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"All I know is just what I read in the papers." -Will Rogers
An amazing variety of services and software available to help you in virtually any
electronic publishing task. The information in this chapter will lead you to these
sources. It is categorized into a number of useful topics. In addition the conspicuous
lack of Web resources is because the Web itself is a much better source than
any printed document. Simply go to one of the Internet Starting Points and look
around a little. (See Section 1 . 9 Internet Starting Points in Chapter 1 World Wide Web
for pointers to these sites.) Inclusion in this chapter is by no means an endorsement
of the specific company or product, just an attempt to save you some legwork and make
your life a little easier.
Clip art seems like a simple enough topic. You wouldn't think of having too many kinds. But hard as it may be to believe, there are all sorts of clip art categories. Funny, serious, industrial, medical, borders, textures, 3D, and so on, are some of the many varieties of clip art you can buy.
From a technical point of view, the format of the artwork is the important factor. One critical distinction is whether the artwork is scalable (EPS is scalable) or not. If the ability to scale the image is not important, just go with a convenient format, assuming you're satisfied with the content, of course. Most important, is a determination that you can use the clip art with your publishing software.
If you're concerned about producing documents with everyone else's "same old clip art," you can try the subscription approach. Subscription clip art services provide monthly supplies of clip art. These services provide up-to-date topical or seasonal art for a price.
Not exactly clip art, but worth knowing about, is the existence of special papers for laser printers. Colorful gradations and patterns can be used for dramatic impact. Certificates, and awards, already embossed and ready for the laser printer, are also available.
There are also two YAHOO catagories for Web access which are at:
http://www.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Companies/Computers/Software/Clip_art
http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Multimedia/Pictures/Clip_Art
Assorted
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- 3G Graphics, 11410 N.E. 124th St. Suite 6155, Kirkland, WA 98034(206) 367-9321, (800) 456-0234
- ArtRight, 1130 Morrison Dr., Ottowa, Ontario K2H 9N6(613) 820-1000, FAX (613) 820-2651
- Image Club Graphics, Inc., Suite 5, 1902 Eleventh St. SE, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2G 3G2 (403) 262 8008, FAX (403) 261-7013
- Regular upgrades to keep current
Metro Imagebase18623 Ventura Blvd., Suite 210Tarzana, CA 91356(800) 525-1552
- T/Maker, 1390 Villa Street, Mountain View, CA 94041(800) 395-0195, FAX: (415) 962-0201
Cartoon
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- Freemyers Design, 575 Nelson Ave., Oroville, CA 95965(916) 533-9365
- AD/ART Plus, Cartoon Designer, Architectural Graphics, Laser Art/Borders
Sandhill Arts, P.O. Box 7298, Menlo Park, CA 94026 (800) 854-0717
Government Symbols/Maps
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- One Mile Up, Inc., 7011 Evergreen Court, Annandale, VA 22003(703) 642-1177http://www.onemileup.com
- Federal Clip Art
Cartesia Software, 5 S. Main St. PO Box 757, Lambertville, NJ 08530(800) 334-4291
- MapArt (PC and Mac)
Specially Printed Paper
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- Baudville Computer Products, 5380 52nd Street SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49512 (616) 698-0888, (800) 728-0888
- Awards, Certificates
Desktop Graphics, 268 East 16th St.,Suite 6, Costa Mesa, CA. 92627
- Awards, Certificates
Queblo Images, 131 Heartland Blvd, Brentwood, NY 11717(800) 523-9080
- Exotic and preprinted paper
Subscription Service
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Dynamic Graphics, Inc., 6000 N. Forest Park Dr., PO Box 1901, Park Dr., Peoria IL 61656-9941(800) 255-8800, FAX (309) 688-5873
- Designer's Club (subscription service)
Textures
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- Artbeats, Inc., P.O. Box 20083, San Bernadino, CA 92406(714) 881-1200
- Impact Communications, 13412 Galewood St., Sherman Oaks CA 91423(213) 479-4377
- Progressive Desktop Publishing, 13A Park Ave., Gaithersberg MD 20877(301) 948-3047
Three-D
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- NEC Technologies, Inc., 1255 Michael Dr., Wood Dale, IL 60191-10941-800-NEC-INFO
- NEC Clip Art 3-D
Macromedia, 600 Townsend, San Francisco, CA 94103(415) 442-02001, FAX: (415) 442-0190
- SwivelArt, Anatomy Collection: Clip Art with Guts including the heart, liver, lungs, kidneys, and articulated skeleton.
Copyrights, Stock, and Syndicates
Stock photographs are a great source of professional, high quality images...for a price. Prices vary primarily on how you want to use them. A syndicate is an organization through which you may obtain legal permission to use cartoons, photographs and so on.
