K4 Cross-Media Publishing Platform Version 6 Now Available

Managing Editor Inc. (MEI), an Adobe premier development partner, announced the immediate availability of Version 6 of the vjoon K4 Cross-Media Publishing Platform. Key features of this update are increased support for cross-media input and output, a task-based workflow model, more options for remote users and enhanced flexibility in the system’s architecture. The latest version of K4 is designed to handle many content types in addition to Adobe CS4 layouts and articles, including documents, spreadsheets, images, rich media, PDFs, XML files, Flash movies, podcasts, presentations and more. The system is built to facilitate publishing to multiple media, allowing content to be pushed to many unique channels, such as print, Web, mobile devices, eBook readers, social networks, syndication and multiple languages. Version 6 manages all types of content, regardless of its source or destination, and allows publishers to define unique workflows for each type of content. K4 Version 6 introduces a workflow model in which users are presented with tasks that describe what has to be done. When a task is accepted, K4 automatically presents users with what they should need to do the job, such as a text file or picture to edit, a layout to work on or a metadata field to fill in. Once all tasks associated with a particular stage of the workflow have been completed, the associated files move forward in the pipeline. This model allows users and supervisors to see exactly what has been done and what still needs to be done. The latest version allows more users to collaborate and complete tasks simultaneously, by offering expanded Web-based interactivity. The built-in K4 Web Portal provides a platform for remote connectivity, which can be extended with server-side plug-ins. The K4 InCopy Editor lets writers and editors work on K4 articles without an InCopy client. The Web CMS Editor provides WYSIWYG authoring and editing for native HTML content. And the K4 File Manager gives K4 users Web access to tasks for a wide variety of content in the system, allowing them to open files in their native applications. K4 Version 6 is a multi-tier solution that supports Oracle, Microsoft SQL and MySQL database platforms and runs on Mac OS X, Windows, Linux and SUN Solaris operating systems. http://www.maned.com