COLE'S NEWSWIRE, May 5, 1999

May 5, 1999
Vol. 5, No. 18

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ADOBE SYSTEMS INC.
San Jose-based Adobe has released the latest version of its font management utility for the Macintosh, Adobe Type Manager. ATM Deluxe 4.5 will support Adobe InDesign, the new page layout application to be released this summer.

ATM Deluxe 4.5, available for on-line purchase at http://www.adobe.com/type), is priced at $69.95. Registered users of previous versions may buy an upgrade for $49.95.

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

CE ENGINEERING PUBLISHING SYSTEMS INC.
CE, a publishing solutions provider based in Loomis, Calif., has announced the recent sale of its tear sheet and archiving service to the 542,000-circulation HOUSTON CHRONICLE. CE will archive and store on CD-ROM content from the CHRONICLE, as well as send electronic tear sheets to advertisers.

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

THE COLE PAPERS
Autopilot: Taking a lap around the track with new portable reporting computers. The Tandy Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 100 set the pace in the '80s, and as the millennium nears, newspaper technologists still are trying to find something as easy and efficient to use.

COLE PAPERS Editor & Publisher David M. Cole suggests using a configuration of the Palm Pilot that includes a keyboard and modem, while inside the May issue of THE COLE PAPERS, Correspondent Steven E. Brier explores how newspapers are solving this key problem -- and finds the Model 100 is still with us.

Also inside, Senior Editor Pete Wetmore ventures into southern Indiana, to report how the EVANSVILLE COURIER & PRESS relies on Quark Publishing System to get its pages out the door daily. And Correspondent Marion J. Love pursues digital asset management, a trendy term with a growing following and panoply of products, while Correspondent L. Carol Christopher reviews the updated state of report generators, which add value and analysis as they crunch long-familiar numbers.

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

FUTURETENSE INC.
FutureTense, a supplier of web publishing tools based in Acton, Mass., has announced that the Law News Network, a unit of American Lawyer Media of New York, has selected FutureTense's IPS Xcelerate to manage daily news and ad production on its site, http://www.lawnewsnetwork.com/.

Feeding the site are 21 national and regional publications, including AMERICAN LAWYER and NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL. Xcelerate will handle input from multiple locations while managing real time publication on the Web.

FutureTense is on the Web at http://www.futuretense.com/.

INTERVOICE INC.
InterVoice, a Dallas-based supplier of call center automation tools, has announced that it will acquire all the stock of Brite Voice Systems Inc. of Wichita, Kan., then merge the two companies into InterVoice-Brite, which will be based in Dallas.

Brite has sold audiotext systems to the newspaper publishing industry since 1984. The deal is estimated to be worth $164.4 million

InterVoice is on the Web at http://www.intervoice.com/. Brite is at http://www.brite.com/.

MONOTYPE SYSTEMS INC.
Monotype, a production systems and device supplier based in Rolling Meadows, Ill., has introduced two new products.

Metropolis is a digital assets management product designed to order and track ads and their elements -- as well as graphics -- in a standard database with interfaces to such common ad production applications as Adobe InDesign and Multi-Ad Creator.

PrintExpress 2000, which Monotype showed privately at America East in March, uses a Sun Enterprise server to step up handling of multiple functions performed by Monotype software products.

Monotype is on the Web at http://www.monoexpress.com/.

O'REILLY AND ASSOCIATES
O'Reilly, the publisher of the series of technical guides called IN A NUTSHELL which is based in Sebastopol, Calif., has released the second edition of PHOTOSHOP IN A NUTSHELL.

The guide to Adobe Photoshop 5.0 explains such new features as the history palette, editable text layers and color management support. It provides a step-by-step guide to using Photoshop, including common uses and misuses of the application's capabilities.

O'Reilly is on the Web at http://www.oreilly.com/.

REED TECHNOLOGY
Reed, a provider of information management solutions based in Horsham, Pa., has announced that its NewsView 2000 product, a digital asset management product developed by Tribune Solutions of Salt Lake City, will adopt as its core data structure the pending update to the News Industry Text Format (NITF) standard for tagging and exchanging information in many media.

Developed by several cooperating industry standards groups; the new version was endorsed recently by four key news industry groups and providers. More about NITF and the update are available from the Reston, Va.-based American Press Institute's Media Center at http://www.mediacenter.org/inter.htm .

Reed is on the Web at http://www.reedtech.com/.

SOCIETY FOR NEWS DESIGN
SND, a professional association of media news designers based in Providence, R.I., has introduced a workbook designed to walk a newspaper's staff through the process of installing or upgrading a pagination system.

The 120-page, soft-cover volume, TECHNOLOGY AND PAGINATION: INTEGRATING THE NEW INTO THE NEWSROOM, was produced by SND and the American Society of Newspaper editors. It guides editors and others through the process of integrating workflows for pagination, including how to choose, purchase and integrate new devices and procedures into the newsroom.

Contributors included Ed Pieratt, director of technology of Cincinnati-based E.W. Scripps Co.; Brad Guigar, a graphic artists with the PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS; Anne Saul, news systems editor of Gannett Co. Inc. of Arlington, Va., and David M. Cole, editor and publisher of THE COLE PAPERS, NEWSINC. and their associated newswires.

Copies may be ordered from SND, which is on the Web at http://www.snd.org/.

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