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CDR Publisher can create Cross-Platform CD-ROMs that are compliant to CD-ROM Standards. Every feature of the existing computing environment is preserved. Therefore, these CD-ROMs are accessible in the native environment of PC, Macintosh, and UNIX systems.
PC, Macintosh, and UNIX versions can create any combination of CD-ROMs for other computer systems without accessing additional hardware. For example, the user can create a PC and Macintosh Hybrid CD-ROM on a UNIX workstation without using a PC or Macintosh computer. A PC can create a Macintosh CD-ROM without using a Macintosh computer.
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CDR Publisher runs on major computer systems supporting the user on Intel-based PC computers and clones running Microsoft Windows, Macintosh and Power Mac Systems, and RISC processor-based computers from SUN, AXIL and Silicon Graphics. This ensures that you are supported on most of the major computer platforms.
CDR Publisher supports the most popular file exchange environments existing on PC, Mac, and UNIX systems. The PC version accepts Macintosh files recorded on PC Exchange disks. The Macintosh version accepts PC files recorded on PC Exchange disks. UNIX versions accept files recorded in CAP format (Columbia AppleTalk for UNIX format).
With CDR Publisher, you can utilize the Image on-the-fly feature to create your CD-ROM. Unlike other software packages that force the user to create a CD-ROM image on a hard disk and then copy it to a CD-ROM Recorder, CDR Publisher allows you to directly write to a CD-ROM Recorder. This eliminates the duplication of data, thereby reducing the time required to create a CD-ROM.
CDR Publisher generates each CD-ROM image Dynamically. Unlike many CD-ROM premastering software packages that pre-allocate spaces for directory and file records, which limits the user to recording a pre-defined number of files and directories, CDR Publisher has no preset limitations. This allows you to freely tailor the CD-ROM to your specific needs without any restrictions.
For example: At EDS, a division of General Motors, after many premastering software packages had failed, CDR Publisher reliably created a CD-ROM image with a directory containing more than 24,000 files.
The CDR Publisher software provides two features to safeguard the user against creating erroneous discs due to the computer's inability to sustain the data transfer rate required by all of the CD-ROM Recorders.
Through the use of the Profile System Speed and the Virtual Write features, CDR Publisher will test the communication speed between the computer system and the recorder prior to actual recording. Furthermore, CDR Publisher will assist the user in fine-tuning the computer system in order to create usable discs and ensure a correct, accurate recording the first time.
CDR Publisher provides the user with an easy method of optimizing the CD-ROM image. It organizes the underlying CD-ROM image layout while preserving all the files and directory structure of the original source. At the user level, there are no visible differences in where the files are. However, a read process on an optimized disc may be twice as fast on a normal 1X CD-ROM reader.
To help the user to achieve an even better throughput, CDR Publisher provides you with the capability to further customize the disc layout after the automated optimization process.
CDR Publisher is compatible with Microsoft Windows and X-Window Systems. It adapts an "Intuitive Graphical Interface" that the user can easily run from CD-ROM or run from an installed hard disk. The ability to run from CD-ROM allows the user to free up the hard disk with minimum effort.
Creating a CD-ROM requires only three steps:
1. Source. (Select where your data currently resides)
2. Destination. (Transfer the data to the target device)
3. Create Image. (Start the premastering process)
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The Graphical Interface is consistent on all the platforms CDR Publisher supports, thus reducing the learning time when the user is operating on a different platform.
CDR Publisher is Network Ready. If you have a multi-platform computer environment composed of IBM PC, Macintosh, SUN, HP, SGI, or Digital VAX workstations, you can access the computer data across the network and create your own CD-ROM on the CDR Publisher supported computer. For example, you can create CD-ROMs on a SUN workstation or on a PC with data from an IBM main frame or VAX station. This advanced feature fully utilizes all information residing in multiple computing environments.
With this feature selected, directory and file names will be converted automatically to a specified CD-ROM standard. A record of the original names and converted names will be saved into the Conversion File for reference. This feature saves the user a great deal of time by automating the file name conversion process in order to create portable CD-ROMs that conform to the ISO standard.
CDR Publisher allows the user to create a CD-ROM image and output to a hard disk (virtual disk). The user can use the virtual disk to correct any mistakes or optimize the disc layout prior to any recording. This process helps the user to ensure the integrity of the CD-ROM without spending any money on performance testing on expensive recordable CD-ROMs.
CDR Publisher records all configurations, parameters and lists during a session. This enables the user to easily store and retrieve any customization and optimization of functions the software product supports. Each instance of the customization is recorded as a project. Each version of CD-ROM can be managed by a project. With this feature, the user can easily keep track of multiple versions of different CD-ROMs.
In many multi-user (UNIX) and multi-process (PC & Mac) operating environments, pre-mastering software packages are frequently unable to sustain the data transfer rate a CD-ROM Recorder needs. As a result, many recordable CD-ROMs are unusable and wasted. CDR Publisher controls the writer directly. CDR Publisher uses a unique Multi-Buffered-I/O mechanism to speed up the data transfer throughput, therefore eliminating the creation of erroneous discs.