The Seybold Report on Internet Publishing articles from April 1999

The Seybold Report on Internet Publishing archives from April 1999

SS Boston '99: Fireworks in Beantown.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 1, 1999... THE CLASH BETWEEN the visions and products of Adobe and Quark took center stage at spring Seybold Seminars, with professional publishers reveling in the latest competition for their business and loyalty. 'In'vigorated Adobe Steals the...

A second take on Acrobat 4.(Product Information)
April 1, 1999... To the Editor: Reading your review of Acrobat 4 (Vol. 3, No. 6, March 1999), I noticed some inaccuracies: * Page cropping is not a new tool in Acrobat 4. It wasn't represented by a scaleograph icon, but the functionality was there in...

Publishing '99: Adobe-Quark Showdown Lights Up Seybold Seminars in Boston.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 1, 1999... Without question, the highlight of this year's spring Seybold Seminars was the showdown between Adobe and Quark that took place on successive mornings midway through the week-long event. After the drama last fall, when Quark sparked...

Adobe and Quark Square Off in Boston.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 1, 1999... At this year's Seybold Seminars Boston keynote, Adobe founders John Warnock and Charles Geschke had a secret to share. InDesign, the company's long-awaited page layout software, was hyped for months as the "Quark Killer," a weapon that would...

Quark's Troika of Web Products.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 1, 1999... In a sweeping corporate effort to diversify its product line and branch out into new vertical markets, Quark has embarked on several major development efforts, including one for catalogs, one for packaging and one aimed squarely at Web...

Web Publishing Systems.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 1, 1999... The market for Web publishing systems is growing into a complicated market space, with overlapping products running the gamut from add-ons to authoring tools all the way up to enterprise-level systems. Several leading vendors showed their...

PDF-Related Systems.(DigiDox becomes AudienceOne, Gyphica announces PortalWare)(Product Information)
April 1, 1999... As a follow up to last month's review of Acrobat 4, there were two new Web publishing systems in the Adobe Partner Pavilion in Boston that are specifically designed with Acrobat in mind. DigiDox reborn as AudienceOne One of the...

PMA Las Vegas: Two Million Pixels-and Counting?(Photo Marketing Association's trade show)(Industry Trend or Event)
April 1, 1999... The annual Photo Marketing Association's trade show, along with Photokina, has become a bellwether for tracking the progress of digital photography. Analyst John Henshall reviews the latest changes introduced in February in New Orleans. ...

Lotus Notes as a Web-Publishing Platform: Will Release 5 Change Things?(Software Review)(Evaluation)
April 1, 1999... When the Web took hold several years ago, many predicted the death of Lotus Notes, the original "groupware" database. But Lotus, under the wing of its new parent, IBM, has not only survived, it has managed to thrive, despite dragging its...

In the Field.(publishers using Lotus Notes/Domino)(Product Information)
April 1, 1999... In preparing this article we found two publishers with existing Domino/Notes implementations that eagerly anticipate Release 5: Reader's Digest and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Global reach at Reader's Digest. Reader's Digest uses Notes...

Interactive Newspapers: Making Strides in Personalization, Marketing, Shopping Techniques.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 1, 1999... As making a newspaper's content available online becomes commonplace, attention is turning toward the next step: personalizing the content and improving the way we measure the effectiveness of that content. We report on a few of the latest...

Microsoft, Netscape, vendor consortia announce XML e-commerce strategies: Microsoft muscles on to an awfully crowded bandwagon.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 1, 1999... Recent announcements from vendors large and small point to the inevitable rise of XML and industry-specific DTDs as the enabling tools for the next generation of Web automation, from content exchange to e-commerce. But while XML provides...

NetLibrary brings e-books to the wired campus: Web-based service offers online reference books; library consortia and scholarly publishers sign on.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 1, 1999... With e-books now arriving in bookstores in the U.S., it was only a matter of time before someone decided to implement a Web-based repository of digital books for libraries. And so it is that netLibrary Inc. has launched netLibrary.com, a...

J-Stream opens its storefront for selling e-books on the Web : But retail distribution still lacking.(Company Business and Marketing)
April 1, 1999... J-Stream, originally a vendor of Java-based technology for securing and viewing electronic documents, announced that it will open an electronic storefront to distribute electronic books on the Web (www.electrobooks.com). Titles downloaded...

Perspecta matures its perspective : XML in and out, automated tagging and a canned userinterface help build Web-based self-service applications.(version 3.0)(Software Review)(Evaluation)
April 1, 1999... Last week Perspecta announced the third release of its conceptual navigation system, adding back-end tools that assist in structuring information; a server that builds multiple-perspective indexes; and a software developers' kit for building...

Interwoven adds in-context editing to TeamSite: Making editing easy for the technically challenged.(version 3.0)(Product Announcement)
April 1, 1999... Last month Interwoven announced version 3 of TeamSite, its high-end Web-production system aimed at collaborative Web teams. A key feature of Release 3 is Smartcontext Editing, an innovative interface that makes it easy for nontechnical staff...

CQ awards multimillion contract to RTIS : Unified data repository to feed both Web and print operations.(Congressional Quarterly, Reed Technology Information Services)(Company Business and Marketing)
April 1, 1999... Congressional Quarterly, a private publisher specializing in coverage of matters relating to the U.S. Congress, recently awarded a $2.3 million contract to Reed Technology Information Services (www.reedtech.com) to create a unified...

Deneba introduces Internet Graphics Server : Deploys images through a browser without downloads.(Product Announcement)
April 1, 1999... Deneba has made its first major attempt to move up in the market by announcing the Deneba Internet Graphics Server (DIGS). The product is a single-processor Windows NT 4.0 server that can be accessed through a standard Web browser and is...

Authentica previews protection for Acrobat documents.(PageVault)(Product Announcement)
April 1, 1999... At Seybold Seminars last month Authentica gave attenders a preview of its PageVault content-protection plug-in for Acrobat Exchange 3.01. PageVault provides persistent protection for PdF documents down to the page level. Future versions will...

Microsoft invests in rights management : Three small vendors get support from Redmond; Rights Exchange also changes its name.(Thingworld.com, Audible, Reciprocal)(Company Business and Marketing)
April 1, 1999... A series of recent separate investments by Microsoft underscore the company's continued interest in rights-management technology, which should benefit publishers looking to sell content over the Internet. Things are up at Thingworld....

XTech '99: Mainstream Vendors Join the Rugged Frontier.(Industry Trend or Event)
April 1, 1999... It would be difficult, nay impossible, to reproduce the exhilaration of XML conferences of days past: there will only be one breakthrough year, there will be only one year when the big computer firm in Redmond endorses XML. In the first year...