LatinByrd III v7 -- 1998-Dec-10 Welcome to Version 7 of LatinByrd III. v7 is another maintenance release, including a few new features and one single bug fix. Update from previous versions (LB II through LB III v6) is free to registered users - please reuse your current license keys. LatinByrd is an RTF to HTML converter. LatinByrd converts RTF documents, RTFD documents, and plain ASCII documents to web pages. LatinByrd converts single documents as well as document trees. In addition, LatinByrd also converts TIFF and EPS images to GIF, PNG, and JPEG graphics formats. LatinByrd is localized to English, French, and German. LatinByrd is a commercial product. Fully licensable demo. FREE time-limited test keys available. NEW IN LATINBYRD III v7 (compared to v6) - Footnotes LatinByrd III v7 now recognizes footnotes in RTF documents. In the converted HTML documents, the footnotes are output as endnotes, and the numbering restarts with 1 in each document. The visual appearance of the footnote links can be altered in the Links preferences. - Font family names LatinByrd III v7 now optionally outputs the names of the font families used, along with alternate font family hints. For example: . For this, the Add font family names option has to be turned on in the Fonts & Characters preferences. Note that the 'face' attribute is not part of the HTML3.2 specification, and many browsers ignore this attribute. - Specifying additional attributes for anchor tags Previously, the "Marker name" field in Edit's Link Inspector was always converted to a marker component of the anchor's link target. For example, File name: SomeDoc.rtfd Marker name: SomeMarker yields Now, if surrounded by angle brackets, the "Marker name" field is converted to additional tag attributes instead of to a marker component. For example, File name: SomeDoc.rtfd Marker name: yields . - Specifying text & background colors per web page In case a red line is encountered as the last line of a document's red header lines, this line will be used as the "body" line in the converted web page, instead of a "body" line auto-generated according to the current Colors & Background preferences. This lets you hard-code the text and background colors, on a per-page basis. Note that background images (specified via the "background=" tag) will not be copied/converted automatically. This would have to be done manually, after conversion. Bug fixes - In LatinByrd III v6, shared background images for tables ą as well as for individual table cells ą were referenced from within the HTML pages as being local images instead of being shared ones. This has been fixed in LatinByrd III v7. LATINBYRD FEATURES Conversion of Documents and Document Trees - Single RTF, RTFD, and ASCII documents are converted to single web pages. - Document trees are converted to trees of web pages. You can port your NS 3.x on-line help to NS/OS 4.x ! - Various hands-free, semi-automatic, and manual image conversion strategies are available. - Identical images are shared. If your document tree contains, say, 200 occurences of the very same image in 50 documents, then only one single copy of this image gets stored. Shared images are stored in a designated subfolder. - Optional storage of all images (incl. unshared ones) in the designated image subfolder. - 'ALT' text for images is supported. - Embedded files and folders are stored as .tar/.Z/.gz archive files. - Validation of link targets. - Detection of damaged documents, missing or damaged images, missing or damaged embedded files/folders, invalid link target docs, invalid link target markers, duplicate marker definitions, and unreachable documents. - Selectable text and background colors. - Selectable background image. - Adjustable mapping of font sizes. - Optional output of font family names, along with alternate font family hints. - Language-specific special characters are automatically converted to HTML format. - Characters from special-purpose fonts like Symbol or ITC Zapf Dingbats are automatically rendered as inline images. - RTF ruler settings are simulated with invisible spacer images and invisible HTML3.2 tables. - With LatinByrd's Table Inspector, you can create tables of any desired cell layout on your own. All HTML 3.2 table and cell attributes are supported, plus table and cell background colors and images. - Bullet chars are optionally replaced with a custom bullet image. - Optional alignment of the left margin for minimal enforced use of tables. - Divider images are optionally replaced with

tags. - HTML code can be embedded directly into your document's text. - HTML code preceding your document's text will automatically go to the section. This way, you can set your web page's title to your liking. - Link buttons can be replaced by underlining (i.e. anchoring) some neighboring text. - Remaining link buttons are replaced with a custom link image. - strings are automatically turned into links. - Footnotes in RTF documents are automatically converted to endnotes. - ASCII files in "nroff" format - UNIX man pages, for instance - are recognized and converted accordingly. - Support for CedarWord's ".cw" extension. - Current settings can be saved to / loaded from setup files. Note: LatinByrd is optimized to convert documents which are in NeXT's version of RTF. Converting RTF documents created on other platforms may deliver poor results. Conversion of Images - TIFF and EPS images are converted to GIF, PNG and/or JPEG format. - Sync-view of GIF/PNG and JPEG versions. On-the-fly changes of image options are rendered immediately. - Images can be displayed in front of any background color or wallpaper. - Images can be zoomed from 25% to 800%. - Selectable gamma correction factors. - Selectable maximum amount of output colors, from 256 down to 2. (GIF, PNG) - Netscape colormap optionally applied. (GIF) - Floyd-Steinberg error distribution optionally applied. (GIF, PNG) - Selectable threshold for pure transparency. (GIF) - For GIF and JPEG images, partial transparency is resolved by pre-rendering the image over the selected background color. For PNG images, partial transparency is fully preserved by creating RGBA colormaps. - Images can be stored in interlaced/progressive format (default for GIF, optional for PNG and JPEG). Note: For LatinByrd to display the contents of GIF, PNG, and JPEG files in its image wells, you need to have an image filter application installed. ToyViewer.app is strongly recommended, as it can handle the new PNG format as well as ProgressiveJPEG. ToyViewer is freeware - get it now if you still don't have a copy. Other - Compiled for Motorola, Intel, HPPA, and sparc. - Requires NEXTSTEP 3.2 or higher, or OPENSTEP 4.x for Mach. - LatinByrd is localized to English, French, and German. - In demo mode, every 8th character is X'd out, and images contain a tiny DEMO string. PRICE Commercial license: US$ 119 Academic license: US$ 69 Image conversion only: US$ 49 (sorry, no academic discount) FREE time-limited test keys are available. For information on how to purchase a license key for LatinByrd, please contact Stefan Schneider Software at stefan.schneider@eunet.at, or visit us at http://members.eunet.at/stefan.schneider/index.html INFORMATION (ENGLISH & GERMAN) Stefan Schneider Software DI Stefan Schneider Lerchenfelder St. 85/6 A-1070 Vienna, Austria, Europe +43-1-523-5834 stefan.schneider@eunet.at http://members.eunet.at/stefan.schneider/ INFORMATION (ENGLISH & FRENCH) SCRIBEX COMMUNICATIONS 1450 Plessis Street #204, Montreal, Qc, Canada H2L 2X4 Phone: (514) 526-3996 E-Mail: info@scribex.com (MIME - ASCII - HTML) http://www.scribex.com