The Seybold Report on Internet Publishing articles from May 1997

The Seybold Report on Internet Publishing archives from May 1997

Seybold Seminars '97: getting down to brass tacks. (includes related article on Adobe's PostScript3) (Industry Trend or Event)
May 1, 1997... Curiosity, anxiety and greed have given way to stark reality. The intense interest in and enthusiasm for the Web exhibited at the past two spring Seybold Seminars waned this year, as the novelty wore off and reality set in. The thrill of...

Can Apple survive? (Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 1997... These days, there aren't many industry conferences where such a question would even be asked, so low have Apple's fortunes fallen. Several pc makers have announced that they see themselves as the logical successor to Apple in the graphic arts...

Microsoft makes a better showing. (Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 1997... Microsoft has a history of being a major presence at Seybold Seminars, but the company's showing in New York was one of its more memorable appearances. Microsoft's color management and typography announcements made a lasting impression, and the...

The word on push: wait. (push technology) (Technology Information)
May 1, 1997... In spite of all the hoopla "push" technology has generated lately, it played a relatively small role at Seybold Seminars '97 and was virtually absent from the exposition floor. In the conference several speakers outlined the reasons why...

Web authoring and conversion tools. (six web authoring software tools and Inso's Outside in HTML Export, file format conversion software)(Product Announcement)
May 1, 1997... This year's expo was not, for the most part, a hotbed for new Web authoring tools. Most of the biggest vendors, including Microsoft, Adobe and Macromedia, chose to focus on other products, while others, such as Netscape, Claris and DeltaPoint,...

Web site management. (Inso's DynaBase 2, Web authoring software; Vignette's StoryServer, Internet/Web server software)(Product Announcement)
May 1, 1997... Seybold Seminars '97 was a lull before a storm. There really wasn't much in the way of news relating to Web site management, in contrast with the past two years, when link checkers and site managers seemed to be cropping up all over the place....

Portable pages: there's still a role for digital paper. (five portable document software products; Tumbleweed Software's Posta, file transfer software)(Product Announcement)
May 1, 1997... You'd think that with the world supposedly moving en masse to the World Wide Web for electronic document delivery, the need for "portable paper" would be declining. You would be wrong. The Web is a boon to digital document delivery, and...

SGML and the Web. (Agave Software Design's SQml-CGI database middleware, Inso's DynaWeb 3.1 Internet/Web server software and SoftQuad's Panorama Publisher document management software)(Product Announcement)
May 1, 1997... For those who have encoded their text in SGML the Web remains an economical outputmedium. New York was our first opportunityto see Agave, which marries SGML to relational databases. We also looked at new versions of two different, and...

Xpress 4.0: are 75 features enough? (Quark's DTP software)(Product Announcement)
May 1, 1997... AT THE SEYBOLD Seminars exhibition in New York on April 23, Quark finally laid out the details of features included in Xpress 4.0, its top-selling software for page layout and design. It contains 75 new features, among which are extensive...

Microsoft licenses Linotype-Hell CMS. (includes related article on Microsoft's Web site about color management for Windows) (Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 1997... Following through on promises it made a long time ago, Microsoft has finally gotten serious about color management, licensing Linotype-Hell's Color Management Module (CMM) for use in the Windows 95 and NT operating systems. Separately, in a...

Quark acquires MFactory tool firm. (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 1, 1997... Quark and MFactory have announced the signing of an agreement under which a Quark-affiliated company will purchase the assets of MFactory, pending approval of MFactory shareholders. MFactory is best known for its MTropolis multimedia...

Seybold debuts tools for handling graphics. (graphics/imaging utility, paint software, image processing software, font management software, draw software and multimedia authoring software)(Product Announcement)
May 1, 1997... YOU MIGHT THINK that, once a software program has become an industry standard, there's little that other developers can do to compete with it. In the case of Photoshop, for example, few other applications offer the functionality necessary for...

Extensis's Portfolio to replace Fetch. (Extensis' Portfolio 2.0 image browser, Mask Pro graphics/imaging utility and Intellihance color processing software)(Product Announcement)
May 1, 1997... Extensis is about to release Portfolio 2.0, a renamed and updated version of the Fetch database that the company acquired from Adobe (which had acquired it from Aldus, which had acquired it from Multi-Ad Services). The updated software, which...

Canto Cumulus 3.0 supports TCP/IP, NT. (Cumulus 3.0 XP image browser)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
May 1, 1997... Canto has upgraded its popular Cumulus Media Management System, adding support for TCP/IP and NT. The new version, called 3.0 XP, debuted at the Seybold Seminars expo in New York. It was shown linking Mac and Windows clients and servers...

PaceWorks updates ObjectDancer. (ObjectDancer 1.1 animation program)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
May 1, 1997... PaceWorks has announced version 1.1 of its ObjectDancer animation program. It features improved antialiasing, alpha-channel support for faster rendering and enhanced output, subpixel sampling for smoother animations and field (interlaced)...

JStream shows WiredWrite: Java document publisher.(Product Announcement)
May 1, 1997... In recent weeks JStream has begun to publicly demonstrate WiredWrite, a new Macintosh program that takes rtf and FrameMaker documents and renders them in a Java viewer. The product presents an interesting alternative to Acrobat and other...

Netscape Netcaster: the push is on. (Netscape Communications' Internet/Web server, component of the Communicator suite)(Product Announcement)
May 1, 1997... Netscape Communications officially launched Netcaster, previously code-named Constellation. Netcaster is the component of Netscape's Communicator suite that will implement push technology and create a browser-based user interface or "webtop."...

VeriSign enhances digital IDs, insures users against loss. (NetSure Protection Plan) (Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 1997... VeriSign, a leading issuer of digital certificates to consumers and online businesses, is ready to put some hard cash behind the security of its digital ids. The company also is beefing up the ids themselves, giving them the ability to provide...

Grif commits to XML editing tool. (Grif SA) (Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 1997... Cadmus to help define a product for STM publishing While we wait for Microsoft and Netscape to implement xml in their browsers, Grif has stepped forward as the first vendor to commit to developing an xml authoring tool. It will be receiving...

Xerox enters intranet document management with DocuShare. (Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 1997... Basic functionality at a discount price Just when we thought Lotus was defining the new low end of document management with Domino.doc, Xerox enters the picture with an even less advanced product. DocuShare, unveiled at the AIIM show, is an...

Keychain, KLEbox sell digital docs. (Magnetic Press's technology for electronic commerce) (Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 1997... Pdf's gradual ascendancy as a format for electronic distribution has received a boost from Magnetic Press. In the Adobe Developers' Pavilion at Seybold Seminars, Magnetic Press showed two products that combine to allow easy purchases of digital...

HP buys Verifone, teams with Microsoft on e-commerce. (Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 1997... Deal provides end-to-end toolkit for Web merchants Within two weeks, Hewlett-Packard acquired electronic commerce leader Verifone and announced an alliance with Microsoft to provide solutions for banks, merchants and customers. Verifone,...

Linking and accessibility on the agenda at the WWW6 Conference. (Sixth International World Wide Web conference, 1997) (Technology Information)
May 1, 1997... As expected, the W3C unveiled a new spec for hyperlinking at the Sixth International World Wide Web conference held last month in Santa Clara, CA. If adopted, the draft spec, which makes use of the open tagging conventions of the Extensible...