Texterity, Inc. announced FreeSVG, a web-based service providing conversion of PDF into SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics). This free service enables users to create self-contained “SVG packages” that can be viewed using a standard web browser. Users get a complete set of HTML and SVG files with a self-contained “viewer” enabling searching, page turning, table of contents navigation, linking, and zooming. Pages contains a complete representation of all text, images, and vector drawing, viewable with a browser and the Adobe SVG Viewer 3.0, or with SVG viewers for PCs and mobile devices. Original PDF bookmarks are converted into a multi-level table of contents, and embedded links are converted into standard intra-document and HTTP web links. Document navigation includes direct page access or relative movement within the document with first, last, next, and previous page buttons. Search results show a histogram bar of hits, plus a rollover featuring the paragraph containing the search results; search terms are highlighted. “Zoom” support includes preset zoom factors plus ‘fit width’ and ‘fit height’ to allow a large display of the page on the screen. FreeSVG is compatible with the Adobe SVG Viewer 3.0, which supports Windows, Macintosh, and Linux computers. Other SVG viewers are supported, including the Bitflash Mobile SVG Player 2.0 and Apache Batik. www.texterity.com
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North Atlantic Publishing Systems announced a new product to address one of the most commonly requested enhancements to Microsoft’s SharePoint Portal Server, i.e., the ability to track changes made to the document library. SPSAuditTrail was specifically designed by North Atlantic Publishing Systems, Inc. to enhance Microsoft’s SharePoint Portal Server. SPSAuditTrail automatically keeps track of changes users make to SharePoint Portal Server Document Library content when users access the Document Library through the browser, Office XP applications or Web Folders. SPSAuditTrail automatically records check ins, check outs, document and folder additions, renames and deletes, approvals, rejections and other activity across the portal server. For each action, SPSAuditTrail records the Windows login name of the initiator, the client machine IP address, date and time the activity occurred, and what the activity is. All automatically. The saved audit information is searchable directly from the SPSAuditTrail Search Web Part. You use the Search Web Part to specify the audit trail information you want to view. A free demo version of SPSAuditTrail is available at www.napsys.com/wp/WPAuditTrail.html
Canto announced that Web Publisher Pro 1.0.1 is immediately available. Web Publisher Pro is a tool for publishing and marketing your digital assets on dynamically generated Web pages. It is an Option to the Cumulus Workgroup Edition. Web Publisher Pro 1.0.1 includes improved user handling and log functionality. 1.0. Compatibility with other products has also been improved, e.g. asset conversion functionality of Cumulus HELIOS Companion. The enhanced user management of the new version now offers user rights. Web Publisher Pro 1.0.1 will now be delivered with Jakarta Tomcat 4.1.18 and includes an update of the Cumulus Java Classes that are now available with version 5.5.2. Web Publisher Pro 1.0.1 is available with an English, German, French or Japanese user interface on Mac OS X, Windows, Linux and Solaris. Web Publisher Pro costs $1495 per server installation. Updates of Web Publisher Pro 1.0 to Web Publisher Pro 1.0.1 are free of charge. www.canto.com
Dynix has entered a strategic partnership with Groxis Inc. and has announced plans to integrate Grokker, a graphical informational interface, with future editions of Horizon Information Portal. Dynix will resell Grokker as an optional product for library customers of Horizon Information Portal. Grokker improves the way information is accessed and organized during search sequences by quickly converting data, documents, and search results into contextually relevant, graphical knowledge maps. Search results become a series of circles within circles, with each concentric circle representing a topic and subtopic that is sorted by size and color and based on relevancy. A user can then dig deeper into the results until the desired information is found. www.dynix.com, www.groxis.com
Jeeves Solutions, a division of Ask Jeeves, Inc. announced the availability of a major upgrade to its product, JeevesOne. The ability to search multiple backend systems simultaneously and deliver results in real time, improved relevance with Precise Answers, and an easy-to-use Administrative Console are among the featured enhancements. JeevesOne 3.0 is an enterprise search platform, offering a comprehensive combination of fourth generation natural language processing (NLP) search technology, analytics and enterprise connectivity. Whether the answer resides in unstructured Web content or structured data sources, JeevesOne can make information accessible in real time and in one place through its Enterprise Integration Server (EIS). JeevesOne 3.0’s flexible output determines both how information is presented and what information is presented, returning the best answer available to a user’s question. www.jeevessolutions.com/products/index.asp
Mobius Management Systems, Inc. announced ViewDirect Contenuity 5.1, an integrated component of the ViewDirect TCM software suite of total content management solutions. ViewDirect TCM is built on a content repository that integrates and stores all the enterprise content that supports Web sites and business processes. ViewDirect Contenuity delivers Web site management, document management and digital asset management in a single platform integrated with all components of ViewDirect TCM. ViewDirect Conentuity 5.1 is integrated with DocumentDirect for the Internet, the Web viewing component of ViewDirect TCM, giving users access to content in the ViewDirect TCM repository while maintaining all security provisions. This integration enables the ViewDirect Contenuity user to manage and present documents in any format, including PCL, PostScript, PDF, XML, HTML, AFP, DJDE/Metacode, images, text, rich media, word processing, and spreadsheets. ViewDirect Contenuity 5.1 is available now. www.mobius.com
FatWire Software announced that its recently launched FatWire Spark portal Content Management (pCM) for the Sun ONE Portal Server will include support for MySQL. FatWire Spark for the Sun ONE Portal Server with MySQL support provides a fully integrated portal Content Management solution at no cost to the client. A five-user version of Spark pCM is available free of charge for Sun ONE Portal Server customers. www.fatwire.com
Palstar Document Management and Language Engineering announced the release of her latest software tool RevXml. RevXML is a tool for cost-effective comparison of XML content (books, manuals, legal text or regulations etc), with many options for selection. The tool tracks all changes between two XML documents or data. It takes into account the tree structure of the document, the attributes and the text in between the XML-tags. The basic unit of a text may be a character, a word, a sentence or the complete text in between two tags. The software generates revision markers (indicating addition, deletion and change) in the revised document, which themselves take the form of additional XML tags or arbitrary strings to be defined by the user. The enriched revised document is meant to be further processed by XML based systems. No DTD is required. Essentially, the tool operates on any tree-structured or flat file, including XML, XHTML and SGML files. The value of attributes may play a role in the decision to compare two elements. RevXml functions as “middleware” and is an embeddable technology. For instance, an XML Editor may use it to visualize the revisions between two XML documents. A Document Management System will be able to store the deltas and a Publishing System may generate exact revision bars. www.palstar-nl.com
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