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From: lionel@quark.enet.dec.com (Steve Lionel)
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Subject: Bookreader to WorldView migration
Date: 25 May 1994 01:00:10 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation - Nashua, NH
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The following text regarding the transition from Bookreader to
WorldView was provided by Susan Denham, product manager for DECwindows
Motif for OpenVMS.  Susan has graciously agreed to have her e-mail
address (denham@star.enet.dec.com) included in this posting; if you
have additional questions you can send her mail.  (Be kind, folks...)

PLEASE don't send ME questions about this - I don't know any more than 
what is here.

				Steve

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               TRANSITION FROM BOOKREADER TO WORLDVIEW VIEWER

   
    FACTS ABOUT WORLDVIEW

    DECwindows Motif for OpenVMS V1.2-3 and DEC OSF/1 H1CY95 (1st half
    calendar year 1995) will contain Interleaf's WorldView Viewer,
    which is regarded throughout the industry as "best-in-class"
    online information display technology.  WorldView Viewer will
    provide customers with enhanced online information features
    including: 
   
    - Print capabilities
    - Content-based search
    - Bookmarks
    - Annotation 
    - Ability to accept input from a variety of source formats
   
    Once the WorldView Viewer is available in DECwindows Motif V1.2-3
    and DEC OSF/1 H1CY95, ConOLD will begin shipping all product 
    documentation in WorldView format.  Thus, customers will have 
    everything they need to read their online documentation: correctly 
    formatted books and the Viewer to display them.  DECwindows Motif
    and DEC OSF/1 licenses will also let customers use the WorldView
    Viewer at no additional cost.  


    WHEN IS BOOKREADER GOING AWAY?

    Bookreader will ship for the last time in DECwindows Motif V1.2-3
    and DEC OSF/1 H1CY95. In the follow-on release of DECwindows Motif
    and DEC OSF/1, Bookreader will be removed and WorldView will be
    the sole online documentation viewer.  This will give customers
    with large amounts of their own documentation time to convert
    their Bookreader formatted documentation to a WorldView format.


    HOW DOES THIS AFFECT CUSTOMERS WHO CREATED THEIR OWN DOCUMENTATION 
    WITH VAX Document OR DECwrite?

    For customers who want to view documentation that they created
    using VAX Document or DECwrite,  Digital will provide a
    Bookreader-to-WorldView converter that will accept Bookreader
    (DECW$BOOK) files and output WorldView Viewer (Printerleaf) files. 

    It's important to note that while this *will* give users
    Bookreader equivalent functionality, it will not provide full
    WorldView Viewer functionality (for example, content based
    retrieval and annotation).  In order to obtain this full WorldView
    Viewer functionality, customers will need to pass their
    Printerleaf files through the WorldView Press or convert their
    source files to one of the formats supported by WorldView Press. 
    (Customers will need to purchase the Press and/or authoring tools
    as appropriate to obtain this full WorldView functionality.) 

    The Bookreader-to-WorldView converter will be shipped with the
    DECwindows Motif for OpenVMS layered product, DEC OSF/1 operating
    system, and ConOLD free of charge.
   
    Digital is a reseller of Interleaf products.
   

Steve Lionel                      Mail: lionel@quark.enet.dec.com
SDT Languages Group               WWW:  http://www.digital.com/info/slionel.html
Digital Equipment Corporation     
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