Atex (software)

Atex is a company founded in the 1970s and from 1983 until the 1990s, sold by the same Kodak daughter word processing and editing system for newspapers, which included as an integrated IT structure both the terminal hardware and the software. Atex is among the first generation of computer-based systems, which replaced in German newspaper houses the manuscript paper and a text entry in the record system enabled directly by the editors.

Atex is command oriented, a pictorial representation of the sentence ( "WYSIWYG " ) was not at every workstation main circulation time of the system because of the high computational load possible. Atex used -proprietary, proprietary keyboards and screens that were connected to a central computer. Matching Chinese keyboards at a much cheaper price came only in the early 1990s under the name Xeta ( Atex backward) on the market.

Key Features

Atex enabled for a text collection and award to another and formed the editorial workflow from: A defined sequencer, the texts were passed on to the respective processing stations ( Head of Department, proofreading ), and finally exposed. Apart from the actual markup on formatting tags, the program also allowed the moderate newspaper column break of individual contributions and the full pagination by specifying coordinates, so no mouse control or drag-and -drop. Another Atex function was the storage and management of incoming messages from the news agencies.

User

In Germany Atex was used in numerous newspaper editors, for example in the Bild newspaper, evening newspaper (Munich), Bergedorf Zeitung and the Süddeutsche Zeitung. From the mid- 1990s, the system was replaced on the market by graphically oriented solutions with non-proprietary hardware. The Berliner Tagesspiegel solved the system only in the years from 2001 to 2002 by Hermes.

The Company

As a company name Atex still exists, which is now independent of Kodak company still offers editing software. End of 2006, Atex has taken over the media Unisys for $ 50 million. Atex is the world 's largest provider of content management systems. Addition to its own content management system prestige and the Unisys system Hermes will continue. Both systems can integrate Indesign, QuarkXPress prestige. The 160 employees of the Milan Hermes development department were taken over by Atex.