CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
22 November 2004
Product News
Spicer Releases New 7.5 Versions of Imagenation and Image a.X 7.5
Spicer Corporation announced Imagenation 7.5 and Image a.X 7.5, the newest releases in its Universal Viewing suite.
Release 7.5 increases the strength of Spicer's mechanical design drawing capabilities with the addition of DWG 2005, Autodesk Inventor 3D, Microstation v8 2004, and JT format support. These widely used formats expand on an already extensive list of over 200 supported file formats.
In addition, the new Enhanced PDF Add-on provides a seamless integration of Adobe technology, offering improved font support for highly accurate PDF rendering and options for smoothing text, line art, and images. The Add-on is available as a purchase option to most Imagenation and Image a.X editions.
"With our clients in mind, Spicer delivers support for accepted industry-standard technologies without compromising document fidelity. This further entrenches Imagenation as a vital catalyst to an informed and collaborative workforce," says Tony Prilesnik, Imagenation product manager. "Users across the spectrum of engineering to office applications continue to find Imagenation an effective solution for their changing business imaging needs."
With Release 7.5, Spicer also announces its membership with JT Open, an assembly of users, vendors and interested parties in the PLM segment. Spicer joins many Fortune 500 companies in seeking open distribution of the popular JT file format, thus encouraging streamlining and cost savings in internal and external supply chain processes.
Additional new features in this release include:
• Color management for printing-set printer profiles to ensure colors remain true in your printed output.
• Engineering scan enhancements-multipage support for Contex scanners, newly supported scanners Xerox 6030/6050, and updated scanning toolkit and drivers.
• Print preview functionality-see how your document will look when printed.
• A new optimized and compressed version of SMF (Spicer Multipage Format).
• Imagenation License Manager updates-multiple license files, add or remove seats in a license file, define port information, Alias names for license files.
Imagenation is the flagship product in the Spicer suite of Universal Viewing Solutions. Over half a million users, from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies, use Imagenation every day to scan, clean up, convert, view, mark up, and print documents. Imagenation for Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows NT® 4.0 (service pack 6 recommended), Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, is immediately available in 23 language versions, including English, French, German, Russian, Traditional/Simplified Chinese and Japanese.
Image a.X combines the flexibility of ActiveX controls with Imagenation's capabilities, enabling integrators to create custom universal viewing and markup solutions for .NET environments, the Web deployment, corporate networks, or the desktop.
Download your free evaluation copy of Imagenation or Image a.X at http://www.spicer.com .
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