Creator Server Product Information
The primary services provided by Creator Server itself are those used by the Creator desktop application, Creator Professional: mainly ad and document construction, manipulation and exporting to a variety of formats. Virtually anything that can be done to a document using Creator Professional can be done in an automated fashion using Creator Server.
In addition, Creator Server provides a powerful command language similar in function to AppleScript® (and available on multiple platforms), support for multiple simultaneous users, and TCP/IP networking support for use on a local area network or the Internet. It also provides a few tools useful in an automated environment, such as conversion of images from one type to another (EPS to GIF, for example).
What Creator Server does not provide is any form of user interface more sophisticated than a command line. It is a processing tool, one half of a complete solution. The other half (the user interaction) is provided by a client module.
Example:
A restaurant is a good metaphor for this: The cooks in the kitchen are the server; they provide the
primary service of the restaurant. Client modules are the waiters or waitresses who interact with the customers,
taking orders and delivering the food. A person unfamiliar with the operation of a restaurant might well be
unaware of the existence of the cooks at all and assume the waitstaff are performing all the work.
What the user sees when interacting with a Creator Server based system is the particular client module they
are using, not the server itself.
The separation between the server itself and the client modules is what gives Creator Server its incredible flexibility.
