A new version of the FotoWare 7.0 product suite, Service Release 3, is scheduled for general availability in the beginning of September. The new version will feature a number of bug fixes and stability improvements, as well as both minor and major functionality improvements. We encourage partners to...

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The Beta Release supports incoming e-mail servers (POP and IMAP) as a source. This is a public Beta, and may be used by partners and customers for testing and evaluation. For more information see the Beta End User License Agreement . Instructions Download and run the software installer . Use the following...

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FotoWare 7.0 Service Release 2 is now generally available for download from the FotoWare Update Center for all customers that have valid warranty or a Software Maintenance Agreement. The new release contains a number of stability improvements and new features. More information can be found in the release...

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FotoWare 7.0 SR2 is now available for FotoWare partners to download. The new release contains a large number of improvements and bug fixes over previous versions of the 7.0 suite. Customers that want to upgrade their systems can contact their partner to obtain the new version, which will be made generally...

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With Service Release 2 the Process Account for the individual FotoWare server applications will no longer be set per application. Rather, we are making this setting global and moving it into the Server Settings page in the Operations Center.

FotoWare Connect 7.0 SR1 has the following improvements: Virus scanning of all transmitted files through integration with third-party virus scanners Automated file numbering and filename management Email transmission of files with routing to mail address from any metadata field Stability and performance...

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FotoStation and FotoWeb will include a new metadata editor in the standard installation that allows users to utilize the DICOM XMP metadata standard on all file formats supported in our products. The DICOM metadata schema has been included in FotoWare's standard MDC, and default field IDs have been assigned...

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FotoWeb 7.0, Service Release 1, will have a new Silverlight-based player for Windows Media video files. The player is integrated in the Preview screen, and works identically to the Flash Video player, which is available in the same user interface. This allows FotoWeb to publish FLV and WMV in the same...

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As indexing QuarkXPress documents in FotoWare systems is reportedly used by only a few of our customers, and more and more customers prefer Adobe PDF documents for long-term storage, we've decided to remove support for QuarkXPress documents from FotoWare 7.0. This means that Index Manager will no longer...

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The support for Adobe Illustrator files has been improved in FotoWare 7.0. Index Manager and Color Factory supports content extraction for indexing and preview generation of Adobe Illustrator documents, provided support software is available on the server. Files from different versions are handled differently...

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