1. World of HELIOS: Quark is back with XPress 8
2. Meet HELIOS at GRAPH EXPO or IFRA expo
3. JPEG 2000: the best image compressions available
2. Meet HELIOS at GRAPH EXPO or IFRA expo
3. JPEG 2000: the best image compressions available
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HELIOS Newsletter 9/2008 |
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Dear HELIOS client,
Welcome to the latest information from the world of HELIOS. Keep your networking lead and stay one step ahead. Turn your colleagues on to this newsletter as well, subscription details are below. Enjoy the news.
Your HELIOS team
Helmut Tschemernjak, CEO & President
Welcome to the latest information from the world of HELIOS. Keep your networking lead and stay one step ahead. Turn your colleagues on to this newsletter as well, subscription details are below. Enjoy the news.
Your HELIOS team
Helmut Tschemernjak, CEO & President
1. World of HELIOS: Quark is back with XPress 8
Over the last few years, there have been countless discussions about the future of Desktop Publishing (DTP) applications. Adobe has pushed InDesign via its Creative Suite bundle into many sites. However, Quark now adds superior capabilities with XPress 8, including complete Unicode and Asian text support. HELIOS continues to support both InDesign and XPress on Mac and Windows. The HELIOS ImageServer XPress 8 document preview and OPI TuneUp XTensions, as well the “Future of DTP” Drag & Drop XTensions with WebShare, are scheduled for release later this year. Customers with software upgrade service agreements will automatically receive support for these new DTP applications. In the end, competition helps customers receive better products at a fair price, be they office, DTP, or server applications.
2. Meet HELIOS at GRAPH EXPO or IFRA expo
Oct 26-29, 2008, Graph Expo (Booth 5222), Chicago, IL
Oct 27-30, 2008, IFRA (Stand 8380), Amsterdam
Trade shows provide the opportunity to learn more about HELIOS solutions, from how to get the most from your existing products, to what is coming in the future. They also offer the chance to make that “personal connection”, with people from HELIOS and our distribution partners. Contact us now to schedule an appointment to discuss your needs.
Learn about these HELIOS solutions at GRAPH EXPO and IFRA Expo:
- Future of DTP
- HD Color
- Image Processing
- Proofing
- WebShare Connectivity
- PDF Production
- Workflow Automation
- Enterprise Fileserver
- Printing
In addition, we will be available to discuss these topics that were a big hit at drupa:
HD Color
“HD Color” describes color quality improvements utilizing the latest ICC 4 color technologies in a full 16-bit per channel color workflow for image re-purposing, printing and proofing. “HD Color” also supports using ICC DeviceLink profiles to preserve separations when switching between different printing processes.
Customer retention using WebShare
See how easy it is to collaborate with remote customers, contractors and employees worldwide, by implementing Web-based remote file distribution, and image and document proofing processes. Try the new WebShare DTP “Drag & Drop” workflow with synchronization, to increase ease of use, and productivity.
PDF production
Learn about server automated solutions for PDF creation, PDF preflight, PDF flattening, PDF printing, and PDF proofing. In addition see how to convert bitmap images into PDF for archiving. New capabilities and speed are offered by using a PDF-native OPI workflow with InDesign.
3. JPEG 2000: the best image compressions available
JPEG 2000 (JP2) support is growing due to the interesting features of this image format, like the far better compression rate than JPEG, and the optional “lossless” compression. JPEG 2000 is available for Grayscale, RGB, CMYK, and Lab images including 16-bit color depth. Even additional spot colors, alpha, mask, and transparency channels are supported. It is good for archiving because of its embedded ICC Profile, meta data (XML), and paths (clipping path) support.
The current HELIOS ImageServer UB+ release contains full JPEG 2000 support. HELIOS PDF HandShake adds the “PDF as image” file format where the image bitmap can be JPEG 2000 compressed, as permitted by the PDF standard.
Compression tests using HELIOS included sample images (in kB):
Enabling JPEG 2000 in Photoshop CS2/CS3
JPEG 2000 is also supported by Photoshop CS2/3, however it is not available by default after installation. The secret is to copy the optional “JPEG2000.plugin” from the Adobe installer DVD to the Photoshop "Plug-Ins" folder, then away you go.
