The Reston, Va.-based API asked industry leaders to contribute their thoughts on how to produce and distribute crisis news. API then shared that information with newsrooms across North America and around the world through a series of e-mail alerts and its web site. The book was produced from the material collected.

Scaled for smaller publications, CirculationPro Lite has three major components -- Subscription Lite, Pre-print Handler and Distribution Lite.

Each module of CirculationPro Lite costs less than $1000 and is designed to work on one workstation only.

Users catalog a Quark XPress file and Cumulus will create a thumbnail of the document and, in addition, one thumbnail for each page of the entire document. The XPress filter, provided with the QXP AssetStore Option, will also read out the text in an XPress document and place it in the Cumulus "notes" field. Users can then search the field to find specific text.

The QXP AssetStore Option runs on Mac OS and is available for $399 per license. It is available at the company's on-line store and there is a fully working demo available there as well.

DE TELEGRAAF, the Netherlands largest daily newspaper, has agreed to replace its existing ad production system with a CCI AdDesk Production System.

The system will provide DE TELEGRAAF with advertising workflow control -- including priority and deadline control -- as well as electronic planning of ad production and pagination of display and/or classified ad pages. It will also support control of ad colors, reserved positions and specific requests.

PASSAUER NEUE PRESSE, part of Neue Presse Verlags GmbH, is purchasing a complete CCI AdDesk installation, including CCI AdDesk Sales and CCI AdDesk Production.

The EVENING STANDARD, part of London's Associated Newspapers Ltd., has brought CCI AdDesk into operation as the first part of a three-phase installation process that will use CCI AdDesk for advertising sales and production for Associated's DAILY MAIL (2.3m) and MAIL ON SUNDAY (2.3m).

In the thermal plate arena, Spectratech International Inc. of Middleway, W.Va., and Western Litho Plate & Supply Co. (Western Lithotech) of St. Louis will be supplied. Both are qualified for Creo platesetters

In the film and plate processor arena, Glunz & Jensen A/S of Denmark will provide systems. Creo will also continue to offer customers film processors from Carnfeldt America Inc. of Fort Atkinson, Wis.

In the color proofing arena, DuPont Color Proofing of Wilmington, Del., will bundle its DuPont WaterProof thermal halftone proofing media with Creo's computer-to-plate systems.

Corel will use Font Reserve in both OS X-based applications, allowing users to activate, preview, sort and copy the correct fonts while using the applications.

The company also said that Bitstream Inc. of Cambridge, Mass., a developer of font technology and digital fonts, would resell the Font Reserve product line, including versions for the Classic Macintosh operating system as well as the Windows operating system.

Bitstream, which holds a minority interest in DiamondSoft, said it would sell the Font Reserve products not only in its on-line store, but also through its network of worldwide resellers.

The service is handled by OrdersUp.com of Denver. Users can go on-line to check on specials in their immediate area. Advertisers will be able to buy on-line insertions through the agency and OrdersUp.com will sell services to restaurants as well.

Recycler.com currently features 100,000 new classified ads per week. Using Rimfire technology, businesses and consumers now have the option of instantly adding up to four photos with their classified ads on the site. Automated photo submission shortens the timeline for publishing ads and generates more revenue for the publisher.

Rimfire is an open imaging platform that allows businesses to outsource the upload, processing, management and distribution of media such as photos and virtual tours from on-line customers and instantly publish such media to live web pages.

Users can drag-and-drop photos from their hard drives into "Image Wells" within a classified advertisement upload page. From the image wells, the user can crop and rotate the photos as desired.

Rimfire performs all photo file format conversions, compression and watermarking and instantly sends the photo data back to the publisherÕs web site to appear with the on-line ad.

Base on Men and Mice's DNS Expert product, DNS Expert AD is a diagnostic tool focused on identifying and resolving DNS-related AD problems. It reduces AD administrative tasks and helps prevent DNS-related security vulnerabilities. It identifies approximately 200 DNS and AD configuration errors and provides detailed error reports that suggest solutions for each error message.

The three papers are all part of Brunswick News Inc., whose Canadaeast Interactive handled the purchase.

The Canadaeast contract includes the Publicus Base System, plus add-on modules including Query Module, Banner Ad Module, Agenda Module (calendar of events), Multi-Channel Module (wireless, hand-held and e-mail publishing), Forums Module and Guides Module.

USATODAY.com will use the AdSuite system for managing advertising orders and placements handled by the sales, trafficking and finance departments. SolbrightÕs AdSuite will provide USATODAY.com with the ability to manage workflows through a point-and-click web interface that offers the appropriate access to information.