Extensis Portfolio - formerly known as Fetch - is considered the media management standard among graphics professionals. Extensis Portfolio 4.0 offers a quick, easy and efficient way to organize, browse, manage and retrieve digital content. For individuals, as well as workgroups, Portfolio greatly speeds up the creative process by letting users locate, access and reuse existing digital files.
Extensis Portfolio 4.0 is a major new release with many new
features, including:
* Client/Server
* Scriptability
* New presentation features
* New views
* Tools for getting information from other databases
* Internet support
* Improved file format support
* And much more!
Portfolio 4.0 Requires:
Macintosh:
* System 7.5.3 through MacOS 8.5
- MacOS 7.5.5 or higher recommended
* Apple Power Macintosh or PowerPC compatibles
* A minimum of 6MB of application RAM
* 20MB of free hard disk space
* QuickTime 3.0 strongly recommended
- This is available on the Extensis CD
- Portfolio also requires that MacOS Easy Open
(File Exchange in MacOS 8.5) be installed and
active in order to use QuickTime.
* Thousands of colors strongly recommended
* Open Transport 1.1 or higher (If you will be connecting
to catalogs being served by Portfolio Server software)
Windows:
* Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows NT 4.0
* 486/33 or higher IBM or 100% compatible PC
- Pentium 133MHz or faster recommended
* 32MB of system RAM
* 20MB of free hard disk space
* QuickTime 3.0 strongly recommended
- This is available on the Extensis CD
* Thousands of colors strongly recommended
* TCP/IP Services (If you will be connecting to catalogs
being served by Portfolio Server software)
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If you are not familiar with Extensis, we have been building software that extends the productivity of all major graphics arts applications for over four years. Our other award winning products include:
* PageTools for PageMaker
* QX-Tools for QuarkXPress
* QX-Effects for QuarkXPress
* Intellihance for Photoshop
* VectorTools for Illustrator and FreeHand
* BeyondPress for QuarkXPress
* PhotoTools for Photoshop
* Mask Pro for Photoshop
* Preflight Pro for advanced preflighting
* PhotoFrame for Photoshop
* PhotoAnimator for animated GIF design
We offer fully functioning demos of all our products at our web site; please visit us soon at www.extensis.com and download our productivity enhancing software.
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To reach us for technical support or general questions please
use one of the following methods:
Ph: 503-274-7030
Fax: 503-274-0530
Internet: support@extensis.com
Web: www.extensis.com
Our website includes a detailed, up-to-date FAQ/troubleshooting page for Portfolio. If you have troubleshooting or functionality questions, please visit www.extensis.com or contact Extensis technical support.
Additional support files for both platforms are also available on the Extensis CD.
During installation you will be requested to serialize and register the software. Please enter the serial number located on the back of the manual.
Please register using one of the built-in electronic registration methods. If you do not have a printer or access to the Internet, you may fill out the registration card in the back of the manual.
About the Demo
If you have not purchased a serial number for Portfolio, you can run it as a full-functioning demo for 30 days. After this period expires, Portfolio will convert into a Browser version. This version only allows read-only operations, so you will not be able to create catalogs or add items to catalogs. Additionally, the Browser only operates in a single-user setting, so you will be locked out of any networked catalog that another user is accessing. If you do access a networked catalog, all other users will be locked out of that catalog until you close the catalog.
Using the UnInstall utility (Windows only):
In order to remove Portfolio you will need to run the Add/Remove Programs option from the Control Panel.
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Software Technical Notes:
* QuickTime 3.0 is used on both Mac and Windows to translate a number of raster image and multimedia formats. As a result, we strongly recommend you install QuickTime 3.0. The installers for both platforms are available on the Extensis CD. In addition, on the Macintosh, MacOS Easy Open (File Exchange on MacOS 8.5) must also be installed and active for Portfolio to use QuickTime properly.
* Also available on the Extensis CD are additional MacOS extensions that improve the functionality of Portfolio.
- The Appearance Manager 1.02 installer provides support for contextual menus and extended keyboard shortcuts in Portfolio. To use it, simply run the installer. It will work with MacOS 7.1 and above. These extensions are already available in MacOS 8.1 and above. Note that Portfolio does not support Contextual Menus with versions of the Appearance Manager prior to 1.02.
- Navigation Services provides advanced navigational features for the Open and Save dialogs in Portfolio. This is a shared library which can be installed by dropping it onto your System folder. It will work with MacOS 7.5.5 and above.
* Portfolio 4.0 for the Macintosh running with the Appearance Manager enabled will conflict with Kaleidoscope 2.0. The only workaround at the present time is to disable Kaleidoscope.
* On the Mac, Portfolio uses Internet Config to determine how to handle various URL types that are entered into URL fields. Internet Config is installed as part of QuickTime 3.0. If Internet Config is not installed or is configured incorrectly, URL links in Portfolio may not work or may produce unexpected results.
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Manual Addenda:
Page 32 - The Macintosh version does not contain ToolTips for the Toolbar.
Page 162 - Kodak PhotoCD files are handled by an Inso ImageStream translator, not QuickTime.
Page 164 - The first two explanations in the flowchart are misdirected. A corrected flowchart is available in the PDF version of the manual on the Extensis CD.
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