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Re: Image Agent Ships !!!

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From: nevin
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1992 18:07
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In article <Bx1tJz.8v3@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens)  
writes:
> Eric Bloom writes:
> > With Image Agent users can simply drag and drop non-native
> > image files directly into graphic applications, such as
> > PasteUp, Diagram, Concurrence, and have the images instantly
> > appear. Image Agent transparently performs the image version
> > as if it were part of the actual application in use.  
> 
> I don't understand the advantage of this app.  Isn't this the point of 3.0's  
> filters?  To be able to load different formats of visual data into a picture  
> viewer or editor that can only read, say, TIFF?  Or likewise for sound,  
> multimedia, whatever?
> 
> If so, is this just a set of filters that can be placed somewhere (like in  
> /LocalLibrary, perhaps) and somehow become available for picture load  
> instructions in programs?
> -- 
> -- Jeff (jeffo@uiuc.edu)
> -- NeXTmail welcome

Exactly!

Now the next question: Do you want to write the image filters, or do you want  
to just buy Image Agent?

--
Nevin Pratt, Digital Technology, Int'l    Orem, Ut
NeXTmail preferred, but ONLY at my REAL email address: nevin@dtint.dtint.com

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