Xerox Paris, a document system Support & Software Leaflet
Management Summary
Paris, The Document System is a suite of software products from XLPrint
Software, an International software house. XLPrint has been developing
software in support of the laser printing and digital printing industries for
over fifteen years. The first document creation product in the series was
Lapres, launched in 1990. The Lapres concept of combining the design
of a Form and Data at the same time was revolutionary and is a method
followed by many others today.
Software, an International software house. XLPrint has been developing
software in support of the laser printing and digital printing industries for
over fifteen years. The first document creation product in the series was
Lapres, launched in 1990. The Lapres concept of combining the design
of a Form and Data at the same time was revolutionary and is a method
followed by many others today.
The Lapres product is installed world-wide and is enabling users of XES,
Metacode and PCL laser printers to design, create and manage their
documents. All this is possible without any requirement to modify or
change business application programs. This means that the functions of
data processing and document formatting are separated which means
that skills are aligned to tasks. The Lapres software was designed from
the outset with the user in mind, so it is fully WYSIWYG, and its ease of
use became a benchmark. Users of Xerox LCDS printers in particular
discovered that they could design applications without having to resort
to the Xerox FSL and JSL command line languages.
Metacode and PCL laser printers to design, create and manage their
documents. All this is possible without any requirement to modify or
change business application programs. This means that the functions of
data processing and document formatting are separated which means
that skills are aligned to tasks. The Lapres software was designed from
the outset with the user in mind, so it is fully WYSIWYG, and its ease of
use became a benchmark. Users of Xerox LCDS printers in particular
discovered that they could design applications without having to resort
to the Xerox FSL and JSL command line languages.
In 1996, the successor product to Lapres was launched – Paris, The
Document System. Paris took all the concepts that had been invented
within Lapres, to a new dimension by adding a rich array of features to
support the growth of networked laser printing. By introducing a new
concept of managing the printing requirement from a single networked
Spooler, Paris is able to support a complete Enterprise Printing Solution.
Output can be sent to any networked device, whether that is a desktop
laser, a production laser printer, a digital press, a full color printer, and
the new breed of multi-function devices or digital documents in PDF
format.
Document System. Paris took all the concepts that had been invented
within Lapres, to a new dimension by adding a rich array of features to
support the growth of networked laser printing. By introducing a new
concept of managing the printing requirement from a single networked
Spooler, Paris is able to support a complete Enterprise Printing Solution.
Output can be sent to any networked device, whether that is a desktop
laser, a production laser printer, a digital press, a full color printer, and
the new breed of multi-function devices or digital documents in PDF
format.
Paris followed Lapres into the market and proved to be extremely
valuable as a way of creating new business documents as well as
enabling a migration from either Line Printers or older technology laser
printers. Document independence, ease of use and device independence
are key strengths of the solution.
valuable as a way of creating new business documents as well as
enabling a migration from either Line Printers or older technology laser
printers. Document independence, ease of use and device independence
are key strengths of the solution.
Paris32 - 1998
In 1998, XLPrint announced the release of Paris32, which was effectively
Version 2 of the product. The naming used the “32” so that it was clear
that Paris Version 2 was a full 32 bit Windows product.
Version 2 of the product. The naming used the “32” so that it was clear
that Paris Version 2 was a full 32 bit Windows product.
Paris32 built once more on the stable feature / function set available
from both Lapres and the first release of Paris and delivered a set of
software modules that took full advantage of the Microsoft 32 bit
application development environment.
from both Lapres and the first release of Paris and delivered a set of
software modules that took full advantage of the Microsoft 32 bit
application development environment.
In addition, XLPrint responded to the many requests from customers and
distributors alike that had been requesting even more functionality from
the software. So, from Lapres to Paris Version 1 to Paris32, the feature /
distributors alike that had been requesting even more functionality from
the software. So, from Lapres to Paris Version 1 to Paris32, the feature /