Quicksilver

Description

  • Quicksilver (formerly Interleaf) is an electronic publishing package designed to create long, complex documents in a number of output formats including XML, HTML and PDF.
  • Quicksilver features WYSIWYG word processing, automated layout, multiple links and cross-references, database support, data-driven graphics, multi-page tables, equation editing and colour image editing.
  • Style sheets known as Catalogs can control the format and content of text and graphics through out an entire book or series of documents. Quicksilver has its own desktop with some unique features and is reasonably compatible with the current version of the Windows operating system--windows on Windows, if you like. It provides full integration to BroadVision Portal and allows a transition to XML authoring.
  • Interleaf was acquired by BroadVision in April 2000.

Strengths

  • Create and publish lengthy, complex documents in multiple output formats (including HTML, PDF and Postscript)
  • Automate and streamline the process of creating and publishing complex documents to the web
  • Automate publishing of personalized content to BroadVision Portal
  • Personalisation based on qualifiers, categories and attributes established in the portal environment
  • Used by industry leaders such as Bausch & Lomb, Boeing, Ford Motor Company, Lufthansa, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and the U.S. Postal Service
  • Extend authoring environment to the web without re-tagging or reformatting the information
  • Assemble publications from a variety of text, graphic and database sources including Microsoft Word, Excel, AutoCad, Oracle, WordPerfect and FrameMaker
  • Includes a complete XML authoring environment
  • Reusable content and cascading changes, attribute tagging and conditional views, and automatic TOCs and indices
  • Streamlines publishing to BroadVision portal environment with automatic multi-file publishing, intra and inter-file links, and by leveraging qualifiers, categories and attributes in the portal
  • Own desktop
  • Strong unix background
  • Multiple language support
  • Style sheets affect whole document
  • Consistent attributes across whole document
  • Relatively easy to use.

Weaknesses

  • Own desktop
  • Supporting documentation can be vague at times.