MetaCommunications Ships Virtual Ticket Production Pack 3.0

Major upgrade of the Virtual Ticket Production Pack to support the Adobe Creative Suite, including new support for Adobe InDesign.

IOWA CITY, IA—April 7th, 2004. Today MetaCommunications, Inc. shipped a major upgrade to its Production Pack software for Virtual Ticket. Production Pack 3.0 adds support for Adobe InDesign and the Adobe Creative Suite on Mac OS X.

“Production Pack 3.0 is a significant step in our commitment to support Adobe’s Creative Suite product line. It will provide InDesign CS users on Mac OS X with powerful tools that improve productivity and communication within the publishing and production process. Production Pack 3.0 gives InDesign CS users instant access to – and seamless integration with – Virtual Ticket 5.5, the industries’ most powerful workflow and digital asset management solution,” says Robert T. Long, Executive Vice President of MetaCommunications.

Download a high-resolution screen shot of Production Pack 3.0 in Adobe InDesign CS.

Production Pack 3.0
Virtual Ticket Production Pack 3.0 provides creative, publishing, and prepress staff the ability to access related production and digital asset information from within their production tool of choice. Virtual Ticket Production Pack 3.0 consists of Adobe Plug-ins and QuarkXPress XTensions which automatically capture detailed multi-page document previews, rich XML metadata, and seamlessly integrates into MetaCommunications’ Virtual Ticket 5.5 – automating production tasks and providing instant access to job tickets, digital assets, schedules, and other publishing related information. Additional information can be found at http://www.meta-comm.com.

About MetaCommunications
MetaCommunications is a leading software developer of workgroup and enterprise business management and workflow solutions for the graphic arts industry. MetaCommunications flagship products include Virtual Ticket 5.5 and Job Manager 3.5. These cross-platform products are customizable and scalable from five-user workgroups to hundreds of users in an enterprise environment. MetaCommunications has more than 500 installations of its software worldwide, helping some of the world’s top creative agencies, corporate marketing groups, printing and prepress firms, and publishers work more efficiently and profitably. MetaCommunications was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Iowa City, Iowa. For more information, please visit http://www.meta-comm.com.

For more information, contact:

Robert T. Long
MetaCommunications
1210 S. Gilbert Street
Iowa City, IA 52240 USA
319-337-8599 x180
blong@meta-comm.com

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