AGI Releases EasyCopy v. 8.0 with Universal Tools to Manage Graphics in a hybrid environment

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, August 31, 2005, AutoGraph International (AGI) announced today a new product release, EasyCopy 8.0. Always designed to put a world of tools at your fingertips to manage pixel based and vector based graphics workflow more easily than ever before.

EMF/WMF Files
Support for EMF/WMF import is the first milestone in AGI's strategy to create interoperability with all of the Microsoft products and with the products supported on the Linux platform. The commitment to interoperability and cross-platform support will grow as we add to our growing list of supported graphics formats. Today, EMF/WMF joins CGM, HP-GL, JPEG, TIFF, PNG, GIF, etc. to give maximum flexibility to our users.

Capture
Major additions to the Capture tool include Automatic Capture, with its user-defined frequency and duration, as well as Fixed Region capture. The Fixed Region area may be sized to the user's requirements. Whether it is for Automatic Capture, Fixed Region Capture or general Capture, AutoSave with file save specifications is now available. Finally, two new Hot Keys have been added, together with an option for the System Administrator to 'lock in' specific hot key definitions.

Conversion
The conversion tools have new capabilities in v. 8.0. Profiles are introduced in this release. Specifications for settings in saving files may be established for varying requirements. That is, a plotting Profile may be defined, a presentation Profile, a project Profile and so forth to reduce effort and to maintain corporate guidelines.

In Montage, new functionality has been added to saving the layouts created. Added to saving a layout as an image or as a .lay file, users may now save a layout as a .layz or SVG. With these additions, layouts and all associated graphics may be sent to a colleague in another part of the world or simply saved as an archive for use later on.

Montage
EasyCopy may now be opened in Montage Canvas Mode vs. the Single Image Mode if preferred and specified. As a commitment to ease of use and ergonomically appropriate design, the preference was established to meet the varying needs of our users.
Montage has also received some improvement is the Fill Options area. Pattern Fill now includes Lithology Patterns for the geoscientist. Texture Fill is available to any user who works on posters, flyers or presentations. Finally, Hatch Fill scaling has been improved.

Arbitrary rotation of text and images has now come to Montage as well. Asked for repeatedly by our users, it now joins the other tools.

Available for all Major Platforms
EasyCopy 8.0 is available for Windows and all major UNIX workstations. The very flexible licensing scheme allows floating licenses which can be shared throughout a network and among all users, while permitting a heterogeneous system environment with both UNIX and Windows users.

Company Background
AGI is an international company founded in 1989. It produces and delivers systems for managing your graphics workflow for your cross platform environment - UNIX, Linux or Windows. Development and international sales are headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark. North American sales and support are, since 1990, centered in San Jose, California. A network of agents and distributors represents the company throughout the world.
AGI's large customer base includes the majority of the Automotive and Aerospace industries where the products are an integrated part of the design engineer's work. The tools are equally wide spread in the Energy industry and wherever high quality, easy-to-use tools for montage, capture, convert and/or print are required. The products can be downloaded at www.augrin.com.