Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information — anytime, anywhere and through any medium.

Author-it Software Corporation (ASC) is a world leader in software for authoring, content management, publishing, website management and localization. ASC was founded in 1996 and has produced five major releases of Author-it, resulting in a robust product built on proven technologies.

The Author-it suite is based on the philosophy of One Source, One Solution. This means that once content is created, the information can be easily shared across multiple documents and published to a wide range of different print, help, and web formats.

Author-it has a broad application across organizations and is already being utilized by more than 3000 customers across 5 continents to effectively manage their content. Today, Author-it has evolved into the most powerful content creation tool with representation in government, technology, commerce, healthcare, education and many other vertical industries.

Author-it has offices in New Zealand and the USA and also maintains a global presence through an extensive experienced reseller network.

MadCap Software is just a new name for a group of familiar faces that have been leading the technical writing community for over a decade. MadCap is home to some of the most experienced software architects and product experts in the industry, including many former core members of eHelp® Corporation, creators of RoboHelp®. With its flagship product, MadCap Flare, MadCap Software is leading the technical communications industry into the future.

PTC solutions for technical publications enable companies to automate the assembly and publishing of product or service information in multiple languages and formats. It is the industry’s first and only integral solution that enables companies to collaboratively author, manage, publish and dynamically deliver personalized publications from a single-content source.

RedDot, The Open Text Web Solutions Group with more than a decade of experience in Web Content Management (WCM), provides Web-Centric ECM solutions to create, manage and deliver the content that drives business. RedDot content management and delivery solutions are recognized throughout the industry for their legendary ease of use and feature leading multilingual support; enterprise Web 2.0 capabilities; content integration; and contextualized delivery. From midmarket to enterprise, more than 2600 clients around the world rely on RedDot to create, manage and deliver personalized Web experiences for their intranets, extranets and websites.

Founded in 1996, In.vision Research Corporation is the leading provider of software for Enterprise XML Authoring. In.vision’s Xpress Author products enable Microsoft Word users to easily and transparently produce XML content. In.vision customers create content that is critical to national security, prescription drug safety, publishing processes, financial services, and enterprise content management. With corporate offices in both the U.S. and Europe, In.vision delivers and supports its products through a global network of industry focused business partners.

Revolutionizing Publishing. Again.™

Two decades ago, Quark drove the first revolution in publishing with QuarkXPress, desktop publishing software that rapidly became the industry standard. Today, not only does QuarkXPress continue to innovate in the desktop publishing market, Quark is revolutionizing publishing again. With Quark Dynamic Publishing Solution, we are helping customers meet changing requirements and develop new revenue streams by extending the benefits of advanced technologies across the publishing process. Our dynamic publishing solution is setting a new standard in automated multi-channel publishing by combining the power of flexible layout and design with automated workflows for customized communications across print, the Web, and electronic media.

SDL provides Global Information Management (GIM) solutions to many of the world’s leading brands. GIM is the creation and management of multilingual content across a global enterprise. SDL empowers organizations by combining innovative technology with the highest quality of services, to more rapidly and seamlessly launch global products and services that are specifically tailored to local markets.

SDL has implemented more than 400 enterprise-wide GIM solutions and has over 150,000 software licenses deployed throughout the world. Its global services infrastructure spans more than 50 offices in 30 countries.

If clear, concise written communication is important to your company, you need to know about acrolinx, the worlds leading provider of industrial-strength Content Quality Management tools. Our flagship product, acrocheck provides real-time feedback to content authors on conformance to style and terminology guidelines, as well as sophisticated spelling and grammar checking. And acrochecks QC Reports provide the automated quality metrics that have been missing in the information development world. Special style and grammar rules address the needs of non-native speakers, and help to increase the readability and translatability of your content, generally resulting in a 10% to 25% reduction in the cost of translation. Straightforward import of corporate terminology, product names, and trademarks ensure correct usage and protect your brand. Our other tools include TermDesign, that greatly simplifies terminology lifecycle management, and acrosweep, a sophisticated Translation Memory ٓcleaner. Stop by our booth to see it for yourself, or visit our website.

Antenna House is the recognized leader in providing software for formatting XML documents for electronic and print output.

Conforming to the W3C Recommendation for XSL-FO, Antenna House XSL Formatter is the most powerful and compliant software available. Used in well over a thousand installations worldwide, PDF output, multilingual support (including Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew, Arabic, Thai), SVG support and much more are all standard features of Antenna House XSL Formatter.

