Living large with XML
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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has given the Extensible Markup Language (XML) recommended status. XML uses custom tags to describe online documents more accurately than is possible with HTML, including such tags as price, subject and file-format information. XML-enabled Web browsers will make it easier to search and sort results, but all browsers will have to use the same XML tags. ArborText software developer P.G. Bartlett says it would be possible to use industry-specific tags and definitions similar to those used in corporate intranets with the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML). Bartlett says there are many SGML tags that require only minor modification to work with XML. XML is backed by Adobe Systems, Microsoft, HP, Netscape, Sun and other vendors, and Adobe is likely to be have a big impact on the specification. Microsoft has added an XML parser to the latest version of its Internet Explorer browser, and Netscape demonstrated an XML-enabled browser at the Seybold conference in the fall of 1997.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1998
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FM screening gets good reception
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Stochastic screening, or frequency modulated (FM) screening is a prepress technique similar to conventional amplitude-modulated (AM) screening, but the four-year old technology offers advantages in certain situations. AM screening places dots on a grid and uses size as a variable. FM screening maintains a constant dot size, altering the frequency of dots to reflect CMYK variations. FM screening helps printers such as Ganton and Associates produce extremely high-quality print materials. The company used Agfa's CristalRaster to deliver extremely high resolutions with six and seven-color printing. Alphabet City Imaging Center uses Linotype-Hell's Diamond Screening to produce extremely detailed packaging. FM screening also delivers improved quality for low-end graphic production. The Gaylord Herald Times uses Harlequin Dispersed Screening to optimize its use of four-colors in newspaper production.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1997
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Ready Set Go GX 7.0.3
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Manhattan Graphics Corp's $395 Ready Set Go GX 7.0.3 DTP software is getting closer to its competition, though it still comes up short of PageMaker and QuarkXPress. The program is based on the Apple QuickDraw GX graphics technology and requires GX to be installed to run. GX support is expected to increase once Apple releases its new Copland operating system, which will have GX built into it. Ready Set Go is very RAM-intensive requiring anywhere from 8MB to 16MB on Power Macs. The interfaces has finally been revamped and users are no longer required to add a document's fonts to the Font Palette. Only one level of undo is available, and that level does not apply to rotations and flips. Overall, the program is capable for a moderate price.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1995
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