Dalim Software GmbH, originally Dalim GmbH (previously stylized as DALiM), is a German software company focused on prepress, digital imaging, and digital and print media creation and management. It was founded in 1986 by Francis Lamy in Frankfurt. The company enjoyed a large market share within high-end color houses before faltering in the late 1990s and entering receivership in 1998. In 1999, the company was split three ways, with the majority of Dalim's assets handed to their American reseller Blanchard Systems, who launched Dalim Software GmbH in Germany in the same year.
Dalim Software GmbH was founded as Dalim GmbH in Frankfurt, West Germany, by Francis M. Lamy in 1986.[1][2] Before founding Dalim, Lamy earned a trio of degrees in French universities, including a doctorate of physics at the University of Strasbourg and a master's in mechanical engineering and a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Lyon.[3]
In late 1994, the company introduced Dalim Twist, a file format converter and batch volume processor for prepress. Twist could convert between Hell, Scitex, Crosfield, and Screen formats and acted as a batch raster image processor for PostScript files and as a server for downconverting high-resolution assets to machines running Dalim software, for the sake of performance in image placement (via the Open Prepress Interface protocol).[12] Both Tango, Litho, and Twist enjoyed a considerable market share within high-end color houses.[1][13]
Dalim's success in the 1990s proved short-lived, however, and in 1998 the company encountered significant financial difficulty.[13] In December 1998, after a major investor pulled out of the company, Dalim became insolvent and entered receivership in Germany.[14][13] Their business partner Heidelberger Druckmaschinen, also based in Germany, was rumored to be prepared to acquire Dalim out of bankruptcy; as was Goss Graphic Systems, an American printing press manufacturer based in Westmont, Illinois, who had made a significant investment in Dalim in 1997.[13][15] Instead, the company was split three ways in early 1999, with the majority of Dalim's assets handed to their American reseller Blanchard Systems, who launched Dalim Software GmbH in Germany in the same year,[16] while other assets were acquired by OneVision Software AG.[17] Following the split, Lamy left the company, joining GretagMacbeth of New Windsor, New York.[3] Since the split, Dalim Software relocated to Kehl, Germany.[18]
DALIM SOFTWARE (www.dalim.com), makers of highly efficient, scalable software solutions for creating, producing, and managing print and cross-media content, announces the official release of DALIM ES6.
DALIM ES6, an advanced project planning, production workflow, and asset management system is used by brands, publishers, print providers, and agencies to oversee all facets of print and online production projects. This ranges from project planning to reduce time to market, to helping with design and production of content.
DALIM ES6 can be hosted on-premises or in the Cloud (for example, with the power of Amazon Web Services), with all required security.
What's new in DALIM ES6
DALIM ES6 provides the opportunity to build friendlier user interfaces and new, practical tasks to produce content.
Key performance indicators (KPI): With improvements to the KPI system, users can now access a wide range of data and reports to get a complete overview of their production performance. Reports on job, department, and organizational efficiencies will allow users to measure the productivity of their business, and make improvements where required. With an interactive report builder and simple layout editor to embed them into a dashboard, users can spend less time building these reports.
A smarter system: DALIM ES6 has enriched intelligence. For example, by adding a thesaurus, administrators can improve searches, asking the system to use artificial intelligence to find similar assets. Along with metadata tagging, searches will locate synonym words. DALIM ES can also be integrated with third-party automated keyword searching systems.
Plug into Adobe CC: DALIM ES6 incorporates a new Adobe CC plugin for seamless, remote integration between the DALIM ES6 DAM and the Adobe Creative Suite. This provides the perfect opportunity for Adobe CC users to work from anywhere via the ES DAM, even without direct access to production volumes.
For example, labels with different flavors, sizes, and languages can all be created automatically. Information flows from the product lifecycle management (PLM) system to the packaging graphics files and is filled automatically. Even required reviews are automatically sent to supply chain partners. This provides more time for people to work on value-added projects and tasks while reducing typing errors.
Producing for print
Printers need to serve brands by reducing time to market with quality work. DALIM ES6 offers a wide range of tools for the print provider, including project management, a world-class production workflow, online proofing, and DAM. This ranges from project planning, to tasks to help design and produce print materials. DALIM ES6 workflows automate repetitive steps to reduce costs, ensuring no steps are missed. DALIM ES6 can be scaled to handle any number of traditional and digital presses.
