COLE'S NEWSWIRE, May 13, 1998

May 13, 1998
Vol. 4, No. 19

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ADOBE SYSTEMS INC.
Adobe, a desktop publishing software supplier based in San Jose, Calif., has announced it has begun shipping Photoshop 5.0, which features multiple undo, editable text and enhanced color management controls.

The English-language version, for both Windows and Macintosh, is available now. Also due out shortly are versions in French, German and Japanese. The street price for 5.0 is $649; an upgrade is priced at $199.

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

BLUE SKY RESEARCH
Blue Sky, a Quark XPress XTensions developer based in Portland, Ore., has introduced MathSet 1.0, an XTension that will typeset complex mathematical computations within a Quark document. A click of the mouse and copy entered in normal text mode is automatically formatted as a mathematical equation.

The product has two components, MathSet, the user interface into XPress, and MathSetter, a software engine that typesets the computation using instructions delivered via AppleScript macros.

The Mac-based products cost $495 for MathSetter and $295 for MathSet.

Blue Sky is on the Web at http://www.bluesky.com/.

EXTENSIS CORP.
Extensis, a supplier of photo-manipulation software based in Portland, Ore., has introduced PhotoFrame 1.0, a plug-in for Adobe Photoshop that enables a user to attach a border to any image in Photoshop. PhotoFrame includes a palette of border designs, some of them hand painted, from which a user may pick a border, then alter it with blur, color and opacity controls.

Two collections are available -- one of painted borders, the other of digitally-created images -- for $129.95 each or $199.95 for both.

Extensis is on the Web at http://www.products.extensis.com/.

NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
The NAA, a professional society based in Vienna, Va., has opened a site on the World-Wide Web devoted to NEXPO '98, the NAA's annual technical conference and trade show which will be June 20-23 in the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla.

The site, http://www.nexpo.com/, provides information about the conference program, suppliers who plan to exhibit at the show, accommodations and special events tied to NEXPO '98. The site also provides on-line registration, and in early June will have a full list of exhibitors.

The NAA is on the Web at http://www.naa.org/.

NEWSINC.
Skipping good industry news, the focus is on the pending move of Knight Ridder from Miami to Silicon Valley. In his cover essay on the May 11 issue, NEWSINC. Editor and Publisher David M. Cole finds the Knight Ridder plan signals a significant change, one that portends that web sites, not web presses, hold the key to the newspaper industry's future.

Also in the May 11 issue, Correspondent L. Carol Christopher explains the process followed in setting industry standards (it's not a pretty picture). Senior Editor Pete Wetmore sums up earnings reports and gets a roundup of opinion -- virtually all of it positive -- from analysts and newspaper executives.

Wetmore also takes the latest Audit Bureau of Circulations' FAS-FAX numbers for a coast-to-coast tour of notable increases and declines in circulation, with attention paid to numerous Sunday slides.

For more about the May 11 issue of NEWSINC., visit The Cole Group on the Web at http://colegroup.com/.

MACROBYTE RESOURCES
Macrobyte, a Quark XPress XTensions developer based in Stonington, Conn., has introduced an enhanced version of PrePress AutoTools, an XTension to UserLand Frontier 5 for batch-processing XPress files.

AutoTools can be used to create PostScript files from XPress files, perform pre-flight checking on files (especially for problems with spot colors) and correct errors, and set up hot folders that will be monitored for new jobs to be processed. AutoTools also may be used with AppleScript to automate tasks. AutoTools is compatible with XPress 4.0.

Macrobyte is on the Web at http://www.macrobyteresources.com/.

PUBLISHING BUSINESS SYSTEMS INC.
PBS, a newspaper business systems supplier based in Des Plaines, Ill., has announced recent sales of its MediaPlus line of products, which provide tools for advertising and circulation management, among others.

The recent customers are the WASHINGTON (D.C.) TIMES (102k, morning); THE TIMES-MAIL (14k, evening) of Bedford, Ind.; THE HERALD-TIMES (30k, morning) of Bloomington, Ind.; MUNCIE (Ind.) STAR (36k, morning); ALEXANDRIA (La.) DAILY TOWN TALK (38k, morning); OAKLAND PRESS (82k, morning) of Pontiac, Mich.; Huckle Publishing of Faribault, Minn., publishers of the FARIBAULT DAILY NEWS (7k, morning); Sun Newspapers of Cleveland, a group of community publications; Times Publishing Co. of Erie, Pa., publishers of the MORNING NEWS (36k, morning) and ERIE DAILY TIMES (36k, evening); KINGSPORT (Tenn.) TIMES-NEWS (45k, all day); Community Newspapers of New Berlin, Wis., and THE SUN (38k, morning), Bremerton, Wash.

PBS is on the Web at http://www.pbs.com/.

SPLASH TECHNOLOGY INC.
Splash, a supplier of color servers based in New York, has introduced Version 3.0 of its Splash DC Series of short-run color printing on the Xerox DocuColor 40 digital color copier. The software runs faster than previous versions, includes support for Adobe PostScript 3 and features enhanced calibration features.

Splash also has introduced Version 6.0 of its PCI Series for the graphics arts industry, running on the Apple Macintosh G3 platform to a Xerox digital copier.

Splash is on the Web at http://www.splashtech.com/.

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