EBT previews standards-based, integrated CD/Web publishing solutions at World-Wide Web Conference in Boston; New releases of DynaText, DynaWeb, and CADleaf Graphics products aimed at high-end professional Web publishers who require "Publish Once, Deliver Many" capabilities.

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 12, 1995--Electronic Book Technologies, Inc. (EBT), the premier supplier of standards-based CD/LAN publishing solutions for large corporate information assets, announced today at the World-Wide Web Conference in Boston (booth No. 21), several new products and showcased technology capability demonstrations that will be available for next- generation integrated CD/Web professional publishing.

The new CD/Web publishing suite includes the next-generation DynaText(tm) and DynaWeb(tm) Professional Publishing System and a new addition to the CADleaf(tm) Graphics product family, FIGleaf(tm) Inline.

EBT demonstrated its next-generation integrated CD/Web DynaText Professional Publishing System, which provides a true SGML-based integrated CD/Web publishing environment. The newest version of DynaText directly browses standard HTML documents over the Web, as well as SGML-based DynaText electronic books from CD/LAN environments. EBT also demonstrated the same technology directly browsing small to medium- sized, raw SGML-based documents over the Internet, as well as large-scale DynaText electronic books from a remote DynaWeb Server using enhanced standard HTTP, TCP/IP protocols. The next-generation release of DynaText is currently entering beta 2 with a scheduled release date of the end of the first quarter 1996.

EBT also demonstrated DynaWeb 2.0 (announced last month) incorporating the new FreeFrames technology for publishing frame-enhanced HTML documents on-the-fly from large scale source SGML-based documents. DynaWeb works with the exact same DynaText electronic book collections published for LAN/CD-ROM distribution, and provides any Web browser direct access to the powerful EBT search engine. The core of the DynaWeb system is a multiple stylesheet mechanism that targets different Web browsers from the same SGML source "on-the-fly" as information is requested. DynaWeb 2.0 comes bundled with EBT's own HTTP Web server and can also plug into any HTTP-compatible Web server to work seamlessly with existing Web server capabilities. DynaWeb 2.0 is currently in beta 2 and is scheduled for release by the end of the first quarter in 1996.

EBT's Carberry Graphics Division also announced today a follow-on version of the newest member of its CADleaf Graphics product family, the FIGleaf Inline graphics module that functions as a Netscape API-compliant plug-in to Netscape Navigator(tm) 2.0. FIGleaf Inline views/zooms a wide variety of graphics file formats including CGM, CCITTG4, WMF, and TIFF (see separate press release for more details). FIGleaf Inline is currently in Beta 1 with a scheduled release by the end of the first quarter in 1996.

"EBT's new integrated CD/Web publishing suite is aimed at high-end professional publishers who don't want to hardwire their large data repositories to the rapidly evolving electronic publishing technology. Never have the benefits of our SGML-based 'Publish Once, Distribute Many' approach been so evident as with the advent of the Web," said Kent Summers, EBT director of marketing. "EBT offers an alternative approach to storing and managing separate sets of source files for each delivery medium. Our solution spans CD/LAN publishing, HTML `du jour', and open-standards raw SGML, bringing the full power of EBT's customizable, large-scale optimized electronic book browsing to the Web," continued Summers.

EBT's standards-based publishing tools provide professional publishers with a standards-based solution for the next-generation of integrated CD/Web publishing. EBT's cross platform products enable publishers to develop information once, to deliver the information via multiple electronic delivery media (CD-ROM, LAN/WAN and WWW), and to optimize the viewing, navigation, searching and presentation of the information based upon the capabilities of the browser used to access the information.

Electronic Book Technologies, Inc. (EBT) provides corporate and commercial publishers with the industry's most comprehensive standards-based online publishing solution. EBT, a founding member of SGML Open and the MIT World-Wide Web Consortium (W3C), develops and markets a product suite engineered from the ground up around SGML. EBT's cross-platform software tools enable customers to manage and publish information to CD- ROM, World-Wide Web, LAN, and print from a single, standards-based source. Carberry Technology, a division of EBT based in Lowell, MA, provides engineering, manufacturing, and publishing solutions for product data management. Carberry Technology information can be accessed on the Web at www.ct.ebt.com. EBT information can be accessed on the Web at www.ebt.com. EBT is privately held and headquartered in Providence, RI, USA.

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Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) is the international ISO standard (8879) for document markup. SGML has been adopted by industries with large volumes of in-house publishing including aircraft, airlines, automotive, computer, defense, electronics, pharmaceuticals, securities, telecommunications and transportation, as well as government systems integrators, publishing companies, and academic research centers.

HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a simple application of SGML used for marking up and rendering documents within the World-Wide Web environment on the Internet.

DynaText, DynaWeb, CADleaf, FIGleaf and EBT are trademarks of Electronic Book Technologies, Inc. Netscape and Netscape Navigator are trademarks of Netscape Communications Corporation. UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries, exclusively licensed through X/Open Company Ltd. All other company, product, or service names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of respective holders.

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