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Atex is a technology firm that helped pioneer the switch of newspaper and magazine publishing from "hot lead" to "cold type", and in the process developed networked machines with communication capability ("Atex messaging") credited as a major predecessor of e-mail and instant messaging. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Linotype machine. ...
Phototypesetting is a method of setting type, rendered obsolete with the popularity of the personal computer and desktop publishing software, that uses a photographic process to generate columns of type on a scroll of photographic paper. ...
History
Atex was founded in Massachusetts in 1973 by Richard and Charles Ying.
The founders sold Atex to Kodak in the 1980s, and in an effort to focus on its core photographic businesses, Kodak later sold Atex to a private group of investors in the 1990s.
Atex publishing systems were installed at hundreds of publications around the world, including The New York Times, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and a host of major metropolitan daily newspapers in the United States and abroad, as well as such magazines as Newsweek, Time magazine and U.S. News and World Report. The New York Times is a daily newspaper published in New York City by Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. ...
The Newsweek logo Newsweek is a weekly news magazine published in New York City and distributed throughout the United States and internationally. ...
(Clockwise from upper left) Time magazine covers from May 7, 1945; July 25, 1969; December 31, 1999; September 14, 2001; and April 21, 2003. ...
U.S. News & World Report is a weekly newsmagazine. ...
In 2002 Atex merged with Media Command, a company formed through the acquisitions of Collier Jackson in the United States; Australia’s Cybergraphic which, along with Atex, provided the majority of publishing systems in Australasia; and Matrix, a successful UK-based developer of newspaper and magazine distribution software. As a result of this merger, Atex became one of the world’s largest provider of content management, advertising, and distribution systems. At that time, the name changed to Atex Media Command, but in December 2004 the company decided that it was again to be called Atex.
Today Atex remains a major player in the global media solutions market. Media companies using the new generation solutions from Atex include The Wall Street Journal, News Corporation, Financial Times, Singapore Press Holdings, BBC Worldwide, South China Morning Post and Le Monde.
Atex alumni include Paul Brainerd, founder of Aldus and creator of PageMaker, and John Hild and Dave Erickson, founders of XyQuest and creators of XyWrite. Aldus Corporation (named after the 15th-century Venetian printer Aldus Manutius) was the inventor of the groundbreaking PageMaker software for the Apple Macintosh, a program that is generally credited with creating the desktop publishing (DTP) field. ...
PageMaker was the first desktop publishing program, introduced in 1985 by Aldus Corporation, initially for the Apple Macintosh but soon after also for the PC. It relies on Adobe Systems PostScript page description language. ...
XyWrite is a word processor for DOS and Windows produced by XyQuest in the mid 1980s and later by The Technology Group. ...
In late 2006, backed by Norwegian investment firm Kistefos AS, Atex acquired the media business of Unisys Corporation, and in early 2007 acquired Mactive, a leading advertising systems developer. Atex had created the largest digital advertising, editorial content management and multimedia software delivery capability in the world with nearly $1 billion USD worth of software installed worldwide and supporting in excess of 800 media customers.
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