"Every once in a while a breakthrough product comes along and revolutionizes your entire life; the wheel, electricity, and now DeBabelizer."
****1/2, Publish magazine, David S. Jacobs & Amy Shelton (reprinted by permission of Publish)
"DeBabelizer has the best cross platform graphics translation for serious graphics production. We couldn't produce our graphics without it."
Jack Eastman, VP Engineering, Berkeley Systems (After Dark screen savers)
"The ultimate file translator packs a lot of features in one package."
**** MacWeek
"Anyone doing cross platform multimedia development using a Mac should get a copy of DeBabelizer."
***** New Media magazine
"DeBabelizer®, Photoshop™ & Director™ - the definitive desktop media production powerhouse."
David Biedny, co-author, The Official Photoshop Handbook
DeBabelizer is the winner of the Publish magazine Impact award for 1993, the French magazine SVM Mac award for Best Utility of 1993, and the MacUser Eddy Award for Best Business/Publishing Graphics Utility of 1992.
Over the past three years DeBabelizer has been site-licensed to -- and found a strong following with -- artists, designers, art directors, graphics houses, desktop publishers, service bureaus, and multimedia, software and computer games developers throughout the world.
•••The DeBabelizer Demo is designed to give you a general idea of how this sophisticated program works. Use it to experiment with the various graphics processing tools which DeBabelizer offers.
Some functions have been disabled in Demo DeBabelizer. You can open and process many different cross platform files, but you will not be able to Save them. Also, not all of the formats are available.
Note - The following menu commands are disabled in this demo version and will not operate:
File: SaveAs
File: Print
File: Export
File: Batch Save
File: Batch Save Simple
File: Batch Export
File: Batch Place & Save
File: Batch Place Acquire & Save
Edit: Copy
Edit: Cut
It is suggested you read through the Help files (under the Apple Menu) for further information. Start with the Overview topic for a complete introduction.
DeBabelizer is a uniquely powerful and versatile program that has processed millions of professional images worldwide over the last few years. The new version includes a wide array of user-requested enhancements, including a new interface design for simplified batch processing; the ability to batch-process Photoshop Acquires, Filters, and Exports plug-ins; image placement (for compositing); transparency selection for images being pasted or placed; and many others. In addition, DeBabelizer lets you organize System 7 picture icons into a separate folder all their own, creating a directory of images.
DeBabelizer cuts through the confusion of having to deal with multiple graphics file formats, providing the ability to maintain color integrity while reading, manipulating, processing, and saving graphics across formats, bit depths, and platforms. It automatically recognizes over 55 different bit-mapped graphics and animation formats from Macintosh, MS-DOS, Windows, Amiga, Apple II, Atari, Silicon Graphics, X Windows, and Sun computers. In addition, DeBabelizer's powerful batch processing and internal scripting features make it possible to easily automate the most difficult graphics translation tasks. DeBabelizer strongly complements all drawing or image-processing programs in current use.
Thousands of multimedia developers, service bureaus, desktop publishers, graphic designers, and video professionals have already found DeBabelizer an invaluable tool, thanks to its ability to batch process animation files across platforms; its unrivaled 24-bit color to 8-bit color reduction (with no significant loss of color integrity or image quality); and Super Palette, a tool which automatically creates the ideal palette for a specified series of images. Video professionals also benefit from DeBabelizer’s support for Abekas digital video output, making it possible to transfer graphics and animations, frame by frame, into the Abekas for further manipulation.
DeBabelizer version 1.6 also comes with a comprehensive manual and Real World DeBabelizing, a collection of user anecdotes, tips, and information written by David Biedny, co-author of The Official Adobe Photoshop Handbook.
To order DeBabelizer at the retail price of $399, call (800) 524-8651.
Optional formats packages are available for an extra charge:
CD-I - $150.00.
OEM licenses are available. Current OEM clients include Light Source (file translators for Macintosh Ofoto™), Passport Designs (file translators for Macintosh Passport Producer™) and Broderbund (printing technology for Kid Pix™).
Equilibrium Technologies, Inc., 475 Gate Five Road, Suite 225, Sausalito, CA 94965, (415) 332-4343, fax (415) 332-4433. Orders: (800) 524-8651.
Special Features
• Script creation: easy scripting of menu functions and dialogs.
• Batch processing: automatically open, process to specifications and save a series of images.
• Catalog: automatically place a series of images onto a single page.
• PhotoShop™ Plug-Ins: use 3rd party plug-ins.
• Flip-book animation: animate a matrix of cells.
• Slice images: slice an image into a matrix of cells, saving each cell separately.
• Slideshow: open and process a series of images, displaying each for a set time.
