Deneba Releases Canvas 8 For Mac OS X Technology Preview; Public Beta Preview Release Is Now Available For Free Download.Business Editors/Technology Writers MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 5, 2001 Deneba Software today announced the availability of a special public preview version of Canvas(TM) 8 Professional fully optimized for Apple Computer's new Mac OS X. This preview edition targets illustrators, graphic artists and business professionals who are early adopters of Mac OS X or are considering a transition to the new operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. . Now, for the first time, the OS X user community will be able to experience the award-winning power and features of the new Deneba Canvas 8. The Mac OS X version of Canvas 8 contains hundreds of enhancements and advanced new features including: vector and raster The horizontal lines (scan lines) displayed on a TV or computer monitor. This is the origin of the term "raster graphics," which is the major category that all bitmapped images and video frames fall into (GIF, JPEG, MPEG, etc.). Sequence recording, AppleScript(TM), ColorSync(TM), and QuickTime(TM) support. The new version also contains customizable Web Image Slicing and direct Flash export. Deneba's enthusiastic support for OS X should not surprise long-time Apple watchers. Fifteen years ago, the Miami-based software developer was one of the first companies to engineer and market products for the Macintosh platform. OS X is widely viewed by the technology industry as a significant improvement as it promises more stability and enhanced graphics capabilities. Rob Crawford, Senior Software Engineer is leading the Canvas 8 / OS-X project. "Canvas 8's user interface has been optimized for Aqua, and has numerous new time saving features," he stated. "Also, developing Canvas 8 in a protected memory operating system like OS X, allowed us to develop a very robust product that can easily handle the largest graphic files." Canvas 8 also contains an updated PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format. (TM) export filter which supports full data stream compression, direct embedding 1. (mathematics) embedding - One instance of some mathematical object contained with in another instance, e.g. a group which is a subgroup. 2. (theory) embedding - (domain theory) A complete partial order F in [X -> Y] is an embedding if of PostScript The de facto standard page description language (PDL) in the graphics arts industry as well as in commercial printing. Developed by Adobe, many printers and most imagesetters support PostScript by having a built-in PostScript interpreter. (R) and TrueType(TM) fonts, hypertext hypertext, technique for organizing computer databases or documents to facilitate the nonsequential retrieval of information. Related pieces of information are connected by preestablished or user-created links that allow a user to follow associative trails across the links, transitions and much more. While the public preview edition only runs under OS-X, the shipping release works equally well under OS 9 thanks to Apple Carbon technology. Deneba expects to ship the final version of Canvas 8 for Macintosh on October 1, 2001. The public Canvas 8 OS X Preview Edition is available as a free download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. from Deneba's web site: http://www.deneba.com. Deneba Software develops and markets innovative cross-platform solutions for Macintosh(TM) OS, and Windows(TM). Deneba Software is located at 1150 NW 72nd Avenue, Second Floor, Miami, FL 33126; Telephone: (305) 596-5644; Fax: (305) 273-9069. |
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