Cross-Media Publishing More and more publishers now want to find streaming products that export files to various distribution media. Here are two interesting products.
1. Quark company Quark exhibited the Active Publishing Server product they are developing. It is a server technology that produces personalized, well-designed files that can be exported to a print format or to a network format. It is a Versatile publishing tools accept templates from Quark XPress and accept any content from a web browser.
The user enters the system and enters the file content via a web browser or other software that can generate http files. The proxy server handles management functions such as load balancing, telling caching, and some preflighting.
After that, the file server process forwards the content to the already stored touchpad and finally converts the file into a unique format.
In order to achieve the preview and edit functions, Quark Active Publishing Server displays the converted files as visible on the user's browser. Users can export the final file into a variety of formats, including JPEG, PNG, Postscript, EPS, and Quark XPress files.
The system manages the storage unit of the system through the proxy server, making the operation of the storage unit as simple as a local file system or a mature content management system.
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Catalogs Publishers who initially wanted to capture both web and print harvests were publishers of the production catalog. There are two systems for catalog publishing: one for the high-end market, one with a certain degree of complexity, and the other for a large-scale market.
1. Pindar Systems Pindar has been involved in the directory publishing system for many years, and their product Pindar Catalog Management System (CMS) has been accepted by the majority of users. At this meeting, they will exhibit the new tool CMS Production Advisor for managing complex catalog production projects. The product can automate the establishment of schedules for catalog publishing based on information from the PindarCMS system, which can effectively reduce issues related to schedules and job tracking, produce multiple versions of print and online catalogs, and log in directly through a web browser. .
The Production Advisor includes a schedule template that can be used multiple times in different directories to create work lists for users and workgroups and to remind follow-up work. In addition to systematic events, non-systematic tasks such as meetings can also be scheduled and tracked. Pindar believes that the development of such software is mainly for ordinary software (such as Microsoft Project) is not suitable for the directory production process, they developed the CMS Production Advisor in addition to PindarCMS is a component, but also a stand-alone product.
2. Woodwing Software Inc. Woodwing is well-known for developing plug-ins for Adobe's InDesign, this time introducing the most ambitious software, Smart Catalog, which is used with InDesign to allow placement of text and image placeholders in InDesign. And connect with the corresponding domain in the database.
Smart Catalog supports Filemaker on Mac, any ODBC in Windows environment. The database connection is bi-directional, meaning that any changes on the database can be directly reflected on the page, and changes on the page will be fed back to the database. You can use a table file or an XML file instead of a database, which is also a two-way change.
Using the Smart Catalog with Woodwing's other new products, such as the Smart Table, will greatly increase the functionality.
Output In the printing industry, the appearance of the final print represents everything, and developers have been working hard to get a better look. Kodak's products seem very attractive.
Kodak
Kodak Professional has introduced Kodak Professional 5260, a wide-format inkjet printer that can print six colors (CMYK, LC, LM) on a piezoelectric device, can print in various sizes of ink droplets, and print using Kodak's Dynamic Contone. technology.
Dynamic Contone printing technology is a printing process that stipulates or changes the size of ink droplets, helping to improve print quality and increase printing speed. At a certain resolution, using Kodak's technology can choose from 1 to 5 droplets (8-67 billionths of a billionths of a litre). For example, in the field area, it will select large ink droplets; in areas with more layers, use small ink droplets to reduce the printing speed. Dynamic Contone technology is different from other technologies that change the droplet size, it chooses from 5 droplets (others choose from 3 droplets). In addition, some other variable droplet technologies cannot change the size of the ink droplets in a single print job. At this time, the operator must check the size of the ink droplet that should be selected before printing.
In wide-format markets, the demand for speed and high-quality output products is never-ending, so developers have to constantly work hard for it.