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Imaging News — May 2005

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Enhanced FlexSnap Web Viewers Unveiled at AIIM 2005

Snowbound's FlexSnap web viewers, written in 100% Java, deliver powerful high-speed viewing and annotation capabilities to improve productivity and streamline workflow processes. With FlexSnap, users across your organization, as well as your customers, gain fast, secure, and customized access to documents and images through a standard Web browser. Users can retrieve, view, manipulate, convert, print, and save multiple file formats through one universal viewer. FlexSnap's easy to configure User Interface allows you to meet diverse business needs and control user permissions throughout the enterprise. Available as an applet, with server integration, and as a pure HTML viewer, FlexSnap takes your web viewing capabilities to new heights.

  • FlexSnap: Applet™ provides robust front-end document and image viewing capabilities complete with thumbnail support and annotations and layer controls that can be integrated with your server-based technology. (FlexSnap: Applet was previously called FlexSnap)
  • FlexSnap: SI™ takes web viewing to the next level by incorporating image server integration with the robust applet to provide sophisticated Web-based retrieval for documents and images located in a repository. (FlexSnap:SI was previously called SnapServ)
  • FlexSnap: HTML™ is a pure HTML viewer with a servlet that processes the documents and images on the server then embeds them directly into a web page by temporarily converting them into a format support by the Web (PNG or JPEG). (FlexSnap:HTML was previously called SnowServ)

To learn more about our FlexSnap web viewers or to request an evaluation, please visit: http://www.snowbound.com/flexsnap.


Now Available: RasterMaster 14.0 For Windows, .NET, UNIX, and Macintosh Platforms

RasterMaster 14.0 expands the extensive list of current formats available including:

  • Reading support for Microsoft Word documents allows developers to build applications without the limitation of the end user having to rely on Microsoft Office in order to view the file.
  • Reading and writing support for JPEG2000, providing better compression sizes over JPEG and reducing the amount of memory required when archiving detailed greyscale and color images.
  • Functions that provide the ability to extract text and formatting data from MS Word, RTF, PCL and AFP documents. Developers thereby can build applications that create searchable PDFs as well as develop content aggregation tools to simplify database population efforts.
  • Extension of the Microsoft Office plug-in to include RTF support for viewing and conversion that retainins the appearance of fonts, page layout, and tables in image formats such as TIFF or JPEG.

 Additional version 14.0 feature enhancements include:

  • Support for HP-GL/2 plotter files
  • Support for Windows XP/64
  • Embedded TIFF images in IOCA files
  • Additional font support for MO:DCA
  • True Type and Type 1 font support
  • Enhanced sample library for programming in C#, Visual Basic, .NET, and ASP .NET
  • Ability to upgrade to future versions easily with a new generic naming convention

Evaluate RasterMaster 14.0 Now — Enhance your applications and increase your document imaging capabilities.

Read the full press release on RasterMaster 14.0 enhancements.


Limited Time Offer: Save 50% on FlexSnap: Applet

For a limited time, you can incorporate a powerful web viewer into your application and save up to $3,000. Snowbound Software's FlexSnap family of web viewers provide users the ability to view, manipulate, convert, print, and save multiple file formats through a universal viewer. Available as a stand-alone applet only, with server integration, or as a pure HTML viewer, FlexSnap is the only viewer you need to take your web-based viewing capabilities to new heights.

Purchase FlexSnap: Applet by June 30, 2005 to receive your $3,000 discount. To learn more about our FlexSnap web viewers, or to request an evaluation, click here.

*Discount does not apply to any distribution, licensing, maintenance, or support costs.