Information About

Interleaf




Founded in 1981, Interleaf was a company that produced a technical publishing software product with the same name. It was a competitor of the Adobe FrameMaker product. Broadvision acquired Interleaf in January 2000.

The Interleaf publishing system was notable for being one of several software packages (along with AutoCAD ) that was keeping the use of the Lisp Programming Language alive in commercial software in the late 1990s.

Interleaf's headquarter was in Cambridge , Massachusetts and later moved to Waltham, Massachusetts .


PRODUCTS


Interleaf initially only had one product, Interleaf Technical Publishing Software, Interleaf TPS. Eventually the product name changed to be just Interleaf. TPS intially only ran on Workstations ( Sun , Apollo etc.), but eventually it was ported both to the Macintosh and the PC.

Other products were:

  • Interleaf Releational Document Manager (RDM) - a database document management product integrated with Interleaf

  • Interleaf WorldView - an electronic document viewer, much like Adobe Acrobat

  • Interleaf WorldView Press - an extention to Interleaf 5 which produced collections of WorldView documents which were searchable across the collection.

  •   publisher BYTE Magazine
      author Editor
      title Editor's Choice Awards 1996
      date February, 1996




AQUISITION BY BROADVISION


After Broadvision acquired Interleaf it changed the name of the product to Quicksilver.

According to Broadvision product description, BroadVision QuickSilver enables you to create and publish lengthy, complex documents in multiple output formats (including HTML, PDF and Postscript) and automates publishing of personalized content to BroadVision Portal. Assemble publications from a variety of text, graphic and database sources, including Microsoft Word, AutoCad, Microsoft Excel, and Oracle. Includes a complete XML authoring environment.

  • Automatically assembles documents from a variety of sources including Microsoft Word, WordPerfect and FrameMaker.

  • Supports complex authoring with reusable content and cascading changes, attribute tagging and conditional views, and automatic TOCs and indices.

  • Streamlines publishing to the BroadVision portal environment with automatic multi-file publishing, intra and inter-file links, and by leveraging qualifiers, categories and attributes in the portal.



REFERENCES



EXTERNAL LINKS

  • http://www.broadvision.com

  • http://www.interleft.org - a place to find other people who used to work at Interleaf.