SGML: Page Composition With Penta's SGMLpublisher

Subject: Page Composition With Penta's SGMLpublisher

Date: 19 Feb 1997 20:14:16 GMT

From: "michaeldgx" <michaeldgx@worldnet.att.net>

Newsgroup: comp.text.sgml


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At the SGML '96 Conference, Penta Software, Inc. introduced SGMLpublisher
as the latest addition to its DeskTopPro product line.

DeskTopPro provides composition solutions for organizations with high
volume, revision intensive publishing activities that utilize either
interactive or batch pagination techniques to integrate text, graphics,
tables, equations, and color into complex page designs.  DeskTopPro is used
worldwide by major pre-press service providers and publishers to produce
books, journals, and other document formats for the academic, business,
professional, and consumer markets.

With SGML Publisher, Penta's DeskTopPro users can input and process SGML
documents utilizing the element tags, attributes, and entities to directly
drive the composition and pagination software modules.  This is
accomplished by creating an AutoTag stylesheet from the information
contained in the DTD, declaration, and document instances.  Within the
graphical environment of this stylesheet, the user adds the necessary
formatting commands.  The composition software then generates PostScript
output based on all style application points, marked or unmarked, within
the document instance.  The software resolves issues of context sensitive
style, implied style, wrong ordered data, as well as replicated and
suppressed data.

Since this approach does not utilize filters to transform the data,  the
integrity of the original document is maintained throughout the production
process.  When documents are updated, there is no embedded coding to
recreate, as is the case with composition solutions that are based on data
filters.  Thus, the document maintains its SGML structure so that it can be
parsed or exported at any time.

A detailed review of SGMLpublisher can be found in Vol 26, No. 10 of the
Seybold Report On Publishing Systems (pgs. 19-23) which is dated 2/10/97.

While a printed brochure is not yet available, descriptive information can
be provided in the Acrobat PDF format.  This can be sent as an e-mail
attachment (mime or uuencode), FTP, FAX or mail.

As Penta's Area Manager for the Midwest and Western regions, I will be
scheduling local demonstrations throughout the year.  Please contact me to
discuss your current and future needs.

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Regards,

Michael Goldfarb                       Penta Software, Inc.
michaeldgx@worldnet.att.net            (847) 490-9910