COLE'S NEWSWIRE, Oct. 1, 1997

Oct. 1, 1997
Vol. 3, No. 40

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ADOBE SYSTEMS INC.
Adobe, a software supplier based in San Jose, Calif., has announced that Adobe PageMaker 6.5 now supports placed PDF, permitting the inputting of pages in the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) as artwork in PageMaker documents. With PDF, customers can use artwork from multiple sources and reuse items regardless of their origin.

Adobe is on the World-Wide Web at http://www.adobe.com.

ADVANCE INTERNET
Advance Internet, a new media company which maintains web sites in conjunction with New Jersey-based Advance Publications' newspaper group, has announced an alliance with TV Guide Online giving five Advance Internet sites access to TV Guide listings.

Users of New Jersey Online (http://www.nj.com/), Oregon Live (http://www.orgeonlive.com/), Cleveland Live (http://www.cleveland.com/), Michigan Live (http://www.mlive.com/), Alabama Live (http://www.al.com/) and all future Advance Internet sites will have access to TV Guide Online's listings, which will be localized to the channels available in their areas.

This is the first time TV Guide Online listings have been made available to local, newspaper-affiliated web sites. Each site will frame the TV Guide Online listings pages; TV Guide Online will sell ad space inside its frame while the local site will sell space in its frame.

APPLE COMPUTER INC.
Apple, a software and hardware supplier based in Cupertino, Calif., has introduced ColorSync 2.5, the latest version of its color management software for the Mac OS. New capabilities include the Monitor Calibration Framework, multi-processor support and the integration of ColorSync with AppleScript.

The Monitor Calibration Framework will allow third-party developers to have their own monitor calibration software recognized by the Mac OS monitors and sounds control panels. Apple will provide a default monitor calibration tool which will enable users to calibrate and profile their monitors.

With multi-processor support, ColorSync will optimize the speed of color conversions, minimizing delays inherent in working with large image files. ColorSync support of AppleScript will enable users to automate repetitive tasks associated with color management. Common operations such as matching, proofing and embedding can take place in the background.

Apple is on the Web at http://colorsync.apple.com/.

AUTOLOGIC INFORMATION INTERNATIONAL INC.
AII, an output device manufacturer based in Thousand Oaks, Calif., has announced results of operations for the third quarter and nine months of 1997 compared with the same periods last year.

Revenue for the quarter ended Aug. 1, 1997, was $22.3 million, up from $21.5 million for the same period in 1996, while net income was $825,000, up from a $678,000 loss in 1996.

Revenue for the nine months ended Aug. 1, 1997, was $60.3 million, down from $63.8 million in the same period in 1996. Net income for the period was $538,000, as opposed to a net loss of $3.5 million in the previous year.

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

CE ENGINEERING PUBLISHING SYSTEMS INC.
CE Engineering, a publishing systems software provider based in Loomis, Calif., has announced that the HOUSTON CHRONICLE has signed a site license agreement for 180 units of the LAN version of Decade 97. The Texas paper also will be upgrading its 52 copies of Decade 33.

The CHRONICLE also opted to sign a Decade Software Support Agreement separately to support its users and technical staff.

CE is on the Web at http://ceengineering.com/.

FUTURETENSE INC.
Acton, Mass.-based FutureTense has introduced the FutureTense Internet Publishing System (IPS), an integrated Internet publishing environment. IPS is designed to meet the needs of professional publishers by offering multiple delivery mechanisms, revision capabilities for templates and their content, and layout and typographic quality comparable to print.

Key features include the FutureTense Designer, whose point-and-click interface allows designers to lay out documents and specify content without resorting to a programming language; the FutureTense Project Management System, which provides version control while working on site development and production, and the FutureTense Premium Viewer, a Java-based component designed to work with an Internet browser for subscription and advertising services.

Pricing begins at $3995 per seat. IPS will be shipped Nov. 30. FutureTense is on the Web at http://www.futuretense.com/.

NEWSINC.
The telephone operator still has a major role to play at America's newspapers, a survey by NEWSINC. has found. Most papers elect to have people answer their main line, rather than use automated answering systems, Senior Editor Pete Wetmore reports.

This issue of NEWSINC., the newsletter of the business of the newspaper business, also reports on the debut of a cable television program featuring the staff of the PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS; a pressroom shutdown at the UNION LEADER of Manchester, N.H.; the perspectives of three marketing managers on the state of newspaper promotion, and how the industry is looking at itself closely in a philosophical mirror.

For more about the Sept. 29 issue of NEWSINC., visit The Cole Group on the Web at http://colegroup.com/.

QUARK INC.
Denver-based Quark, a supplier of desktop publishing software, has announced that it has formed a strategic partnership with Digital Equipment Corp., a hardware and software supplier based in Merrimack, N.H. Quark will port Quark XPress 4.0 to Digital's Alpha NT workstations.

The announcement was made at Seybold San Francisco, the annual fall conference and trade show. Both companies plan to provide new products under their alliance no later than the first quarter of 1998.

Quark also announced that it is preparing to deliver both the English and multilingual Passport versions of Quark XPress 4.0 to distributors in 30 to 60 days.

And Quark announced it will provide PDF import and export filters for XPress after version 4.0 ships later this year. The XTensions technology will allow users to import a PDF page into an XPress document, and export an XPress page as a PDF file.

Quark is on the Web at http://www.quark.com/.

SOURCE MEDIA INC.
Dallas-based Source Media has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase certain electronic publishing assets of Brite Voice Systems Inc. of Wichita, Kan., for $35 million in cash. The acquisition, which has been approved by the boards of directors of both companies, is conditioned upon Source Media obtaining the necessary capital markets financing to complete the transaction and other customary conditions.

The transaction is expected to be completed by the end of November. The Brite business being purchased includes existing contracts for system management, audio network, advertising sales and advertiser support.

SYSTEM INTEGRATORS INC.
Sacramento, Calif.-based SII, a supplier of publishing systems, has announced that a record 10 systems were sold in September, contributing to closing out fiscal 1997 as a growth year, SII's first in three years.

Newspapers purchasing the new systems include the Gannett Co. Inc. (Detroit Newspapers Inc., FORT MYERS NEWS-PRESS, SIOUX FALLS ARGUS-LEADER); the San Francisco Newspaper Agency, publisher of the CHRONICLE and EXAMINER; MILWAUKEE JOURNAL AND SENTINEL, and the FINANCIAL TIMES of London. These are in addition to earlier 1997 system sales to the SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, TAMPA TRIBUNE, THE SUN of Baltimore, IRISH INDEPENDENT of Ireland, NDU of the Netherlands, and MA'ARIV in Israel.

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

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