SoftQuad Inc.

SoftQuad Inc.
56 Aberfoyle Crescent
5th Floor
Toronto, Ontario M8X 2W4
Canada

Tel: +1 416 239 4801
Toll Free in US: 1 800 387 2777
Fax: +1 416 239 7105
E-mail: sales@sq.com

SoftQuad Inc. had the following product information available in booth 24a & 24b:

Product Line

HoTMetal PRO 2.0

SoftQuad HoTMetal PRO enables users to create documents in HTML (HyperText Markup Language), the primary file format used to structure documents on the web and to hyperlink them to other documents, sounds, videos and images.

HoTMetal PRO documents conform to the Internet Engineering Task Force Draft RFC for HTML 2.0 with additional support for many HTML 3.0 and Netscape extensions.

This product is available on:

• MS-Windows
• Apple Macintosh
• Sun/SPARC (SunOS 4.1.3)
• Sun/SPARC (Solaris 2)
• HP9000/700 (HP-UX)
• IBM RS6000 (AIX)
• DEC Alpha (OSF/1)
• SGI Iris Indigo (IRIX)

New features of HoTMetal PRO 2.0:

• automatic import and conversion of files
• enhanced HTML editing
• enhanced linking capabilities
• support for many HTML 3.0 & Netscape extensions

Panorama PRO

Panorama PRO gives users and publishers access to long and complex documents, finer control of display, powerful searching, broader presentation and style features and enhanced linking capabilities.

Key features of Panorama PRO:

• presentation capabilities - multiple style sheets, table of contents, maths and tables support, graphics support
• context-sensitive searching - document searches, occurrence-density display, markup searches
• enhanced linking using SGML HyTime - personal webs, HyTime-conforming SGML

Panorama PRO runs on any compatible Web browser and Microsoft Windows 3.1 or Sun Open Windows 3.x, X11R5.

SoftQuad RulesBuilder 3.0

SoftQuad RulesBuilder is an interactive DTD editor/compiler that enables users to create, update, validate and process DTDs quickly.

Key features:

• compile DTDs easily
• rules checking functionality
• support for external entities
• standard word processing capabilities

SoftQuad RulesBuilder 3.0 is available on Windows, Sun/SPARC, HP9000, DECultrix and MAC. A previous version of RulesBuilder supports DECStation, Intergraph Clipper and Wang Open Desktop (SCO Unix) platforms. IBM RS/6000 and SGI will be available in the near future.

SoftQuad Author Editor 3.1

Key features:

• built in templates
• in-line graphics
• multi-media support
• flexible style sheets
• advanced word processing
• menu-driven SGML markup
• SGML validation

Author Editor is available for MS-Windows, Apple Macintosh, Sun/SPARC (Solaris 2 and SunOS 4.1.3), IBM RS6000, HP9000/700 (HP-UX), Intergraph Clipper, DECStation and Silicon Graphics.

SoftQuad Explorer

Key features:

• tools for creating electronic publications such as CD ROM, floppy disk
• full text search and retrieval
• hit list of search results
• ability to insert bookmarks, annotations and highlighting
• hypertext linking
• built in support for graphics
• WYSIWYG style sheets
• multiple displays of single document

Explorer runs on 80386 with 4MB RAM and 20 MB hard disk space running Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher.