Vol. 2, No. 46
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Oct. 30, 1996 Vol. 2, No. 46 |
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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. Associated Information Systems International Inc., a software designer and integrator based in Auburn, Calif., has announced recent sales of FaxAction, a standards-based in-bound fax/OCR system to the DENVER POST (285k morning), the San Francisco Newspaper Agency and McClatchy Newspapers Inc. These publishing companies will use FaxActionÕs integrated editorial and advertising software to interface incoming electronic, scanned and e-mail input into their SII databases via SII API and SII LAN API ports. Created by Competent Consulting, also of Auburn, FaxAction receives and processes ad or editorial information, then sends confirmation of receipt. FaxAction's software components enhance text, provide high-end OCR functions and link FaxAction information into SIIÕs ad costing and tracking process. Autologic Information International Inc., an imaging and production systems supplier based in Thousand Oaks, Calif, has announced these recent sales and installations: -- ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS (73k morning): APS Grafix RIPs -- LOS ANGELES TIMES (1.1m morning): Two APS Grafix RIPs and one APS 32 Port Imager Hub -- HARTFORD (Conn.) COURANT (230k morning): APS Grafix RIPs -- Daily Southtown Inc., Chicago (53k morning): Two APSCOM Send and Receive Systems, one APS 32 Port Imager Hub. -- MIAMI HERALD (404k morning): remote site in the Bahamas: APSCOM Receive Site -- KANSAS CITY STAR (291k morning): APS Sierra SST color imagers -- BILLINGS (Mont.) GAZETTE (55k morning): APS Grafix RIPs -- RENO (Nev.) GAZETTE-JOURNAL (67k morning): APS Sierra SST color imagers -- ASBURY PARK PRESS, Neptune, N.J. (166k evening): APS Grafix RIPs -- BRYAN (Texas) EAGLE (22k morning): APS Grafix RIPs -- FORT WORTH (Texas) STAR-TELEGRAM (252k all-day): APS 755CM Color Laser Printer and APS Output Manager System -- KENOSHA (Wis.) NEWS (27k morning): APS Grafix RIPs -- Madison (Wis.) Newspapers (WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL, 85k morning; CAPITAL TIMES, 23k evening): APS 3850 turbo color imager Berkeley Systems Inc., a software developer based in Berkeley, Calif., has announced the pending launch of beZerk, an on-line entertainment network on the World-Wide Web. For a preview of beZerk, and to play the debut program "You Don't Know Jack" (Windows 95 users only), point your browser to "You Don't Know Jack" features the first true television-like commercials on the Internet, combining audio and animation. The editors of COLE'S GUIDE TO PUBLISHING SYSTEMS -- 1997 remind industry suppliers that the deadline for returning survey forms has been extended to Friday, Nov. 1. Suppliers that have not received survey forms can get copies by sending e-mail to info@colegroup.com. COLE'S GUIDE TO PUBLISHING SYSTEMS -- 1997 will be available for purchase to subscribers of THE COLE PAPERS in December; pre-publication discounts will amount to almost 50 percent. The GUIDE TO PUBLISHING SYSTEMS is now in its fourth year and provides data on more than 400 suppliers to the publishing industry, with in-depth commentaries on more than 100 of those suppliers. Information on the 1996 edition is available at http://colegroup.com/cg96/. Cybergraphic, an Australian production systems supplier based in Melbourne with U.S. offices in Burlington, Mass., has announced a sale to the LaTROBE (Pa.) VALLEY EXPRESS (9k evening), Cybergraphic's last PDP11-based system. Included are the Windows NT-based CyberPage, CyberNews and CyberCla$$Page applications; an OPI server, and an upgrade to two DEC AlphaStation 255 Model 4/233 file servers. The EXPRESS will use Quark XPress for Windows as its ad makeup application, with Adobe Illustrator and PhotoShop for graphics and images. When the EXPRESS is live on its new AlphaStations, all of Cybergraphic's customers world-wide will either be on VAX or on Alpha-based servers. Edgil, a software supplier based in Chelmsford, Mass., has announced the debut of its site on the World-Wide Web, http://www.edgil.com. The site provides Edgil's company background, product information, trade show schedule, available consulting services, quarterly newsletter EDGIL EXPRESS, new press releases and employment opportunities. Edgil products include AdParse, used for normalizing text of classified ads; WebCentral, an interactive on-line product which allows newspapers to interactively communicate on the web, and NewsCentral, a PC-based product for automating editorial communications. Groupsoft Ltd., a software developer based in Berkshire, England, has begun shipping Groupsoft Publisher, a system for managing an on-line publication. Groupsoft Publisher allows a small team to manage a web publication by separating production into site structure management, page appearance and content. Page designers and producers do not need any knowledge of HTML. Submitted pages may have embargo and expiration dates, and approval groups assigned automatically. After the editing and approval process, web pages are automatically marked up from a library of HTML templates, linked together into tables of contents, added to an interactive Java site map, full-text indexed and published. Pages in sections of the site can be restricted to subscribers with user name and password access control. Links between pages are checked. The draft and published articles are always visible to the production team. Groupsoft may be visited on the World-Wide Web at http://www.groupsoft.co.uk/. The St. Petersburg, Fla.-based institute has announced that its new typeface series, "Poynter Fonts: The Readability Series," is now in beta testing and will be featured at its typography conference Nov. 19-22. Developed by The Font Bureau Inc. of Boston in collaboration with the Poynter faculty, the typeface series offers four variations of a serif body text face and a companion sans serif boldface for text. The fonts are designed to maximize readability and can be selected to match varying press capabilities. A headline family and on-line fonts are planned as well. For more information, check Poynter's visual journalism home page at http://www.poynter.org/poynter/vj/ visual.html. SoftQuad Inc., a developer of Internet and intranet publishing software based in Toronto, Canada, has introduced a new way of viewing web documents with the HoTMetaL intranet Publisher (H.i.P) Viewer. H.i.P. Viewer is now being shipped with retail versions of the Microsoft Internet Explorer starter kit, itself a part of the Microsoft Windows 95 operating system. Demonstration files are included on the Microsoft CD, with links to the SoftQuad home page at http://www.softquad.com. --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. |
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