1. WORLD CONSORTIUM Welcome to

2. An overview by Phil Elliott Satzconcept Skandinavia a.s.

3. What is it? A desktop publishing system? A set of modular, high quality publishing tools? A high end typographic system? An extremely powerful and flexible composition and pagination engine?

4. The answer is “Yes” It can be all of these. In fact it has become one of the most open and powerful document rendering systems available in the world today.

5. History Began development 13 years ago Goals - To develop a totally open and modular set of high end publishing tools –Everything is in ASCII format –Everything is totally macro driven Developed to be Platform Independent Used SGML as basis for its native mark- up language Included powerful internal Scripting and Showstring language

6. Who uses it? Over 10,000 users worldwide including:- –Typographic Houses –Printers –Publishing Houses –Commercial Companies –Government Agencies –Graphic Designers and Advertising Agencies

7. What does it offer? Full composition and pagination of SGML and XML Instances without compromise to the Instance Full typographic control Full Math capability (TeX and LaTeX) Full tables capability (including Cals.) Multi-language support (over 40 languages supported) Powerful Scripting and Showstring language Manual or fully automated page make-up On-line capabilities Desktop or Black-box versions ODBC and OCX capabilities

8. Desktop Interface 3B2 provides the desktop user with a fully customisable interface (GUI) which allows simultaneous WYSIWYG and Edit bar displays of the text stream.

9. Full support for generation and display of Equations. –Uses T E X commands for inline for display –Filter for handling LATEX –Displays both marked- up stream and WYSIWYG versions simultaneously –Manual entry orautomated processing Math

10. Tables Versatile and powerful tables management –Totally configurable multi-column mutli cell span columns span pages continuation headers –Automatic rules based placement –Handles tables in CALS format

11. SGML and XML Handles SGML / XML in native format –No conversion or pre- processing of Instance required on import or export –No compromise to integrity of Instance –Full handling of Attributes, Elements and Entities –James Clarke SP Parser included –Fully automated page make-up

12. Languages Ideally suited to the production of multi-lingual publications 3B2 currently handles over 40 different languages –Western to Eastern –Latin based to Cyrillic –Soon CJK Has full hyphenation control Can work with mixed languages in a single text stream

13. Automation Through its powerful scripting and macro languages 3B2 can be implemented as a fully automated black-box composition and pagination engine allowing: –Dynamic interpretation of SGML/XML/marked-up data, enabling data manipulation and re-positioning without compromise to the integrity of the original Instance –Dynamic placement and sizing of tables, graphics, footnotes and endnotes –Dynamic generation of folio’s, Indexes and Contents. –Automatic high speed pagination

14. OUTPUT INTERNET / INTRANET CD - ROM PostScript PDF / TIFF EPS GIF ELECTRONIC FILE This is the final paper version. EXTERNAL TEXT IMAGE LIBRARY DATABASE MODEL PART No. DESCRIPTION Shuttle 12345 Wing Section Shuttle 12346 Hydraulic Valve Shuttle 12347 Valve Cover MANUSCRIPT TEXT FILE S G M L/ XML Structured Text Stream COMPOSITION/PAGINATION Automated Production SOURCE

15. Key Applications Education & Legal Scientific, Technical & Medical Journals Educational Books Encyclopaedias Dictionaries Legal Publications –Bound –Loose-leaf Commercial Manuals –User –Service Catalogues –Product –Parts Directories –Standard –Yellow Pages

16. Platforms Supported Desktop Platform –Windows 95 98 NT Black-box Platform –NT –Sun Unix –HP UX

17. Power - Flexibility - Speed The Solution for Complex Publishing Applications