Advent Announces 3B2 V8

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20th March 2003

Advent Publishing Systems announced a new and substantially enhanced version of its 3B2 software, Version 8, at XML Europe on May 5th 2003.

Version 8 of 3B2 implements a range of XML-related international standards including XSL-FO, XPath, XSLT, and SVG. Additional features in Version 8 of Advent 3B2 software include: page building on the fly wherein content can determine page layout, more consistent 3B2 programming commands, a new de-bugging tool that streamlines the development and debugging of templates and formats, a new format profiler for producing job statistics on the processing speed of a job, font quick tables to make fonts more accessible, new and improved CALS libraries for for use with SGML and XML, entity libraries to support ISO standard entity sets, and an improved and enhanced user interface.

Version 8 will be available for customer shipment beginning Monday 5th May 2003.

www.3b2.com/v8

About Advent Publishing Systems

Using leading edge technologies, Advent develops, delivers and supports sophisticated and customised publishing solutions harnessing the power of 3B2 software and the skills of experienced technical consultants.

3B2 is capable of handling the most complex publishing challenges through the incorporation of international standards including SGML, XML, XSLT, XPath and Perl.

Advent has in excess of 10,000 satisfied users in more than 40 countries serving governments and blue chip corporations including The European Parliament, Boeing, SmithKline Beecham, the US Patent and Trademark Office, Bertelsmann and the Canadian House of Commons.