Newsletters
LizardTales Newsletter – January 2004
Letter from LizardTech CEO, Carlos Domingo
Dear LizardTech customers and partners,
I am pleased to announce a new quarterly newsletter that will give LizardTech a forum to communicate with you all the exciting news about our company. You, as a LizardTech customer or partner, are the most important asset our company has. There are many changes happening within the company to best serve and support you. The acquisition of LizardTech by Celartem Technology a few months ago has brought LizardTech the stability, financial backing and focus on our long term strategy that we needed to remain the worldwide leader in software solutions that make it significantly easier to manage, distribute, and access digital content such as aerial photography, satellite imagery and scanned color documents.
During the last few months, we have added fresh talent to reinforce the LizardTech team. The entire LizardTech staff has been furiously working on many new projects to deliver cutting edge imaging solutions, service and support.
We recently unveiled a new company image and launched a new Web site detailing each of our imaging products along with downloads for plug-ins, product trials, events and more. I invite you to visit it frequently to be updated by the minute on our activities.
In December we released GeoExpress with MrSID® 4.0 at the Autodesk University, a major upgrade, packed with many new features, that will reinforce the position of LizardTech as the leader of the geospatial imaging space.
We also repositioned Document Express with DjVu® and have significantly reduced our prices and simplified our product line to make it more affordable and accessible to the millions of existing DjVu users.
And, there is more to come. This year we are planning new releases of ExpressServer and Document Express as well as our first release of a digital rights management product developed with our parent company Celartem so stay tuned.
Regards,
Carlos Domingo
President and CEO
Celartem Inc.
Document Express 5.0 with DjVu®
An increasing number of corporations are turning to Document Express with DjVu® to produce, manage and distribute high-quality color documents very efficiently. Case in point: in November 2003, Samsung started publishing all of its product manuals in DjVu format, making them available on the product support site. Samsung’s product manuals in DjVu format are several times smaller than their PDF counterpart, and as more and more users choose DjVu over PDF, Samsung saves a bundle in bandwidth costs.
To learn more about how you can move beyond the limitations of black-and-white and into the world of color scanning, download a recent article written for eDoc Magazine by Luc Vincent, LizardTech’s Vice President of Document Imaging.
Experience the power of DjVu
Download a trial version of Document Express with DjVu Professional Edition and experience all that DjVu can do for you, click here.
The new DjVu plug-in version 4.5 for Windows is here!
The new DjVu plug-in version 4.5 features a revamped, stylized GUI and packs significant performance improvements. It also includes enhanced scripting capabilities for Web designers, which means improved and more customized access to a wealth of information. Click here.
Document Express with DjVu® Tips and Tricks
Become a DjVu power user! The latest DjVu plug-in for Windows is loaded with keyboard shortcuts that will help you navigate documents more efficiently.
Here are some of the most useful shortcuts:
- Space bar: advance to next page
- Backspace: move to previous page
- Page down/up: usual behavior
- + or =: zoom in
- - or _: zoom out
- p: fit page
- w: fit width
- 1: zoom to 100%
- 2: zoom to 150%
- 3: zoom to 300%
- f: open the “Find Text” dialog box
- g: go to page
- Holding down the CTRL key brings up the useful magnifying glass and holding the SHIFT key shows all active hyperlinks on the page. (The behavior of these shortcuts can be customized using the “Preferences…” dialog).
Once you start using these keyboard shortcuts, chances are you will have little use for your mouse when navigating DjVu documents!
GeoExpress 4.0 with MrSID now available!
Whether you’re analyzing satellite imagery or digitizing on aerial photography, the new, robust toolset in GeoExpress 4.0 makes managing, and distributing and accessing imagery more accessible and affordable than ever before.
- Satellite and aerial images too big and unwieldy? Quickly and easily crop out a small portion of a raw image, existing mosaic, or single MrSID file to a window or a given set of geographic coordinates.
- Images with differing resolution? Create a single mosaic comprising each resolution. And, you can even update your mosaics with new images without going back to the original TIFF files.
- Need more efficient image distribution? Resample images ‘on the fly’ to create smaller files sizes with a lower pixel resolution.
- Do all this and more in an interactive preview window that enables you to see the impact of your change before actually making it.
GeoExpress 4.0 with MrSID sets a new standard in managing, accessing and distributing massive geospatial imagery. Designed for data providers, government agencies and end users that demand the most from aerial and satellite images, there has never been a better time to upgrade to GeoExpress 4.0 with MrSID.
Introducing ExpressView, The New Browser Plug-in and MrSID Viewer
ExpressView browser plug-in for MrSID allows you to measure, export and has new viewing tools. To access the new functionality, simply right-click within the browser window to get a menu with all the new features. To measure and see the measurement segments on-screen, simply hold down the CTRL key and left-click with your mouse. In the image properties window you will see a bird’s eye view allowing you to quickly pan around an image by simply dragging the preview rectangle to your area of interest.
Download ExpressView browser plug-in now! Click here.
Company News
LizardTech Expands Reseller Channel
LizardTech products are now widely available through Authorized Resellers as we rapidly expand our network of resellers throughout the U.S. and Canada.
New Partnerships
Lead Technologies and Internet Archive leverage DjVu technology and move beyond the limitations of huge file sizes, black and white scanning and more. Read more.
Promotions
Special upgrade promotions
Take advantage of money-saving upgrade promotions on GeoExpress and Document Express now until March 31, 2004.
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We at LizardTech strive hard to meet our customer’s needs, which not surprisingly form the basis for what goes into our products. We listen to our customers more closely than anyone else, to give them not only the best of the breed products but also the features they want.