Formatter offers strong support for DITA, S1000D, DocBook, MathML and is used to produce technical, customer, training and business documents, reports, journals, books, personalized documents and a wide range of other documents.

Formatter is available for Windows, Unix, Mac and Linux in a standard and lower cost Lite version for standalone and server applications and includes Java, .NET, C++/C, COM and Command Line interfaces. Formatter also has many extensions to further increase the power of the software.

Antenna House, Inc. has been developing computer software since 1984 under the slogan of ‘data usability.’

DocZone.com makes the benefits of XML content available to everybody ...not just large companies with big software budgets…by offering a powerful, “all-inclusive” XML-based environment as a SaaS solution. No big capital expenditures for software products. No need for months of requirements analysis or expensive consulting bills. No more maintenance of multiple software applications on local computers. No extensive and painful customization.

With DocZone.com, you can quickly be up and running with an XML-based system (based on the emerging DITA standard) to manage multilingual content and automate the production of technical documentation, training manuals, online help, and website content. All you need is a browser and an Internet connection.

With a proven, production-ready technology platform built on open standards, DocZone.com is the safe and smart choice for migrating your content to XML and enjoying the benefits of streamlined business processes, lower production costs, and higher revenue streams.

Headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, with offices in Canada, the United Kingdom, and Germany, Inmedius is a global leader in providing technical publication lifecycle solutions that capture, create, manage and deploy technical information. Integrating those information assets within business processes, using proven and innovative techniques, is an Inmedius hallmark. Providing lifecycle solutions to aerospace, defense and technical publications departments worldwide, Inmedius enables its clients to share an unprecedented level of productivity and efficiency—empowering every corner of the organization. Easy to implement, maintain and use, Inmedius’ fully integrated COTS software solutions make every facet of a project possible throughout its entire lifecycle. For more information, visit our website.

Scriptorium Publishing excels at developing customized, automated publishing systems and explaining complex technical concepts with useful, hands-on training and clear, concise documents. Our clients, who range from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, rely on us for the full spectrum of technical publishing services—everything from implementing structured authoring environments to producing turnkey documentation. Our expert, talented staff thrives on working with challenging new technology in a deadline-driven environment.

Scriptorium publishes reference books and training materials on topics of interest to the technical publishing community. Our book Technical Writing 101 has been adopted by colleges and universities around the world for technical writing programs. Publishing Fundamentals: FrameMaker 7, previously published by McGraw-Hill as FrameMaker 7: The Complete Reference, continues to be the most in-depth, third-party reference on FrameMaker 7 available.

Stilo International provides software and services to help major enterprises automate the processing of technical and complex information.

Stilo specializes in building high-performance content processing solutions that aggregate, enrich and deliver technical information to performance support portals across a range of industry sectors. Stilo’s OmniMark, a well-proven high-performance content processing platform, is used by corporations worldwide for the rapid processing of content in all its forms, including combinations of data, plain text, hypertext and markup (XML, SGML and HTML).

Announcing Stilo Migrate, due to launch in Q4, 2008

Stilo Migrate is set to revolutionize the growing market for legacy content conversion to XML, massively simplify the conversion process, and significantly reduce associated timescales and costs via a just-in-time, low-cost service, available online 24/7.  To find out more about this new service visit http://www.stilo.com/migrate.
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WebWorks.com, a brand of Quadralay Corporation, is the leading provider of comprehensive online publishing and Help system delivery solutions. Its products and services constitute the definitive single source for all your ePublishing needs. We specialize in content conversion software that outputs Web, online help, and technical publication formats. Our ePublisher Platform can automate the conversion of source documents in popular authoring formats such as DITA-XML, FrameMaker or Word and convert them to multiple end-user formats such as WebWorks Help, HTML, CHM, and PDF. Our conversion system is based on XSL so that output formats can be customized or even developed from scratch if needed.

The Globalization and Localization Association (GALA) is an international non-profit association that promotes local communication as an indispensable component of a global strategy. Our member companies are experts in language services and technologies. They deploy sophisticated and proven tools and processes to help global enterprises understand in-country issues, languages and needs.

The Information Architecture Institute is an international professional organization, operated by a dedicated, multi-national group of people. Through its programs and activities, IAI supports individuals and organizations specializing in the design and construction of shared information environments. Volunteering our own resources, we aspire to build bridges to related disciplines and organizations. We invite you to join us in advancing the state of information architecture through research, education, advocacy and community service.

The Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators (ISTC) is the largest UK body representing information development professionals.

With a history dating back more than 50 years, the ISTC:

• encourages professional education and supports standards
• provides guidance about the value of using professional communicators
• facilitates research, discussion and networking opportunities for its members and industry affiliates

Becoming a global enterprise is one of the most important challenges that your organization will ever face. LISA is the leading international forum for organizations doing business globally. It has distilled the right ways and wrong ways of supporting international customers, products and services over the last fifteen years from more than 500 corporate members, public and private institutions, government ministries and trade organizations.

Get the real story. Thousands of enterprises, government organizations, and consultants worldwide rely on CMS Watch reports for in-depth technical analysis. Known for their unflinching critical assessments, and scrupulous vendor neutrality, CMS Watch reports provide all of the information you require to make the right choice—including implementation advice and pitfalls to avoid. CMS Watch can help you, too.

CMS Watch Reports:

• The Content Component Management Report
• The ECM Suites Report
• The Web CMS Report
• The Enterprise Search Report
• The Enterprise Portals Report
• The Web Analytics Report

Contented Enterprises trains people to write better web and intranet content, making it readable, usable, accessible and findable. We teach a few crucial skills with maximum impact. These include writing plain language, headlines, summaries and link-text; structuring documents for skim-readers; and writing text alternatives for images.

By editing content correctly, organizations can double the usability of web sites and intranets. With our award-winning courses, you get better return on your ICT investment and can train staff with minimum effort and cost.

Web-based and continuously accessible, Contented courses include tutorials, tips, exercises, examples, quizzes and checklists. Big groups: big discounts!

We are a New Zealand company with international clients, including government agencies, international corporations, NGOs and universities. Those registered include consultants, web content managers, web designers and developers, IT staff, project managers, policy analysts, editors, journalists, scholars, teachers, corporate communicators, librarians and marketers - in short, anybody who writes at work.

Did you realize that most linguists cannot agree on the origination of the Japanese language? Do you know where to turn for resources designed to help you tap into the U.S. Hispanic market? You would if you subscribed to Global Communicator, our free monthly electronic publication that covers a variety of topics related to international communications.

Browse through the past issues of Global Communicator and sign up for access to experts’ suggestions on website translation, foreign search engine registration and international website marketing, case studies of successful international advertising campaigns, and more. Each month we showcase a new language and useful web links related to both the featured industry and language.

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ITtoolbox is an online community of professionals who share practical information on IT topics. This community enables anyone to access the collective knowledge of a worldwide audience of experienced professionals. In doing so, ITtoolbox satisfies the need for practical and timely information for an infinite number of possible challenges in the complex and rapidly changing field of information technology.

The ITtoolbox platform integrates the following collaboration and community publishing tools:

• Groups
• Blogs
• Wikis
• Knowledge Bases
• Professional Networking

We serve the IT community through 28 different knowledge bases including: Business Intelligence, C Languages, CRM, Knowledge Management, Java, Security and Web Design.

ITtoolbox is visited by 2.6 million IT professionals a month and has over 1.7 million pages of community-generated content providing practical IT information.

MultiLingual Computing, Inc., publishes MultiLingual, the leading industry magazine for language technology, localization, international software development and website globalization. Free downloads at http://www.multilingual.com/gsg include guides to multilingual content management, writing for translation, project management and more. Current language technology information and news are also provided as well as a biweekly electronic newsletter.

O’Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazine, and conferences. Since 1978, O’Reilly has been a chronicler and catalyst of leading-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and spurring their adoption by amplifying “faint signals” from the alpha geeks who are creating the future. An active participant in the technology community, the company has a long history of advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism.

Peachpit publishes the industry’s best-selling books on the latest in graphic design, desktop publishing, multimedia, Web publishing, digital video and general Macintosh computing.

John Wiley & Sons, Inc. provides must-have information to readers worldwide. Wiley’s Sybex imprint publishes titles that provide IT Administrators with essential skills that form the building blocks for professional growth. Wrox Press is driven by the Programmer to Programmer philosophy, publishing books that are written by programmers for programmers, and the Wrox brand means authoritative solutions to real-world programming problems.  Wrox’s unique author-editorial process delivers the best and most useful information you need in the timeliest manner.  Remember, Programmer to Programmer is not just our slogan; it’s the way we write our books.