ARTstor OIV 2.0

ArtStor has just announced that the Offline Image Viewer 2.0 is now available for Mac users (2.0 for Windows was released several weeks ago). This new version is significantly different than the previous version -- the main difference being that users can now construct PowerPointesque presentations if they want to.

Here's some text from the ArtStor announcement:

"The latest release of the ARTstor Offline Image Viewer (version 2.0) contains additional features and enhanced functionality that were not available in previous versions of the software. Many of the new features are a direct result of user feedback and recommendations.

In addition to all of the functionality of previous versions, the new release of the Offline Image Viewer will include the following new features:

• Blank "slides" can now be created for each screen of a presentation;
  ARTstor images and local images can be pasted into the slides;


• Customized text can now be included along with images when presenting;


• Multiple images and text fields can be accommodated on a single slide;


• Zoomed-in portions of an image can be saved for display on a slide;


• The background color behind the images and text, as well as the entire slide, can be customized;


• A smaller, presentation-only file can be exported without requiring the full-size image files;


• Presentations can be exported in a format compatible with the previous version of the Offline Image Viewer;


• Connections to ARTstor for authentication and for downloading Image Groups can be accommodated through certain proxy servers;


• Users can choose where the image file cache will reside on their machine;


• Users can choose the maximum amount of memory the application will be permitted to use on their computer.

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