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Fwd: Picture Bank for FM Pro (was Re: HELP-EXTRA!)
Subject:Fwd: Picture Bank for FM Pro (was Re: HELP-EXTRA!) From:Kees de Bondt <cbon -at- WXS -dot- NL> Date:Mon, 11 May 1998 11:42:39 +0200
On 30-04 Stuart Rowe wrote:
>I thought it would be a simple matter of scanning each document into a
>contiguous series of images to be easily recorded and subsequently viewed,
>in Word 97.
>
./.
>
>The issues are:
>
>- is it within the capability of Word 97 to "simply" acquire, and coherently
>re-present a contiguous series of graphic images that have no associated
>text?
>
>- If the answer is YES - how?
>
>- if the answer is NO - how else?
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Date: 11-05 12:38
Received: 11-05 11:05
From: Leo Nivelle, leo -at- smp -dot- filemaker -dot- be
PictureBank 3.0 is a FileMaker 3.0 and 4.0 companion application that
greatly extends FileMaker's image handling capabilities. It requires
FileMaker Pro 3.0 or later, System 7.5 or later, and QuickTime 2.5 or
later. Supported graphics formats currently include PICT, JPEG, GIF, SGI,
QTIF, PhotoShop and MacPaint. TIFF and EPS are supported through the
Claris Translators mechanism, PNG is supported if the appropriate
QuickTime Graphics Importer is installed, and more formats can easily be
added when QuickTime is updated to support them.
PictureBank allows FileMaker Pro users to create and customize their own
image databases, using all the power and flexibility of FileMaker Pro
while providing more useful tools such as:
- Preview (thumbnail) of the image whose record is being browsed in FM;
- Display and full-screen display of any image, with pan, scroll and zoom;
- Catalog windows with the previews of a given set of records;
- Slide shows with manual or automatic timing;
- Automatic record creation through Finder drag&drop operations;
- Internet images support through Netscape drag&drop operations;
- Internet URL launching though the popular Internet Config mechanism;
- On-the-fly image format conversion (to PICT) for FileMaker print
operations;
- Handy single-image commands to open an image with a given editor,
reveal its icon in the Finder, print it with the application that created
it, etc...
- Handy multiple-images commands to copy several images to a given
folder, create aliases to all of them, use them as the current FileMaker
found set, etc...
- Network support with the same version.
- And much more!
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Regards
Kees de Bondt
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