TRUESPECTRA JOINS CI LABS AND DEMONSTRATES OPENDOC PHOTO-QUALITY GRAPHICS
COMPONENT

Object-Based Image Processing Componentized For Mainstream Business
Applications

NEW YORK, New York - at PC Expo - June 20, 1995 - Following through with
its plans to support OpenDoc announced at Object World in March,
TrueSpectra Inc. today demonstrated its true object-based photographic
quality graphics component and announced that it has joined Component
Integration Laboratories, Inc.

"At TrueSpectra, we see a tremendous benefit to end users from the results
of Cl Labs' guidance of OpenDoc," said Stephen Sutherland, President of
TrueSpectra. "Using just one feature of our graphics component for
example, corporate in-house developers of insurance, banking, library,
real estate, and catalogue sales systems can very easily incorporate
annotated photographic images into their applications. And they may do so
without any prior knowledge of image processing and display and without
the need to save multiple copies of an image simply to support a variety
of application-specific or context-dependent annotations."

"Nowhere else in the computer industry can there be found non-proprietary,
vendor neutral standards fostering innovation and encouraging the rapid
development of systems," Sutherland added. "By establishing a powerful
framework for users to easily mix and match between third-party components
and those developed in-house, OpenDoc is an industry milestone."

The TrueSpectra Graphics Component is a full OpenDoc implementation and
includes the ability to both view and edit content. Significantly
different from pixel editors, this component incorporates TrueSpectra's
advanced object-based render engine supporting graphical page layout,
image decompression and display, and interactive image processing. Since
objects producing special effects and transformations are stored
independently from image, text and font data, and applied dynamically to
highlight vital information or visually improve content for display
without altering stored originals, TrueSpectra parts are ideal for 24 bit
color image presentation and annotation in OpenDoc where many documents
may reference the same source image yet require differing visual display.
OpenDoc compliant applications will quickly and effectively be able to
include color imagery through the use of this component and in particular,
will be able to do so without the training typically associated with pixel
editors.

TrueSpectra Pro, scheduled for release fall 1995, will offer OpenDoc
support both as a stand alone Part and as a Document shell to embed other
OpenDoc parts. In addition, it is planned for OpenDoc's powerful scripting
capabilities to be integrated throughout TrueSpectra Pro to support
automated control of program functions, or even to create a custom user
interface for an interactive OpenDoc Document.

Cl Labs, founded by Apple, IBM and Novell, is an open industry association
promoting software integration through the OpenDoc component software
architecture.

TrueSpectra Inc., established 1992, is dedicated to the design and
development of true object-based image processing and page layout
graphical applications. Recognized for its advanced object technologies
including a high performance 32 bit render engine and innovative modeless
context-sensitive controls, TrueSpectra products dynamically process
interacting objects consisting of high-resolution 24 bit images, graphics,
text, transformations and effects. Coupled with TrueSpectra's OS/2 Kodak
film scanner and dye-sublimation device drivers, their first product was
installed in 1993, bringing the benefits of object technology to
commercial photofinishing where ease-of-use, performance, and quality are
essential. A beta-test version of TrueSpectra Light, targeted at business
and home users, is currently available over the Internet: ftp-os2.nmsu.edu
(os2/graphics/tspectra.zip).

TrueSpectra Inc
20 Holly Street #206
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4S 3B1
416-322-3626,  fax 416-322-1426

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