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December 22, 1997
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Interleaf release will ease HTML conversions
The company plans to release next month Interleaf Xtreme Personal Edition (IXtreme PE). The product will let users of Microsoft Office, Lotus SmartSuite, and other personal applications move their documents to the Web as easily as printing them, say Interleaf officials. IXtreme PE converts Web-bound documents to a proprietary version of HTML that users view in their original format through a Java-capable browser.
"There's a real bottleneck to converting documents to HTML," says Stephen Zamierowski, director of marketing at Interleaf in Waltham, Mass. "We're trying to make it more user-friendly for those who need to publish information to the Internet and intranets."
Webmas
ter Unburdened
IXtreme PE is part of Interleaf's Xtreme line of software products, which allow functional organizations within companies to publish documents on the World Wide Web. In September, Interleaf started shipping the standard edition of Xtreme, which features library services for searching and check-in and check-out capabilities.
A beta version of IXtreme PE is available for free download at
www.interleaf.com/go4it
. The final product is due in January for $149 per seat and will run on both Windows 95 and Windows NT, with either the Netscape Navigator 4.0 or Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 browser.
s many technology managers know by now, there's one problem with publishing documents to the Web, and it's spelled HTML. Interleaf, the electronic-publishing software company, is looking to relieve department managers and end users of the burden of coding in HTML.
Analysts say IXtreme PE is easy to use. "It saves time and unburdens the Webmaster from doing all the posting to the Web, freeing them for more complex or managerial stuff," says Ronni Marshak, a VP at the Patricia Seybold Group, a Boston consulting firm.
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