There are several adapters included with Cumulus that allow you to access a catalog and choose an image from it to import or open it from another application. Adapters are provided for Adobe Photoshop, QuarkXPress, Aldus PageMaker, FrameMaker 4, FrameBuilder 4, Adobe Illustrator and RagTime. Canto and other software developers are working on additional adapters.
This is an acquisition plug-in module for Adobe Photoshop 2.0 and later. This plug-in is used to open an image file in Photoshop using a Cumulus database.
Installation
1. Copy the file “Cumulus PS PlugIn” into the folder that contains your other acquisition modules for Photoshop.
2. Start Photoshop.
3. If the adapter is installed successfully you will see a menu item “Cumulus…” in the “Acquire” submenu of the “File” menu.
How to Use
1. Choose “Cumulus…” from the “Acquire” submenu.
The adapter first looks for a running version of Cumulus or Cumulus Client. If none of them is running it searches all mounted volumes for Cumulus or Cumulus Client and launches the first found. Cumulus or Cumulus Client is brought to the front. If no catalog is open, Cumulus prompts you to open or share a catalog. After that Cumulus shows one of these dialogs:
2. Select a record and click the OK button.
3. The corresponding image file will be opened by Photoshop.
This Photoshop PlugIn supports the following OPI systems: Helios EtherShare OPI v1.0 - v1.2, Adobe ColorCentral, 4Sight OPI, LinoPrint, IPT GetThePicture, NineBits PrintDesk. If the Cumulus database references a sample file of one of these OPI systems the Photoshop PlugIn tries to open the original high resolution file in Photoshop.
