COLE'S NEWSWIRE, July 23, 1997

July 23, 1997
Vol. 3, No. 29

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ADOBE SYSTEMS INC.
San Jose-based Adobe has introduced a program to help users of Quark XPress and other desktop publishing products switch to Adobe PageMaker. The promotion -- "It's Time to Try Adobe PageMaker" -- offers discount pricing for users of competitive products, free technical support, and a free CD-ROM that includes technical information, a Quark XPress document converter and tryout versions of PageMaker 6.5 for Macintosh and Windows.

For more information, call Adobe at 800-422-3623. Adobe is on the Web at http://www.adobe.com/.

ASSOCIATED PRESS
New York-based Associated Press has announced the sale of eight News Camera 2000e digital cameras to the RICHMOND (Va.) TIMES-DISPATCH (210k, morning), bringing '97 sales to more than 200 cameras. The Media General Inc. newspaper's photographers have been testing the NC 2000e since January.

The AP is on the World-Wide Web at http://wire.ap.org/.

AUTOLOGIC INFORMATION INTERNATIONAL
AII, an imagesetter manufacturer based in Thousand Oaks, Calif., has announced it has signed an Adobe PostScript software development and OEM distribution licensing agreement with Adobe Systems of San Jose, Calif. AII will integrate PostScript 3 and PostScript Extreme high-volume printing architecture into its APS RIP 3 raster image processor software products.

AII is on the Web at http://www.autoiii.com/; Adobe is at http://www.adobe.com/.

BASEVIEW PRODUCTS INC.
Baseview, a subsidiary of Harris Publishing Systems Corp. based in Ann Arbor, Mich., has announced these recent sales:

-- CRAWFORDSVILLE (Ind.) JOURNAL REVIEW (11k, morning): upgrade of IQue editorial system to version 3.0.

-- ATLANTA BUSINESS CHRONICLE (37k, weekly): IQue Server with graphics capabilities; 27 copies of NewsEditPro IQue; nine copies of DragX; nine copies of QTools, and one copy of Transporter, Baseview's utility for moving files into and out of the IQue database.

Baseview reported installations at more than 30 other papers in June, in the United States and England.

Baseview is on the Web http://www.baseview.com/.

HARRIS PUBLISHING SYSTEMS CORP.
Harris, a pre-press systems integrator based in Melbourne, Fla., has announced it will collaborate with Cascade Systems Inc., an archiving systems supplier based in Andover, Mass., to create an interface between Harris' XP-21 production system and Cascade's MediaSphere archiving system. The proposed link will integrate the archiving process with editorial workflow.

Harris also reported that the New Orleans TIMES-PICAYUNE (267k, all day) has ordered a Harris NewsMaker editorial system consisting of 130 NewsMaker software licenses, wire server software and upgrades of 32 Harris 2100 pagination workstations to NewsMaker Pagination.

Harris is on the Web at http://www.harris.com/. Cascade is at http://www.cascadenet.com/.

HEIDELBERG USA
Heidelberg USA, a publishing systems supplier based in Hauppauge, N.Y., and Creo Products of Vancouver, British Columbia, have announced they have entered a partnership to sell and service computer-to-plate technology. Heidelberg will distribute Creo's products, including imagesetters, plate imaging devices and scanning systems, in North America; Creo will continue to use its sales force on selected key accounts in the same area.

Heidelberg is on the Web at http://www.heidelberg.com/. Creo is at http://www.creo.com/.

IPA SYSTEMS LTD.
IPA Systems Ltd., a software developer and systems integrator based in Cheltenham, England, has announced the availability of Q-View 4.5, a Quark XTension that allows XPress users to see thumbnails of all pages in an edition, including status and tracking of ads and editorial elements.

Version 4.5 is 68k and PPC native, can read editorial element status from the Q-Edit Database and allows users to open a page by double-clicking the thumbnail.

IPA is on the Web at http://www.southwind.net/fsi/ipa.

REUTERS NEWMEDIA
New York-based Reuters NewMedia has launched Reuters Teen MagNet, an on-line news package designed to reach teens on the Internet. Teen MagNet delivers a daily 10-story package of teen-oriented international news and features to web sites and web publishers.

Teen MagNet carries news from Reuters' global wires and includes stories written by Reuters' teen correspondents, ranging in age from 12 to 17. Recently, a group of six Denver-based Teen MagNet correspondents obtained press credentials to cover the G7 economic summit in Denver. They filed stories that explored life for teens in non-G7 countries and explained the relevance of the summit's proceedings.

Reuters is on the Web at http://www.online.reuters.com/.

SOFTWARE CONSTRUCTION CO.
The Software Construction Co. (Europe) Ltd. of Bristol, England, a joint partnership between Westpoint Peripherals Ltd. of Bristol, and the Software Construction Company of Atlanta, Ga., has introduced a production workflow system based on a picture and graphic management and archiving solution.

The solution, based on Windows NT running with Microsoft SQL server, consists of media management software from SCC and CD jukebox technology from German manufacturer NSM, for which Westpoint Peripherals is the exclusive UK distributor.

SCC is on the Web at http://www.swcc.com/.

SYSTEM INTEGRATORS INC.
SII, a publishing systems supplier based in Sacramento, Calif., and Associated Information Systems International Inc., a software supplier and integrator based in Auburn, Calif., have announced they have packaged a front-end publishing system designed specifically for medium-sized newspapers based on SII's new Coyote/3 client for Windows 95 and NT. AISI will be the integrator, providing everything from input to the typesetter.

SII is on the Web at http://www.sii.com/. AISI is at http://www.aisipub.com/.

ZIP2 CORP.
Zip2, a provider of local on-line products for newspapers and other local media companies based in Mountain View, Calif., has announced that it has acquired Pantheon Inc., the Seattle-based supplier of World-Wide Web publishing solutions for the newspaper industry.

Zip2 will integrate Pantheon's product line, including its Builder, Interpreter and Community Suite software, into the Zip2 suite of products. The new company will be based at Zip2's Mountain View headquarters. Pantheon's management and staff will relocate to Zip2's offices later this summer. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Zip2 makes City Guide, which it recently launched with the SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS at http://www.justgo.com/.

Zip2 is located on the Internet at http://www.zip2.com/. Pantheon is at http://www.pantheoninc.com/.

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