The Seybold Report on Internet Publishing articles from September 1997

The Seybold Report on Internet Publishing archives from September 1997

Chroma Graphics offers Image Genetics technology. (Chromatica and MagicMask imaging software applications) (Product Development)
September 1, 1997... Chroma Graphics has created imaging software based on what it calls Image Genetics technology, or how the human eye sees and interprets color. It showed two products utilizing the technology at Print '97. Chroma Graphics holds multiple...

As we went to press.... (News Briefs)
September 1, 1997... DRP: Stuck at the gate. Marimba has proposed an extension of the HTTP protocol, called Distribution and Replication Protocol (DRP), that would replicate a hierarchical set of files to a large number of clients. The protocol would enable the...

XML leaders push forward at Montreal meeting. (Extensible Markup Language, XML Developers' Day)(includes related article on XML's glossary of acronyms) (Industry Trend or Event)
September 1, 1997... Interest in the Extensible Markup Language (XML) is still heating up. First, Microsoft announced a push channel based on XML syntax. Then, Netscape changed its apathetic stance and hired the standard's coeditor, Tim Bray, to represent the...

Roll over, Gutenberg: how the Web is changing printing. (includes related articles on innovative print-management software at Print '97 conference and on Dazel's Output Server and Express client-server applications and MetaWeb Internet/Web server software) (Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
September 1, 1997... Much has been said and written about the possible threat to print posed by electronic media, but, as firm believers in the value of print, we see a very different scenario-the Web is increasing demand for print, but it will have a profound...

FrontPage 98: ready for (almost) anything. (Microsoft's Web authoring tool)(The Latest Word) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
September 1, 1997... We'll say this for Microsoft-it cooks up a mean beta. FrontPage 98 is months from release, but it's surprisingly stable and full of new features. It's also proof that Redmond does respond to its users, if they make enough noise. FrontPage 98 is...

Freeway Web design tool looks right for designers. (SoftPress' Web-page design tool)(The Latest Word) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
September 1, 1997... There have been quite a few new WYSIWYG HTML editors over the past 12 months, all claiming to be the Holy Grail of Web design. Yet, many Web designers still fall back on their favorite ASCII text editors after a brief flirtation. Part of the...

Pictorius updates iNet Developer. (iNet Developer 2.0 Web authoring and dynamic publishing system)(The Latest Word) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
September 1, 1997... Pictorius has released version 2.0 of iNet Developer, a Web authoring and dynamic publishing system aimed mainly at corporate intranets. The updated version includes support for dynamic HTML and push technology, as well as improvements to the...

Zebra pushes content in a different way. (Zebra Pushware Solutions' InfoPager personal news delivery service)(The Latest Word) (Company Business and Marketing)
September 1, 1997... If you haven't heard enough about push technologies lately, Zebra Pushware Solutions has a new twist on them for you. Zebra's InfoPager personal news delivery software utilizes ASCII text to reduce download overhead associated with services...

Adobe, Quadralay improve HTML options for FrameMaker users. (Adobe Systems' FrameMaker 5.5 page makeup program, Quadralay's WebMaker Publisher Web authoring software)(The Latest Word) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
September 1, 1997... Users of Adobe's FrameMaker page makeup program should be pleased by the new release of FrameMaker 5.5, which upgrades and commercializes the HoTaMaLe plug-in for creating Web documents. Separately, Quadralay announced a new ver- sion of...

Quadralay continues to offer power FrameMaker users an alternative. (Quadralay's WebWorks Publisher Web authoring software, Adobe Systems' FrameMaker DTP application)(The Latest Word) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
September 1, 1997... FrameMaker users seeking a more powerful conversion tool than what Adobe provides in FrameMaker 5.5 should consider Quadralay's WebWorks Publisher, which was recently upgraded to version 3.5. The software, which costs $900 to $1,300, runs on...

W3C releases draft proposal for embedded Web fonts. (World Wide Web Consortium)(The Latest Word) (Industry Trend or Event)
September 1, 1997... The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has released a draft proposal for embed- ding and delivering fonts in Web pages. The proposal builds on the con- sortium's cascading style sheets standard, which gives Web authors the ability to define a...

Intel, SAP create Pandesic venture. (electronic commerce systems and services)(The Latest Word) (Company Business and Marketing)
September 1, 1997... Publishers looking for a commercial provider of electronic commerce systems and services will soon be hearing from a new player-Pandesic, a joint venture of Intel and SAP. Intel will provide the hardware for NT, SQL Server and Back- Office...

