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.
This is a filter module for Adobe Illustrator 5.0 up to 6.0. This filter allows you to import an EPSF file into the frontmost document using a Cumulus database.
Installation
1. Copy the file ╥Cumulus Illustrator Adapter╙ into the plug-in folder you have defined for Illustrator.
2. Start Illustrator.
3. If the adapter is installed correctly you will see a menu item called ╥Cumulus╔╙ in the ╥Create╙ submenu of the ╥Filter╙ menu.
How to Use
1. Choose ╥Cumulus╔╙ from the ╥Create╙ 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.