EIS eComPress Publishing Technology
Outlined below is a brief summary of the features and benefits which make the eComPress Publishing System the most viable and cost effective form of
electronic publishing available in the market today, and an ideal environment for
publishing authentic electronic reference works in place of the printed work.
- EASE OF USE - Extremely easy to use - text can be viewed on the screen within
seconds of receiving the file or loading the disk. All EIS eComPress publications are
designed to be intuitive - no training or instruction book is necessary.
- SEARCH - Extremely powerful word search with all words indexed - EIS guarantee
the user can find absolutely everything and anything within a eComPress publication
using the index - support for boolean operators of "and" and "or" along with the
ability to search for strings of words ie. phrases, clauses, sentences and numbers with
both single `?' and multiple character `*' wildcard support - saving hours of time
defining key word lists, and obviating the need for special expertise for that purpose.
- COMPRESSION - All EIS eComPress publications are compressed in bit form and
remain compressed when loaded to a hard disk or network server. Up to 4000 pages
can be compressed and indexed and
downloaded in less than 3 minutes at 56kbs - saving valuable disk space and
transmission time.
- INTEGRITY - The data in an EIS eComPress publication is compressed and uniquely
encoded (encrypted), such that the information in the electronic publication does not
resemble the original data. This prevents editing or altering the data and guarantees
total data integrity of all eComPress publications.
- FORMATTING and LINKING - EIS RTF eComPress publications are faithful to the
original format of your documents and automatically pick up links and revision marks
created in MS WORD - providing authentic documents both on screen and print out,
and automating the linking and change bar process.
- GRAPHICS and TABLES - EIS eComPress supports all forms of graphics as meta files
within the RTF format. Graphics are encoded the same as text, are displayed in-line
and can be readily copied with adjacent text to the clipboard. Tables are displayed in
the same format as the source document, can be copied to the clipboard with
formatting preserved and can even be searched in the same way as text.
- REACH - All EIS eComPress publications come complete with their own browser, the
version is always compatible - more than 3 million people can read an eComPress
electronic book publication in Australia (more than 300 million worldwide) without
the need for any additional hardware, software or the need to learn any new skills.
- SUPPORT - Our experience has shown that the eComPress electronic publications
require little or no pre or post sales technical support. The products are designed to require
no detailed knowledge of the PC or any of its software - saving thousands of dollars
in pre and post sales training and support over traditional search and publishing
software.
- COST - EIS eComPress Electronic Book publications are designed to be extremely cost
effective to master. Once the publication is available in RTF with all the hypertext
links established, an authentic compressed, encoded (encrypted) and exhaustively
indexed master can be generated with minimum effort. Saving significant time and
cost authoring Key Word lists and obviating the need for any format editing.
- ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY - All EIS eComPress publications are
authentic and viable replacements for the printed or CD-ROM works. On-line
delivery does not require any hard medium, and provides unlimited and cost effective
access on your own PC or network - saving thousands of trees and eliminating the
need for pulping overruns - a truly sustainable publishing system.
- COPYRIGHT PROTECTION - Various copyright protection systems have been
developed for eComPress publications. Network subscriptions provide for control of the
number of simultaneous users by Authorisation Key (PIN) numbers, and won't work
on stand-alone machines and visa versa. Similar mechanisms can be used to unlock
publications distributed on-line. Various security provisions are available and can be
tailored to suit the publishers' requirements.
- POWERFUL - All EIS eComPress publications always remain compressed taking up
minimal space and provide extremely fast access on your hard disk or network server
- no CD-ROM bottlenecks and providing fast concurrent access for many users to
thousands of publications without any additional hardware expense.
- COMPATIBILITY - EIS eComPress technology is media independent and is ideal for
on-line distribution. We currently support MS Windows 95, 98, NT, ME, 2000 and XP along with Windows in an OS/2 operating system
environment. eComPress publications will also work with Windows emulators on
Apple MAC's and UNIX machines.
- ON-LINE - EIS eComPress publications are ideal for on-line distribution. The extremely
efficient compression ensures the publications transfer in a minimum amount of time,
take up minimum storage on the subscribers machine and arrive instantly ready to
use. EIS has developed a 128 bit secure credit card payment facility on the Internet,
this provides an ideal environment to sell publications, both casually and by
subscription.
- AUSTRALIAN MADE - Eurofield Information Solutions is an Australian company and
the EIS eComPress Publishing System was designed and developed by EIS
in Australia.
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