For his neighbours, Ahmed Ali was master moshai, known for his proficiency in English, Urdu and the Quran. The soft-spoken 71-year-old used to teach students in the neighbourhood. He also used to lend money, at exorbitant interest. But he chose to keep it private, just like his rented apartment in Bedford lane, a central Kolkata locality with a significant Muslim presence, where he lived with his wife, Zareena, and their 10-year-old daughter.
Ali, who had been living in Kolkata since 1996, went missing from his house on February 21. Two weeks later came reports about his arrest in Bangladesh and the shocking revelation that he was Abdul Majed, a retired major in the Bangladesh army. He was wanted in Bangladesh for the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, revered as the father of the nation. He was executed on a long-pending death warrant on April 12.
The sleuths moved in on February 21, reportedly without the knowledge of the West Bengal government and its intelligence apparatus. CCTV footage showed a five-member team picking up Majed in the morning. After extensive interrogation in Delhi, he was sent to Dhaka. There are reports that Moslem Uddin, too, has been picked up from West Bengal.
It was Noor who fired the bullets that killed Mujib. He was later made lieutenant colonel and was posted abroad as high commissioner to Hong Kong and ambassador to France. He now lives in Toronto under the protection of the Canadian government.
Dalim had served at several Bangladeshi missions in the Middle East. When Bangladesh established diplomatic ties with Pakistan, Rashid was posted there. Now retired, he runs businesses in Kenya, but he reportedly stays in Pakistan. Dalim, who runs petroleum businesses in many countries, too, lives in Pakistan, according to intelligence reports.
DHAKA, Aug 14, 2022 (BSS) - Several people having no links to the August 15, 1975 carnage witnessed the carnage scene at 32 Dhanmondi after the assailants carried out the massacre exposing the nation to a state of hollowness while these people continued to bear their horrific memories.
Liberation War veteran major general (retd) Jibon Kanai Das, who was a captain at that time, was one of those to visit the scene and came out with his memories of the day coinciding with Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's 47th martyrdom anniversary.
"I was a captain then serving as Officer Commanding, Bulk Inspection Unit (now Bulk Inspection Section)," Das said, adding on that fateful day he was staying at 2nd E Bengal officers mess at the Dhaka Cantonment's Bijoy Keton area with his friend, recently expired, Captain M Muqtadir Ali, who came to Dhaka from Rajshahi to face an interview.
The former general said they both came to know the unbelievable news as Muqtadir, after getting up from bed, was habitually fiddling with the transistor radio kept in the room and "this early morning shock and trauma totally overwhelmed us".
"At around 9 a.m., we could see a machinegun mounted open jeep carrying coup leaders Major Dalim and Lieutenant Colonel Syed Faruqur Rahman entering the Army Headquarters," he said adding the two assailants went back towards the city area half an hour later.
Meanwhile, Das said he was asked by a senior colleague at BSD Major M Bazlul Karim to accompany him to get a military supplier's truck released as it was stuck in Lalbagh area since the usurpers declared martial law through the radio broadcast.
Having done the task of resolving the issue of the onion-loaded truck, Karim took Mirpur road to return and in the cross-section at the eastern end of Road 32, he stopped and spotted Major Bazhil Huda, one of the coup leaders.
"It was about 11 am. In the course of discussion with Major Karim, Major Bazhil Huda was narrating their story and at some point invited him, by extension all of us in the group, to have a look inside if we desired so," Das said.
"What we witnessed was absolute horror and much worse than what we feared. Getting into the yard west of the building, we saw a car parked there. We were told Colonel Jamil Ahmed, military secretary to the president, responded to a distress call from Bangabandhu. He couldn't perhaps figure out the scale and dimension of unfolding event. Ignited by the burning soldierly instinct of responding to the senior's, he pressed on, began arguing with the perpetrators who were guarding the axis. They then shot and killed him instantaneously, pushed the car into the compound with the dead body in it.
"We then moved inside the house from the western door to the reception room located south-west. Here we found the dead bodies of Captain Sheikh Kamal (Retd) and the police officer on duty. Everything was scattered, smashed which indicated a huge volume of fire had been brought to silence the two. On way back, the bathroom door was opened to let us see the dead body of Sheikh Abu Naser. It was almost floating on blood indicating cold-blooded murder using bullets as well as bayonet."
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