The pricing is usually based on the type and quantity of publication and on types of distribution, that is, American or world rights. On YAHOO there is: http://www.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Companies/Law/Intellectual_Property/Copyrights and for stock photography,
http://www.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Companies/Photography/Stock_Photography.
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- Bettmann Archives & News Photos, New York(212) 777-6200
- Copyright Clearance Center, Inc., 27 Congress St. Salem, MA 01970 (508) 744-3350 http://www.copyright.com
- A nonprofit organization helping photocopy users comply with the copyright law. They have a register of over 1,000,000 journals, books, magazines, and newsletters.
Comstock, New York(800) 225-2727
- The Image Bank, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and others(212) 529-6700
- TIME Picture Syndication(212) 522-3352
- LIFE Picture Service(212) 522-4800
- Images from the huge collection of Time and Life magazines.
- Universal Press Syndicate, 4900 Main St., Kansas City, MO 64112(816) 932-6600
- Typical costs for use in a book: (cartoon)American rights $175 to $250, world rights $275-to $325. Costs vary widely based on source material and usage. They will provide a stat (cameraready copy).
Data Translation, Format Conversion
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- Advanced Computer Innovations, 30 Burncoat Way, #C5, Pittsford, NY 14534-2216(716) 383-1939, FAX (716) 383-8428
- R-Doc/X, bidirectional conversions between over 25 word processor programs. $149.00 MS-DOS
Blueberry Software, 7207 Bodega Ave., Sebastopol CA 95472(707) 829-5443
- Filtrix
DataViz Inc., 55 Corporate Drive, Trunbull, CT, 06611(203) 268-0030, FAX: (203) 268-4345, http://www.dataviz.com.
- MacLink Plus, conversion utilities that work with the Apple File Exchange program provided by Apple. Converts between Macintosh and MS-DOS data for many file formats.
Design Software Technologies, Inc., 19808 Nordhoff Place, Chatsworth, CA 91311(312) 231-4540
- Word for Word (DOS), bidirectional conversions between over 30 word processor formats. Batch processing utility. ASCII or EBCDIC files accepted.
Inset Systems, 71 Commerce Drive, Brookfield, CT 06804-3405(800) 828-8088
- HiJaak & HiJaak P, screen capture and format conversion
Shaffstall Corporation, 7901 East 88th Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46256-1293(800) 248-3475, FAX: (317) 842-8294
- SGML Translator, 6000 Media Conversion System, Hardware and software full media conversion system. The full system has over 1000 formats. Good for setting up a service bureau. It can handle 3 1/2", 5 1/4" , and 8" floppies.
- Data Entry (including off-shore services)
- Data Development, Inc., 3595 SW Corporate Parkway, Palm City, FL 34990(407) 288-SCAN, FAX: (407) 288-2775
- Equidata Data Entry Services, Equidata Building, 3200 S., Arlington St., Suite One, Akron, OH 44312
- OCR
Caere, 100 Cooper Court, Los Gatos, CA 95030(800) 535-SCAN
- OmniPage product family
Calera Recognition Systems, 2500 Augustine Drive, Santa Clara, CA 95054(408) 986-8006
- Expervision, 3590 North First Street, San Jose, CA 95134(800) REA-DTYPE
- Infinite Images International, 360 Herndon Parkway, Suite 2100, Herndon, VA 22071(703) 803-9000
- Inovatic, 1901 Ft Meyer Drive, Arlington, VA 22209(703) 522-3053
- OCRSystems, 1800 Bayberry Road, Suite 1405, Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006(215) 938-7460
- Progressive Technologies, 19650 Club House Road, Suite 106, Gaithersburg, MD 20897(301) 590-0900
- Xerox Imaging Systems, Kurzweil Products, 185 Albany St., Cambridge, MA 02139(800) 248-6550
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- ArborText, Inc., 1000 Victors Way, Suite 400, Ann Arbor, MI 48108(313) 996-3566, FAX: (316) 996-3573
- SGMLPublisher
- CYGNET Publishing Technologies, 411 Seventh Ave., Suite 1175, Pittsburgh, PA 15219(412) 471-2070, FAX: (412) 391-7215
- Scribe
Frame Technology Corp., 1010 Rincon Circle, San Jose, CA 95131(800) 843-7263, FAX: (408) 433-1928
- FrameMaker, multiple platform publishing system
image network, 140 S. Whisman Road, Mountain View, CA 94041(800) TO-XROFF, FAX: (415) 967-0543
- Xroff, one of many implementations of troff available from many sources including public domain clones from the Free Software Foundation. This is one particularly widely used commercial vendor.
