HNJ Engine
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HNJ Engine is a multifaceted technology for composing files and building pages in QuarkXPress. It runs in local or server mode, and is used to produce newspapers, magazines, catalogs, and business forms. It handles text and images, and can build pages in either single file or batch mode. It is available as a separate product for end users or as license technology with its own API for OEM developers.
For newspaper and magazine production, HNJ Engine has been tightly integrated with Microsoft Word allowing editors to copy fit in confidence knowing that the HNJ results seen in Microsoft Word are precisely those that would have been produced in QuarkXPress. Useful features include copy-fit feedback, head fit, story previews, notes, and an extensive tagging language.
HNJ Engine is ideal for catalog production. Tagged-database elements are linked to specific geometries in QuarkXPress templates, and HNJ Engine's batch-import facility allows pages to be populated dynamically.
Recent applications of HNJ Engine have focused on the internet. HNJ Engine can be integrated with a web server and accessed using TCP/IP. It can be used to take snapshots of QuarkXPress pages and turn them into images that can be displayed in a web browser, and, in order to provide increased flexibility, there is a technique for users to interact with the actual QuarkXPress pages.
In this mode, the user may click in a live area of the image displayed in the web browser, which causes an editing window to appear. Users may type text and enter typographical tags. When the image is composed, the edits are transmitted to the web server, where the appropriate QuarkXPress document is located and opened by HNJ Engine. The changes are made in QuarkXPress, and an updated image is returned to the user.
Manufacturer: North Atlantic Publishing Systems
