COLE'S NEWSWIRE, Oct. 13, 1999

Oct. 13, 1999
Vol. 5, No. 43

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ADOBE SYSTEMS INC.
Adobe, a desktop and pre-press publishing software supplier based in San Jose, has introduced Adobe InCopy 1.0, a writing and editing application made to order for InDesign page layout operations.

Designed to simplify writing and copy fitting for print publication, InCopy simplifies tracking copy changes, collaboration between editors and designers and sharing through the Internet and networks, by use of WebDAV server technology.

Using the same text composition in both InCopy and InDesign promises identical hyphenation and justification fits, the company said.

Adobe InCopy for Mac OS 8.5, Windows 98 and Windows NT 4.0 is expected to be available in Spring 2000.

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

ECRM
The Tewksbury, Mass.-based company introduced a new fully automatic, 120-plates-per-hour platesetter priced less than $100,000.

The Wildcat computer-to-plate (CTP) device will image more than 120 broadsheet newspaper plates per hour at 1000 dots per inch (dpi). The machine will offer resolutions of up to 2450 dpi and screen resolutions of up to 150 lines. Plates feed automatically in daylight environments via stand-alone 25-plate cassettes or an optional 400-plate loading system. The Wildcat uses standard plates ranging from 11-inches-by-19-inches to 24.3-inches-by-32.3-inches.

The company said the product will cost $99,500 and is available immediately.

ECRM also will introduce a CTP machine aimed at the commercial market, the Tigercat, which differs only in resolution and speed. The Tigercat's resolution can be set as high as 3556 dpi, producing 20 plates per hour. The pricing is the same as the Wildcat.

ECRM is on the Web at http://www.ecrm.com/.

E.W. SCRIPPS CO.
Pentawave Inc. of Scottsdale, Ariz., has announced that Cincinnati-based Scripps is making a $2 million investment in Pentawave, which provides cross-media software and services. (Pentawave formerly was known as Management Process Integrators.)

Pentawave will use the new capital to enhance products designed to serve media companies that want to automate production of advertising for such media as print, the Web, cable television and personal digital assistants. Pentawave also is seeking an additional $8 million to $10 million in capital.

Pentawave, which now supplies Scripps newspapers and television stations with software for publishing on the Web, is at http://www.pentawave.com/. Scripps is at http://www.scripps.com/.

FUTURETENSE INC.
FutureTense Inc., a supplier of web publishing tools based in Acton, Mass., has announced that its IPS Xcelerate product will be used by Media General Inc. of Richmond, Va., to manage and publish content on its network of web sites.

Media General will use Xcelerate at the TAMPA TRIBUNE to publish its newspaper site, http://www.tampatrib.com/ and its Florida weather site, http://www.weathercenter.com/.

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

GROUP WEST SYSTEMS CALIFORNIA
Group West, a software development company based in Auburn, Calif., has released NovaLink and NovaLink Express XML Engine for use with publishing systems from System Integrators Inc. of Sacramento.

NovaLink translates text and SII Styl markup into a standard Standard Graphics Markup Language (SGML) format, readable by Group West's Xtensible Markup Language (XML) conversion engine. The result is an XML document that can be processed by third-party applications, thus broadening the range of add-on applications available to SII customers.

NovaLink Express bridge is a two-way interface that passes and updates stories in an SII database with text changes made in third-party applications SII's database, such as Quark XPress, the layout program from Quark Inc. of Denver, Colo.

NovaLink and NovaLink Express, which were developed in conjunction with Global Digital Technologies Inc. of El Dorado Hills, Calif., will be demonstrated at the System Integrators User Group next week at the Raddison Hotel Universal in Orlando, Fla.

Group West Systems California, parent of AISI/Nova Publishing Products, can be found on the Web at http://www.novapub.com/. SII is on the Web at http://www.sii.com/.

HARRIS PUBLISHING SYSTEMS CORP.
The Melbourne, Fla.-based division of the international communications equipment company Harris Corp., has said that it has signed two original equipment manufacturer agreements to enhance its MAXWorkFlow output management product.

Harris and Harlequin Inc. of Cambridge, Mass., have agreed to integrate Harlequin's ScriptWorks Scalable Open Architecture Raster image processor (SOAR) into MAXWorkFlow.

Also, Harris and 5D Solutions Ltd. of the United Kingdom have agreed to use the 5D Jaws raster image processor technology in MAXWorkFlow.

MAXWorkFlow is a customizable, drag-and-drop output manager that has the Open Pre-press Interface (OPI) built into the raster image processor (RIP). The system has more than 20 different modules that do high-resolution output, proof, EPS and PDF optimization, down-sampling and the pre-flighting of multiple file formats, including PDF.

Harris on on the Web at http://www.harris.com/hpsc/; Harlequin is on the Web at http://www.harlequin.com/, and 5D is on the Web at http://www.five-d.com/.

UNISYS CORP.
Unisys, a publishing solutions supplier based in Blue Bell, Pa., has announced that it will redesign the editorial and pagination processes of the WALL STREET JOURNAL, flagship newspaper of Dow Jones & Co. of New York City.

In the "multimillion-dollar agreement," Unisys will upgrade the JOURNAL's editorial workflow, zoning and editions capability and web publishing functions. Phase I of the project has begun with installation of the Hermes editorial and pagination system and the WireCenter wire services management system on nearly 300 workstations at the JOURNAL's main newsroom in New York and at Dow Jones' South Brunswick, N.J., facility.

The Unisys systems will be powered by Sun Microsystems E6500 High Availability clusters, Windows NT clients and Oracle's Enterprise Edition software.

A technology supplier to Dow Jones for more than 20 years, Unisys said, it will replace the custom-developed Global News Management System.

Unisys is on the Web at http://www.unisys.com/.

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