- Intergraph Corp., One Madison Industrial Park, Huntsville, AL 35894-0001(800) 826-3515, FAX: (205) 730-2461
- Interleaf, Inc., 9 Hillside Ave., Prospect Place,Waltham, MA 02154(800) 456-5323, FAX: (617) 290-4943
- Interleaf 5, multiple platform publishing system
Island Graphics Corp., 4000 Civic Center Dr.,San Rafael, CA 94903-4178(800) 255-4499, FAX: (415) 491-0402
- IslandDraw, IslandWrite, IslandPaint, workstation equivalent of PC oriented packages
Personal TEX Inc., 12 Madrona Ave., Mill Valley, CA 94941(415) 388-8853, FAX: (415) 388-8865
- PC TEX and an extensive collection of supporting software such as printer drivers for PCs.
- Ventura Software, Inc., 15175 Innovation Drive, San Diego, CA 92128(800) 822-8221
- Ventura Publisher
Education and Training
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The following companies offer a variety of education and training courses in the area of electronic publishing. There are, of course, many, many more; just watch your junk mail.
- InfoDesign Corporation, One Prince Stree, Suite 300, Alexandria, VA 22314(703) 799-0932, FAX: (703) 519-9775
- SGML training and consulting
Lou Williams Seminars, Two Prudential Plaza, 180 N. Stetson Ave., #1500, Chicago, IL 60601(800) 837-7123, FAX: (312) 565-1770
- Course: 1day, "Design for Destop Publishing"
LearnKey Inc., 93 S. Mountain Way Dr., Rm X, Orem, UT 840581-800-937-3279
- Software Training Videos: Ventura Publisher, WordPerfect.
Patricia Seybolds' Office Computing Group, 148 State Street, 7th Floor, Boston, MA 02109(800) 826-2424
- Market research, Newsletters and Reports
Ragan Communications Seminars, 407 S. Dearborn Street, Chicago, IL 606051-800-878-5331
- Course: 1 day, "Effective Design for Desktop Publishing"
USLynx, 853 Broadway, New York, NY 10003(212) 673-3210
- SGML training and DTD consulting
VideoTutor, 110 Wild Basin Road, Suite 280, Austin, TX 787461-800-252-1225
- Video tape self paced tutorials (PageMaker, Ventura Publisher, Graphic Design (see below)
Fonts
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The following companies all provide fonts. Some also sell font manipulation and management software. For information on the particulars of font formats and types of equipment they work with, contact the individual companies.
Some of the vendors have fonts packages for particular applications such as Faxes, Newsletters, and Presentations.
- Adobe Systems, Inc., 1585 Charleston Rd., Mountain View, CA 94039(800) 833-6687
- Fonts, Adobe TypeAlign, Adobe Type Manager, and more
Agfa Compugraphic, 90 Industrial Way, Wilmington, MA 01887(800) 424-8973
- Fonts
Altsys Corp., 269 W. Renner Rd., Richardson, TX 75080
- Fontographer, Metamorphosis
Bitstream, Inc., 215 First St., Cambridge, MA 02142(800) 522-3668
- Fonts, BitStream MakeUp, FaceLift
Broderbund Software Inc., 500 Redwood Blvd., Novato, CA 91355(805) 257-1797
- TypeStyler
Linotype-Hell Co., 425 Oser Ave., Hauppauge, NY 11788(800) 633-1900
- Fonts
Monotype Typography Inc., 53 W. Jackson Blvd., Ste. 504, Chicago, IL 60604(800) 666-6897
- Fonts
The Font Company, 12629 N. Tatum Blvd., Phoenix, AZ 85032(602) 998-9711
- Fonts
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This new software classification describes products that let groups of people work in a collaborative manner. Check out Yahoo's list at:
http://www.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Companies/Computers/Software/Communications_and_Networking/Groupware
http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet_Software/Groupware.
- BBN Software Products, 150 Cambridge Park Dr., Cambridge, MA 02140 (800) 251-1717, FAX (617) 873-4020
- BBN/Slate was the first UNIXbased computersupported cooperative work product. As the name implies, it presents users, in different locations, a virtual slate or white board in which they can share.
Clarity Software Inc., 2700 Garcia Ave., Mountain View, CA 94043(800) 235-6736
- Rapport
Lotus Development Corp., 55 Cambridge Parkway, Cambridge, MA 02142(800) 343-5414
- Lotus Notes
Microsoft Corp., 1 Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98502, (206) 882-8080, FAX (206) 936-7329
- Windows for Workgroups (WFW) makes PCbased groupware a reality. It provides convient mechanisms to share files, devices such as printers and a tool called Schedule+ to coordinate personal planning and meeting schedules among a group of people. It's a significant move foward, but this is brand new stuff so I'd take a showme attitude for a while.
