North Atlanta Releases Cross-Media Publishing Solution

The North Atlantic Publishing System (NAPS) NAPS translation system (NTS, NAPS Tranltion System) made its debut on the Sybold site. This translation system is tailored to meet the needs of editing and production. It is a transformation scheme based on XML language. Specifically, NTS is a complex translation engine that can automatically convert Quark and Word/RTF files into XML files can also be converted into HTML files for the needs of web publishing.

The target users of NTS are publishers who want to carry out cross-media publishing but do not want to change the existing publishing methods too much. Peter Baumgartner, president of North Atlanta, pointed out that the purpose of NTS is to allow publishers to remain in a custom environment such as Word. Work, and the generated file can be easily converted to an XML file through the NTS system, and the generated XML file can also be converted back to the original file format easily. Because content editing and commercial information exchange are two different concepts, the editing process The use of XML is different from the requirements of XML in business communications, so for the editing process requires a dedicated XML application product, NTS system came into being for this.

Generating an NTS translator uses a browser interface to map standard page elements, including Quark frames, paragraph styles, and character types, into an XML markup format. Once the NTS translator is generated, the translator will automatically start working after the user makes the conversion request without any other management and instructions. When the NTS and NPS2000 are used simultaneously, the user operation is very simple. First, the file to be converted is indicated, and then Select the appropriate translator from a popup menu. If you use the NTS system alone, users need to submit the file to a "hot folder."

NTS has the following features:

Provide a flexible, browser-based interface to build templates and manage systems. Use existing DTD and NTS auto-generation capabilities to efficiently generate XML files. Use pre-selected HTML design programs (such as Dreamweaver) to generate HTML templates. · Support XSLT as an alternative HTML template for XML to HTML conversion · Server platform can be windows NT or windows 2000
·Customer platform can be Macintosh or windows
Use LAN architecture and web browser as customer interface

Note: For more information about NTS systems and NAPS systems, you can check the following sites:

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