CNS Image 1.0 Released

[Jesse Traynham]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

COMM-UNITY NETWORKING SYSTEMS RELEASES CNS IMAGE 1.0, A FILEMAKER PLUG-IN.

Fort Worth, TX, April 6, 2005 -- Comm-Unity Networking Systems announces the release of CNS Image 1.0, for FileMaker 7.x and above for Macintosh. A Windows version will follow. This is the initial release of the plug-in.

CNS Image can import images into container fields and export images from container fields. What the plug-in can do with images while in FileMaker is where it gets interesting.

Imagine importing a folder of digital photos into FileMaker. There are several tasks you will probably want to apply to your photos. You may want to rotate a photo from landscape to portrait. You may want to crop a photo down to capture the subject of the photo better. You may want to flip or reflect a photo horizontally, vertically, or both. You may want to apply a sepia color tint to the photo to give it that antique look. You may want to sharpen the photo up and adjust the hue or saturation of the photo to make the colors pop out better. All of these things, and more, can be done using CNS Image, and you do not even have to leave FileMaker to accomplish them.

You may want to extract a layer from a Photoshop document. You can even extract pages (layers) from a PDF document which can be useful for viewing documents cross-platform in FileMaker.

You can also use CNS Image to download an image from the internet right into a container field. Such a feature can be used to download webcam images, dynamic images of the earth, road maps, and even images to update the look of your solution. Imagine creating a new backdrop, header, or logo that is automatically downloaded when your users open a solution you have created.

CNS Image also gives you the ability to apply a QuickTime filter to an image. QuickTime comes with several built in filters such as Brightness, ColorSync, HSL Balance, RGB Balance, Blur, Edge Detection, Emboss, Sharpen, Color Style, Color Tint, and more. There are also third party filters available on the net.

What once was impossible, is now a reality, with CNS Image and FileMaker 7.

Brian Dunning, of BrianDunning.com was excited to test out CNS Image: "Using CNS Image, I was able to transfer an entire web site of graphics into a FileMaker database in under an hour. This one plug-in saved days or weeks of painstaking manual labor."

Example database includes the following examples:

- Importing

- Exporting

- Information

- Convert

- Crop

- Rotate

- Reflect

- Filter

- URL

- Transform

- Screenshot Crop (Mini Solution)

- Webcams (Mini Solution)

- Earth View (Mini Solution)

- Map Viewer (Mini Solution)

- Simple Image Browser (Mini Solution)

- PDF Page Splitter (Mini Solution)

- Custom Functions

Features

- Import Images with dynamic paths and filenames

- Export Images with dynamic paths and filenames

- Use customizable dialogs to import and export images

- Get a variety of information about an image

- Convert image type, size, resolution, depth, quality, and target size

- Crop an image

- Rotate an image

- Reflect or flip an image

- Apply a Quicktime filter to an image

- Transform an image (squish or stretch)

- Download an image from the internet directly into a container field

- Extract layers of an image as new images (Including Photoshop and PDFs)

Demonstration version available

You can evaluate CNS Image for 30 days for free, however, after 30 days, CNS Image should be removed from your hard drive if you do not plan to purchase it. The demo version of CNS Image will display a splash screen every fifteen minutes that you use it. Once you purchase and register your copy of CNS Image, the splash screen will no longer show.

Purchasing CNS Image

You can purchase CNS Image from our secure website. Simply go to http://www.cnsplug-ins.com/ and choose the "Purchase (Prices)" link from the toolbar. We accept Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover. We will also accept Purchase Orders and checks under special circumstances. Please email or call us if you would like to purchase with a Purchase order or a check.

Our pricing structure for CNS Image is as follows:

License Price Cost per License

1 User $65.00 $65.00 each

5 User $228.00 $45.60 each

10 User $319.00 $31.90 each

25 User $558.00 $22.32 each

50 User $781.00 $15.62 each

Site / Worldwide $1093.00

Developer's $664.00

Contact Information

Comm-Unity Networking Systems

8652 Camp Bowie West

Fort Worth, Texas 76116

Phone: 817-560-4226

Email: [email protected]

Web: http://www.cnsplug-ins.com/

[Jesse Traynham]

Just a quick note to let everyone know we updated CNS Image to 1.0.1. This Maintenance release fixes the following issues:

• Fixed a bug in the Export function where it would give you an error if the container did not have a File Name Stream (converted databases and images pasted into containers do not have File Name Streams).
• Fixed a bug in the Convert function where if you specified "" instead of 0 for the optional parameters, it would give you an error about the parameter needing to be a number.