ON Technology, Inc., 155 Second Street, Cambridge, MA 02141(617) 876-0900
- Instant Update is one of the first successful groupware products for the Mac. It allows a group of people to simultaneously work on a document. If flags conflicts when users attempt to edit the same paragraph and provides a mechanism to resolve the conflicts.
SunSolutions, Sun Technology Enterprises, Inc., 2550 Garcia Ave., MS MTV02-208, Mountain View, CA 94043(415) 336-4567, FAX (415) 962-9421
- ShowMe, interactive conferencing on workstation
Miscellaneous
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- AccessAbility Internet Services, 12515 Greenbriar Rd., Potomac MD 20854(301) 983-3547, FAX (301) 983-4899info@ability.net http://www.ability.net
- Self service Web site hosting facilities with extended HTML services.
Macbeth, P.O. Box 230, Newburgh, NY 12551-0230(914) 565-7660, FAX (914) 561-0267
- Munsell Color materials
- Macbeth provides numerous products and services based on the Munsell color standard. Your can obtain the Munsell books, software conversion between CIE and Munsell and even a Munsell tree of your very own!
Mulberry Technologies Inc, 1714 Tweed St.Rockville, MD 20851(301) 231-6930
- SGML Content Modeler
- Creating SGML DTDs is not a trivial task. Teaching other people is even more difficult. This is exactly where the SGML Content Modeler comes it. Created by Tommie Usdin formerly of the ATLIS Consulting Group, it consists of a series of jigsaw puzzle pieces. The pieces of the puzzle are labeled with a number of document elements, such as Book, Front, Chapter, and Section, and can be connected together with pieces that specify whether the elements are required, optional, or repeatable. The modeler is available from GCA.
SGML the Movie (see SoftQuad entry under SGML)
- A campy, informative video introduction to SGML. This videotape is a light introduction to the basic concepts of SGML with a nonthreatening humorous style. It's light on technical content but useful for the uninitiated (for example, managers). Produced by SoftQuad, Inc., it's always a pleasure (and much too rare) to see an explanation of technology that doesn't take itself too seriously.
- CDROM bonus - this movie is on the CD-ROM accompanying this book as a series of QuickTime files.

Network Connectivity
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You don't have to be a student or employed at a large corporation to enjoy the variety of information sources available on the Internet. You can actually just pay for it. There are literally hundreds of "ISPs" Internet Service Providers pick up any computer related magazine for a list. The vendors listed are not necessarily good for your needs and are present merely to help you get started.
Internet
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The following companies offer Internet connectivity or USENET (bulletin boardtype discussions) feeds or both.
This information came from a USENET posting by Jonathan Kamens (jik@MIT.Edu), the MIT Information Systems/Athena Moderator of the USENET newsgroup news.answers.
- AlterNet, a low cost approach for access to the Internet by UUNET (see entry below).
- Anterior Technology, P.O. Box 1206, Menlo Park, CA 94026-1206(415) 328-5615, Fax: (415) 322-1753, info@fernwood.mpk.ca.us
- CERFnet (California Education and Research Federation Network), San Diego Supercomputer Center, P.O. Box 85608, San Diego, CA 92186(800) 876-CERF, help@cerf.net
- Low cost dial-up access to the Internet
MSEN, Inc., 628 Brooks Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48103(313) 741-1120, info@msen.com
- MV Communications, Inc., P.O. Box 4963, Manchester, NH 03108-4963(603) 429-2223, Data: (603) 429-1735 (log in as "info" or "rates")
- Netcom - Online Communication Services, P.O. Box 20774, San Jose, CA 95160(408) 554-8649, bobr@netcom.com
- Reston, VA 22091(800) 827-7482, Computerized info: all-info@psi.comHuman-based info: info@psi.com
- SURAnet, 8400 Baltimore Blvd., College Park, MD 20742(301) 982-3214, Fax: (301) 982-4605news-admin@sura.net
- UUNET Technologies, Inc., 3110 Fairview Park Drive, Suite 570, Falls Church, VA 22042(703) 876-5050, Fax: (703) 876-5059info@uunet.uu.net
- UUNORTH, Inc., Box 445, Station E, Toronto, OntarioCanada M6H 4E3(416) 225-UNIX, Fax: (416) 537-4890
- UUCP & Connectivity across Canada and the Northern USA
Internet Information (official)
- SRI International, Room EJ291, 333 Ravenswood Ave., Menlo Park, CA 94025(800) 235-3155, nic@sri-nic.arpa
- Network Information Center (NIC), DDN Network Information Center,
BBN Laboratories, Inc., 10 Moulton St., Cambridge, MA 02238(617) 497-3400, nnsc@nnsc.nsf.net
- NSF Network Service Center (NNSC)
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- AIIM, Association for Information and Image Management, AIIM Publication Sales, 1100 Wayne Ave, Suite 1100, Silver Spring, MD 20910(301) 587-8202, FAX: (301) 587-2711http://www.aiim.org
- The AIIM Bookstore contains an excellent selection of books, standards, and related information on the imaging industry. This includes various specialized material on electronic document systems.
