HELIOS' New ImageServer Offers Hot Folders for Automated Scripting.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers GARBSEN, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 9, 2002 HELIOS Software GmbH, a leading developer of network and prepress server software, introduced advanced new features now available in its 4th generation HELIOS ImageServer 2.5. Now shipping on HELIOS CD018, ImageServer 2.5, formerly HELIOS EtherShare OPI (Open Prepress Interface) An extension to PostScript that provides color separations. It was developed by Aldus Corporation, which was later acquired by Adobe. , supports server-based image transformation, repurposing and conversion. This allows automated conversion of file format, resolution, color space, and compression, for web and print needs. ImageServer also provides OPI image replacement, server-based ICC ICC See: International Chamber of Commerce Color Management, color separation, and proof printing capabilities. Additionally, ImageServer 2.5 includes a new Script Server service that helps automate tasks via "hot folders." When files are dropped into a hot folder, a process is automatically started, converting the files according to a given script. HELIOS Script Server provides an effective solution to the prepress community that has been asking for ways to automate tasks and batch process image format changes, file transformations, and printing to designated print queues. For instance, a hot folder could be configured to automatically convert all input images to color-matched TIFF files tagged with appropriate ICC profiles. Or, files could be converted into Internet PNG (Portable Network Graphics) A bitmapped graphics file format endorsed by the World Wide Web Consortium. It is expected to eventually replace the GIF format, because there are lingering legal problems with GIFs. files, with transparent clipping path support, and with all colors (including spot colors) converted into RGB (Red Green Blue) The computer's native color space, which is the color system for capturing and displaying images. RGB was derived from our own perception of color because human eyes are sensitive to red, green and blue (see trichromaticity). . Key Benefits of HELIOS Script Server include: -- It is event-driven instead of relying on polling -- Scripts are serialized to avoid overloading a server system -- Script Server configuration and log files can be easily configured via EtherShare Admin -- Fail Safety of the Script Server is provided by the HELIOS Base Service Controller -- Custom scripts can be kept short. A few lines of a UNIX shell script or Perl script are sufficient to automate server processing tasks. See http://www.helios.de/products/OPI/ES_OPI.html for more details on the new HELIOS ImageServer 2.5 and other HELIOS server products. Smart Ideas for Better Networking HELIOS products run on powerful and scalable servers including Apple Computer Mac OS X, Hewlett-Packard HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. , IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. , SGI (SGI, Sunnyvale, CA, www.sgi.com) A manufacturer of workstations and servers, founded in 1982 by Jim Clark. The company was founded as Silicon Graphics, Inc., but changed to its acronym in 1999. IRIX A Unix-based operating system from SGI that is used in its computer systems from desktop to supercomputer. It is an enhanced version of Unix System V Release 4. IRIX integrates the X Window system with OpenGL, creating the first real time 3D X environment. , Sun Solaris, and Linux on Pentium-based systems. HELIOS products provide reliable cross-platform support for Macintosh, DOS/Windows and UNIX-based clients. Distributors sell HELIOS products worldwide to value-added resellers who provide complete networking solutions to customers. HELIOS software products are also available as part of OEM solutions by many major vendors in the prepress industry. For U.S. Sales European MikroGraf Corp.: 916-923-3520; sales@ugraf.com; http://www.ugraf.com For Canadian Sales PreSource Corp.: 613-821-0832; sales@presource.net; http://www.presource.net For further editor information, please contact: HELIOS Software GmbH, Attn: marketing, Steinriede 3, D-30827 Garbsen, Germany; Fax +49 5131-709325; E-mail: marketing@helios.de; or Web access at http://www.helios.com. |
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