[Document mirrored from SQ (www.sq.com) on April 7, 1995]

SoftQuad Panorama PRO -- a New Era in Web Content Delivery

SoftQuad Panorama PRO marries the Internet's global access with SGML's powerful features, bringing SGML document viewing to the World Wide Web for the first time. By putting SGML on the Web, SoftQuad Panorama PRO gives users and publishers access to longer and more complex documents than are currently available on the Web, finer control of their display, search and retrieval tools, and enhanced linking capabilities.

Order your copy of SoftQuad Panorama PRO for only US $139 (aggressive volume and reseller pricing available).

To place an order contact SoftQuad Sales.

Purchase order, Visa and Mastercard accepted.

Telephone:800-387-2777 (US only), 416-239-4801
Fax: 416-239-7105
email: mail@sq.com

SoftQuad Panorama PRO will also be bundled with Enhanced NCSA Mosaic from Spyglass Inc. A free unsupported and limited version, SoftQuad Panorama, will be downloadable from the Net as part of every Mosaic distribution.

Many publishers already use SGML to produce their print, Braille, large type and CD-ROM versions from a single SGML source file. Now that same file is ready for the Internet without any conversion or editing. SGML will also open up the Web to new kinds of material that can't conform to the more limited HTML format. For example, HTML does not allow for specialized document structures such as copyright information, part numbers or maintenance tasks.

SoftQuad Panorama PRO complements Mosaic, the NCSA's immensely popular HTML viewer. Mosaic will continue to provide HTML browsing but will instantly launch SoftQuad Panorama when it encounters any other type of SGML file. SoftQuad Panorama PRO will be interfaced to Spyglass's commercially available Enhanced NCSA Mosaic.

Benefits

Use the same SGML files to publish directly to the Internet and to print, CD-ROM, and Braille
Find useful information quickly and efficiently with powerful document search and retrieval capabilities
Save time with additional linking capabilities that take you directly to the part of the document you want to see
Publish all the information that your audience needs, not just the information that the markup allows

Features

automatically finds your document's DTD and style information through included catalogs
uses DTD and style catalogues stored in the same directory as your file, in another directory, or in the WebServer's master catalog
opens automatically when Mosaic encounters an SGML file
provides enhanced hypertext capabilities:
- support for HyTime (the ISO standard for hypertext and multi-media.)
- links to multiple points in other documents
- links to locations and phrases in documents with or without write permission
supports rich presentation capabilities:
- multiple user-defined stylesheets
- styles based on elements and their context
- ability to hide specific elements in certain stylesheets
- support for graphics in TIFF, BMP and WMF formats
- basic mathematics display support
- support for tables
allows users to personalize and organize information they are viewing
- create and save sets of links, annotations and customized bookmarks while viewing documents
- create interactive tables of contents based on SGML information structures
- share documents, styles and hypertext content between SoftQuad Panorama PRO and SoftQuad Explorer

Availability

SoftQuad Panorama and SoftQuad Panorama PRO will be available from SoftQuad in January of 1995 for Windows and UNIX. A Macintosh version will follow. SoftQuad Panorama PRO will also be available through Spyglass Inc. to licensees of their Enhanced NCSA Mosaic product.

SoftQuad Inc. 56 Aberfoyle Crescent, Toronto, Canada M8X 2W4

800-387-2777 (US only) --- 416-239-4801 --- FAX: 416-239-7105

panorama@sq.com

Mosaic(tm) is a trademark of the University of Illinois.

SoftQuad Panorama, SoftQuad Panorama PRO and SoftQuad HoTMetaL PRO are trademarks of SoftQuad Inc.

Other trademarked names are the property of their respective owners.