EPSIG, c/o OCLC, 6565 Frantz Rd., Dublin, Ohio 43017-3395(614) 764-6195
- The Electronic Publishing Special Interest Group (EPSIG) is a collaboration between the Online Computer Library Center, Inc. (OCLC), and the American Association of Publishers (AAP). From "EPSIG News" the organizations newsletter: "EPSIG membership is open to all individuals and organizations with an interest in learning more about, using, implementing, maintaining, updating, and expanding the Electronic Manuscript Standard, SGML and related standards, and electronic publishing in general. The main goals of EPSIG are helping members to use the Electronic Manuscript Standard and promoting its widespread and further development."
Graphic Communication Association, 100 Daingerfield Rd., Alexandria, VA 22314-2804(703) 519-8160, FAX: (703) 548-2867 http://www.gca.org
- The GCA has been one of the leading proponents of SGML over the years. Their "InfoTech Resource Listing" is also the single best source of SGML and related information including books, periodicals, and a variety of miscellaneous material.
- The HTML Writers Guildhttp://www.hwg.org/
- The focus of The HTML Writers Guild is on the World Wide Web publishing process as controlled by the HTML markup language.
- National Association of Desktop Publishers, 462 Old Boston St., Topsfield, MA 01983(800) 874-4113, FAX: (800) 887-6117
- The National Association of Desktop Publishers (NADTP) is a large trade association, serving the needs of professional desktop publishers. They produce a monthly journal the NADTP Journal and have a discount purchase program.
- SIGCAT, E.J. (Jerry) McFaul, U.S. Geological Survey, 904 National Center, Reston, VA 22092-9998http://www.sigcat.org
- The Special Interest Group on CD-ROM Applications & Technology (SIGCAT) is a user group sponsored by the U.S. Geological Survey that is devoted to the investigation of CD-ROM technology and its myriad applications. This group provides an ongoing forum for the exchange of ideas, information and experiences on CD-ROM for the benefit of all concerned.
SGML Users Group, Stephen Downie, Secretary, c/o SoftQuad, Inc., 56 Aberfoyle Crescent, Suite 810, Toronto,, Ontario, Canada, M8X2W4(416) 239-4801, FAX: (416) 239-7105http://www.sgmlopen.org/sgml/docs/library/usergrp.htm
- An international group devoted to the promotion and exchange of information about SGML.
SGML SIGhyper, Steven Newcomb, Chairman c/o TechnoTeacher, Inc., 1810 High Rd., Tallahassee, FL 32303-4408(904) 422-3574, FAX: (904) 386-2562email: srn@cmr.fsu.edu
- "The SGML Users' Group Special Interest Group on Hypertext and Multimedia (SGML SIGhyper) is interested in the promulgation of information about the ISO/IEC "HyTime" Hypermedia/Time-based Structuring Language (ISO/IEC Draft International Standard) 10744) as a worldwide standard technical framework for integrated open hypermedia. We hope that all information processing industries will evaluate HyTime as a standard toward which they can migrate in an orderly and profitable fashion. The intent is not to inhibit competition, but to help create a new arena for it, and to help to train and equip the players."
Society for Technical Communication (STC), 901 North Stuart St., Suite 304, Arlington, Va 22203(410) 528-8555
- The Society for Technical Communication is a non-profit educational organization. It publishes a quarterly magazine called Technical Communication filled will practical information for technical writers.
TeX Users Group (TUG), P.O. Box 9506-BR, Providence, RI 02940 (401) 751-7760, FAX: (401) 751-1071email: cvl@Math.AMS.com
- The TeX Users Group hosts an annual conference and provides technical information to users of TeX. They deal with many of the important yet practical issues concerning document processing.
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- Advanced Imaging, PTN Publishing Co., 445 Broad Hollow Rd., Melville, NY 11747
- A monthly magazine covering the imaging industry. Reasonably in depth technical articles. Not just fluff.
