CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
1 June 2007
Product News
Spicer Imagenation® 8.1 Offers Technical and Office Users Effective Document Productivity Tools
Spicer Corporation announced the release of Imagenation® 8.1. With Spicer Imagenation, users can efficiently scan, review, mark up, and print hundreds of office document, CAD drawing and model formats. Imagenation's diverse applications, including engineering drawing review, format conversion, redaction of confidential information, and document archiving, are used globally in Manufacturing, Government, Utilities, Insurance, Financial Services, and Reprographics markets.
Office and technical users from cross-functional disciplines and extended enterprise locations benefit from Imagenation 8.1's online document productivity enhancements, including:
• Spicer markups saved in PDF
• Industry leading new scanner toolkit support for HP, Cannon, Epson, and Fujitsu
• Imagenation browser plug-in for FireFox
Imagenation 8.1 also increases Spicer's strong foundation in engineering with these new supported formats:
• Autodesk AutoCAD 2007 & 2008 DWG
• Autodesk Inventor 11 2D & 3D
• SolidWorks 2007 2D & 3D
• PTC Pro/Engineer V16 to Wildfire 3 - 3D
• TIFF Compression Scheme 7
• Multi-page SVG & SVGZ
"Imagenation 8.1 introduces compatibility with all 32-bit versions of Microsoft WindowsT Vista Home Basic, Home Premium, Ultimate, Business and Enterprise. With the additional user interface enhancements, such as tabbed document windows, a new measuring toolbar, and keyboard shortcuts, workflows across an organization - from Manufacturing to Utilities - benefit from improved productivity and increased competitive advantage," said Tony Prilesnik, Imagenation Product Manager.
By streamlining document productivity between technical and office users alike, Spicer Imagenation improves workflow and return on investment for organizations with corporate information systems and OEM technology. With Imagenation, team members worldwide can view files, exchange hundreds of document and drawing file types, add markups, and gather critical CAD or model information, such as measurements, right from their desktops. Powerful APIs let integrators implement custom applications, such as revision control, markup permissions, and redaction, while corporate administrators gain complete control over access to documents, markups, and externally referenced files.
Imagenation is available for Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP and Windows Vista. Imagenation's flexible pricing model provides options for fixed, enterprise and OEM licensing.
To try Imagenation visit http://www.spicer.com/ .
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