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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With the latest releases of Adobe InDesign, users are prohibited from running these applications on a server by the Adobe licensing terms. FotoWare 6.0 uses plug-ins to these applications to index document content and generate thumbnails and previews of these documents, but this is no longer a viable...

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In order to support indexing of document content and generation of high-quality thumbnails and previews of EPS vector graphics in FotoWare 7.0, we will support two options for our customers: Adobe Distiller Server will be used by Index Manager and Color Factory in the process to convert EPS files to...

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After the acquisition of Macromedia by Adobe, Freehand development has stopped. FotoWare has therefore decided to remove support for Freehand documents in FotoWare 7.0. Adobe has published the following statement: "No updates to FreeHand have been made for over four years, and Adobe has no plans...

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The Keyword Extraction feature from FotoWeb 6.0 and earlier versions will be removed in FotoWeb 7.0. The Data Mining and Keyword Cloud features introduced in FotoWeb 6.5 will replace this feature. This may affect certain system integrators that have used the XML export from the keyword extraction process...

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Updated: An update to FotoStation 6.0 which is compatible with Apple Macintosh OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) was released today and is available to all customers with valid warranty or SMA from the Update Center ....

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As Apple Mac OS X matures and offers new possibilities for developers, we are keen to move on and utilize the new functionality in order to improve our products. As a result, it becomes more and more difficult to support older versions of the operating system. We have therefore decided to no longer support...

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The Preview screen in FotoWeb 7.0 will display an Adobe Flash player created specifically for FotoWeb. The player will by default show a preview of the movie, as set through the Set Poster Frame function in FotoStation, and will allow the user to play the movie with a single mouse click. The player will...

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