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Subject:     iView Multimedia 3.0 Press release
Date:        3/21/98 1:06 PM

iView 3.0 the Multimedia Experiencer and Organizer for the Mac

Catalog, archive, play and display all kinds of multimedia.

Import and display images, gif, jpg, tiff, PICT, GX, BMP, Targa
and EPS, FreeHand, and Illustrator previews.
Play animations      Display fonts      Export movies
Play movies          Play sounds        Export HTML
Play quicktime VR    Play karaoke       Export images

Download it free from:        www.scriptsoftware.com
System 8 compatible. Uses Apples Amazing Quicktime 3

Who Its For
Anyone who needs to track multimedia files. Everyone with
a digital camera will find iView essential but its also
designed for DTP pros, photographers, publishing
professionals, scientists, educators, students, doctors,
cinematographers, cartoonists, illustrators, cd producers,
real estate agents, technologists, magazine designers,
multimedia producers, web publishers, consultants,
database developers, designers, musicians, sound pro’s,
singers, artists, and complete and total beginners.
iView is for anyone who wants to find and immediately
use a multimedia file.

What It Does
iView provides the easiest and most powerful way to view
and  organize media on your Mac OS computer(s). iView is a
tool to help you to do less and accomplish more. It lets
the professional focus on their creative work and not on
learning a new piece of software. If your tired of searching
mountains of disks and CD's trying to unearth that special
photo, qtvr or clip art its time to try something new!

iView can act as your digital image database, your karaoke
jukebox, your sound library, your museum of clip art,
your PhotoShop organizer, your movie database, your font
collection, your quicktimeVR gallery, your animation
archive, your Illustrator portfolio and all your Freehand files.

iView is a new type of application one that was created
from the ground up to provide ease of use and power while
working with all kinds of multimedia files. It combines:
- a well researched, clear and simple interface,
- a small application footprint,
- background processing,
- tight integration with the most popular media editing
applications, html authoring systems, web browsers, and
word processors,
- minimal use of your desktop space, as most of its
functions can be accomplished within a single window
- uses very little disk space to catalog media files.

Underneath the simplicity of the interface lies a powerful
multimedia engine that will let you:
- import most popular MacOS/PC/SGI Web media formats,
- instant playback (Movies, GIF, sound) in any view,
- with three full featured, easily customizable views of
your media that uses natural methods of organizing your
media, both within iView's window and the finder
- fast access to media both inside your computer and
from the internet.
- export batch processing (movie making, html gallery building, etc..)
- printing of reports, images and thumbnail posters.
- slide shows with movies, sound and images
- highest quality color and sound.

Catalogs can be searched and saved on your hard disk. A
catalog can also display thumbnail images from volumes
that may not be mounted. iView will let you view the
images and prompt you to insert the volume to retrieve an
image when needed. These catalogs can be emailed to others
for viewing with or without the original media. iView
can be included with your catalogs royalty free on
commercial cd's.

iView makes extensive use of drag and drop which makes it a
pleasure to use with the finder, Photoshop and many other
applications. In fact, everything about iView is designed to
be simple, useful and intuitive. iView eliminates tedious
repetitive work and increases your ability to get the job
done. It makes image reuse and playback quick and easy. Now
individuals as well as publishers, designers, pre-press
operators and multi-media programmers will never have to
search through stacks of Zip/Jaz/SyQuest back-ups for
files ever again.

What People Say About iView

I'm a freelance cartoonist. My work appears in
advertising, design, magazines, books etc. When I
discovered iView, I told a fellow cartoonist about it and,
despite his already owning a market leading commercial
package, he immediately registered iView because it
impressed him so much. We both think that Yan and Julian
have created a strong and attractive design, and we like
the simplicity and ease of use of the programme. Your
publicity should stress the amazing quality of the printed
thumbnail catalogues - a factor that would certainly be a
major selling point to professionals in my industry. In
fact, having looked at various similar programmes,
including some of the market leaders, I am convinced that
the print quality of your catalogues is the best I have seen.
Martin Shovel

Just wanted to let you know that I really enjoy IView.
It's been a tremendous help in organizing the thousands of
digital photos taken at all of the 1997 Oakland Raiders
games. Great job.
Rick Tracewell

I just downloaded your program iView.  It is in a word
'AWESOME'.  It was just what I was looking for.  It is
elegantly written, completely functional, easy to use,
stable, feature-laden, aesthetically pleasing,  and so on.
 Further, I just read your 'future plans' memo.  Wow, if
you can do all that...zzzowy.
John Zastrow

