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Technologies and strategies for authoring and editing, including word processors, structured editors, web and page layout and formatting, content conversion and migration, multichannel content, structured and unstructured  data integration, and metadata creation. 

Foxit updates PDF SDK for Web 10.0

July 11, 2024 /

Foxit, a provider of PDF solutions, announced the launch of Foxit PDF SDK for Web 10.0, delivering new tools and features for developers. The PDF SDK is aimed at helping software developers in any industry to build apps with PDF functionality by leveraging the most popular development frameworks.

The new release is designed to improve efficiency by streamlining workflow. This update includes the introduction of Dynamic Library Loading, which reduces initial load time and memory usage. Foxit PDF SDK for Web 10.0 also welcomes a retooled Refactored Bookmark Module for faster and more efficient bookmark loading along with enhanced navigation within PDF documents. Other highlights:

  • Dynamic XFA Form-Fill Functionality – XFA forms can now utilize dynamic scripting capabilities, making them interactive and data-driven.
  • 3D Model Viewing – Introduces basic support for 3D model rendering within PDFs, allowing users to view simple 3D content within web applications.
  • Reorder Annotations – Users can reorder the stacking order through the user interface and programmatically.
  • Auto-Fit Text in Containers.
  • Custom Annotation Appearance.
  • Global Undo/Redo Functionality – is now available for all text editing actions.
  • Custom Font Support.
  • Group Signatures with Single /V Dictionary.
  • JSON Form Data Import/Export.

https://www.foxit.com

Syncro Soft announces Fusion 7.0

July 10, 2024 /

Syncro Soft announced the release of Oxygen Content Fusion 7.0, their web-based collaboration platform for content creation. The new version enhances the project support with a personal authoring workspace where you can make changes across multiple files and commit them directly to the repository. The Changes side-view enables previewing and changes before committing. An XML-aware conflict resolution tool pulls changes from the repository, detects conflicts, suggests automated solutions, and allows merging content manually. Along with the editing features for XML documents, the built-in Web Author allows you to edit Markdown files inside the authoring workspace providing syntax preview and toolbar actions to insert common structures.

The workspace feature includes a Publications side-view for browsing of a publication’s DITA map. Users can open the map in a specialized DITA map editor to modify the structure using toolbar or contextual menu actions. The editor supports advanced DITA features such as profiling attributes, key definitions, and map references.

Continuous Deployment for output is possible with support for publishing connectors to enable uploading to various platforms such as Amazon S3, Netlify, or servers with SFTP protocol. The output can be configured to include an “Edit Online” link in each topic that sends authors to their personal workspace where they can make changes.

https://www.oxygenxml.com/content_fusion/whats_new.html

TransPerfect introduces GlobalLink Live

July 9, 2024 /

TransPerfect, a provider of language and AI solutions for global business, announced the launch of GlobalLink Live, an AI-powered interpretation and accessibility platform that enables users to choose a mix of traditional interpretation and AI voice-to-voice translation to engage with live speech.

With GlobalLink Live multilingual capabilities, audiences can consume live speech—whether as part of a large event, small group meeting, or one-on-one encounter—in their preferred language regardless of the source language. Created as a turnkey solution to facilitate better language access for in-person, hybrid, and remote events, GlobalLink Live facilitates multiple options from traditional human interpretation to AI voice technology. Independent of location, subject area, budget, or local interpreter availability, event organizers have multiple options to ensure they can maximize engagement with their audiences.

Meetings and gatherings with attendees from differing language backgrounds, as well as service industry interactions between agents and customers who speak different languages, can all be facilitated through GlobalLink Live. The self-service platform can be used for on-site and remote speakers, and can be accessed by audiences attending in person or viewing remotely. Program owners can choose to deliver content via simultaneous human interpretation, live subtitles, or using AI-powered voice-to-voice dubbing technology.

https://globallink.transperfect.com

Franz announces AllegroGraph 8.2

June 27, 2024 /

Franz Inc., a supplier of Graph Database technology for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph Solutions, announced AllegroGraph 8.2, a Neuro-Symbolic AI Platform, with enhancements to ChatStream offering users a natural language query interface that provides more accurate and contextually relevant responses. ChatStream’s Graph RAG with Feedback enables more accurate, context-aware, and continuously evolving natural language queries, providing stateful and contextually relevant responses. Additional updates include:

Knowledge Graph-as-a-Service – A new hosted, free version grants users access to AllegroGraph with LLMagic via a web login.

Enhanced Scalability and Performance – AllegroGraph includes enhanced FedShard capabilities making the management of sharding more straightforward and user-friendly, reducing query response time and improving system performance.

New Web Interface – AllegroGraph includes a redesign of its web interface, AGWebView, that provides an intuitive way to interact with the platform, while co-existing with the Classic View.

