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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE J2SEditor: Professional IPTC captioning software. J2S announces the availability of version 1.2 of its J2SEditor, an IPTC caption editor with file management capabilities for MacOS X. Designed for professional photographers and photo agencies, J2SEditor is used to view images according to their colour profile, sort files and add or modify textual meta-data of graphics files, individually or in batch, without affecting the documents (e.g. the caption of a JPEG file can be updated without recompression of the document). The list of IPTC fields to edit as well as default values or other input controls are defined and stored in description profiles which can be adapted to each user with our J2SProfiler. Amongst other features, J2SEditor provides a toolbar e.g. for quick access to applications, folders or other tools so that J2SEditor can easily fit in a document workflow. Colour marks can be applied to the documents for faster identification. J2SEditor can also insert a colour profile into your image files and send a selection of documents to a FTP site. An Inspector window can be used to quickly display specific file information (e.g. IPTC or EXIF data, etc.). J2SEditor supports all IPTC-compatible file formats such as JPEG, TIFF, Photoshop (PSD) and native IPTC image files (the IPTC is a standard used in the press industry for exchanging information). New in version 1.2: * Creation of thumbnails and display of documents based on colour profile, * Drag&drop to change the number of items displayed in the grid, * Full screen display (folder area and tool bar can be hidden), * Inspector computes the printed size according to selected resolution, * Possibility to crop a picture, * Non-degrading option for operations such as rotations and crops, * Repeatable IPTC fields are fully supported. Carriage returns are used as field separators and the number of characters per field is checked according to the field status, * A carriage return is automatically inserted in repeatable fields when double-clicking an entry from the suggested values lists. ... A more detailed presentation, the user manual and a demo version can be found on J2S web site at http://www.j2s.net. J2SEditor runs on MacOS X and MacOS 9.x with CarbonLib 1.6. A more detailed presentation, the user manual and a demo version can be found on J2S web site at http://www.j2s.net. ### ---------------- J2S PRESENTATION ---------------- J2S is a limited company whose aim is to: * Anticipate our customers needs by developing and publishing software specialised in multimedia and asset management. * Meet specific needs by writing programmes according to precise specifications. ---------- J2S PEOPLE ---------- J2S is based upon the combination of its three partners: * Jean-Yves Jourdain Jean-Yves Jourdain won the Apple Trophy in 1989. He began by developing on PC and mainframe computers. He has shown his expertise in software design, development and team management during 10 years to create and develop Phras�a, a cross-platform digital archiving system distributed throughout the world. * Georges Lobry Georges Lobry started work in computing and artificial intelligence at University. He then designed and developed the first fully automated Macintosh audio broadcast system based on MP2 (the ancestor of MP3). He also worked with communications systems (e.g. ISDN, Ethernet...) and hardware (e.g. sound cards, jukebox, video switching matrix...). He managed the Phras�a developers' team for four years before joining J2S. * Richard Loub�jac Richard Loub�jac has gained a significant experience in web site publishing, from content to technical implementation. With his knowledge in linguistics, his writing and communication skills, he plays a pivoting role between the technical and commercial world. --------- J2S OFFER --------- Our know-how We develop and provide: * Cross-platform applications running on Windows 95/98/NT/2000, MacOS Classic or MacOS X. * Components (codec, ActiveX, QuickTime�). * COM technology (ADO, MTS, OCX...). * Extensions (Photoshop, Acrobat, InDesign, Illustrator, QuarkXPress�). * Database expertise (SQL). * Scripts (AppleScript, VB, Perl�). * Internet technology (Apache, ASP, CGI, XML, HTML�). We also provide quality documentation and a 3-month support with all our developments. Our strength Our experience of storing and archiving issues gained in the press industry shows in our expertise with graphical file formats, client/server and communications technologies in a production environment. Development tools * Preferred language = C++. * Other languages = C, Pascal, Visual Basic, Perl. * Current development environments = CodeWarrior et Visual Studio. ---------------------- DEVELOPMENT REFERENCES ---------------------- * Software applications AutoPrint is an application designed to print a picture with its associated IPTC information. AutoPrint can directly print a file by drag&drop or process the content of a folder at regular intervals. AutoPrint exists in two versions to run on MacOS Classic and MacOS X. TIME Magazine (USA). Narcisse is a MacOS and Windows NT graphics files description tool interfacing Herm�s, Unisys editorial system. Le Monde (France). HTML2XML is a Windows NT 4 application to convert HTML wires to XML documents. REUTERS Agency (France). Watchdog is designed to check application processes so that, should they ever go down, the twin application is launched. REUTERS Agency (France). Panopict, a software package to insert images in a QuickTime VR panorama, allow the user to change the shapes of the images and re-generate the panorama. This software is used by sales persons in the field of sport advertising. Briq - Sols�quia (France). * Services or COM Components PasswordEverywhere is designed to harmonize the passwords used on a WindowsNT/2000 network with the accounts stored on a device such as Hewlett Packard Digital Sender. Access-It (France). MagicLayer is a COM object used to perform specific operations (i.e. listing layers, saving selected layers, exporting the text of a layer) on Illustratorcompatible files. Burodoc (France). COMIPTC is a COM component to read/write IPTC information contained in a graphics file. MasterLine (France). PDFTextExtractor is a COM component which communicates with our Acrobat plug-in to extract the text content of a PDF file. Noematics (France). * Extensions & plug-ins PDFEraser is a plug-in for Acrobat (Windows version) used to delete a user-selected area containing confidential information for example, in OCR-ized PDF documents. Access-It (France). The Windows version of PDF StartUp, our autorun program, was modified to operate as a dongle protection via the use of 2 Acrobat extensions: one to set the protection, the other to allow the Acrobat Reader to automatically open the PDF document. The presence of the CD-Rom is required for the document to be opened automatically without the need for the user to enter the password. Massey-Ferguson / 2M Equation (France). Excel2InDesign is a plug-in designed to enhance InDesign 1.5 so that Excel sheets can be imported in InDesign the way they look in the original document. Messier-Bugatti - Groupe Snecma (France). * Libraries MimeViewer is a MacOS Classic dynamic library (DLL) designed to allow a user to view the content of a MIME-formatted message and if needed, to select a encryption mode to protect the message. SAGEM (France). IP-Lib, a communications library (MacOS PPC fragment) based on TCP/IP for client/server connectivity. Trias (France). __________________________ Please visit our sponsors: RadGad(sm): The Place for Useful Gifts & Gadgets.(sm) http://www.radgad.com/, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], or 877-5-RADGAD MacTech(r) Magazine: The journal of Macintosh technology and development http://www.mactech.com, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], or 805-494-9797 DevDepot(sm): Your Source for RAM, Technical & Developer Products http://www.devdepot.com, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or call 877-DEPOT-NOW To submit a posting to MacDev-1, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to MacDev-1, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the SUBJECT line reading "SUBSCRIBE MACDEV-1". 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