There are several adapters included with Cumulus¬ that allow you to access a catalog and choose an image from it to import, or to open an image from another application. Adapters are provided for Adobe Photoshop, QuarkXPress, Adobe PageMaker, FrameMaker 4, FrameBuilder 4, Adobe Illustrator, Macromedia FreeHand 5.5 and RagTime. Canto and other companies are continually devloping new adapters.
The Cumulus Xtra is a filter module for Macromedia FreeHand 5.5. This filter allows you to import EPSF, EPSP and TIFF files into the frontmost FreeHand document using a Cumulus database.
Installation
1. Copy the file ╥Cumulus Xtra╙ into the Xtra folder of FreeHand.
2. Start FreeHand.
3. If the Xtra is installed correctly you will see a menu item called ╥Cumulus╙ in the ╥Other╙ submenu of the ╥Xtras╙ menu.
How to Use
1. Choose ╥Cumulus╙ from the ╥Other╙ submenu.
The adapter first looks for a running version of Cumulus or Cumulus Client. If none of them is running it searches all mounted volumes for Cumulus or Cumulus Client and launches the first found. Cumulus or Cumulus Client is brought to the front. If no catalog is open, Cumulus prompts you to open or share a catalog. After that Cumulus shows one of these dialogs:
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2. Select a record and click the OK button.
3. The corresponding image file will be placed in the front document window.