HexWeb XT 2.0, the XTension, which converts QuarkXPress documents to HTML, has now significant new features and was released at the Seybold Conference, Boston, 28.02.1996-01.03.1996.
The aim for these new powerful features is to strengthen the features needed by professional newspaper and magazine publishing on the Web, and to add support for the latest developments in the Web community like SHOCKWAVE, JAVA, QuickTime, Real Audio , FRAMES a.s.o.
HexWeb XT is the first XTension, that can create PROGRESSIVE JPEG images from XPress.
Progressive JPEG has many advantages over traditional JPEG: Since PJPEG is loaded in layers, the Web user gets the images faster on the screen, the file sizes are lower and image quality better.
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A new Tool Palette, THE SPECIAL OBJECT LIBRARY (SOL), gives the possibility to mix external elements to the HTML pages using Quark. Support for SHOCKWAVE animations, QUICKTIME movies, JAVA Applets, JAVA Scripts and REAL AUDIO is implemented.
Now you can also include every thinkable HTML tag in the library, and use them in your pages. External TABLES, IMAGES, ARTICLES, a.s.o. can also be added using SOL. Click here for more information.
FULL SUPPORT OF EXTERNAL HEADERS AND FOOTERS Both HexWeb XT and HexWeb Index can now use external header and footer files, to for example create individual look for every category.
VARIABLES You can now use variables like $HOME: which calculates relational paths to the ROOT folder, $DATE: which creates a date stamp, $TIME: which creates a time stamp, and others in your headers and footers.
Images can be given individual HSPACE and VSPACE values, to adjust the distance from text to the image.
Text boxes can now be exported as images in every format, full scalable and adjustable.
Images can now contain a hyperlink to other servers or to internal links
Since all important settings of HexWeb XT are located on the Server, it is full workgroup capable.
You can now create FRAMES interface or a Table of content file direct from XPress using menu commands.
HexWeb Index 2.1 new features:
HexWeb Index 2.0 can now chain articles, so that you can have navigation buttons to NEXT ARTICLE, and PREVIOUS ARTICLE inside your docs.
HexWeb Index 2.1 now shows you a preview of the table of content in a window as a list sorted by the categories: In the list you can sort and delete articles by using Drag& Drop. After re-indexing all links to "next articles" and "previous articles" are recalculated.
HexWeb Index can also check the image- and hyperlinks on your Web Server, and then notify you about missing links!
You can now create your own list type in HexWeb Index prefs, to fit the individual layout needs.
HexWeb Index 2.1 is now scriptable HexWeb Index 2.1 is delivered only bundled with HexWeb XT 2.0
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