• Compare: report and display differences between images.
• Place: overlay an image onto another image.
• Filter Interpolation
Translate & Display
• Import: automatically recognizes over 55 different formats.
• Export: over 50 formats, allowing user to specify number of colors saved.
• High quality picture preview: for all formats, including vital information about each image.
• High quality image display: low end color and black and white machines included.
Image Manipulation & Editing
• Document size: change the size of the page without scaling the image; pad the borders with any color.
• Flip/rotate: left to right, top to bottom; specify degree of rotation.
• Field interpolate: essential for motion blurred digitized video images; replace every other line with a new line.
• High quality scaling, both up and down: to specific size or by percentage.
• Trim: remove solid color edges or crop to selection.
• Text Overlay: overlay file information or any text desired (using any font, size and style).
• Resolution: specify DPI and whether to maintain image printing size or number of pixels.
Color & Palette Adjustment
• Super Palette: create the best palette for a series of images.
• Remap to palette: force an image to a specific palette and respect off limit colors.
• Translate or Rearrange pixels: manually exchange color values in a palette or in an image.
• Add palette to menu: store palettes for later use.
• Background removal: replace a specified range of colors with a single background color.
• Black & white: convert using diffusion dither, Albie dither, 8x8 ordered dither or threshold value.
• Change pixel depth or reduce colors: to any number of bits or number of colors.
• Dither options: control percentage of dither, exclude certain colors from dithering.
• Grayscale: convert to any grayscale level.
• Graymap control: customize or use standard mappings.
• HSV Control: control hue, saturation, and brightness levels.
• Intensity: control color intensity, contrast and RGB levels.
• Invert colors.
• Macintize palette: ensure that first color is white, last color black.
• Merge palettes: merge selected portions of two separate palettes into one.
• Remove duplicates: remove duplicate and unused colors from palette.
• Sort palette: by RGB, brightness, HSB, HBS and popularity.
• Display palette information: show or print usage of each color.
• Histogram: RGB display
• Channel: RGB channel extraction and swapping.
• Reduce Colors with Base Palette: specify colors to be included in a reduced color palette.
• NTSC Hot Pixel Fixer: correct hot pixels for use on NTSC or PAL video devices.
And much, much more...
DeBabelizer requires a Macintosh with at least 700K of free memory and System 6.0.7 or greater. It is System 7 compatible and 32 bit clean. It will process color images without Color QuickDraw ™ and without System 7 on black and white Macs (Plus, SE, Classic, etc.). This permits them to be put to use as graphics processing stations.
Macintosh
Alias
Clipboard
Electric Image
EPSF......................Grayscale and color bitmaps with & without PICT preview
RIFF...................... B&W, Grayscale and RGB (r)
Scrapbook
Startup screen.......Color and B&W
System 7 Picture Icons
System 7 Picture Previews
TGA......................TrueVision/Targa - 8,16,24,32 bits compressed and uncompressed
TIFF.....................Grayscale, color mapped and RGB; uncompressed, Packbit compressed and LZW compressed, (r) CCITT compressed, Thunderscan™ compressed (r), Group 4 (fax)
Thunderscan™
DOS/Windows
BMP/DIB/RLE.................compressed (RLE) and uncompressed
DPaint™ ANIM
Dr. Halo™ CUT....Color and B&W
EPSF......................Grayscale and color bitmaps with & without TIFF preview
PCP.......................(r) PC Paint™ (B&W mode)
PCX.......................PC Paintbrush™ Color and B&W; 1 to 8 bits and 24 bits
Pictor™ (r)
TGA......................TrueVision/Targa - 8,16,24,32 bits compressed and uncompressed
TIFF......................Grayscale, color mapped and RGB; uncompressed, Packbit compressed and LZW compressed, (r) CCITT compressed, Group 4 (fax)
WPG......................WordPerfect™ Graphics
General
Abekas...................(w) digital video
BOB
Digital F/X
FITS (Astronomical)
GIF.........................Interlaced and non-interlaced
Kodak PhotoCD (r)
JPEG, JFIF
Pixar™
Raw Custom
Raw RGB
RLE.........................Compuserve™
QDV
Apple Series
Apple II and IIGS...Paintworks,™ Preferred, limited and full color hires, packed hires, packed double hires, Super HiRes. Also squeezed single or double hi-res and Paintworks™
Atari ST
Degas
NEO
Spectrum................(r) Compressed and uncompressed
Commodore 64
C64........................(r) Koala, packed, crunched and uncompressed
Commodore Amiga
IFF (LBM) HAM......HAM, SHAM, DHAM (r)
IFF (LBM)...............1 to 8, 16, 24 bit & (r) PBM
