Tuesday, January 24, 2012


Muriel E. "Mickey" Haley: January 20, 2012, age 77, dearest mother of Ginny Gebauer, Joan (Michael) Jahn, Jeanne (Anthony) Vuich, Terry (Bob) Notar, Laura Schauger and the late Dianne Schauger; loving grandmother of Michael, Dianne, Melissa, Jimmy Gebauer, Charles, Michael Fister, Angela, Nicole Lucatorto, Samantha, Anna, Allie Vuich, Tony, Kristina Notar, Kaitlyn Schauger and Kiana Pittman; dear sister of Joan (late Robert) Noah; dear aunt of Veronica Noah; dearest companion of the late Larry Petritz. The family will be present Thursday January 26th, 2012 from 12:00-2 PM and 4-6:30 PM at the (Amherst Chapel) AMIGONE FUNERAL HOME, INC., 5200 Sheridan Drive (corner of Hopkins Rd) where a Funeral Service will follow at 6:30 PM. Friends invited. Flowers are gratefully declined. If desired, donations may be made to www.faustmanlab.org towards their Type 1 diabetes study.

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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Technical Page 2 of the Altona Test Suite 2.0 released

Berlin, December 21, 2011:  The Technical Page 2 of the Altona Test Suite 2.0 is available for download from this website immediately. Developed during many months of hard work by ECI, bvdm, FOGRA and Ugra, the Altona Test Suite 2.0 offers a unique method to test components and systems in digital prepress and print workflows for their capability to process PDF/X-4.
The Altona Test Suite 2.0 consists of several parts. At this time, only the «Technical Page 2» is made available. The remaining parts of Altona Test Suite 2.0 will be made available in the 2nd quarter of 2012.
The «Altona Technical 2» addresses transparency, OpenType fonts, optional content (aka layers), JPEG2000 compression, smooth shades, overprint, 16-bit images and more.
Extensive documentation explains the structure of the test page and offers guidelines for the evaluation of results achieved by processing the Altona Technical 2 page.
The only support option available for users of the Altona Test Suite consists of the possibility to subscribe to the ECI mailing list and submit any questions or feedback on the ECI mailing list which are monitored by the authors of the Altona Test Suite.
Please go to the section “Downloads” at the link below website to download the Altona Test Suite files.
Important notice: The Altona Test Suite may be used freely, but must not be redistributed without receiving prior permission in writing from the ECI. No guarantee is given that the Alton Test Suite is without error. Any use is completely under the risk of the person or company using the Altona Test Suite. There are no liabilities should the use of the Altona Test Suite lead to direct or consequential damages.

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