QPImport and QPXport act to package database information and content into native and portable formats, allowing multiple business uses such as Internet distribution, print publishing, information analysis and long-term data storage. Supported formats include ASCII, Postscript, PDF and other native formats.

QPImport and QPXport are platform-independent, providing an interface between PCs, Macs and mainframe systems. These XTensions integrate independent business systems and manage information between systems typically unable to communicate.

Companies currently testing QPImport and QPXport include TIME, PEOPLE and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED magazines, May Department Stores, the EVANSVILLE (Ind.) COURIER and Publishers Clearing House.

The new quarterly, scheduled for release in late June, will be called MEDIAINFO.COM, Journal of the Online News Industry. (E&P's 2-year-old site on the World-Wide Web, http://www.mediainfo.com/, is an independent publication producing original content with its own staff.)

Unlike E&P, MEDIAINFO.COM will cover on-line news operations run by all categories of media companies. The full-color magazine will address cyberspace newsroom management issues, hardware and software developments, banner and classified advertising, graphics and design, databases, search engines, archives, journalistic ethics on the Internet, content syndication, digital photography, reporters' digital tools, audience demographics and other topics of relevance to on-line publishers and journalists.

MEDIAINFO.COM will be distributed to subscribers to EDITOR & PUBLISHER magazine and readers at 3,000 on-line news organizations outside the newspaper industry.

Scitex is one of the largest contributors of professional talent to the pre-press industry -- about 8000 people have worked there since the '80s. These people are invited to stay in touch, or network on the job front, through http://www.rozin.com/exscite.

An outstanding journalist and a founding editor of USA TODAY, Woodhull was a strong advocate for fair treatment in the press of women's issues, and a leading figure in the U.S. women's movement.

THE HOUR of Norwalk, Conn. (20k, evening), told Graphic Enterprises that productivity had risen 40 percent. The newspaper paginates on Macintoshes and runs G.U.S.S. on a Windows NT server.

Graphic Enterprises is on the World-Wide Web at http://www.geiohio.com/.

KRT Interactive creates daily web packages Monday through Friday, containing breaking news and advance coverage of news, entertainment, sports and business events. An archive of nearly 100 packages also is available on Presslink Online.

News in Motion produces daily breaking news and feature animations. Its archive consists of more than 1,500 animations, on such things as weather patterns, natural disasters, and health and medical issues.

An on-line demonstration of KRT InteractiveÕs web packages and News in Motion is available at http://www.tmstv.com/krt/info.htm or on the KRT forum page on Presslink Online at http://www.online.presslink.com/. To receive daily e-mail advisories, send your name, U.S. mail address, name of publication, phone number and e-mail address to Lily Dow at ldow@ari.net.

Tribune Media Services also has announced that College Press Exchange, a daily Internet news service for college newspapers, has launched a web site featuring a tour of CPX's virtual newsroom at http://www.cpxnet.com/.

College newspapers can subscribe to the news service or to individual features http://www.cpxnet.com/. Subscribers pay a flat fee to download news, graphics and photos for one academic year.

All LinoColor desktop scanners, including the $1850 SAPHIR and $5495 SAPHIR Ultra, as well as the A3 size, $7250 OPAL, will ship in Windows-compatible versions beginning this quarter. (The $795 JADE was Windows-compatible when it was introduced last fall.)

LinoColor scanners for Windows 95/NT will ship with LinoColor VisuaLab EZ software, including LinoColor-brand automated image capture, processing and color correction. They also will have 32-bit TWAIN "plug-in" functionality for Photoshop or CorelDraw, and the ability to manage color images according to ICC profiles for given output devices.

LinoColor is on the Web at .

-- Early arrivals may attend two bonus sessions June 20, addressing telecommunications technology and how to produce a newspaper web site.

-- For four days, attendees may visit 200,000 square feet of exhibits in the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, where the inaugural New Media Pavilion will feature presentations by Apple Computer, IBM, Lexis-Nexis and others.

-- On June 23, the MIT Media Lab will offer three presentations, exploring "The Electronic Paper: An Inkless Newspaper?", "BAZAAR: Your Personal Electronic Agent" and "Storyteller: A Perfectly Tailored Newspaper."

For more information about NEXPO '97, visit the NAA at http://www.naa.org/.

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