CALS Journal, 14407 Big Basin Way, Saratoga, CA 95070-6008(408) 867-8600, FAX (408) 867-9800
- A quarterly journal devoted to a wide range of topics of interest to the CALS community. These include business issues, standards, technology, and research.
CALS Report, Knowledge Base International, 13939 Northwest Fwy., Ste. 270, Houston, TX 77040 (713) 690-7644
- Latest and greatest gossip, rumors, and up-to-the-minute CALS trends.
Digital Video Magazine, Active Media Inc, IDG Communications, 600 Townsend St., Suite 170E, San Francisco CA 94103(713) 690-7644
- The world of digital video is covered including systems, formats, tools and software.
EPodd, Electronic Publishing Origination, Dissemination and Design, Dept JP/EPodd, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., Baffins Lane, Chinchester, West Sussex, PO19 1UD, England
- One of the few scholarly journals dedicated to the interdisciplinary field of electronic publishing. The range of papers cover a sufficiently wide domain of topics related to the publication process. The rather ungainly subtitle of the journal does accurately express the subject matter the origination, dissemination and design of electronic documents.
Imaging Magazine, 12 West 21 Street, New York, NY 10010(800) 542-7279
- A monthly magazine focusing on imaging and related technologies. "Written for information professional who buy, implement and manage imaging products and services." Good for broad overviews of particular technologies relevant to the imaging industry.
Imaging World, IW Publishing, Inc., Bayview St. at Sharp's Wharf,Camden, ME 04843(207) 236-8524, FAX (207) 236-6452http://www.cardinal.com/iw
- A monthly large format news magazine covering the entire imaging industry. Lots of short overviewtype news-briefs. Few in depth articles.
InterActivity, 411 Borel Ave., Suite 100, San Mateo, CA 94402(415) 358-9500, FAX (415) 655-4360interactivity@mfi.com
- A monthly magazine covering the wide variety of computer based interactive topics such as the Web, digital video, computer based training and animation.
Internet Business Report, Jupiter Communications627 Broadway, New York NY 10012(212) 780-6075, FAX (212) 780-6060http://www.jup.com
- An expensive ($495) publication with valuable Internet business data. Published monthly. Jupiter also offers a variety of special reports covering the Web, Online services and Internet in depth.
NewMedia Magazine, 901 Mariners' Island Blvd., Suite 365, San Mateo, CA 94404(415) 573-5170, FAX (415) 573-5131http://www.hyperstand.com
- A monthly magazine about multimedia trends. It is relativly light on in-depth technical details, but does a good job covering both the Mac and PC markets. Reviews tend to be honest early evaluations of products, rather than simple gee-whiz technobabble.
<TAG>: The SGML Newsletter, Graphic Communications Association, 100 Daingerfield Rd., 4th Fl., Alexandria VA. 22314-2888(703) 481-8700, FAX (703) 548-2867
- This newsletter was the first to focus entirely on the SGML industry. Provides valuable and timely news on trends and topics. It remains the principal source of news about SGML and related topics and also contains informative technical articles.
WebWeek, MecklerMedia Corp., 20 Ketchum St., Westport CT 06880http://www.iworld.com/ww-online
- This large format news magazine published monthly does an excellent job covering the exploding technologies surrounding the Web. With an terrific format including Web links for each page, this magazine covers this domain well.
SGML
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Many vendors of SGML products also offer consulting services.
- Agfa Corporation, 200 Ballardvale St., Wilmington, MA 01887(508) 658-5600, FAX (508) 658-2648
- Agfa CAPS
Avalanche Development Company, 947 Walnut Street, Boulder CO 80302-9885(303) 449-5032
- FastTAG (Automated Markup Software)Proof Positive (Writing Tools)
Database Publishing Systems Ltd., 608 Delta Business Park, Swindon, Wiltshire SN5 7XF, UK(+44) 793-512-515, FAX: (+44) 793-512-516
- DMA (Document Management Architecture)
Datalogics, 441West Huron St., Chicago, IL 60610(312) 266-4444, FAX: (312) 266-4473
- Electronic Book Technologies, One Richmond Square, Providence, RI 02906(401) 421-9550, FAX (401) 421-9551http://www.ebt.com
- DynaText (Hypertext using SGML)
Mulberry Technologies Inc, 1714 Tweed St.Rockville, MD 20851(301) 231-6930
- SGML Consulting
Oster & Associates, Inc., 125 N. Main Street, Bel Air, MD 21014(301) 838-1908, FAX: (301) 838-1913
- IPEX, Yard Software (MARK-IT), Sobemap parser
SEMA Group/Yard Software Systems Ltd., Avonbridge House, Bath Road, Chippenham, Wiltshire SN15 2BB(+44) 249-656-194, FAX: (+44) 249-655-723
- MARK-IT, OEM SGML parser, Sobemap parser
SoftQuad, Inc., 56 Aberfoyle Crescent, Suite 810, Toronto,, Ontario, Canada, M8X2W4(800) 387-2777http://www.sq.com
- Author/Editor
Software Exoterica Corporation, 383 Parkdale Ave., Suite, 406, Ottawa, Ontario K1Y 4R4, Canada(613) 722-1700, FAX: (613) 722-5706
- XGML
Standards (Defacto & Formal)
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This section contains information on where to obtains standards. The entries in this section are ordered by the colloquial names commonly used to refer to these standards. Their complete formal names, usually unwieldy, are in the reference.
