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Synex Information AB: Hasse Haitto +46 (8) 791 8881 Stora Nygatan 20 S-111 27 Stockholm Sweden |
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Siegburg, Germany, and Stockholm, Sweden - September 18, 1997 - The IsoDraw Company and Synex Information AB announced today that The IsoDraw Company will prepare its state of the art viewing technology named IsoView for use in applications based on the Synex ViewPort SGML browsing toolkit. The two companies will also be cooperating in facilitating the process of building interactive technical manuals for the end user.
Customers in industries that produce high volumes of documentation with large numbers of technical graphics have been frustrated by the lack of support for CGM (Computer Graphics Metafile) graphics in today's publishing environments. CGM is the ISO (International Standards Organization) standard 2D graphics format and has been widely adopted by industries such as aerospace, automotive, defense, oil & gas, heavy equipment, machine tools, rail equipment, and telecommunications.
With the release of the cross-platform IsoView product family, customers will have the opportunity to use intelligent CGM graphics for electronic delivery of their documents. Hotspots in an illustration enable the user to jump to different areas of the document thus providing a tighter integration of textual data with illustrations and a true graphical interface for navigation.
"With the integration of our IsoView technology into Synex ViewPort applications, customers now have a robust solution to handle interactivity inside their SGML documents," said Dieter Weidenbrück, managing director and founder of The IsoDraw Company. "This is another important step forward to facilitate the handling of high-quality graphics based on international standards."
"We are very excited about the capabilities that IsoView will add to our Synex ViewPort technology," said Hasse Haitto, President of Synex Information AB. "We have traditionally had a very strong support for graphics formats and hyperlinking, and this is now being extended further through the advanced handling of interactive objects inside illustrations."
Customers using The IsoDraw Company's flagship technical illustration program, IsoDraw™, can now create CGM version 4 files including hotspots. Inside Adobe's FrameMaker+SGML 5.5® editor text and graphics can be combined using The IsoDraw Company's CGM technology provided with these products. The resulting SGML documents can then be viewed by applications built on top of the cross-platform Synex ViewPort toolkit, which powers the majority of SGML browsers on the market today.
IsoView will display CGM version 1, 2, and 3 graphics. Further, customers who use IsoDraw will find that IsoView can read CGM Version 4 files created by IsoDraw. Additionally, IsoView can handle IsoDraw's native format.
The IsoView technology is a scaleable product family that is licensed for use inside viewing applications. The first products out of this family will become available towards the end of 1997. Pricing is yet to be determined.
Located in Siegburg, Germany and Santa Clara, California, The IsoDraw Company develops and markets the world's leading technical illustration package, IsoDraw, and related products and services. Founded in Germany in 1990 as ITEDO Software, the company is committed to providing high quality, leading-edge graphics software to standards-based technical publishers.
Synex Information AB is based in Stockholm, Sweden. Its flagship product Synex ViewPort is the world's leading SGML/HyTime browser toolkit. The company was founded 1993 as a result of years of research and development at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and is now represented by resellers throughout Europe, North America, and Asia.
IsoDraw is a trademark of The IsoDraw Company. Synex ViewPort(tm) and the Synex ViewPort logotype are trademarks of Synex Information AB. The SGML Open Member logo is a trademark of SGML Open. Use is restricted to member organizations. All other trademarks and tradenames are the property of their respective holders and are hereby acknowledged.