex96/ -- coincides with Nando's coverage of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Updated continually, the server offers quick briefings on politics and the 1996 U.S. elections, and the latest news on national politics.

The Election96 server also carries the results of state-by-state polling on political issues conducted by Mason-Dixon Political Research.

Nando.net, at http://www.nando.net, is the electronic publishing division of McClatchy Newspapers Inc. of Sacramento, Calif.

PREPRESS SOLUTIONS
PrePRESS Solutions, an imagesetter manufacturer based in East Hanover, N.J., has announced installation of its 500th PantherPro/46 imagesetter, at Trader Publications in Seattle. Trader produces color display ads for automobile dealers.

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