SoftCare Software-Service on Wednesday announced the release of SoftCare K4 v5.7, an update to their editorial publishing system based around Adobe InDesign and Adobe InCopy. It’s available for Mac OS X and Windows, for free to any customers on a valid maintenance agreement.
New to this release is a new scripting interface for automating customer-specific processes. The scripting interface works with JavaScript, AppleScript or Visual Basic.
An optional K4 Web Editor 2.0 is also available, which makes it possible to write and edit articles using a Web browser. Content can be written, edited and copyfit using any Web browser and an Internet connection; articles checked out with K4 Web Editor are locked in the database, and checked out articles display styling, font mapping and layout geometry accurately, according to SoftCare. A new easy query mode lets you find documents more easily, as well.