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D -- DISTRIBUTION / LICENSING OF THE EMSL PUBLISHER SOFTWARE (VERSION 2.0) DUE 030599 POC Philip C. Pulver -- Contractor -- 509-943-0656 fax WEB: Click here for more information and to demo the Publisher, http://www.emsl.pnl.gov:2080/proj/cip/publisher.html. E-MAIL: Click here to e-mail the contact for this notice., pc_pulver@pnl.gov. The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is conducting a survey to identify potential licensees for marketing, distribution, and/or follow-on development of the Java-based Publisher Software (Version 2.0) developed by the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) for the Department of Energy. The EMSL Publisher is a Java-based word processor that runs entirely within a standard Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer environment, making it platform independent. There are three components of this software: the Publisher itself, the Publisher Viewer Applet, and the Publisher Text Engine. EMSL Publisher This software enables documents to be written, edited and exchanged freely among a large number of users on different host platforms including Win95/98/NT, MacOS and UNIX; this allows for local or remote collaboration on a document across operating systems. In addition to exchanging Publisher documents, this software also imports and exports to plain text, to Rich Text Format such as Word or WordPerfect, and to HTML. The functionality of this word processor includes the importing of Java Beans as plug-in modules to perform specific tasks. For example, the demo Web site for the Publisher includes two beans, one to read in and draw images, and one to read in and display 3D molecules. The architecture of the Publisher enables any Java Bean to be added and embedded into a document, allowing extensive customization for a specific task. EMSL Publisher Viewer Applet The Viewer Applet (Viewer) is a compact applet that displays formatted rich-text files on a Web page. It can display Publisher, RTF, HTML and plain text documents, in all cases presenting the documents in their original format and layout rather than in the limiting style of HTML. In addition, the same Java Beans contained in Publisher documents will be accessible inside the Viewer applet, thus enabling truly media-rich documents to be placed directly on the Web, with no plug-ins required. For example, a company could post a Word or WordPerfect document directly onto its Web site, rather than having to rewrite the document in HTML. This applet can run independently of the Publisher word processor. EMSL Publisher Text Engine At the heart of the Publisher and the Viewer Applet lies the text engine, which is a Java Bean itself, is written in Java JDK 1.1, requires no additional class or libraries, and has a size of only 200 KB. Included with the text engine are the basic import and export filters for plain text, RTF, HTML and the Publisher format, plus the ability to add in other filters as they become available. For example, the text engine can be readily customized to specific word processing applications by Java software development companies. A detailed description and demonstration of the Publisher software is available at the Web address given below. Interested and qualified firms should respond in writing, emailed, faxed or postmarked no later than March 5th, 1998. Posted 02/19/99 (W-SN300182). (0050)

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