Using JPEG 2000 with Acrobat
Within Acrobat Distiller select the PDF settings, specify "Acrobat 6 (PDF.1.5)" or higher, change the Color and Grayscale images compression to “JPEG2000” and specify the quality. Done. It’s now ready to generate highly compressed PDFs using JPEG 2000.
Over the last few years, there have been countless discussions about the future of Desktop Publishing (DTP) applications. Adobe has pushed InDesign via its Creative Suite bundle into many sites. However, Quark now adds superior capabilities with XPress 8, including complete Unicode and Asian text support. HELIOS continues to support both InDesign and XPress on Mac and Windows. The HELIOS ImageServer XPress 8 document preview and OPI TuneUp XTensions, as well the “Future of DTP” Drag & Drop XTensions with WebShare, are scheduled for release later this year. Customers with software upgrade service agreements will automatically receive support for these new DTP applications. In the end, competition helps customers receive better products at a fair price, be they office, DTP, or server applications.
2. Meet HELIOS at GRAPH EXPO or IFRA expo
Oct 26-29, 2008, Graph Expo (Booth 5222), Chicago, IL
Oct 27-30, 2008, IFRA (Stand 8380), Amsterdam
Trade shows provide the opportunity to learn more about HELIOS solutions, from how to get the most from your existing products, to what is coming in the future. They also offer the chance to make that “personal connection”, with people from HELIOS and our distribution partners. Contact us now to schedule an appointment to discuss your needs.
Learn about these HELIOS solutions at GRAPH EXPO and IFRA Expo:
- Future of DTP
- HD Color
- Image Processing
- Proofing
- WebShare Connectivity
- PDF Production
- Workflow Automation
- Enterprise Fileserver
- Printing
In addition, we will be available to discuss these topics that were a big hit at drupa:
HD Color
“HD Color” describes color quality improvements utilizing the latest ICC 4 color technologies in a full 16-bit per channel color workflow for image re-purposing, printing and proofing. “HD Color” also supports using ICC DeviceLink profiles to preserve separations when switching between different printing processes.
Customer retention using WebShare
See how easy it is to collaborate with remote customers, contractors and employees worldwide, by implementing Web-based remote file distribution, and image and document proofing processes. Try the new WebShare DTP “Drag & Drop” workflow with synchronization, to increase ease of use, and productivity.
PDF production
Learn about server automated solutions for PDF creation, PDF preflight, PDF flattening, PDF printing, and PDF proofing. In addition see how to convert bitmap images into PDF for archiving. New capabilities and speed are offered by using a PDF-native OPI workflow with InDesign.
3. JPEG 2000: the best image compressions available
JPEG 2000 (JP2) support is growing due to the interesting features of this image format, like the far better compression rate than JPEG, and the optional “lossless” compression. JPEG 2000 is available for Grayscale, RGB, CMYK, and Lab images including 16-bit color depth. Even additional spot colors, alpha, mask, and transparency channels are supported. It is good for archiving because of its embedded ICC Profile, meta data (XML), and paths (clipping path) support.
The current HELIOS ImageServer UB+ release contains full JPEG 2000 support. HELIOS PDF HandShake adds the “PDF as image” file format where the image bitmap can be JPEG 2000 compressed, as permitted by the PDF standard.
Compression tests using HELIOS included sample images (in kB):
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Enabling JPEG 2000 in Photoshop CS2/CS3
JPEG 2000 is also supported by Photoshop CS2/3, however it is not available by default after installation. The secret is to copy the optional “JPEG2000.plugin” from the Adobe installer DVD to the Photoshop "Plug-Ins" folder, then away you go.
Using JPEG 2000 with Acrobat
Within Acrobat Distiller select the PDF settings, specify "Acrobat 6 (PDF.1.5)" or higher, change the Color and Grayscale images compression to “JPEG2000” and specify the quality. Done. It’s now ready to generate highly compressed PDFs using JPEG 2000.
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