Seybold show highlights PDF and color management
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The Seybold Publishing 98 trade show in New York City, responding to criticism that 1997 shows overemphasized the Internet, gave equal coverage to the Web, print and prepress and highlighted some important new technologies and products. Prepress users discussed Adobe's Portable Document Format in numerous sessions and talks, expressing both enthusiasm for the compact, cross-platform file format's potential and frustration over its current limitations. XML, a major buzzword in 1997, continued to get attention in 1998. The markup language is a compromise between HTML and SGML that adds data awareness and extensibility to the standard Web format. Pantone showcased a complete Hexachrome workflow, while Apple released its ColorSync 2.5 color-management software for Windows and Microsoft kept a low profile, co-sponsoring XML Day and providing technical support at the DEC booth.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1998
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ItemMaster; ShadowCaster
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A Lowly Apprentice Production's ItemMaster and ShadowCaster QuarkXTensions enable the user to easily create soft drop shadows and apply styles to QuarkXPress objects. ItemMaster enables designers to provide a consistent style across a series of projects. The application is easy to use and allows the specification of headline and body type for sidebars, text insets, background colors and baseline offsets. Picture box styles include frame, shape, background color and the location of the box's content. ShadowCaster enables the creation of soft-edged drop shadows for text and graphics from within QuarkXPress. Styles can be defined for the drop shadows, providing consistency when shadowing a collection of objects. ItemMaster and ShadowCaster are priced at $99 each.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1995
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Editor's notebook; show stoppers and other climaxes
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The big news at the Seybold Seminars San Francisco/Publishing 98 was the large number of digital-asset management (DAM) systems. Enthusiastic vendors gave projections that the DAM market could be worth as much as $3 billion to $6 billion by 2001. The maturing of the publishing market was also apparent at the show not only in new breakthroughs but also changed expectations. The initial excitement associated with the World Wide Web seems to have been sustained. Business issues related to making the medium work and participating in it have yet to be resolved. The medium remains two-dimensional and users have to be content with image processing, page layout and animation programs.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1998
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