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News Release from: Pitney Bowes | Subject: Doc1 Series 5 v5.4 document composition system
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial Team on 01 February 2008

Document Composition Management Becomes
Easier

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Doc1 Series 5 version 5.4, the latest release of Group 1 Software's document composition system, is claimed to manage every aspect of customer communications.

Doc1 Series 5 version 5.4, the latest release of Group 1 Software's document composition system that is claimed to manage every aspect of customer communications Group 1 Software, a Pitney Bowes company, said that the latest Doc 1 software benefits the production of printed communications from data acquisition and content collaboration, to design and production, through to multi-channel delivery and web-based customer care

The system is said to have a new content collaboration system to work with the new web-based content author message creation.

Message box objects used in conjunction with Message 1 and Content Author can now shrink or grow to fit the available content from either a top or bottom anchor position, said the company.

Messages from those systems can also now be used as part of the main document flow and can span pages.

Group 1 Software added that enhanced document design functions include more barcode types, with many of them scalable for AFP, Postscript, and PDF output.

A new margin notes feature is claimed to allow the positioning of eye-catching content adjacent to specific transactions, or other data in the main flow.

Design objects can now be positioned at a fixed location in a page layout according to values in input data, or other variables.

Right-to-left text flow is also now supported for such languages as Arabic and images can now be assigned a URL link for output formats that can be browsed.

The company added that faster and easier configuration management now supports SQL 2005 as the Doc1 repository and the SQL repository database can be managed on a remote server.

Switching between repository databases is also more convenient, whilst Windows Vista is also now supported.

JPEG graphic files used in publication designs can now be passed through directly to PDF output.

Outline fonts are now supported for AFP output using the DOF format and page throws can be forced before the data for an individual row is complete.

Images may now be excluded from the Doc1 HIP file where printer resident resources are available and additional printer resources can now be added to the Doc1 HIP file format even when they are not directly referenced by an application, said the company.

It is claimed that Doc1 version 5.4 also contains a range of improvement for the IJPDS stream, including font import, 300 dots per inch (dpi) x 600dpi support and fidelity with CMYK images.

Group 1 Software added that emerging markets and language support enhancements include support for characters specific to eastern European languages for the key output datastreams, including AFP, PDF, Postscript, Postscript derivatives and IJPDS.

Double-byte data is now fully supported for presentation in the Data Format Editor for the keyed record data type.

According to the company, the variation of Postscript required by the Truepress Jet 520 printer is now supported.

Output code page management has been extended to support the Fujitsu JEF and the Hong Kong extended character set (HKSCS).

Customer code pages can also now be handled.

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