Lectora Publisher, Lectora Professional Publishing Suite, and special language versions in Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German have been widely adopted around the world because of their ease of use and reliability coupled with their ability to produce complex, interactive multimedia content.

"Because Trivantis stays in close touch with its customers, we see firsthand how Lectora users are becoming more skilled and sophisticated in the eLearning content they create, and we need to be out in front of their needs with new top-end capabilities", said Trivantis founder and Chief Software Architect, Tim Loudermilk. "Combining these new high-end features, while retaining the ease of use that makes Lectora the global leader, results in the most productive authoring tool in the world."

By meeting the needs of both novice and experienced content developers, Lectora has gained a loyal following worldwide among those in the training and academic communities. "In a nutshell, Lectora is an authoring tool you can grow with", said Ben Contra, Trivantis Executive Vice President. "Many of our customers initially choose Lectora because they can begin developing content immediately. They stay with Lectora for the long run because it meets their needs for a wide variety of eLearning, content from simple courses to intricate adaptive-learning and Section 508-compliant courses."

Among the fifty new features found in Lectora 2008 are:

• Flash Conversion: video, audio, and animation files are automatically compressed and converted to Flash.
• Help Agents: video tutorials instruct new users on key features.
• Media Library: helps users stay organized for faster development and enables easier collaboration for networked developers.
• Certificate Tool: customizable completion certificates make it easy to reward successful completion of a test or course.
• Easy Access Template Gallery: more than 250 templates are labeled and categorized.
• Content Protection: makes it nearly impossible for students to copy and paste content from course pages.

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