Cole's Newswire Aug. 14, 1996
Vol. 2, No. 34

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  • 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 (Phoenix Newspapers Inc.), Bob Ingle (Knight-Ridder New Media), Garrett Queen (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 https://sbjdc.xweb.eds.com/seybold/. To speak with a real live person regarding Newspaper & New Media Seminar, call (800) 990-2653.

  • AUTOLOGIC INFORMATION INTERNATIONAL
    AII, based in Thousand Oaks, Calif., has announced that Treasure Chest Advertising has become a beta site for AII's new SeeColor digital color proofing package.

    Treasure Chest, a wholly owned subsidiary of Big Flower Press, is using SeeColor at its Treasure Chest Springfield facility in East Longmeadow, Mass., where it prints advertising circulars and circulation-building newspaper products in a computer-to-plate environment. AII provided SeeColor's Radiance software, an AII APS-Alpha RIP and an APS-HP755CM color inkjet proofer.

    Craig Harmsen, Treasure Chest's pre-press manager, reported that his shop stopped producing color proofs from film ahead of schedule because of the quality of the SeeColor proofs.

    SeeColor Radiance software is priced at $7500.

  • LEDGE MULTIMEDIA
    Ledge Multimedia, a division of Cambridge, Mass.-based Dataware Technologies Inc., has announced the release of its first commercial, interactive Java applet for Ziff-Davis' PC MAGAZINE ONLINE.

    The Java-enabled site allows users to customize the delivery of information to meet their needs. Thus, PC MAGAZINE will deliver information over the Internet in a new way, allowing users to find the information they need without requiring links to a number of HTML pages.

    The PC MAGAZINE ONLINE Java applets were developed by Ledge Multimedia to give site visitors easy access to benchmark and price performance information on 58 PC notebooks. Visitors may select available categories from Java-enabled menus, which appear as a user's cursor passes over hot spots on the web site's pages.

    Users are given a list of comparative information on the notebooks tested. They may scroll down the menus and click to select fields to customize the data presented on their browsers. The Java applets execute users' commands and display the results.

    Java applets are executable programs included in HTML pages, similar to the way images are included. When a user views the page with a Java-compatible browser, the applet is downloaded to the user's system and executed by the browser.

    PC MAGAZINE ONLINE may be visited at http://www.pcmag.com.

  • GANNETT MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL
    Cincinnati-based GMTI has announced that it will show the latest release of its DiGiCol archive management system at Seybold San Francisco, Sept. 11-13.

    Release 3.0 permits users to customize their own database search parameters. Relevance ranking of search results has been added, with the option to turn it off. And users may specify their own image sort criteria within DiGiCol's photo galleries, a feature that enables users to drag-and-drop images into various destinations for processing later.

    Other new features include thumbnail images in a photo directory; Netscape client support for LAN/WAN and Internet access to a DiGiCol database; searching for numbers; indexing of Portable Document Format (PDF) files, and bi-directional data filters for accessing LEXIS-NEXIS, DataTimes and Vu/Text archive systems.

  • ICANON ASSOCIATES INC.
    Icanon, a newspaper business software developer based in Fort Washington, Pa., has announced five newspapers have installed NEWZware, a suite of products to handle circulation and advertising management, general ledger, accounts payable and system administration.

    The newspapers are the DAILY ADVANCE of Elizabeth City, N.C. (12k evening); EVENING TELEGRAM of Rocky Mount, N.C. (15k evening); MORNING NEWS of Florence, S.C. (32k morning); STANDARD FREEHOLDER of Cornwall, Ontario, Canada (18k evening), and CHRONICLE-JOURNAL of Thunder Bay, Ontario (35k evening).

  • MANAGING EDITOR INC.
    Managing Editor, a software developer based in Jenkintown, Pa., has announced several recent installations. Customers acquired one or more MEI products, which include Page Director ad layout (ALS or AdForce), Classified Layout System (CLS), Editorial Layout System (ELS) and MultiBox XT. MEI is also a certified installer of Quark Publishing System (QPS), made by Quark Inc. of Denver.

    U.S. sites:
    -- BAKERSFIELD (Calif.) CALIFORNIAN (75k morning): QPS.
    -- West Coast Community News, Carlsbad, Calif.: ALS.
    -- NORTH COUNTY TIMES, Escondido, Calif. (40k morning): ALS.
    -- Freedom Communications, Irvine, Calif.: AdForce II.
    -- LOS ANGELES TIMES (1m morning): ALS, Quark XTensions.
    -- US West, Denver: ALS.
    -- IDAHO STATESMAN, Boise, Idaho (64k morning): ALS, QPS.
    -- Copley Newspapers, Fox Valley Press, Plainfield, Ill.: ALS, CLS and ELS.
    -- GOSHEN (Ind.) NEWS (16k evening): AdForce II.
    -- GLOBE-GAZETTE, Mason City, Iowa (20k morning): ALS.
    -- TIMES RECORD, Brunswick, Maine (13k evening): ALS.
    -- Association of Missouri Electric Cooperatives, Jefferson City, Mo.: AdForce II.
    -- Great Media Newspapers, East Brunswick, N.J.: ALS with Editions.
    -- DAILY ASTORIAN, Astoria, Ore. (10k evening): AdForce II.
    -- ABERDEEN (S.D.) AMERICAN NEWS (18k morning): ALS.
    -- This Week! Publications, Waukesha, Wis.: CLS.
    -- EL NUEVO DIA, San Juan, Puerto Rico (210k morning): CLS.

    Canadian sites:
    -- MEDICINE HAT (Alberta) NEWS (14k evening): CLS.
    -- NOW magazine, Toronto, Ontario: ALS.

  • MISSION CRITICAL TECHNOLOGIES
    Mission Critical Technologies of Concord, Mass., a developer and supplier of remote ad management systems for newspapers, has introduced AdFAST/Images. The new product permits advertisers to send display ads and their graphic files directly to a newspaper via modem, or on-line via the World-Wide Web.

    AdFAST/Images joins a suite of Mission Critical products that support direct electronic advertiser entry of classified ads. AdFAX is the fax management system; AdFAST enables direct advertiser input from PCs, and AdFAST.com is an Internet product for direct advertiser ad entry.

    AdFAST/Images attaches a black and white graphic, in any one of several image formats, to the ad order submitted by AdFAST or AdFAST.com. When the newspaper receives the display ad order, Mission Critical's AdCOMMAND remote ad server automatically passes the graphics files to the display ad and production departments for processing, while passing the ad order to the front-end advertising system.

  • SOFTQUAD INC.
    SoftQuad Inc. of Toronto, Canada, has announced that CompuServe has agreed to deliver SoftQuad's HoTMetaL web publishing product through its European distribution network.

    Under the terms of the agreement, CompuServe will integrate HoTMetaL Light into CompuServe introductory membership packs. Subscribers will also be able to download HoTMetaL Light in several European languages from CompuServe's secure FTP site.

    HoTMetaL Light enables users to create web pages and familiarize themselves with the process of web publishing. HoTMetaL Light users can upgrade to HoTMetaL PRO for $69 (U.S.) at SoftQuad's Web site, http://www.softquad.com, or by calling 1-800-360-8454,

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