AGI Targets Linux

SAN JOSE, Calif., October 19, 1999 - AutoGraph International (AGI) is demonstrating its commitment to the Linux community through our EasyCopy suite of products. The Linux operating system has always played an immense role in AGI and some of our developers are active in the Danish Linux community. In fact, Linux engenders a decidedly emotional response from our normally cool, analytical development staff.

EasyCapture for Linux
When it comes to capturing screens on Linux, EasyCopy’s "true screen capture" enables a user to generate the highest quality results and provides the easiest means of doing so.

Enhanced X Capture offers full screen, selected window or an arbitrary rectangular area capture. All original colors of the windows are preserved with any combination of windows. Even when a window appears in false colors on the screen due to color table overrun, it is captured in its original colors by EasyCopy and printed correctly.

EasyCopy gains acknowlegement in the Linux community
IDG authors Erwin Zijleman and Steve Harris have used our EasyCopy to generate all screen captures in their new book WordPerfect for Linux Bible. In a comparative analysis for his management, Erwin Zijleman wrote:

"In the last few days I did more experiments with the software and I’m quite impressed. Screenshots can be taken from a graphical user interface, but also from the command-line (more flexible). Screenshots can be converted to a large number of file formats immediately (using EasyConvert). All the software is easy to install and very well documented. The software is user-friendly as well, which makes creating screenshots a lot easier than with the other programs I tried. The quality of the screenshots is good! EasyCapture has no problems capturing all the elements of an X-Window screen.

I think this is interesting software for all authors working on Linux books!"

High quality image printing on Linux
EasyCopy prints captured screen images or imported image files and makes it easy for the user to specify the printer setup, page layout and rendering options. It is unique in its mapping of screen colors and provides an EasyColor profile which is used by the printer driver to give optimal color quality.

Printer support on Linux
EasyCopy supports PostScript, CGM, PCL, RTL, and other raster printers. The majority of the printers on the market are supported by the software: laser, ink jet, thermal transfer, dye sublimation, large format electrostatic and ink jet plotters as well as color laser printers.

EasyCopy provides the capability for direct printer connection by parallel, serial, SCSI or internal TCP/IP interface. In addition, connection over network interface boxes or connection to a print queue on a remote host is supported.

File format conversion on Linux
EasyConvert gives Linux users a fast and flexible tool for image conversion. It is installed together with EasyCopy as a seamless extension to the graphical user interface. The extensive list of supported image file formats makes it a very powerful tool for exchanging image files between various graphics applications.

EasyCopy Sys-Admin tools for Linux
EasyCopy includes tools to facilitate the creation and configuration of print queues for the supported printers.

Licensing
For non-commercial single users, EasyCopy licenses carry no license fee. Commercial users will wish to contact AGI for the pricing structure.