Advanced Knowledge Graph Visualization – A new version of Franz’s graph visualization software, Gruff v9, is integrated into AllegroGraph. Gruff now includes the ChatStream Natural Language Query feature as a new means to query your Knowledge Graph and is a visualization tool that illustrates RDF-Star (RDF*) annotations, enabling users to add descriptions to edges in a graph – such as scores, weights, temporal aspects and provenance.

https://franz.com

RWS launches Trados Studio 2024

June 27, 2024 /

RWS, a provider of technology-enabled language, content and intellectual property solutions, announced the launch of Trados Studio 2024. The latest version of the computer-assisted translation (CAT) tool addresses the evolving needs of users on multiple fronts with access to new AI capabilities, enhanced accessibility features and multiple usability improvements:

New AI capabilities: Trados Studio 2024 gives users access to a range of AI features that help them to work smarter and produce higher quality translations. One of these is Trados Copilot – AI Assistant which brings generative translation capabilities to every user, allowing them to harness Large Language Models (LLMs) in a variety of ways to assist translation. 

New accessibility features: With the accessible, feature-rich CAT tool, the ability to complete a project with screen readers, visually impaired users can now create and manage projects, perform translation and generate target files easily. These advancements in accessibility help create equal opportunities for all and also improve usability and productivity across the supply chain. 

Improved cloud and desktop alignment: Along with hundreds of enhancements, RWS has released a new Manager view, providing a more unified way to work with files and projects in a single window with a clean, modern interface. 

https://www.trados.com

Argo Translation launches CMSConnect: Slack

June 18, 2024 /

Argo Translation, a Chicago-based language services company, announced the launch of CMSConnect: Slack. The tool simplifies multilingual communication for the nearly 35 million users of Slack, a popular cloud-based team communication platform. This launch marks another addition to Argo Translation’s CMSConnect, a suite of translation connectors that includes translation integrations for a multitude of CMS, PIM, CRM, and DAM platforms, including Microsoft SharePoint, WordPress, and Adobe Experience Manager.

With native integration in the Slack platform, CMSConnect: Slack is easy to use. Once a customer has authorized Argo Translation access to their Slack workspace, customers can choose which of the 80+ languages and dialects they want available to their team. Afterward, users simply add the corresponding flag emoji to the text intended for non-English speakers to prompt an AI translation. Additionally, users can generate a voice message from translated text and translate attached documents.

⁠CMSConnect: Slack workflows are customizable, allowing for the display of a quality score with every translated message. Argo Translation can also implement a custom language model to refine the messages for improved tone, clarity, and grammar.

https://www.argotrans.com/technology/cmsconnect-slack

Acrolinx launches new AI capabilities

June 18, 2024 /

Acrolinx, experts in SaaS enterprise content governance, launched new generative AI capabilities to maximize productivity benefits while mitigating risks that AI poses. After a successful Beta program with over 20 enterprise customers, Get Suggestions, AI Assistant, and AI Guardrails are publicly available for organizations to use AI confidently and securely. 

Get Suggestions accelerates the writing and editing phase of content creation. With Get Suggestions, most content improvement recommendations have clickable fixes to align content to complex enterprise standards. Get Suggestions saves writers and editors time, as well as improves content quality based on your organization’s own style guide and content compliance needs. 

AI Assistant accelerates the ideation phase of the writing process. With AI Assistant, content is generated that’s already aligned with your company’s writing standards. Writers get a chatbot experience to request the generation of content.

AI Guardrails for your content makes sure that AI-generated writing is compliant with standards in private deployments of LLMs. AI Guardrails for content standards ensures only high-quality content is used for fine-tuning LLMs, checks the quality of AI-generated content before it’s presented to writers, stops low-quality content from getting published, and checks the quality of content already published.

https://www.acrolinx.com

Adobe updates Acrobat with GenAI and chat across document types

June 17, 2024 /

Adobe announced Acrobat customers can now create and edit images in PDFs using text prompts, powered by Adobe Firefly, along with new features in Acrobat AI Assistant integrated into Reader and Acrobat workflows that allow customers to ask questions, get insights, and create content from information across groups of PDFs as well as other document types.

The new Acrobat features enable customers to easily enhance existing images and generate new images in their PDFs with generative AI without leaving the app. Features include: 

  • Edit Image in Acrobat offers easy-to-use tools like the Firefly-powered Generative Fill, Remove Background, Erase and Crop to add, remove and revitalize content in document images in a snap. From erasing unwanted objects to removing backgrounds or adding new images, customers have full, easy control over the visuals in their PDFs.
  • With Generate Image in Acrobat, customers can add new images to their PDFs, powered by Adobe’s Firefly Image 3 Model. Customers can quickly adjust the size and style and add images to any part of a document.

Adobe is offering free, full access to all Acrobat AI Assistant features June 18 – June 28. Early access pricing for the AI Assistant add-on subscription starts at US$4.99 per month.

https://news.adobe.com/news/news-details/2024/Adobe-Reimagines-Acrobat-Bringing-Firefly-AI-to-PDFs-and-Expanding-Use-Across-More-Document-Types/default.aspx

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