On the Web look at yahoo's:http://www.yahoo.com/Reference/Standards
http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Iternet/Standards
- Sources of Standards
- American National Standards Institute Inc.,1430 Broadway, New York, NY 10018(212) 354-3300General Sales: (212) 642-4900International Publications: (212) 642-4995http://www.ansi.org
- You can purchase both ANSI and ISO standards from ANSI. The information on international standards is available from their International Publications department.
IETF, Internet Engineering Task ForceCNRI (Corporation for National Research Initiative) is the Secretariat1895 Preston White Drive, Suite 100Reston, VA 22091, USA(703) 620-890, FAX (703) 758-5913http://www.ietf.cnri.reston.va.us
- The real Internet standards folks.
CCITT, International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee, Place des Nations, CH-1211 Geneva 20Switzerland
- You can purchase the CCITT standards here.
National Computer Graphics Association, 2722 Merrilee Drive, Suite 200, Fairfax VA 22031
- NCGA has a great deal of information on graphics available and also offers the latest versions of IGES (V5.0 and later).
National Information Standards Organization,P.O. Box 1056, Bethesda, MD 20817(301) 975-2814
- NISO handles the "Z" standards, including the Z.39 protocol used as the basis of the WAIS protocol.
National Technical Information Service5285 Port Royal Rd., Springfield VA 22161(703) 487-4650, FAX: (703) 321-8547http://www.doc.gov/resources/csd/csntis.html
- You can obtain U.S. government FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) and CALS specifications and standards from NTIS. The list of FIPS is available through "NIST Publications List 58." NTIS is the primary source of U.S. government technical documents and software.
CALS
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The order numbers are for purchase through the National Technical Information Service (NTIS).
NTIS offers a subscription service for many of the CALS specifications called the CALS Automated Update Service.
- 1840A, Automated Interchange of Technical Information, MIL-STD-1840A Dec. 1988. Order #: PB91-962001LFF.
- 28001A, Markup Requirements and Generic Style Specification for Electronic Printed Output and Exchange of Text, MIL-M-28001A, July 1990.Order #: PB91-962201LFF.
- 28000, Digital Representation for Communication of Product Data: IGES Application Subsets, MIL-D-28000, Dec. 1988.Order #: PB91-962101LFF.
- 28002A, Raster Graphics Representation in Binary Format, Requirements for MIL-R-28002A, Nov. 1990. Order #: PB91-962301LFF.
- 28003, Digital Representation for Communication of Illustration Data: CGM Application Profile, MIL-D-28003, Dec. 1988. Order #: PB91-962401LFF.
- CALS on Disc, CALS standards and technical reports on CD-ROM. Available on a quarterly subscription basis. Order #: PB92-592140BCU.
- CALS Products Fact Sheet Order #: PR-898/897 (no charge).
- Introduction to CALS Kit Order #: PB-91-780148LFF (includes 1990 CALS videotape).
- CITIS, Contractor Integrated Technical Information Service (CITIS), Functional Requirements, MIL-C-CITIS (Draft), Order #: PB91-962601LFF.
- Handbook-59A, DoD CALS Program Implementation Guide, MIL-HDBK-59A, Sept. 1990, Order #: PB91-962501LFF.
Character and Data Formats
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- ASN.1, ISO 8824 Information processing systems Open Systems Interconnection Specification of Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1)
- ISO 646, Information processing ISO 7-bit coded character set for information interchange (1983)
- Latin 1, ISO 6937 Information processingCoded character sets for text communication - Part 1: General introduction (1983)Information processing Coded character sets for text communication - Part 2: Latin alphabetic and non-alphabetic graphic characters (1983)
- ISO 9541, Information processingFont and character information interchange - Part 1: ArchitectureInformation processing Font and character information interchange - Part 2: Interchange format
Document
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These references to what are usually considered software are to the specifications themselves.
