JustSystems and Turn-Key Systems are now offering the XMetaL TopLeaf plugin. This product, when used in conjunction with XMetaL Author and TopLeaf Workstation allows users to create stylesheets for PDF output in a graphical environment. Working with the DITA Open Toolkit, this solution provides design and output options to users with little or no XSL / XSL:FO expertise. Images, fonts, running heads, lists, tables, pagination and many other common document elements are configured and the output can be created directly from XMetaL Author. TopLeaf is an XML rendering system which allows users to set up complex professional quality jobs using a revolutionary new point and click interface.
Feature Highlights: Typesetting from single or multiple documents; Automatic production of tables of contents and indexes; Built-in PDF generation, including bookmarks and hyperlinks (internal and to the web); Comprehensive support for true looseleaf publishing, including auto generation of insert pages and filing instructions; and Graphical Page Layout editor. http://na.justsystems.com/ http://www.turnkey.com.au/
Nuxeo, the Open Source Enterprise Content Management company, has proposed to contribute its Content Repository technology (Nuxeo Core) to the Eclipse Foundation. The “Eclipse Enterprise Content Repository” project, if approved, will build on the initial contribution to deliver a modular and full-featured Content Repository technology, leveraging CMIS as main access protocol and API. The emergence of standardized content repository services is a logical evolution of the maturing content management technology market. Nuxeo is proposing this contribution to Eclipse in order to accelerate adoption of this content management technology, expand the developer community and to create an open source reference implementation for a content repository compliant with CMIS (the OASIS Content Management Interoperability Services) standard. The Enterprise Content Repository project will provide developers with a reference implementation for content repositories. The scope for ECR includes APIs (Java, REST), content management interoperability support via CMIS, and a wide range of content repository services. Nuxeo encourages additional participation from both the Eclipse and Nuxeo communities via the Eclipse Proposals Forum. http://www.nuxeo.com http://www.eclipse.org
Read MoreThe official Google Translate for iPhone app is now available for download from the App Store. The new app has all of the features of the web app, as well as some new additions designed to improve translation experience. The new app accepts voice input for 15 languages, and—just like the web app—you can translate a word or phrase into one of more than 50 languages. For voice input, just press the microphone icon next to the text box and say what you want to translate. You can also listen to your translations spoken out loud in one of 23 different languages. This feature uses the same new speech synthesizer voices as the desktop version of Google Translate introduced last month. Another feature is the ability to easily enlarge the translated text to full-screen size. This way, it’s easier to read the text on the screen, or show the translation to the person you are communicating with. Just tap on the zoom icon to quickly zoom in. And the app also includes all of the major features of the web app, including the ability to view dictionary results for single words, access your starred translations and translation history even when offline, and support romanized text like Pinyin and Romaji. You can download Google Translate now from the App Store globally. The app is available in all iOS supported languages, but you’ll need an iPhone or iPod touch iOS version 3 or later.
Read MoreHippo CMS 7.5 is an enterprise-class open source web content management system designed for context-enriched experiences that use location, presence, language, behavior, social attributes and other environmental information to anticipate user needs. Whether it’s a Web site, a mobile app, intranet portal, e-commerce, social media or even print, Hippo’s software is made for organizations to create, deliver and optimize content for business value. The Hippo platform is based on open source standards such as Java and Apache. Hippo will further expand on the new concept of "empowering your audience" by focussing on context aware content and site personalisation. Hippo CMS 7.5 is open source software that is free to download. http://www.onehippo.com
Read MoreSolimar Systems, Inc., a provider of production printing and secure document delivery solutions, announced the release of version 7.2 of the Solimar Print Director Enterprise (SPDE). The new SPDE capabilities integrate with Solimar’s latest product, SOLitrack, which enables organizations to improve control over production job processing by identifying, monitoring and managing print jobs in real time. Users can now simplify job tracking and gain status information through various stages of multi-channel processing and delivery by setting "Checkpoints" in their SPDE workflow. With Checkpoints, users can define specific customizable workflow stages to monitor, control, and manage. Leveraging SPDE Checkpoints, users are able to track project milestones such as "job received", "job processed", "job printed", "job archived", "job purged", etc. This enables users to centrally monitor each job’s status and initiate actions, such as adjusting production priorities and schedules based on job deadlines or Service Level Agreements. With the added support for the latest Windows operating systems, SPDE 7.2 also has enhancements and additional functionality designed to increase user productivity and processing efficiency. www.solimarsystems.com
