Announcement:

SGBD products is pleased to announce the shipment of ScanPlug release 1.0 for Macintosh PowerPC (together with the release of a Windows 95/98/NT beta version). ScanPlug is the fast and easy to use direct-do-disk professional picture acquisition solution for 4D databases. Now you can put pictures in a database 10 times faster !

ScanPlug makes ACIUS 4D's and Adobe's Photoshop plug-in technologies meet in a fast and easy to use plug-in for 4D. Fully compliant with both technologies, ScanPlug allows you to call acquiring plug-ins designed for Photoshop (including twain sources) directly from 4D with no effort.

From the pictures in your scanner or camera, ScanPlug produces in one single shot, PICT, compressed PICT or JPEG files, using direct-do-disk technology, together with their thumbnail for quick viewing, which makes ScanPlug the fastest and cheapest solution ever to put pictures in a database. This includes subjects such as: people, news, art, photography, medical imaging, advertising, catalogs, sales, on-line databases and so on... Licence fees range from one-site licences to royalty-free developer licences.Visit our web site and download a free demo at http://www.scanplug.com/

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-- Philippe GUEDJ (info@sgbd.com), February 14, 1999