Snowbound Software's RSS News!

Snowbound's Success Story - Viewer Enables Better Patient Care

Viewing solution for IBM MO:DCA (AFP) documents helps Jefferson Regional Medical Center enhance productivity, extend the life of costly electronic medical records system

President's Corner - The Administration's Health Care Initiative with Regard to EMR

There are many reasons for the push towards Electronic Medical Records (EMR) by our current administration, among these, to reduce health care expenses via technology that utilizes electronic document imaging. While there are many that support this concept and effort, there are almost as many cautioning us that this is not a simple process and even five years is not long enough to rectify the situation

What's New at Snowbound - News You Can Use

Starting this month, we've decided to highlight solution 'News You Can Use' in our second feature story - focusing on some of the new features in our products, and how they can help you.

Open Text Announces Analytics Expansion for ECM Suite

More companies are willing to reach for the clouds in their content and record management, according to a recent study by CommVault.More than half of the respondents in a recent global cloud storage survey said that they considering the use of cloud storage services now or in the future, said CommVault.

Software Development Survey

I�m not much for New Year�s resolutions. I prefer to create a list and knock off the projects one by one. Working this way gives me a great sense of accomplishment. Steering the company in the same way, I�d like to ask your help in creating the 2010 Snowbound list.

Mobile Health Care on the Rise

There�s a trend growing in health care today: doctors are rapidly adopting mobile technology and using it in their patient care. Thanks to hundreds of impressive health care applications, laptops, PDAs, and smartphones can now become mobile diagnostic devices that include diagnostic, monitoring, transcription capabilities and more.

Snowbound Software Reports Significant Revenue Growth Despite Recession

Despite the challenging economic climate, Snowbound�s sales continued to thrive as they have since 1996, when the company was established. Business was driven both by new product releases and new SnowCap partnerships that extended the company�s global reach to Africa and throughout the European Union. Revenue generated in Q4 of 2009 versus revenue in Q4 of 2008 shows an increase of 24.5 percent.

How Image Capture�s Growth Can Benefit You

Image capture has come a long way since Western Union transmitted its first halftone photograph in 1921. Today desktop scanners and multifunction peripheral devices (MFP) have become standard for most offices and are seen as crucial for archiving purposes. The Internet and sophisticated network systems help facilitate remote image capture, enabling businesses to capture and share documents from any location via email or web-based applications.

Snowbound Software Develops DocClean Module to Provide New Image Clean-up Options for Scanned Documents and Images

Watertown, MA (November 30, 2009) Snowbound Software, the pioneering leader of document viewing and conversion technology, announces the addition of DocClean, an optional module that can be added to its RasterMaster for Windows. DocClean provides additional image clean-up capabilities including hole punch removal and blank page detection to enhance image quality for color, grayscale and black and white documents and images that have been scanned or faxed.

Alfresco Announces ECM Interoperability Service

Open source enterprise content management provider Alfresco announced a new content management interoperability service designed to enable public review by developers and organizations.

President's Corner: Is Free Lifetime Support really Free?

When you�ve been on the ground floor of several start-ups, you end up being intimately involved with issues that members of large organizations never even see. When you sell to designers, engineers and developers who are creative and demanding, you end up responding to extremely urgent requests, typically where the customer has short (or missed) deadlines.

Tech Tip - Adjust Image Resolution

Snowbound Software�s RasterMaster� for the Java� Platform includes the ability to move pages around by inserting and removing pages. If you find that the image quality diminishes after moving pages around in a PDF document, you may want to adjust the resolution to improve the pages� appearance. To improve the image�s resolution...

Utilizing AFP Font Maps To Customize Font Display

Font Maps enable companies to standardize how AFP documents display by overriding the internal font objects with custom fonts and styles. Created as simple ASCII files, AFP font maps can be edited by users to define their own font definitions including font type, point size, color, and style.

How to Properly Create High-Quality Thumbnails

When creating thumbnails, Snowbound provides a powerful convenience method, IMG_create_thumbnail(xsize,ysize)

Scrolling Images with Your Keyboard (Java)

In image viewing applications, users often want to be able to scroll an image without their hands leaving the keyboard. Here\x92s how to extend Snowbound\x92s scrolling functionality to allow you to scroll from the keyboard

Zooming to a User Defined Area in FlexSnap (FlexSnap)

Snowbound\x92s viewing applet, FlexSnap, includes a feature called Zoom Rubber Band, which allows the user to draw a box around a portion of the image to zoom in to. This tip shows how to implement this feature.

Working with Compressed Images

File compression allows you to limit an image\x92s size by encoding the file\x92s data more concisely and efficiently. Snowbound SDKs, viewers, and batch conversion applications enable you to read and write a wide variety of compressed images.

Using the System Clipboard for Images (Java)

In Java 1.4, Sun added the DataFlavor imageFlavor to the java.awt.datatransfer package. This makes it possible to copy an image from a Snowbound application and paste it into a native application.

Using the Java Library to Create a BufferedImage Object (Java)

Many users of the RasterMaster Java library have existing code that uses java.awt.Image and java.awt.image.BufferedImage objects to process image data. You can use RasterMaster to create BufferedImage objects from any of the file formats supported by RasterMaster.

Watermarking at the Pixel Level (Windows)

Watermarking 1-bit black and white images is a simple process of merging two images together. However, when working with multicolor images such as grayscale or full 24-bit color, it\x92s not so easy.

What can be done to speed up printing to Postscript printers (Java)

The reason is that the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) automatically detects Postscript printers, and formats the page/s to be printed as a 32-bit per pixel color Postscript file. This will occur even if you have a black and white print job.

Saving out multi-page TIFF files to a byte array (Java)

Saving images to memory on the fly enhances the speed, usability and security of your client-server imaging application by eliminating the necessity of local drive access.

Saving Images with IMG_save_bitmap Byte Array Buffer

The Snowbound Library supports numerous formats, each with their own compression and multiple bit depths. This combination of variables makes it a very complex task to predetermine the final file size of an image.

Creating a Single Output File of an Original Image and its Annotation Layers (.NET)

You can create a single output JPEG or BMP file that is a composite of the original image file and its annotation layers in Snowbound\x92s RasterMaster .NET SDK. This allows you to print out a single file of the image with its annotations.

Removing FlexSnap Features Using HTML Parameters (Java)

FlexSnap gives you the option of disabling or removing most features from the Graphical User Interface (GUI). The default is that all menus, menu items, buttons, and panels are on, but removing a feature only requires you to insert the parameters described into your HTML code.

Dealing with Security Issues with Applets and JavaScript (Java)

When dealing with JavaScript, applets and security issues, you must understand the Java Applet Sandbox. The sandbox refers to a set of security restrictions imposed on an applet.

Using the New SupportCode Package (Java)

Snowbound has made the development of Java imaging applications easier and quicker than ever with the addition of a new SupportCode package provided with RasterMaster for Java.