COLE'S NEWSWIRE, Aug. 4, 1999

Aug. 4, 1999
Vol. 5, No. 33

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ADHESIVE SOFTWARE INC.
Adhesive, a supplier of web publishing tools based in Austin, Texas, has announced the recent sale of its Newsflash publishing and site management product to the Tribune-Review Publishing Co. of Greensburg, Pa.

Newsflash will be used to manage the on-line sites of Tribune-Review's 10 daily and community newspapers in the Pittsburgh area. The company's primary site is http://www.pittsburghlive.com/. Installation is scheduled to be completed in September.

Adhesive is on the Web at http://www.adhesive.com/.

FOTOWARE
Fotoware A.S., a Norwegian image management software supplier, has announced recent sales to Star Publications and the 14,000-circulation UTUSAN MELAYU in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

The publishers bought Fotostation-Pro for remote image transmissions via FTP, FotoStation-ED for the photo desk, Index Manager for archiving images on NT server and jukeboxes, ColorFactory for ICC profiles-based calibrated conversion using of images from RGB to CYMK, and Fotoweb, web browser archive access.

Fotoware is on the Web at http://www.fotoware.com/.

KONICA IMAGING USA INC.
Konica, an imaging systems supplier based in Glen Cove, N.Y., has announced the recent installation of its newspaper proofing solution at six locations serving the DETROIT NEWS and DETROIT FREE PRESS.

The sale included two HP DesignJet proofers at each location, all of which are fed by a single RIP at the main production facility operated by the Detroit Newspaper Agency, which handles business and production matters for the two newspapers.

Konica is on the Web at http://www.konica.com/.

LANTANA RESEARCH SOFTWARE CORP.
Lantana, a supplier of PDF-based color production workflow solutions based in Fremont, Calif., has begun shipping Crackerjack version 3. The software, which can run on Mac and Windows workstations, now features output of separations to desktop printers, black text overprint, versions in four languages and improved crop and bleed support.

Lantana is on the Web at http://www.lantanarips.com/.

MULTI-AD SERVICES INC.
Multi-Ad, a supplier of display ad makeup tools based in Peoria, Ill., has begun shipping Creator2 version 1.5, which features tight integration with ColorSync 2.6. Version 1.5 includes support for full International Color Consortium (ICC) color profiles for color calibration and color matching for both vector and bitmap images.

Version 1.5 also provides for activating and deactivating fonts while an application is running and documents are open, as well as editing of elements in a window within a text flow without having to remove the elements from the text flow.

Multi-Ad is on the Web at http://www.creator2.com/.

NEWSINC.
Microsoft has rolled up its Sidewalk, but a threat to newspapers remains, writes NEWSINC. Editor-Publisher David M. Cole in the Aug. 2 issue. Cole recalls how the industry worried two years ago about the deep-pocketed software giant entering the city guides arena; now, the fear has subsided but the threat has new forms, Cole writes.

Inside, Correspondent Jay Small reports on Connections 99, the Newspaper Association of America's annual conference about new strategies and successes on-line. Also inside, Senior Editor Pete Wetmore rounds up second quarter earnings reports, reports on ABC's Reader Profile Service and the NAA's Newspaper Industry Communications Center, and talks with two economic forecasters about ad revenues for the remainder of 1999.

For more about the Aug. 4 issue of NEWSINC., visit The Cole Group on the Web at http://colegroup.com/.

SYSTEM INTEGRATORS INC.
Sacramento-based SII has announced the recent sale of its System/77 classified solution to the 196,000-circulation CINCINNATI ENQUIRER, the agent in a joint operating agreement for the 64,300-circulation evening CINCINNATI POST.

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

TRENDWATCH
TrendWatch, a monitor of trends in the graphic arts industry based in Harrisville, R.I., has canvassed the printing industry to find that a slight majority of creative professionals say they will at least test Adobe InDesign as a possible replacement for Quark XPress.

XPress users were asked, "If InDesign meets your needs, will you switch?" Seventy percent said either possibly or maybe, while 10 percent said definitely not, 12 percent said probably and eight percent said definitely yes.

TrendWatch is partnering with The Cole Group to produce the TrendWatch/Cole Group Newspapers surveys, a five-year research project to determine the buying trends in newspaper capital equipment and consumables.

More information on TrendWatch Newspapers is at http://colegroup.com/exlibris/trendwatch98.html; TrendWatch itself is on the Web at http://www.trendwatch.com/.

VIO WORLDWIDE LTD.
Vio, a global file transmission network serving the graphic arts industry from headquarters in Herts, United Kingdom, has launched its service in Japan. As one of the partners in Vio, Nihon Scitex Ltd., a unit of Scitex Ltd. of Israel, will manage sales operations for Vio and provide customer support.

Vio is on the Web at http://www.vio-dgn.com/.

VISUAL EDGE '99
The National Press Photographers Association, the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, the University of South Florida and the Digital Conference are sponsoring Visual Edge '99 Aug. 22-25 in St. Petersburg, Fla.

The meeting topic is, "The Year of the Digital Camera -- Can Your Workflow Handle It?" Sessions will cover digital cameras, on-line and multimedia, management, digital video and convergence and workflow. The workshop (a separate portion of the meeting which is limited to 40 participants) will allow photographers and designers to work with the latest digital imaging equipment and techniques.

Visual Edge is on the Web at http://www.visualedge.org/.

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