You can find it at http://ipex2002.blogspot.com
This will be continued for a while as different aspects of IPEX become clearer.
As past items disappear there is a PDF save from time to time.
The main news still seems to be the apparent decision by Adobe not to have a stand or at least not on the scale indicated by early floorplans. The weblog will come back to where Adobe is heading. Given the IPEX aim to position print as part of digital publishing, software could have been better represented. Macromedia and Microsoft were only there if you found web access.
Bruce Chizen recently told ZD Net that Adobe is working on ways for Acrobat forms to interact through XML with enterprise databases. "That's the bulk of our energy and efforts today."
There was an intention for a PDF of selected stands to be online with the option of adding comments or drawings. It turns out that server support for this feature of Acrobat 5 is still rare. There was one case study described by David Parker from Pelagon at the Cross Media Theatre. They support PDF workgroups for advertising copy. However they restrict such offers to groups of less than fifteen. There was once an open demo file at PlanetPDF which started small but accumulated so many notes it took forever to load and seems to have been discontinued.
E-Mail: dparker@pelagon.com
It may take a while for Founder Electronics to generate sales in Europe but their first show at IPEX was impressive. Based at the Computer Science and Technology Institute of Peking University, they employ 400 people in research and development. Their press release claims they are "the world's largest research facility for Chinese electronic publishing and one of the world's major research bases for multi-language electronic publishing systems'. There are 20,000 RIPs installed, mostly in Asia. ElecRoc is an open architecture JDF-based workflow using PDF and the internet. There is also development for radio and TV but there seems to be no loss of focus on hard copy.
Photo Below - Professor Zhang Zhaodong is the presidentof Founder Electronics .
He gave the formal corporate presentation at IPEX.
