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PC DOCS to Release Collaborative Compound Document Module with Publishing Toolkit for DOCS Open
May 6, 1998 8:20 AM EDT
TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 6, 1998--PC DOCS Group International Inc. (TSE:DXX.) (NASDAQ:DOCSF)
DOCS Binder uses powerful XML standard to maximize interoperability between solutions
PC DOCS(R), Inc., a subsidiary of PC DOCS Group International Inc. (NASDAQ - DOCSF, TSE - DXX) and a leading provider of enterprise document management solutions, today announced DOCS Binder(TM). This new module for the award-winning DOCS Open(R) software provides a compound document management solution to users who need to link and control diverse collections of documents as a single entity. Customers in the manufacturing, financial and government sectors can use DOCS Binder to manage the creation of multi-part, multi-format documents among a group of users.
DOCS Binder includes a toolkit that will enable easy integration with publishing solutions, making it a critical offering for customers needing to publish electronic or printed documentation such as standard operating procedure manuals, proposals or other large documents built by a group of authors. DOCS Binder offers wide support for a variety of document types and applications, making it very appealing to third party developers.
DOCS Binder enables users to organize complex, multi-component documents and document sets around a "binder" metaphor. Within the binder, the separate parts of each component are managed as separate DOCS Open documents. These components can be edited individually or simultaneously within the larger binder document. A change in a component can affect all of the binders in which it exists. As a result, users can update, manage, search for and publish whole document collections, including documents in different formats and repositories.
Binders are stored in XML; an emerging industry-standard designed to simplify data interchange and publishing to formats beyond printed media. XML is an open standard initiative, driven by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and strongly supported by leading vendors such as Microsoft and others. PC DOCS has adopted XML to protect the technology investment of customers who need to manage complex, compound documents by not requiring them to use proprietary or application-specific methods to link document elements.
A binder can be published as printed material, or even better, published as a rich Acrobat PDF document with common headers, footers and an interactive table of contents. These PDF renditions can then be distributed on the Web using CyberDOCS(TM). This is made possible by DOCS Binder's integration with Computerised Document Control's PDFfusion publishing product. Sophisticated templates including headers, footers and overlays can be applied to each section of a binder, and then a single PDF file can be produced that encapsulates all the components into a navigable, Web-friendly document and stored in DOCS Open as a rendition for access by CyberDOCS.
"DOCS Binder represents a powerful new functionality to the DOCS Open product line and provides a way for users to add sophistication to their document management practices," said Tom Bartley, vice president of product management at PC DOCS, Inc. "DOCS Binder addresses the real-life challenges of creating and managing, in context, the complex variety of documents, from presentations to ERP outputs, that are the life-blood of every organization and project."
Availability
DOCSBinder is scheduled for delivery on June 30, 1998. |
