Using a unique method to manage numbers, dates, text, phrases, and graphics, the software builds special indexes that find information with only one seek to the disc. Easily Integrated with Internet Solutions Today, the optimal solution is often a hybrid approach, combining the portability, storage capacity, and high bandwidth of CD-ROM with the dynamic, easily updated features of the Internet. The open design of the CD Author Development System enables a broad range of CD-ROM development approaches and implementation methods. Our software is compatible with Microsoft's Visual Basic and MFC, Delphi, Netscape Navigator, and Microsoft Internet Explorer plug-ins. The CD Author Development System is distinguished by its quick and easy data input and conversion processes, a wide variety of indexing options, high data processing through-put rates, and a broad complement of user interface design capabilities.
Authors can link databases to color graphics as well as to multimedia objects and programs.
Data compression allows for the storage of a database of up to 4 gigabytes, and security is ensured through user passwords, encryption, and user-access monitoring. Sophisticated Retrieval Capabilities With CD Author, single CD-ROM titles can be accessed on multiple platforms, allowing organizations to leverage their installed base of hardware, and to greatly reduce manufacturing and handling costs. End users can rely on a full range of advanced searching options and can access information in multiple languages. The user interface is created using the powerful Advanced Design Library component of the CD Author Development System, and can be designed either by in-house programmers or by our experienced service groups. It is the foundation of the retrieval components of the product, and also provides programmers with advanced functionality for the creation of the user interface.