ZOETERMEER, THE NETHERLANDS – June 17, 2004 – Software developer and Systems house Techno Design has announced that the latest version of its multiple award-winning Speller XT application will be available as of week 27.
Fully compatible with QuarkXPress 6, QuarkCopyDesk 3 and Mac OS X, version 3.0 offers ‘expression control’, a brand new feature detecting consecutive words that form specific expressions, replacing ‘like in America’ with ‘as in America’ or ‘graphic palette’ with graphics palette’.
The redesigned User Interface makes this latest version of Speller XT yet more accessible. Furthermore, we have expanded our lexicons to now offer over an unprecedented number of words. (This number varies for each language.)
Another important feature is the respelling option, allowing users to switch from one variant of a language to another in a document, i.e. from British English to American English.
Unmatched in speed and accuracy, Speller XT relies on the principle of ‘fuzzy distance’ to detect spelling errors: Speller XT presents an alternative that really resembles the misspelled word, including reversals (e.g. ‘teh’ instead of ‘the’) and missing (initial) letters. And with its OCR-module, Speller XT 3.0 can recognize and correct mistakes generated during the OCR-process.
The client/server structure of the Speller XT solution makes it especially attractive to publishers and large corporations as it allows organizations to maintain a uniform house style in all communications.
World class spelling
As more and more businesses extend their activities beyond their own borders, it is imperative that all communications are flawless.
Speller XT enables high speed, highly precise spelling checks in QuarkXPress for a large number of languages from every continent.
Unique features of Techno Design’s Speller XT are its accuracy, the vast number of languages we cover, our professional backing by language institute *TALO, OCR detection and the amount of awards that have been granted up to now.
Each Language Collection in Speller XT consists of one or more featured language lexicons – like for instance Reformed German or Flemish Dutch, plus central and personal dictionaries. Users can save additions in personal dictionaries, which can be made available to colleagues through a client/server structure.
Each language has a very distinct character. Therefore, each speller has its own language model, describing its characteristic behaviour and thus guaranteeing its speed.
Special Language Bundles
In keeping with the continuous increase of international trade, we have created two unique new sets of Language Bundles.
Called the Nordic and the European Union Bundle, these sets of multiple Spellers help organizations communicate effectively in all specific areas where their targeted markets are located.
*TALO
Speller XT’s language technology was devised by renowned Dutch language institute *TALO, experts in language tools for the publishing industry. It was designed to follow the rules and exceptions of spelling, governed by leading academies worldwide. Abbreviations, punctuation marks, fixed formats like dates and numbers (financial data), and Internet addresses are also being controlled during the spelling process.
Together with *TALO, Techno Design can offer specialist spellers for various different scientific, industrial or graphics industries.
Speller XT has undergone extensive testing by various official institutes.
New Features
- Fully compatible with QuarkXPress 6.1, Mac OS X (For Microsoft Windows available soon)
- Redesigned User Interface
- ‘Expression control’
- Expanded lexicons
- Detection of e-mail addresses and URLs
Featured languages*:
Albanian, Belarussian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch/Flemish Groene Boekje, Dutch/Flemish Van Dale, Dutch/Frisian, Dutch/Groene Boekje, Dutch/Van Dale, English/Australian, English/Canadian, English/UK, English/US, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Pilipino/Tagalog, Finnish, French, French/Recommended, French/ Canadian, French/Canadian Recommended, German/News Agencies (DPA), German/ Old, German/Reformed, German/Austrian Old, German/Austrian Reformed, German/Swiss News Agencies (DPA), German/Swiss Old, German/Swiss Reformed, Greek, Greenlandic, Hungarian, Icelandic, Bahasa Indonesia, Italian, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Bahasa Melayu, Maltese, Norwegian/Bokmål, Norwegian/Nynorsk, Occitan, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese/Brazilian, Romanian,
Russian, Saami, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, South African, Afrikaans, South African, English, Spanish, Catalan, Galician, Basque, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian.
*Latin-1 languages for Mac available upon release. Central European and Cyrillic languages available very shortly.
European Union Bundle:
Czech, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish.
Nordic Bundle: Danish, Faroese, Finnish, Greenlandic, Icelandic, Norwegian/Bokmål, Norwegian/Nynorsk, Saami, Swedish.
System requirements:
Macintosh
- QuarkXPress 6.1 or later
- QuarkCopyDesk 3.0 or later
- Mac OS X v10.2 (Jaguar) or later
- Minimum 128MB total RAM
Windows
Pricing
Full version, single user: € 299,-/ $ 359,-
Extra languages: € 149,- / $ 179,-
Upgrades
From version 1.x: € 149,- / $ 179,-
Per language (serial number req.): € 79,- / $ 95,-
From version 2.x: € 79,- / $ 95,-
Per language (serial number req.): € 49,- / $ 59,-
About Techno Design
Software developer and systems house Techno Design offers publishing technology solutions in language, production and database publishing, selling all over the world. For the last 12 years, Techno Design has been one of the major creators of program additions and turnkey solutions, like single source publishing solution IPM.
For more information, please visit our web site at www.techno-design.com or contact:
Techno Design BV
Koraalrood 100
2718 SC Zoetermeer
The Netherlands
Contact:
Erik van den Heuvel, Product Manager
Telephone: +31 79 361 80 36
E-mail: eheuvel@techno-design.com
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