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Snowbound Software Releases New FlexSnap: SI Web Viewer With MS Word Support And Performance Enhancements

Posted on: Thursday, 22 September 2005, 15:00 CDT

Snowbound Software, a leading provider of performance-driven imaging solutions, today announced powerful web viewer enhancements including format support for Microsoft Word documents enabling end users to view and convert Word files without the requirement of having Microsoft Office installed on their computer. Improvements in server side caching have also improved the speed of document retrieval and viewing.

FlexSnap: SI is a powerful Java servlet/applet combination configured to integrate seamlessly with content or document management systems. It gives users a universal interface allowing them to retrieve, view, annotate, manipulate, convert, and print multiple document and image formats from their document repository through a standard web browser.

With these new improvements, end users can quickly retrieve and view a specific single page contained within a large document without having to wait for the entire file to download. In the latest release, the number of pages stored on the client side can now be optimized for greatest memory efficiency. Additionally thumbnails have also been enhanced to provide end users faster display and retrieval of images.

Improvements have been made to the memory management in the applet as well as the ability for system administrators to configure both image scaling and compression levels. By setting parameters, large images can be automatically reduced to a more manageable size to avoid memory problems. Administrators can also configure the level of compression for JPEG and TIFF-JPEG images providing greater flexibility in meeting specific quality, bandwidth, and performance requirements.

FlexSnap: SI is built completely in Java to ensure cross-platform compatibility, a benefit that is critically important for companies that have multiple locations and who may not be running the same server environment.

"All of our FlexSnap web viewers, including FlexSnap: SI, were developed with the goal of allowing companies to be able to configure the viewer to meet their specific business requirements," commented James Palo, VP of Development, Snowbound Software. "These enhancements give system administrators an additional level of control as well as enable users to easily work with a variety of file formats that are critical in today's business environment."

FlexSnap: SI comes standard with an easily configurable interface enabling companies to support specific user group and business requirements in addition to offering international language support for menus and dialog boxes. FlexSnap: SI integrates with most content management systems and is also available in a version that is specifically configured to integrate with Documentum Webtop.

About Snowbound Software

Snowbound Software provides technology that companies depend on every day to conduct business across the enterprise. We make vital functions including viewing, converting, and manipulating documents and images easy. Snowbound's expert developer tools, powerful viewers, and rapid batch conversion programs support numerous file formats and are designed to increase productivity and profitability across numerous vertical markets. For more information please visit www.snowbound.com.

Source: Business Wire

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