Eastman Kodak Co’s publishing pre-press automation systems specialist Atex Inc is to acquire the entire front-end editorial and advertising systems product line from CText Inc of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and has made an undisclosed direct investment in CText: Atex gets exclusive worldwide rights (except in Brazil, Finland and Canada) to the full line, which runs under MS-DOS and OS/2; Atex will market the Atex CText product line to magazines worldwide and in the newspaper market, CText will market its products and Atex’s pagination and colour products to its existing customers (individual properties and publishing groups) in North America and market to North American prospects with circulations under 125,000.
