Interleaf’s June announcement dealt primarily with issues surrounding the creation and storage of technical documents. With WorldView, previewed earlier this year at the Seybold Computer Publishing Exhibition, Interleaf is also addressing the distribution and retrieval of such information in digital form. WorldView consists of WorldView Press, a Unix-based authoring system for creating electronic documents from files created with Interleaf’s publishing software, PageMaker, QuarkXPress, and other applications, and WorldViewer, an application for displaying and searching documents created with WorldView Press. Windows, Motif/Open Look, Mac, and DOS versions of WorldViewer are currently in preparation.
    Interleaf has incorporated in WorldView Press full-text indexing and retrieval technology licensed from Fulcrum, enabling users (or should we call them “viewers”?) to make word, phrase, and Boolean-based searches across volumes of documents. Other facilities include copy-and-paste between other applications, note-taking, and bookmarks. For documents created with Interleaf’s publishing systems, WorldView Press can automatically generate hypertext links based on table of contents, index, and cross-referencing tokens. For documents created using other systems, varying degrees of manual intervention are required. WordViewer documents can be distributed on standard electronic media, including CD-ROM.

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