Advent 3B2 is a recognised leader in the content driven publishing industry and as from the newly released version 8, has the ability to handle SVG natively.
3B2 is fully namespace aware, and by nature is designed to ignore anything it doesn't understand, from elements in a different namespace, or elements it is unable to handle such as those associated with animation.
A package like 3B2 is able to allow for scripting or design decisions to be made during the formatting process, making it easier to make complex decisions about how to fine tune the scaling of objects, or the spacing between paragraphs or letters, or where to place objects.
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The full support of XML with 3B2 means that we are even stronger in automatic composition and pagination of complex documents for both print and electronic dissemination than other suppliers.
Because XML is concerned with the structure of the document, the mark-up is extensive and not generally suited to direct use as typeset mark-up.
In contrast, 3B2 addresses the problem of conversion by allowing fully tagged XML documents to be imported, validated, parsed, edited and typeset using the original mark-up.
There have been two major families of cartridge tapes on the 3B2 family, and they are not at all interchangeable.
The first tape drive available for the 3B2 family was the 23 megabyte Cartridge Tape Drive, and these are not compatible with any of the later SCSI drives.
A distinguishing mark of this drive is the flip-up lever that is used to engage the tape after insertion: most of the drives shipped with the 3B2 were of this type.
The full power of 3B2 scripts is limited only by the imagination of the user, for this reason, we recommend that anything more than simple projects should be undertaken by a competent programmer.
Every action in 3B2 will have a macro to match it, so provided that you know how to manually do something, then automation is possible.
This means that the 3B2 document does not have to contain the script; instead the script is stored in the 3B2 system directory and can be run from any document.
DMSi Advent 3B2 press release(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Advent 3B2 Inc., the American arm of the Advent Publishing Group, has announced an agreement with Document Management Solutions Inc. (DMSi) to jointly market and provide services and solutions for automated document production in the United States of America.
Advent 3B2 technology allows DMSi to implement “fl box” publication of high volume, complex documents from content repositories, while retaining the native XML coding structure of the documents.
3B2 is capable of handling the most complex publishing challenges through the incorporation of international standards including SGML, XML, XSLT, Xpath and Perl.
Advent 3B2, a leading supplier of standards-based publishing software, is announcing a new, quality-oriented, Extensible Stylesheet Language Formatting Object (XSL-FO) rendering engine called 3B2-FO here at Seybold San Francisco 2003.
A market preview release of the software is being demonstrated in the Advent 3B2 pavilion #1037 on the Seybold San Francisco show floor.
3B2-FO is based on the composition and pagination formatting capabilities of Advent's 3B2 professional publishing software which has been in use in high end STM journal, legal, financial, book, and technical documentation publishing environments worldwide for over 16 years.
Advent previewed version 8 at the 3B2 International Conference, Atlanta, GA in November 2002 where it was enthusiastically received.
The LibXML suite in 3B2 is open source software integrated into 3B2 that ensures XML conformance and saves time by validating syntax and reporting errors quickly and efficiently.
3B2 software can also be configured to operate in a fully batch processing or "fl box" mode in which it functions as the composition and pagination engine in larger, more sophisticated publishing system configurations.
If you are going to be at all serious about the 3B2, and especially if you are relying on yourself for maintenance, the first thing you want to do is obtain the ATandT 3B2 Computer Maintenance Manual.
Most of the drives found in the original 3B2 are made by Control Data (or their subsidiary, Imprimis), and these Wren II drives are of excellent quality, and they represent a very safe route.
The missing parts are the creation of a dev directory in the root of the ftp account directory with null and tcp devices created with mknod, and the inclusion of the services file in the etc subdir along with group and passwd files.
Most of the drives found in the original 3B2 are made by Control Data (or their subsidiary, Imprimis), and these Wren II drives are of excellent quality, and they represent a very safe route.
However, 3b2 users are more than welcome to have the clients, the libraries, the include files, and the pre-processor.
When the 3B2 is active on the port (waiting for someone to logon to the port or whatever.), DTR is active.
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The 3B2 computers have eight-pin RJ45 connectors, and many of us are faced with trying to talk to them via our standard PC serial ports.
For some reason, the 3B2 family uses "flipped" cables, which join pins 1/8 2/7 3/6 4/5.
We have completely abandoned this whole idea in favor of "straight through" cables, which means we can use more or less any Ethernet cable that runs all eight pins.
Pinpoint are a team of pre-press professionals with many years diverse experience within the publishing industry, providing quality pre-press solutions including direct services and in-house implementations.
We specialise in the 3B2 publishing engine and its many associated technologies (becoming known as Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher or APP) which provides high quality print solutions for simple or highly complex document types and workflows.
3B2 (APP) is a highly flexible quality publishing toolbox and our team has over 40 years experience of: implementing, configuring, supporting, documenting and managing the software and solutions based around it.
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Seybold Report on Publishing Systems, Vol 24 No 22(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The Windows version of 3B2 was in beta testing during Drupa; it was scheduled for release in late June or early July.
The Mac version of 3B2 is available now in English, and a German version is due in the third quarter of this year.
For more than a year, 3B2 has had a scripting language, which has supposedly been greatly enhanced in recent months.
Advent's, 3B2 version 8 publishing system has taken the support and application of XML and `X' standards to a new level.
Until the new release of 3B2, the adoption of these standards by developers has been somewhat `fragmented' and generally limited to specific functionality.
In January this year he took up his new role as Chief Technology Officer and immediately prior to that was instrumental in Advent's entry into the US and Far East markets.He has a strong background in the technical needs of publishers and the technologies needed to meet those needs.
Advanced Print Publisher is used throughout the world to automate the production of complex printed documents such as STM (Scientific/Technical/Medical) journals, legal documents, technical documentation, catalogs and directories.
In addition to reducing costs and production time, automation also gives publishers the flexibility to update information more frequently and to produce publications in more variations for multiple target audiences.
The Desktop version gives users three key capabilities: create the templates (also called stylesheets) that control document layout; initiate the automated publishing of a document; and manually adjust each page’s layout after publishing.
