The Seybold Report on Desktop Publishing articles from June 1996

The Seybold Report on Desktop Publishing archives from June 1996

For your calendar .... (networking trade shows and conferences) (News Briefs)
June 10, 1996... DCI is sponsoring these seminars: * Creating an Effective World Wide Web Presence: June 24-25, Boston (MA). * Conducting Business Securely on the Internet: June 26-27, Boston. * Groupware and Intranets: July 15-16, Washington (DC)....

Bringing method to the madness: the W3C and HTML. (World Wide Web Consortium; HTML 3.2) (fifth annual WWW conference) (includes related article on Web browsers) (Industry Trend or Event)
June 10, 1996... YOU WOULD expect that the academic conference dedicated to the evolution and future of the Web would be a tangled forest of rampant innovation, incredible claims and diligent standard makers in hot pursuit of interoperability. The fifth WWW...

WebCompass takes Web searching in the right direction. (Quarterdeck's WebCompass Professional Web browser)(Product Announcement)
June 10, 1996... THE WORLD WIDE WEB is a wonderfully frustrating information resource. Whether you are looking for the latest weather report, a biography of a historical figure or the specs of a vendor's latest product, you can find it on the Web-if you know...

Excalibur's RetrievalWare looks for patterns and meanings. (Excalibur Technologies Web server software)(Product Announcement)
June 10, 1996... PERHAPS YOU remember the song lyric, "One fist of iron, the other of steel, if the right one don't get ya then the left one will"? That's one way to look at the rationale behind the corporate merger last July between Excalibur Technologies and...

Java at age one: a status report. (Technology Information)
June 10, 1996... JUST OVER A year ago, Sun announced that it had developed a new programming language called Java. There are plenty of languages around, but this one was different: It was designed from the ground up to be used over the Internet. That meant that...

Heavyweights push digital photography for consumers. (FlashPix architecture)(Latest Word) (Technology Information)
June 10, 1996... Kodak FlashPix standard endorsed by Microsoft, HP, Live Picture A coalition of vendors, led by Kodak, Live Picture, Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft, announced a new imaging architecture last week at Comdex. Called FlashPix, the architecture is...

Kodak enhances Photo CD.(Latest Word) (Product Development)
June 10, 1996... Stores CMYK TIFF/IT files, raises quality, enables viewing on Web In addition to the consumer-oriented products and strategies it announced at Comdex (see separate story), Kodak also introduced a series of refinements to its Photo CD system...

Kodak launches DC 20 'point and shoot' digital camera.(Latest Word)(Product Announcement)
June 10, 1996... Targets personal creativity at home, sharing pix online At Comdex last week, Kodak unveiled the latest in its broad line of digital camera offerings-this one aimed squarely at the home computer user. The Kodak Digital Science DC 20 camera is...

Tumbleweed makes plug-in connections. (improves Envoy connectivity)(Latest Word) (Product Development)
June 10, 1996... Adds Netscape LiveConnect and Microsoft ActiveX support to Envoy Tumbleweed Software announced last week at Comdex that its Envoy viewer now supports Netscape's LiveConnect and Microsoft's ActiveX architectures. The versions extend the...

Network computers: vendors rally behind anti-Microsoft alliance. (NC Reference Profile 1)(Latest Word) (Company Business and Marketing)
June 10, 1996... Proposed standard gains support from more than 70 firms Oracle's brash claim that it will challenge Microsoft's operating-system dominance by introducing network computers became much more credible last month when Apple, IBM and Netscape...

DiamondSoft manages Mac fonts as a database. (Font Reserve)(Latest Word)(Product Announcement)
June 10, 1996... Automates and streamlines functions Dealing with fonts has been one of the most traumatic issues facing publishers as we make the transition to all-digital publishing. There have been problems with diverse font formats, compatibility issues...

Lack of focus and funds foils publishing group. (Worldwide Publishing Consortium)(Latest Word) (Industry Trend or Event)
June 10, 1996... Legal morass entangles McIlroy, Apple It began as a noble idea. Create an independent organization of publishers and vendors that would serve as a forum for its members to exchange ideas and problems concerning all technological aspects of...

What's brewing in Tokyo. (Internet access at Tokyo coffee houses)(Latest Word) (Industry Trend or Event)
June 10, 1996... Screen's Internet cafe mixes coffee with digital services Freshly brewed coffee in a nice cafe can be a very expensive proposition in Japan. A cup for less than two dollars is thus a bargain here-and it is also something of a novelty when...

3M to sell WAM Net services. (from NetCo Communications)(Briefly ...) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 10, 1996... 3M Printing and Publishing Division (soon to be part of the new, independent 3M spin-off company called Imation) has announced an agreement to resell to its customers the WAM Net digital delivery service from NetCo Communications. WAM Net,...

Helios updates ColorSync Xtension. (version 1.1)(Briefly ...)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
June 10, 1996... Helios Software has released version 1.1 of its ColorSync 2 Xtension for Power Macintosh computers. Priced at $498, the new version provides many new features, including support for color management of TIFF images within Xpress documents;...

Pinnacle delivers 10x CD-ROM. (10Xtreme drive)(Briefly ...)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
June 10, 1996... The speed of CD-ROM drives keeps ratcheting up. Pinnacle Micro recently introduced the first 10x CD-ROM drive, which transfers data at 1.5 MB per second, ten times the rate of the first generation of drives introduced a decade ago. With the 10x...

I/Pro compares site performance. (Internet Profiles Corp)(Briefly ...) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 10, 1996... Need to know how your Web-site traffic stacks up against the competition? Internet Profiles Corp. (I/Pro), which specializes in services and software for collecting traffic statistics, has launched I/Pro Research, a service comparing log...

IBM picks PLS. (Personal Library Software to serve as search engine on IBM InfoMarket)(Briefly ...) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 10, 1996... IBM has selected PLS (Personal Library Software) to provide the search engine for its IBM InfoMarket online service. In addition, PLS has developed an interface that enables anyone using its Web search server to sell content through IBM...

ACI launches 4D developer kit. (4D Web SmartServer)(Briefly ...)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
June 10, 1996... ACIUS is offering a toolkit for Internet and intranet development for the 4D database environment. Called 4D Web SmartServer, it consists of six components covering three main areas: Creation of dynamic Web pages that are customized for the...

O'Reilly restructures pricing. (WebSite Professional price reduced)(Briefly ...) (Product Information)(Brief Article)
June 10, 1996... Reilly & Associates has restructured the pricing of its line of Web-building products. Of greatest note, perhaps, is that a reduced-function version of its WebSite 1.1 server product is now available free by downloading over the Internet. With...

Blue Sky bundles author's tools. (Web Office)(Briefly ...)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
June 10, 1996... Blue Sky Software, a provider of Hypertext authoring tools, is offering a new bundle of tools for authoring and publishing on intranets or the World Wide Web. Called Web Office, it includes Web Doctor, Hotspot Studio, HTML Tool Kit,...

Learning Java. (books on Java programming) (Technology Information)
June 10, 1996... * Essential Java, by Jason J. Manger; McGraw-Hill, 364 pp., $40. * Java Programming Explorer, by Neil Bartlett, Alex Leslie and Steve Simkin; Coriolis Group Books, 820 pp., $40. * Java Unleashed, by Michael Morrison et al.; Sams.net...

CGI Programming on the World Wide Web.
June 10, 1996... CGI Programming on the World Wide Web, by Shishir Gundavaram; O'Reilly & Associates, 433 pp., $30. Perl has become a popular language for writing CGIs, the external programs that give any Web server its interactive features. The language has...

Adobe buys Ares, ready to update ATM.(The Latest Word) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 10, 1996... ATM Deluxe 4.0 version to support TrueType and Type 1 fonts There was more action on the font front this month with the announcement by Adobe Systems that it has completed its acquisition of Ares Software and that it plans to release a new...

Fractal completes Ray Dream deal. (Fractal Design)(The Latest Word) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 10, 1996... Fractal Design has completed its acquisition of Ray Dream, supplier of 3D illustration and animation technology. In the deal, Fractal exchanged 3.25 million, for Ray Dream. Fractal and Ray Dream had revenues of $21.8 million and $9 million...