Pegasus Imaging Announces the Release of ImagXpress 6

Development Toolkit offers world class, state-of-the-art scan, view, edit, and convert functionality for digital imaging

TAMPA, FL, July 23, 2001— Pegasus Imaging Corporation www.jpg.com, a leader in state-of-the-art imaging software, today introduced the newest version of its flagship product, ImagXpress 6. ImagXpress 6 continues to expand the powerful functionality of ImagXpress 5 by providing new features and adding support for additional formats. These new features complement a long list of comprehensive features such as Tiff tag handling and multiple page Tiff editing.

Jack Berlin of Pegasus said, "ImagXpress is squarely positioned to be a cornerstone tool for the most comprehensive document imaging applications, while offering a high performance feature set unparalleled in the industry. The advantages of using lightweight ActiveX and COM components make ImagXpress an attractive Rapid Application Development tool for Visual Basic, Delphi, CBuilder, and VC++ developers. When it comes to serious imaging, ImagXpress' high speed, low overhead, and RAD is the only toolkit you'll need."

The ImagXpress product continues to evolve its robust functionality through the features below.

- HTTPS - Support for reading images from secure http.
- Progressive Display - Progressive display has been added for JPEG and TIFF when viewing these files from an http or ftp address.
- EPS Support - Support for viewing EPS images with an embedded TIFF or WMF image.
- Get and Set JPEG Comments - Multiple JPEG comments can be set, retrieved and saved.
- Improved Metafile Support - WMF and EMF file viewing, scrolling, and zooming as metafiles (as opposed to rasterized).
- AssignDib - A new AssignDib method has been added to allow ImagXpress to import a DIB from an external source without having to create it's own copy.
- EMF - Support for reading Windows Enhanced Metafiles.
- Expanded Image Sizes - Properties and Methods such as Crop, PicCrop. CropX, CropY, CropWidth and CropHeight have been expanded to support image sizes greater than 65535.
- Print Clip - Support for printing any rectangular area within a DIB.
- Mouse Position Reporting - Report the position of the mouse within the DIB regardless of the current zoomed, scrolled, or cropped view.
- Save Tiff Byte Order - Provides the capability to save TIFF images in Big Endian or Little Endian format (Intel)


About Accusoft Pegasus

Founded in 1991 and headquartered in Tampa, Florida, Pegasus Imaging Corporation delivers digital imaging software development components, image compression and image editing technologies. The company exceeds speed and quality requirements for document imaging, forms processing, medical imaging, color/photo imaging, video applications and more. Technology is delivered as Microsoft .NET controls, COM controls, VCLs, DLLs and applications. Multiple platforms are supported, including Windows, Linux, Solaris, IBM AIX and Mac. Visit www.accusoft.com for more information.