Heidelberg-Lino users unite

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The Heidelberg Digital Imaging Association's Directions '98 conference in Atlanta featured a trip to Heidelberg USA's corporate offices in Kennesaw, Georgia. The association was formerly known as the Linotype-Heil Users Group, and many of its members are concerned about the future of the prepress industry. Heidelberg claims to be ready to meet the future needs of its prepress customers as a result of its acquisition of Linotype-Heil and its alliances with platesetter manufacturer Creo Products and plate and film maker Kodak Polychrome Graphics. Heidelberg will sell only Creo platesetters in the future, not Linotype Herkules, and it will not connect the Delta RIP and Quickmaster DI direct-imaging short-run press until the end of 1998. The company is developing a product that combines ink-jet and direct-imaging technology. That product will not be released until 2000, but the new Speedmaster DI four-page direct-imaging press will ship in the second half of 1999.

Electronic computers, Electronic Computer Manufacturing, Automated Storage & Retrieval, Printing Machinery and Equipment Manufacturing, Printing trades machinery, Prepress Equipment NEC, Planning, Product information, Document management systems, Printing industry, Printers (Equipment), Company product planning, Digital printing system, Digital printing systems, Prepress equipment, Heidelberg USA Inc.

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Net gains

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Graphics designers and electronic publishers should familiarize themselves with the fast-growing World Wide Web. Web sites can feature text, graphics, sound, video and even applications. Hypertext links can allow viewers to jump around the document or to another Web page halfway around the world. Web pages are written with the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), which defines a document's structure, not its format. For example, HTML will not define point size or typeface-two headlines, just their relative sizes. HTML currently does not support features that graphics designers have come to expect, including tables, text wrap-around graphics and support for multiple columns. Learning HTML is actually quite easy. Microsoft, Interleaf and other vendors are developing or have shipped tools that make it easy to add HTML tags to documents. Designers cannot make assumptions about the order in which people will view their documents.

Usage, Electronic publishing, World Wide Web, Technology Tutorial

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Street wise: the California State Automobile Association breaks new ground with its digitally created maps

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The California State Automobile Assn (CSAA) is converting its mechanically designed maps to a digital PostScript format through the use of off-the-shelf hardware and software. The advantages of digitally laid-out maps are accuracy, far faster production, and easy editing and reuse. The actual conversion process is slow, but the use of common, commercial hardware and software reduces costs, training and the need to hire new programmers. CSAA selected to design the maps in Adobe Systems' PostScript page description language because it provided a fast learning curve and ensured that the maps would have accurate, quality output. The organization also selected the Adobe Illustrator drawing package because Adobe also developed PostScript. The processes involved in creating original maps and converting original maps to digital ones are detailed.

Travel agencies, Miscellaneous publishing, Management, Technology application, Company process management, Production processes, Cartography, PostScript, PostScript (Software), Travel clubs, Map database, Digital map services, Company Operations, California State Automobile Association

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