Archive: Version 5.0 Features
Version 5.0 Feature Update
The current release is Pixel!FX
2000. However, we are making this archived
list of features available for the convenience of
customers using older versions of Pixel!FX.
The current version contains all the features below
as well as newer enhancements added prior to the latest
release.
See Feature Archives
for features added in other previous Pixel!FX
releases.
Features are grouped by topic or Pixel! application.
- Preemptive prescan with incremental preview of
scan allows users to stop a prescan before it
completes.
- Automatic partial prescan enables user to select
scan bed viewing area and constrain prescan to
that area.
- New edit scan gang list dialog simplifies adding,
deleting, and editing selections from a scan gang
list before you scan the images.
- Additional calibration support for Kodak Q-60TM
Color Input Target. This target is manufactured
in accordance with ANSI IT8.7/2.
- New color adjustments on a per-channel basis allow
for fine-tuning color scans.
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- Innovative Color Adjustments feature combines
major image color adjustment functions on a single,
easy-to-use dialog. Options include:
- Interactive, WYSIWYG interface.
- Image analysis Histogram with white point,
mid point and black point settings.
- Contrast, Brightness and Gamma adjustments.
- All analysis controls, adjustments and
preview features are constrainable by
channel selector for choosing composite
adjustment, or a single R, G, B, C, M,
Y, or K channel adjustment.
- Multiple, independent parameter adjustments
are combined to generate composite color
curve and converted image preview.
- What-if preview area displays prospective
subtle and exaggerated adjustments of
the last modified parameters for the selected
channel.
- CMYK editing support.
- Updated image support, up to 16 bits per channel
(30-bit RGB, 36-bit RGB, 48-bit RGB, 32-bit CMYK,
64-bit CMYK, 10-bit grayscale, 12-bit grayscale
and 16-bit grayscale).
- Three-dimensional color picker lets you display
and select foreground/background colors in HSB,
RGB, CIE L*a*b*, and CMYK color spaces.
- Expanded region selection options, including rectangle
and ellipse, and single row or column. The selected
region can be a fixed size or a constrained aspect
ratio.
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- Automated directory monitor system with user-configurable
image routing supports integration with third-party
applications, fax products and network scanning
capability.
- Image routing configuration supports user notification
when image arrives and automatic routing to new
image window, printer, Inbox, or system program.
- Inbox for routed images provides Motif interface
to browse, open and delete incoming images. The
Inbox includes visual icon to track count of incoming
images.
- Support for viewing 32-bit and 64-bit CMYK images.
- Support for viewing 10-, 12- and 16-bit grayscale
images.
- Support for viewing 30-, 36- and 48-bit RGB images.
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- Support for 12-bit/channel, device-independent,
CIE-based Postscript.
- Support for 8- and 12-bit/channel RGB and CMYK
Postscript.
- Support for printing selected image regions.
- Support for printing multi-page images.
- 10-, 12- and 16-bit per channel image formats
are printed using Postscript (maximum) 12-bit
per channel output format.
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- Mentalix now offers this command-line interactive
program as a separate product targeted at systems
integrators, users with limited scanning needs
and anyone with batch functionality requirements
for scanning, OCR (Pixel!OCR required)
and file conversion. The Pixel!ENGINE product
features a TCL-based scripting interface that
enables smooth integration with third-party products.
- Provides file and image type conversion to Pixel!ENGINE
supported formats.
- Full range of scanner adjustment controls supported
(sizing, resolution, image type, etc.).
- Scans images and sends them to a user-defined
file or stdout.
- Enables image rotation and image scaling.
- Performs OCR on scanned line art images and writes
the recognized text to stdout.
- Faxes scanned images.
- Can be used as an Application Programming Interface
(API).
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