New features:

• Fully Mac OSX compatible
• Import data from DBF files
• Supports XML
• Database Setup Wizard makes it easy to start a new project

What is Daybook Publisher?
Daybook Publisher is the cross-media database publishing solution for publishing catalogues, directories, price lists, membership directories, classified ads, or any other database-type information. Daybook Publisher will format your information according to your specifications: when data is transferred from the database to the destination (page layout program, HTML document, XML file etc.), it is sorted and formatted along with pictures - automatically and consistently.

What is Database Publishing?
Database publishing means taking data that resides in a database and publishing it in the form of a catalogue, directory, price list, membership list, or whatever. If this is what you need to do with your data, and whether you want to publish it in print or on the Internet, Daybook Publisher can simplify the job considerably by automating the most time-consuming and laborious part of the job.

What is Cross Media Publishing?
Cross media publishing means publishing data in more than one medium. For example, you may want to publish your data in print (using a page layout program such as QuarkXPress), on your web site, and as XML files. Daybook Publisher makes it very easy to accomplish this.

How can Daybook Publisher help?
Publishing data that originated in a database can be a very long-winded and laborious task. The steps involved are normally:

   1. Select the data you want to publish
   2. Try to remember how it's supposed to be sorted
   3. Export your data from the database to a text file
   4. Place the text from the text file into a template in your page layout program
   5. The boring part! Spend hours or even days working your way through the text, formatting each paragraph or subset of data as required, and inserting pictures where necessary.

Doing it the Daybook Publisher way:

1. Set up Style Sheets in Daybook Publisher.
2. Select the data you want to publish
3. Export your data from the database to a text file
4. Place the text from the text file into a template in your page layout program. Everything is automatically formatted as required, including the placement of pictures (not all publishing destinations support picture placement).
   

Not only do you save lots of time -- you are also assured that everything will be formatted consistently. For example, if you want all new product names to be set in red, Daybook Publisher will do this for you.