HELIOS partners boost OPI performance with OpenImage extensions: Agfa builds ColorTune Plug-in; ArtCom offers a host of file formats.HANNOVER, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 9, 1997--HELIOS Software GmbH and its partners gave desktop publishers, prepress and digital print companies an exciting competitive edge today when they announced the availability of several new OpenImage Plug-Ins for 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. 2.0. With its EtherShare OPI 2.0, Helios Software GmbH, the leading UNIX-based Open Prepress Interface (OPI) solution provider supporting Macintosh, DOS/Windows and UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). clients, defines the next generation of cross-platform, high-performance OPI solutions with its pioneering and flexible OpenImage extension architecture. Helios OpenImage is much more than a "hook" for file formats or a specification for how to shuffle files around a network. It is a server extension mechanism that enables third party developers and customers to build custom server "plug-in" applications for any kind of on-demand, on-the-fly, image manipulation from image access to screening methods. Wide Industry Support Shipping in early July, EtherShare OPI 2.0 boasts wide industry support by most leading prepress vendors who have committed to the new programming interface to develop additional prepress solutions based on OpenImage's extensible architecture. Two such partners have announced their new plug-in functionality. In a separate announcement, Agfa introduced its support for Helios' extensible architecture by creating an OpenImage Plug-In that enables Helios EtherShare OPI 2.0 to offer Agfa's ColorTune color matching method (CMM (Capability Maturity Model) A process developed by SEI in 1986 to help improve, over time, the application of an organization's supporting software technologies. ) in addition to Linotype Hell's CMM. With OpenImage, EtherShare OPI 2.0 is the only OPI server shipping with multiple CMMs. Additionally, EtherShare OPI 2.0, because of its extensible architecture, is the only OPI server on any platform to support Agfa's ColorTune CMM. Meanwhile, ArtCom GmbH, Bremen, has already developed several OpenImage Plug-Ins for EtherShare OPI that support additional file formats, other than the wide range already supported by EtherShare OPI 2.0. ArtCom now offers plug-in support for Crosfield CT & LW, Dicomed raster format, GIF GIF in full Graphics Interchange Format Standard computer file format for graphic images. GIF files use data compression to reduce the file size. The original version of the format was developed by CompuServe in 1987. , IRIS native, PCX (1) A bitmapped graphics file format that handles monochrome, 2-bit, 4-bit, 8-bit and 24-bit color and uses RLE to achieve compression ratios of approximately 1.1:1 to 1.5:1. Images with large blocks of solid colors compress best under the RLE method. See PC Paintbrush. , PPM, PRE Stork printer format, PXM PXM Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico (Airport Code) PXM Processor Switch Module (Cisco) PXM Processor X Module , Scitex extended HandShake CT & LW, 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. raster format, TGA See TARGA. TGA - Targa Graphics Adaptor , TIFF/IT, P1, CT & LW, XPM The file extension used by an X Pixelmap image. See X Pixelmap. (file format) xpm - X11 Pixmap. A pixmap image file format for the X Window System. , and XWD. Smart Ideas for Better Networking Helios products run on powerful and scalable Unix/RISC-based servers from Apple Computer, Data General, Digital, HP, IBM, Motorola, SGI, and Sun, providing reliable cross-platform support for Macintosh, DOS/Windows and UNIX-based clients. Helios products are sold worldwide by distributors and value added resellers to provide complete networking solutions to customers. Helios software products are also available as part of OEM solutions by major vendors in the prepress industry. More Info for Editors: HELIOS Software GmbH, attn: marketing, Lavesstr. 80, D-30159 Hannover, fax +49-511-3648269; Internet: marketing@helios.de; or by World-Wide-Web access at http://www.helios.com . Contact for U.S.-Based Sales: European Mikrograf Corporation, HELIOS Software GmbH.'s U.S. distributor, located at 269 Mt. Hermon Road, Suite 100 Scotts Valley, CA 95066; 408/461-6061 (voice); 408/461-6056 (fax); Internet: info@ugraf.com, http://www.ugraf.com . CONTACT: HELIOS Software GmbH Peter Mayr, 011-49-511-36482-40 or WORLDVIEW Bill Gram-Reefer, 510/676-4733 |
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