SoftPress Releases Freeway 3.5 for Mac OS X; Native Mac OS X Web Design Application Offered at No Cost to Registered Users of Freeway 3.x.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAUSALITO, Calif. & OXFORD, UK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 7, 2002 SoftPress Systems announced today the release of Freeway 3.5 for Mac OS X, the native upgrade to its award-winning Web design application for Apple's revolutionary, UNIX-based operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. . Freeway 3.5 boasts the ease-of-use and powerful features of previous versions of Freeway, adds improved support for PHP (PHP Hypertext Preprocessor) A scripting language used to create dynamic Web pages. With syntax from C, Java and Perl, PHP code is embedded within HTML pages for server side execution. and drag & drop, and accepts a wider range of file formats for import including layered Photoshop and Illustrator 9 and 10 files. Upgrades to Freeway 3.5 will be free-of-charge to registered owners of Freeway 3.x. A fully functional 30-day trial version of Freeway 3.5 for Mac OS X is available at http://www.softpress.com. "Freeway 3.5 takes advantage of the remarkable power and stability of Mac OS X," said Richard Logan Richard Logan may refer to:
"Mac OS X is the most powerful and easy-to-use platform for creating, managing and sharing content on the Web," said Ron Okamoto, Apple's vice president of Worldwide Developer Relations. "Optimized for Mac OS X, Freeway 3.5 is a tremendous Web development tool that provides intuitive design, reliable performance and an effortless approach to create stunning Web sites." Freeway 3.5 for Mac OS X will have similar functionality to Freeway 3.1, and will run on both Mac OS X (v10.1.x) and Mac OS 9.x. Freeway 3.5 will utilize Mac OS X's powerful ATSUI ATSUI Apple Type Services for Unicode Imaging (Mac OS) technology (Apple Type Services for Unicode Imaging The Apple Type Services for Unicode Imaging (ATSUI) is the set of services for rendering Unicode-encoded text starting with Mac OS 8.5 and in Mac OS X. It replaced the WorldScript engine for legacy encodings. ) to provide high-level typography, while Freeway's graphics handling is further improved by the adoption of a new graphics engine. Pricing & Availability The recommended retail price of Freeway 3.5 remains $249. SoftPress is offering competitive upgrades to owners of GoLive, Dreamweaver, and other Web editors for $149 with proof of ownership. Substantial discounts are available for educational institutions and multi-user site licenses. Screen-shots, technical information and worldwide pricing details are available on the Softpress Web site at http://www.softpress.com. About Freeway Freeway is developed to meet the needs of professional designers who require an intuitive tool for creating sophisticated and highly-functional Web sites without the hassle of coding. It provides a full-featured intuitive user interface that makes expert Web site design more accessible than with any other Web design application. Freeway's familiar "Page and Pasteboard" environment for designing and accurately positioning type, graphics and multimedia allows publishing experts using applications like QuarkXpress to feel immediately at home when creating for the Web. Noted for the clean HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. code that it generates, Freeway offers a wide range of features to support the complex and technical aspects of site production. One of the keys to making high-end Web design features accessible is the Freeway Actions technology. Actions, reusable snippets of code, allow designers to easily incorporate custom scripting and a wide range of back-end functionality into the Web site production process. Action uses include Web publishing Creating a Web site and placing it on the Web server. A Web site is a collection of HTML pages with the home page typically named INDEX.HTML. Web sites are designed using Web authoring software which provides a graphical layout capability or by hand coding in HTML or both. from databases, development of e-commerce solutions, Dynamic HTML (1) A general term for (HTML pages) Web pages that are customized for each user; for example, returning different values from a search. Contrast with a "static HTML" page, which is the same for all users. See dynamic Web page. behaviors and Javascript objects such as rollovers. About SoftPress SoftPress is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. with its headquarters near Oxford, England. The company was founded in 1993 to address the emerging needs of professional publishers and designers for new media authoring tools. Freeway is the Softpress flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. and was first released in October 1997. Note to Editors: Trademarks -- Freeway(TM) is a trademark of SoftPress Systems Limited. SoftPress(TM) is a trademark of SoftPress Systems Limited which is registered in some countries. All other company and product names are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. For other information, screen shots or review copies of Freeway please contact: For North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. -- Jon Hornstein at Softpress: Phone: 415/331-4820 Fax: 415/331-4824 Email: jhornstein@softpress.com Web site: http://www.softpress.com Mailing Address: Softpress, Inc. 3020 Bridgeway #408 Sausalito, CA 94965 Richard Logan Phone: +44 (0) 1993 882588 Fax: +44 (0) 1993 883970 Email: richard@softpress.com Web site: http://www.softpress.com Mailing Address: SoftPress Systems Ltd Mitre House, Lodge Road Long Hanborough Business Park OXON, OX29 8LP, UK |
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