I'm already a confirmed user of CopyPaste. It's one
fantastic utility I wouldn't want to ever be without. It
should have been part of OS8 it's so essential. iView is
just essential for organizing my graphic files which have
been a mess until I got the program. Thanks for the great
work. I'll look forward to future upgrades.
John Milne
All Outdoors Productions

As a digital illustrator for computer software (I'm a
programmer, too!) I  find it particularly useful to keep
an iView document displaying thumbnail pics of the rest
of the program images open on the other  monitor while I
work on the next image. And it's so easy to inspect the
full-size image without having to open another window in
my editor  program.It's evident that you guys are
impressively creative software developers. Keep up the
good work.
Tereza Snyder

I've just downloaded your shareware 'iView' and it is
great! You have  done a great job with this program. I had
been looking for a graphic  organizer/database for about 5
months and last night decided to scan the  shareware
goodies at shareware.com where I came across it. Living in
Malaysia (originally from Louisiana and have been here for
9  years) it is very hard and sometimes next to impossible
to find Mac  support and software. I usually have to swing
down to Singapore to shop  for the Mac goodies. You've
saved me a trip!
Brian Doucet

Thanks for 2.6.  Iview is absolutely the greatest viewing
and cataloging app I have ever used.  I couldn't be
happier with it and your support.  A brilliant piece of
work.  I use it daily.
Many, Many Thanks
Conrad Koerper

Thank You, Thank You, Thank you !  I'm a student, an
independent product reviewer, and starting my own
business,  so the time and work your program will save has
taken a big weight off my shoulders.  I have a multimedia
presentation to produce for some big companys and have
looked at several works promising much,  but comming up
short.  Your appeal to the public for input and to
improving a great product is all to rare.  This attention
to your customer needs will insure your success.  Your
site, and method of doing business is very refreshing.  If
I do review your products in the future I'll contact you.
As for iView,  a (10) with 5 mice.  Thanks Again.
Mike Nikolin

iview is awesome! It let's me see everything at once.
Gregory Dunn

iView is the BEST (I've tried them all) keep up the improvements.
Ronald Sager

Iview is amazing--what a tremendous help to a graphic
artist. How do you get it to go so fast?!
Jane Prince Smith

iView is absolutely brilliant! Lots of praise at the price
and the quality of the product.
Colin Smedley

I love it!
Greg Coy

This site did a review of 5 image databases:
http://www.commtechlab.msu.edu/humans/taitkyle/media/
iView received the top rating of 5 stars.

iView is in the 3rd party support for Quicktime on Apple's Site
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/preview/info/news/3rdparty.htm

Additions & Fixes from version 2.9.5
- improved catalog read/write, both showing a progress bar.
- improved slide show now supports sounds.
- improved find/show/hide functionality on catalog items
- ability to re-find lost disk files as well as scan a catalog
for similar images.
- support for the XTND system was removed.
- internal support for EPS, Macromedia FreeHand, and Adobe
Illustrator previews
- added 'undo' on list tasks (add/mark/delete/drag/sort) & name
renaming.
- improved drag & drop functionality now also includes multi-flavors
and repositioning of single or marked items within a catalog.
- added submenu to access 10 recent catalogs.
- added audio support and support for QT movie importers
(QuickTime 3.0 required).
- added contextual menus based on window or file selection options.
- added export HTML option.
- added option to rotate images originally saved landscape.
- added support for PICT clipboard import (paste) and PICT clip
drag in from image editors.
   both methods generate a new PICT file in the drop zone.
- added option to ignore existing previews on import.
- added autorun preference for animations.
- added qt playback in preview mode
- selectable scratch disk location added in preferences.
- added option in 'folders' menu to append items in current catalog.
- improved font support.
- fixed printing problems with not-mounted items.
   added option to use previews when printing.
- added menu options for moving marked items to trash.
   option delete is changed to command delete (as in finder)
   added option to bypass delete confirmation.
- drag flavor setup was moved to tool bar. added option to export HREF.
- corrected bug on export text list with field headers off.
- fixed problem with corrupt aliases (helper applications,
quick access folders).
- fixed problem with multi-pane dialog redraws.
- fixed out of memory problems with larger images.
- fixed problems with folder selection.
- fixed problems exporting file info/icon
- fixed several import problems (folder parsing/movie data references)
- and much more...

Thank You