Arbortext Continues Enterprise Publishing Leadership for Richly-Designed Customer-Facing Documents; Announces Arbortext 3B2 Version 9.ANN ARBOR Ann Arbor, city (1990 pop. 109,592), seat of Washtenaw co., S Mich., on the Huron River; inc. 1851. It is a research and educational center, with a large number of government and industrial research and development firms, many in high-technology fields such as , Mich. -- Arbortext, the leading provider of enterprise publishing software, today announced the company will release version 9.0 of its 3B2 enterprise publishing software in July 2005. Representing a 24-month development effort, this release is loaded with improvements in functionality and enhancements for organizations implementing enterprise publishing applications that produce complex, richly-designed customer-facing documents. Arbortext software provides the power to drive enterprise publishing, the next generation in traditional desktop publishing desktop publishing, system for producing printed materials that consists of a personal computer or computer workstation, a high-resolution printer (usually a laser printer), and a computer program that allows the user to select from a variety of type fonts and sizes, and word processing word processing, use of a computer program or a dedicated hardware and software package to write, edit, format, and print a document. Text is most commonly entered using a keyboard similar to a typewriter's, although handwritten input (see pen-based computer) and software. Enterprise publishing enables companies to create information as components which can be used as building blocks for larger documents, and to automatically assemble and produce information on multiple types of media. With enterprise publishing software, information is more accurate, timely and tailor-fit to the specific needs of the audience, even an audience of one. Arbortext 3B2 version 9 enhancements include: --Improved table functionality and processing speed See MHz. . Supports tables nested within tables to multiple levels; automatic balancing of row height when text flows from one cell to the next; improved "keeps" functions to give the user control over which tables, rows and text stay together on the same page; vertical justification to adjust overall table height to match column height alongside the table; and more control over headers and footers. In addition, performance refinements can improve composition speed up to 80%. --Faster formatting template development. Provides new tools and user interfaces to help developers debug To correct a problem in hardware or software. Debugging software means locating the errors in the source code (the program logic). Debugging hardware means finding errors in the circuit design (logical circuits) or in the physical interconnections of the circuits. formatting templates to reduce the time they spend identifying and solving problems. --Expanded language support. Direct support for both TrueType and PostScript(R) character shapes in OpenType fonts combines PostScript font technology with the Unicode standard. This is one of many changes that deliver enhanced language support for European, Arabic and Asia-Pacific regions. --Improved support infrastructure. Eliminates the need for hardware dongles, offers a global help desk, and publishes libraries that contain re-usable formatting template code template code - Pseudocode generated by an automated CASE system and requiring further hand-coding before compilation. . "We are very pleased to bring this outstanding upgrade to the new customers we gained as a result of our acquisition of Advent3B2 last October," said PG Bartlett, Vice President of Product Marketing for Arbortext. "Our 3B2 customers will gain significant additional functionality, productivity and efficiency as they implement version 9." Arbortext 3B2 version 9.0 will be available as a download for all 3B2 customers currently under maintenance from the Arbortext support site at http://support.arbortext.com. About Arbortext (www.arbortext.com) Arbortext is the leading provider of enterprise publishing software, enabling companies around the world to automate the assembly and publishing of product information, marketing documents, service instructions, maintenance procedures, technical publications, legal information and software documentation. Arbortext software allows companies to efficiently and cost-effectively publish to multiple audiences in multiple languages in multiple hardcopy and electronic output formats. As a result, companies can dramatically improve authoring productivity, reduce translation and publishing costs, enhance information quality and speed time-to-market of new products. Arbortext's software is installed at over 1,700 organizations worldwide. Current customers include Abbott Laboratories Abbott Laboratories (NYSE: ABT) is a diversified pharmaceuticals and health care company. It has over 65,000 employees and operates in 130 countries. The corporate headquarters are in Abbott Park, Illinois, a neighborhood of North Chicago, Illinois. , American Express Financial Services, Audi, Boeing, Bombardier, British Aerospace, Caterpillar, DaimlerChrysler, Ericsson, Ford, General Electric, GlaxoSmithKline, GM, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Thomson Publishing, Lucent, Nokia, Nortel Networks, Oracle, Pfizer, Ricoh, Sun Microsystems, Toyota, United Airlines, Volkswagen, Volvo and the US Department of Defense including the Navy, Air Force, Army and Marine Corps. Arbortext is a founding member and active participant in the XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. Activity of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C (World Wide Web Consortium, www.w3.org) An international industry consortium founded in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee to develop standards for the Web. It is hosted in the U.S. by the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT (www.csail.mit.edu/index.php). ). Headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan  “Ann Arbor” redirects here. For other uses, see Ann Arbor (disambiguation). Ann Arbor is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County. , USA, Arbortext has offices around the world. |
|
||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion