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For the first time, Apagos Box Editor software is a low-cost plug-in to Adobe Acrobat(tm) that allows advertisers to easily set accurate "bleed and trim" dimensions or "boxes" to define the size of an ad. PDF/X files have been widely adopted for advertising workflow. But, the bleed and trim data required by the PDF/X standard often contain incorrect information leading to costly mistakes and lost time. To place ads on pages and impose pages and spreads efficiently, publishers need PDF/X files from advertisers with accurate data in bleed and trim boxes.

The software allows advertisers to import and export bleed and trim data in the new XML format to create a "Library" of ad specifications for different publications. Box dimensions can be entered as decimals (2.25) or in fractions (2 1/2). A powerful Grouping feature allows the advertiser to position both the trim and bleed boxes at the same time.

Box Editor also includes unique capabilities that act as a control panel for digital ads. Publishers can see PDF/X-specific information including Trapping status and OutputIntent values. The "Vue/X" mode automatically configures Acrobat to view PDF/X files correctly. With one mouse click, Publishers can delete all of the content outside the trim or bleed area removing unwanted registration marks and "slugs." The Fonts and Colors tabs can be used to quickly identify all the fonts and colors that were used in the ad.

Standard Format for Exchanging Ad Specifications
Apagos open XML format makes it easy for publishers to publish their ad specifications on their websites, enabling advertisers to easily download the XML file and import it into Box Editor software.
Currently, advertisers or their prepress providers visit each publications web site, print the specifications for reference and manually enter the bleed and trim sizes to create a template page in a layout program such as QuarkXPress(tm) or Adobe(tm) InDesign(tm). The new XML format allows all of the specifications for each publication to be in one downloadable file, thereby avoiding data entry errors.
Although XML is well suited to the task of exchanging ad specifications, previous attempts were complex and not widely implemented. The new Box Editor allows both a standard way for publishers to supply the bleed and trim data, and a simple and inexpensive software tool that allows advertisers to import that data and easily manipulate it within a PDF/X file.

Ad Specifications in XML Format
Ad specifications compatible with Apagos Box Editor software will be available for downloading from the ad production sites of Time, Inc., and CMP Media in late March, 2004.
Other publishers interested in making their specifications available to advertisers electronically can view and access the format compatible with Box Editor on the Apago website at www.apago.com. There is no charge for, and no restrictions on the use of the XML format.

XML Editor is a nice and powerful graphical XML editing and validation tool. XML Editor has Unicode support, allowing working with XML in any language.
It features full DTD validation, but doesnt require a DTD if you only want to do well-formedness validation. It gives meaningful messages that point you a conflict with the XML to the DTD, and tell you why your XML conflicted the DTD.
It can tell you if your XML is badly formed in other ways. It has two viewing modes, "Tree" mode and "Source" mode. Source mode lets you do text editing on your XML. XML Editor will tell you exactly where in your source an error exists, and the type of error, making fixing bad XML easy.
XML Editors graphical editor is flexible and fine tuned. You can select multiple items in the editor at once, move them around to anywhere in the document by dragging, cut, copy and paste single or multiple XML elements around, use contextual menus on selected XML.
Contextual menus only show the commands that apply to the selected XML, making choices and navigation of commands simpler. You can drag XML from other programs, or from the Finder as a clipping onto the window and drag clippings out of the window to anywhere else. These are some of the useful features XML Editor offers.
XML Editor offers extensive find capabilities. A source-find mode, and a tree-find mode. The source find offers standard find/replace features. The tree find offers finding of any combination of different types of tags (DOCTYPEs, PIs, empty elements, non empty, CData, comments, text, etc). You can optionally search by name, attribute name and attribute value. You can optionally search only inside the previous search results, making complex searches possible.
Main features:
- Compliant with XML 1.0 and is a DTD validator. Validates included files reliably and intuitively.
- Full Unicode support. Display and write Unicode. Reads every kind of UTF!
- Simple, yet powerful and extensive graphical editing interface.
- Graphical and text editing modes are intuitively integrated.
- Many validation modes: Including: After changes to the XML; file batch; and of elements under the mouse.
- User friendly - Detailed error messages point you to the location and offer you advice on how to fix it.
- User configurable - Set your preferred fonts, colors and viewing options.
- "Send to Browser" button on the toolbar makes it easy to send files to an XSL / CSS viewer, such as IE5 or NS6.
- Entity support - Optionally type entities direct from keyboard. Graphical mode automatically displays entities converted. Graphical Property editor can optionally edit entities converted, or as plain source.
- Find feature offers searches upon element name, attribute, and upon many more variations.
- Fast, flexible and easy entry of pre-built XML, from a "Holder". Drag Holder items into XML documents, double click a holder item to insert it into the selection, or use the contextual menu. Can create holders from DTDs.
- Mac-like, intuitive interface includes: Extensive drag and drop, text clippings, contextual menu and copy/paste support. Unlimited undos in Tree mode.
Version restrictions:
- 7 days use in Demo.
Enhancements:
- Mouse scroll wheel support!
- Fixed a bug with validating DTD attributes.

Requirements:
System 7.1 or later.