Elsop Announces LinkScan™ 12.0 with Advanced Flash Support
San Jose, CA, March 11, 2008. Electronic Software Publishing Corp. (Elsop) is pleased to announce the release of LinkScan ™ 12.0.
LinkScan 12.0 is a significant maintenance release that corrects several small errors and refines a number of existing features.
We have provided the option to use an external link extractor on Flash (SWF) files. To use this you must first obtain a copy of the Adobe Search Engine SDK via: http://www.adobe.com/licensing/developer/search/faq/.
Simply copy the Adobe "swf2html" executable to the LinkScan installation folder.
Link extraction from from Flash files represents a significant challenge. The "swf2html.exe" program created by Macromedia/Adobe probably represents the very best option available anywhere. Once installed, LinkScan will route all Flash files to this program and then process all of the hyperlinks that it is able to identify.
We have made several improvements to the JavaScript link extraction.
We have added several improvements to the handing of encoded characters including UTF-8.
We have improved the accuracy of the page weight computations.
We have fixed a compatibility problem with Net::SSLeay that arises on some UNIX systems.
We have incorporated a number of other minor enhancements, bug fixes and performance improvements.
We have tested extensively and certify that LinkScan 12.0 operates with Microsoft's Vista operating system.
Effective February 2008, Elsop will no longer provide technical support for products prior to LinkScan 10.0. LinkScan 10.0 and later versions remain fully supported. LinkScan 10.0 was released in 2002 and hence we are supporting all versions released in the past 6 years.
These developments underscore Elsop's ongoing commitment to meet the needs of organizations with very large intranet websites and public websites. The latest performance boost compliments the extraordinary and incomparable speed with which LinkScan validates external links. LinkScan uses multi-threaded simultaneous processing to check 20 or more links concurrently.
LinkScan is being used by such major and diverse organizations as Boeing, Cisco Systems, Ford, Hewlett Packard, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, Verizon, Walgreens, Wells's Fargo, and Yahoo. Public sector clients include the United States Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, and Transport as well as NASA and Universities such as Brown, Cal State, Johns Hopkins, MIT, and Stanford.
LinkScan operates on all Microsoft Windows, Macintosh OS X and Unix Systems. Microsoft Windows 95/98/ME, Vista, and NT 4.0/2000/XP are all fully supported. Compatible Unix systems include AIX, BSDI, FreeBSD, Digital Unix, HP/UX, IRIX, all major Linux distributions, and SunOS/Solaris.
Version 12.0 is not a free upgrade. Current users of 10.x versions or later will need to pay a modest fee, about 15% of their original purchase price, to upgrade to the 12.0 version of the product they are using.
The LinkScan family of products addresses the complete spectrum of needs at affordable prices ranging from $850 to $35,000. Cross-platform and cross-product compatibility provides seamless migration for rapidly growing organizations while protecting all existing investments. For larger organizations in particular, this also means direct cost savings in deployment, user training and system administration.
Free fully functional evaluation copies of LinkScan 12.0 may be downloaded from the company's website at:
Contact Information:
Kenneth R. Churilla
President
Electronic Software Publishing Corp. (Elsop)
[email protected]