Square One's wmf2vector Powers Web Delivery of Financial Graphics for BlueMatrix.Business/Technology Editors NOORDWIJK, Netherlands & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 3, 2002 Square One bv and BlueMatrix Inc., today announced that wmf2vector will be used as the engine for web-delivery of financial research in PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format. and XML-standard Scalable Vector Graphics (graphics, World-Wide Web) Scalable Vector Graphics - A W3C standard for vector graphics, based on XML. http://w3.org/Graphics/SVG/. (SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) A vector graphics format from the W3C for the Web that is expressed in XML. Introduced in 2001, SVG was designed to become the standard vector format just as GIFs and JPEGs have become the standard bitmaps for the Web. ) formats. Now, the native Windows display format, WMF, can be processed in batch mode to produce most industry-standard formats, including the newest Web vector format, SVG. This means that drawings and graphs as well as page content such as forms, tables, charts and data sheets can be easily produced in scalable formats for both Web and print publishing. "These Web formats give our customers financial information that they can scale, zoom, pan and even do text searches on", said Skye Hauptman, co-founder and CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. of BlueMatrix. "This new visual power, plus the strength of the underlying engine which generates the graphics on-the-fly, means we can bring more source research data into our system and deliver more added-value in what we return to our customers". "WMF is the core display format of Windows" says Jeroen Dekker, product manager at Square One, "Developers now have a robust engine to produce and customize cross-platform publishing formats directly from any Windows application. We are glad to have partnered with BlueMatrix to offer this solution to their financial industry users, and look forward to enabling new data flows in other markets as well." The financial industry is one of the pioneers in the use of vector formats on the Web. SVG brings the document and data interchange advantages of XML to the world of graphics. These high-quality, scalable graphics can be panned or zoomed for optimal display. In addition, they can be searched, indexed, and displayed in multiple languages. This is a significant visual benefit for the Web-site visitor as well as the answer to challenging design concerns such as internationalization The support for monetary values, time and date for countries around the world. It also embraces the use of native characters and symbols in the different alphabets. See localization, i18n, Unicode and IDN. internationalization - internationalisation . The availability of wmf2vector to automatically generate SVG from any Windows application will help further adoption of this vector format, developed by the World-Wide Web Consortium (W3C), as a web standard. About wmf2vector The newest data flow engine from Square One, wmf2vector enables the intelligent and automated flow of forms and graphics from Windows(TM) applications to Web and print publishing systems. Output can be highly-tuned using a rich set of Intelligent Filter Options (IFO) which are used to set size, orientation, placement and other attributes. wmf2vector can be used to pump output from specialized research systems like Factset(TM) as well as best-selling applications like Microsoft(TM) Excel(TM) into most industry standard formats. wmf2vector is available now for Sun(TM) Solaris(TM). It can be used to produce EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) A PostScript file format used to transfer a graphic image between applications and platforms. EPS files contain PostScript code as well as an optional preview image in TIFF, WMF, PICT or EPSI, the latter being an ASCII-only format. , SVG, CGM, MIF (1) (Maker Interchange Format) An alternate file format for a FrameMaker document. A MIF file is ASCII text, which can be created in another program and imported into FrameMaker. (FrameMaker (R)), WMF, EMF emf: see electromotive force. (1) (ElectroMagnetic Field) See electromagnetic radiation. (2) (Enhanced MetaFile) See Windows metafile. , PostScript and HPGL (Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language) A vector graphics file format from HP that was developed as a standard plotter language. Most plotters support the HPGL and DMPL standards. formats. Prices start at $695 for the end-user version and at $2,995 for developer kits. About BlueMatrix: BlueMatrix, Inc. is the premier firm for financial research workflow and publishing. Offering both ASP and in-house systems, the firm is a leader in web-based applications for the financial community and is leading the revolution into the new data-centric model of investment research. The BlueMatrix team gained IT, Banking and Trading experience in their prior employment at JP Morgan, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs and other banking firms. In July 2001, BlueMatrix joined RIXML RIXML Research Information Exchange Markup Language .org, an industry consortium dedicated to creating a common XML schema for distribution investment research content. About Square One Founded in 1993 and based in The Netherlands, Square One bv develops The Graphics Connection, a family of end-user and developer tools that enables the intelligent flow of content to Web and print publishing systems. Organizations in the finance, telecom, semiconductors, engineering, defense and aerospace industries rely on Square One's tools to bridge their technical applications with their documentation, publishing and data management systems. The suite of products includes ps2vector, ps2web, ps2bitmap and ps2text and wmf2vector. All products are developed for UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). (Sun, HP and IBM) and Microsoft Windows. |
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