Read MoreOpenText has released portal software designed to let customers to create flexible and personalized social, content, and customer-centric sites. The portals, available as part of the developer’s OpenText Portal 8.1.1 software, let users mashup content from Microsoft SharePoint, OpenText Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Suite, and other sources, into one personalized interface for intranets, extranets, and customer-facing Web sites. OpenText Portal, formerly Vignette Portal, lets business users travel across different applications, creating and managing folders and documents within their workspace. The developer incorporated secure social media capabilities including wikis, forums, and discussions, and users can engage in microblogging, follow coworkers, share content, and locate subject-matter experts. OpenText Pulse gives employees a view into colleagues’ activities, making them more productive and simplifying collaboration via Facebook-like status updates. The developer took the wraps off three new portlets: An activity feed, navigation, and federated search portlet. OpenText’s activity feed portlet gives users access to OpenText Pulse’s social collaboration tools, designed to help colleagues stay current on associates’ activities, availability, and expertise. Employees easily can communicate changes to projects, timelines, and bottlenecks, according to OpenText. With the navigation portlet for Content server, workers receive a snapshot picture of the content they are working on, one that spans multiple repositories. Lastly, employees can use the federated search portlet to submit either basic or advanced searches across multiple content server file systems, databases, or applications to locate search results in one view. http://www.opentext.com/
Read More2011 marks the launch of iCore CMS, a new web content management system designed for managing the entire workings of an online business. The iCore CMS is the brain child of Instani, a Microsoft Certified Partner delivering web design, SEO and mobile application development services to a global client base. iCore CMS allows businesses to manage all aspects of product management and customer relations through one user interface. Users can choose from a variety of free customer facing template designs with the option of custom design and development by the Instani team. All system updates are instantaneous and free for users, and affordable monthly payment plans allow businesses to choose a package best tailored to their requirements. iCore is a fully hosted CMS, particularly ideal for web designers who require something customisable and plug and play for their clients. iCore Content Management System is fully rebrandable and compatible with Dreamweaver software. iCore challenges the current capabilities of open source CMS by providing an unrestricted, highly secure and fully supported platform. www.icorecms.com
Read MoreReally Strategies announced the availability of RSuite Cloud, a web-based editorial and production system for automated multilingual publishing to print, web, and eBook formats. RSuite Cloud is a hosted end-to-end content management and publishing system for book publishers to create, manage, and distribute single-source content to multiple channels. The system also provides language translation tools to publish in 70 languages, including all major European, Asian, and bidirectional languages. RSuite Cloud is available on a per-user license or Pay-Per-Page model. Pay-Per-Page is a payment model where the software is free of charge and the publisher only pays for final pages published from the system. RSuite Cloud accepts Microsoft Word manuscripts into the system and automatically converts the Word files to XML for web-based copyediting and automated page composition. Production workflows can be set up to generate page proofs and eBook drafts for content review and approval. The system is configured to automatically publish print-ready PDF files, HTML output, and eBook formats. http://www.reallysi.com/
Read MoreADAM Software released Creative Suite Connector 2.0, a new version of its software solution for accessing ADAM-stored online digital assets from a Mac or Windows workstation. With the launch of Creative Suite Connector 2.0 using Adobe Drive 2, ADAM is among the first Digital Asset Management (DAM) player to update its platform fully to work with Adobe Creative Suite 5. Creative Suite Connector 2.0 is designed brings new levels of workflow efficiency, control and clarity to the complex business of digital asset management. www.adamsoftware.net
Read MoreInternet Capital Group, Inc. announced that one of its core equity companies, Metastorm Inc., a provider of Business Process Management (BPM), Business Process Analysis, and Enterprise Architecture software, has entered into a definitive merger agreement with OpenText Corporation, an enterprise software company and leader in enterprise content management (ECM). Under the terms of the agreement, OpenText will acquire Metastorm for $182 million in cash. The transaction is subject to a number of closing conditions and is expected to be completed late in the first quarter of 2011. ICG’s share of the cash proceeds related to the sale of Metastorm will be approximately $53 million, approximately $1.5 million of which will be subject to a customary indemnification holdback. Upon closing of the transaction, ICG will record a gain of approximately $24 million on the sale of its Metastorm stake; the release of any escrowed proceeds to ICG will result in additional gains. www.metastorm.com www.opentext.com
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