IntraNet Solutions adds resellers. (Intra.doc intranet document management software distribution)(The Latest Word) (Company Business and Marketing)
September 1, 1997... IntraNet Solutions, which unveiled its intranet document-management software in February, has completed installations at dozens of sites, released a new version and signed its first distributors, including some in Europe. Building...

Xara 3D: animated 3D headlines have never been so easy. (animation software)(The Latest Word) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
September 1, 1997... Impressive 3D rotating logos and headings no longer require a three-week retreat to a Trappist monastery with a Silicon Graphics O2 and a copy of Xtreme 3D. Xara 3D, from Xara Ltd., is a new, inexpensive software utility that will enable PC...

GeoCities picks Starpoint for ad management. (Starpoint's Affinity Ad Server)(The Latest Word) (Company Business and Marketing)
September 1, 1997... Starpoint gained a prominent customer for its ad-management software a few weeks ago when GeoCities selected its Affinity Ad Server to deliver banner advertising. GeoCities, a popular Web site garnering over 65 million hits a day, is based...

Plug and display. (Silicon Image's chips for interfacing flat-panel displays to computers)(TechWatch) (Company Business and Marketing)
September 1, 1997... Flat-panel displays moved another step closer to replacing CRTs last month. Silicon Image produced a pair of chips to interface flat-panel displays to computers. The chips implement the "plug-and-display" standard that the Video Electronics...

Switching costs fall. (Texas Instrument's Desktop ThunderSwitch network switch)(TechWatch)(Product Announcement)
September 1, 1997... Texas Instruments introduced a chip that contains most of the circuitry for a ten-port Ethernet switch. Two of the ports run at 100 Mbps (Fast Ethernet speed), while the other eight run at standard 10 Mbps. The chip, called Desktop...

Two-chip scanner. (Exar's auxiliary circuit chip for low-end desktops and hand-held scanners)(TechWatch) (Company Business and Marketing)
September 1, 1997... Exar now has a chip that contains most of the auxiliary circuits needed for a CCD scanner. It handles the dark-noise compensation by using correlated double sampling and analog-digital conversion of up to 1.5 million samples per sec- ond....

Single-chip video. (C-Cube Microsystems' MPEG-2 digital video chip)(TechWatch) (Company Business and Marketing)
September 1, 1997... C-Cube of Milpitas, CA, has announced a chip that can both record and play back MPEG-2 digital video. Existing devices that handle digital video, such as settop boxes and DVD players, must use two or three chips, making them con- siderably more...

Netscape goes all the way with JDK. (updated Communicator workgroup software to support Sun Microsystems' Java Development Kit 1.1 application development software)(TechWatch) (Product Information)
September 1, 1997... Netscape has confirmed that it will add full support for version 1.1 of Sun's Java Development Kit (JDK). The company will add the support to an updated version of Communicator 4.x, probably by the end of August. Previous versions of...

Sony, Philips and HP to develop own DVD-RAM format. (TechWatch) (Company Business and Marketing)
September 1, 1997... Even as the ten-member DVD Forum in Tokyo stamped its approval on the DVD-RAM standard, some of its members were wavering in their support. Sony, Philips and nonmember Hewlett-Packard, while still claiming to support the compromise standard,...

Xionics unveils Hikari color printing architecture. (Xionics Document Technologies' Hikari Printing System) (Company Business and Marketing)
September 1, 1997... Xionics Document Technologies, Inc. this week announced a new color printing architecture called the Hikari Printing System. With Hikari, Xionics's OEMs will be able to develop a new class of lower cost, higher performance color laser and...

Apple gets new life at Macworld. (includes related article on Apple's alliance with Microsoft) (Industry Trend or Event)
September 1, 1997... MACWORLD, HELD EARLY last month in Boston, was easily the most dramatic show of the year. It will be remembered as the place where Apple's future became less questionable and Microsoft's dominance more complete. And it marks an important missed...

Adobe does it right in FrameMaker 5.5. (Adobe Systems' desktop publishing tool) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
September 1, 1997... In August Adobe released version 5.5 of its FrameMaker family, a notable upgrade to a desktop publishing tool that is now ten years old. This release is the first full FrameMaker release with double-byte support for Japanese, and it improves...