Company Contacts:
nmiller@canto-software.com
Canto Software, Inc.
330 Townsend St., Suite 212
San Francisco, CA 94107
Phone: 415/905-0300
Fax: 415/703-0315
Canto Software GmbH
Flensburger Strasse 5
10557 Berlin
Germany
Phone: 49-30-393-0021
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Live Picture and Canto Software Announce Partnership to Provide Solutions
for the Publishing Industry
Cumulus Network Image Database Provides Advanced Image Search and Retrieval
to Live Picture Network Users
Boston, Mass.-- February 28, 1996 -- Live Picture, Inc. and Canto Software
today announced a partnership to provide image networking solutions to advertising
agencies, catalog companies, publishers and other organizations that work
with high resolution images. Canto's Cumulus Network Image Database has
been integrated with Live Picture application software and will be offered
as an optional software module with Live Picture Network solutions.
Live Picture Network is a networked client/server solution designed to speed
image editing, image based document creation, review and approval, and image
and document production within and between organizations. Live Picture Network
provides a solution for centralized image processing, image/document database
management, and an integrated collaborative workflow between creative, production,
and pre-press professionals.
Cumulus is a powerful image database management system that provides real-time
image searches across multiple platforms over networks. It has been adapted
to allow Live Picture Network users
to efficiently sort and locate image files from a networked database, and
insert images directly from
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Cumulus into the Live Picture application. They can also open Cumulus files
in Live Picture, or merge Cumulus files with a Live Picture file.
"Live Picture Network users must have the ability to quickly search
for and retrieve high resolution images from a variety of sources,"
said Cheryl Snyder, vice president of Network Solutions at Live Picture,
Inc. "Combined, Live Picture Network and Cumulus provide users with
unparalleled access to and manipulation of high resolution images and will
significantly impact the image-based document publishing process and the
creative and production workflow."
"Canto is committed to supporting applications that demonstrate the
real-time capabilities of our image database management system," said
Steve Goodman, president and COO of Canto Software. "The real-time
nature of Live Picture for image editing, as well as the recently announced
Live Picture Network product, makes it an excellent complement to Canto's
Cumulus which provides powerful, real-time search and retrieval capabilities."
About Canto Software
Canto Cumulus Network Image Database is the leading professional solution
for image cataloging and management, and allows customers to intelligently
manage their valuable digital image assets, including all popular graphic
file formats, digital sounds, QuickTime movies and Quick Draw 3D file format.
Cumulus can be used in multi-user (networked) and single-user (desktop)
environments. Founded in 1990, Canto Software has offices in Berlin, Germany
and San Francisco, CA. Canto products include Cirrus, a powerful scanning
application and Cumulus, the high performance client/server image database.
Canto's product line is distributed worldwide. The company can be reached
at
(415) 905-0300.
About Live Picture, Inc.
Live Picture, Inc. provides imaging software to dramatically expand the
creative range and productivity of today's top photographers, designers
and production professionals. The company was founded in 1993 and is privately
held. Corporate headquarters are located at 2425 Porter St., Soquel, CA,
95073. Toll Free: 1-800-724-7900. Tel: 408-464-4200. Fax: 408-464-4202.
Internet: livepicture.com.
Canto and the Canto logo are registered trademarks of Canto Software
Inc. Cumulus and the Cumulus logo are trademarks of Canto Software Inc.
Apple and Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple Computer Inc. Other
third-party product and company names mentioned in this document may be
trademarks or registered trademarks and belong to their respective holders.
Live Picture, FITS and IVUE are trademarks of FITS Imaging. All other names
are either registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective companies.
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