- AAP, Standard for Electronic Manuscript Preparation and Markup, Electronic Markup Series, Association of American Publishers, Washington, D.C., August 1987
- DSSSL, ISO 10179 Information Processing Text and office systems Document Style Semantics and Specification Language (DSSSL)
- EPSF, Adobe Systems, Inc., Encapsulated PostScript File Format (EPSF Version 1.2), March 1987
- HyTime, ISO/IEC 10744, Hypermedia/Time-based Document Structuring Language
- LaTeX, Leslie Lamport, LaTeX: A Document Preparation System, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1986
- ODA, ISO 8613 Information Processing Text and office systems Office Document Architecture (ODA) and interchange format
- PostScript, Adobe Systems, Inc., Postscript Language Reference Manual, Addison Wesley, Reading, MA, 1985
- SCRIBE, B. Reid, "Scribe: A Document Specification Language and its Compiler," PhD. Dissertation, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA October 1980
- SGML, ISO 8879 Information processing Text and office systems Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)
- SDIF, ISO 9069 Information Processing SGML Support Facilities SGML Document Interchange Format (SDIF)
- SPDL, ISO 10180 Information Processing Text and office systems Standard Page Description Language (SPDL)
- TeX, D.E. Knuth, TeX and METAFONT: New Directions in Typesetting, Digital Press and the American Mathematical Society, Bedford MA and Providence RI, 1979
- TIFF, Aldus Corporation, "Tag Image File Format Specification Revision 6.0," Seattle, WA 98104, June 1989.
- TROFF, J. F. Ossanna, "NROFF/TROFF User's Manual," Bell Laboratories: Computing Science Technical Report No. 54, April 1977
- Type 1 Fonts, Adobe Systems, Inc., "Adobe Type 1 Font Format, March 1990
Graphics
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- CGM, ANSI X3.122-1986 American National Standard for Information Systems - Computer Graphics - Metafile for the Storage and Transfer of Picture Description Information (also exists as ISO 8632)
- FAX, CCITT Recommendation T.4: Standardization of Group 3 facsimile apparatus for document transmission (1988)CCITT Recommendation T.6: Facsimile coding schemes and coding control functions for Group 4 facsimile apparatus (1988)
- GKS, ANSI X3.124-1985, American National Standard for Information Processing Systems - Computer Graphics - Graphical Kernel System (GKS) Functional Description, Also the international standard ISO 7942.
- IGES, Y14.26-1989, Initial Graphic Exchange Specification (IGES 4.0).
- PHIGS, ANSI X3.144-1988, American National Standard for Information Processing Systems - Programmer's Hierarchical Interactive Graphics System (PHIGS) Functional Description, Archive File Format, Clear-Text Encoding of Archive File.
Information Retrieval and CDROMs
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- ISO 9660-1988, Information ProcessingVolume and file structure of CD-ROM form information interchange
- SQL, ANSI X3.135-1989, Database Language
- Z39, Z39.50-1988: Information Retrieval Service Definition and Protocol Specification for Library Applications. National Information Standards Organization
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There exist a number of fulltext retrieval engines. Most of them are oriented toward the production of CD-ROMs but their use is not restricted only to CD-ROMs.
- Dataware Technologies, Inc., 222 Third St., Suite 3300, Cambridge, MA 02142(800) 344-5849, FAX: (617) 621-0307
- Full Text Build
Fulcrum Corporate Headquarters, 785 Carling Ave.Ottawa, Canada K1S 5H4(800) 447-7702
- Ful/Text - indexing and retrieval software
Lotus Development Corp., 55 Cambridge Parkway, Cambridge, MA 02142 (800) 831-9679
- SmartText 2.0 for Windows, Lotus Magellan
Knowledge Access International, Inc., 2685 Marine Way, Suite 1305, Mountain View, CA 94043(800) 252-9273, FAX: (415) 964-2027
- KAware
KnowledgeSet Corp., 888 Villa St., Suite 410, Mountain View CA, 94041(800) 456-0469, FAX: (415) 968-9962
- Online Computer Systems, Inc., 20251 Century Blvd., Germantown, MD 20874(800) 922-9204, FAX: (301) 428-2903
- Reference Technology, Inc., 5775 Flatiron Parkway, Boulder, CO 80301,(800) 345-9569
- Reference Set, CD-ROM development tools
SunSoft, Inc., 2550 Garcia Ave., Mountain View, CA 94043(800) 227-9227
- SearchIt, integrated text retrieval
Verity, 1550 Plymouth, Mountain View, CA, 94043(415) 960-7600
- TOPIC & TOPIC Real-Time
ZyLab, 100 Lexington Drive, Buffalo Grove, IL 60089(708) 459-8000
- ZyIndex (DOS, Windows, UNIX)
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