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Astro - "The Catalogued CAT"

ECXS Information Systems and Troi Automatisering release Astro 1.2v1: the Digital Asset Management Solution

New solution lets you find all your catalogued image files quickly.

Alphen aan den Rijn, The Netherlands, ECXS Information Systems and Troi Automatisering today announced the availability of Astro 1.2v1 for Mac OS and Mac OS X.

What is Astro?

Astro is a simple, yet powerful Digital Asset Management solution. Astro was created by ECXS Information Systems and uses FileMaker and the power of Troi plug-ins to let you find all your catalogued files quickly.

You can:

- catalogue disks (CD's, Zip's or hard disks)
- delete disks
- show a list of all catalogued disks
- browse through a catalogued disk
- show all images (pict, jpeg & gif) on a selected disk
- create thumbnails from image files
- create and show thumbnails of a selection
- search a selected disk or all disks by filename and file type
- add labels and notes

New Features

Astro 1.2v1 adds these new functions and features:

- Added creation of thumbnails for the following file types: EPSF, XDOC (Quark) and PDF (the latter on Mac OS X only)
- Price reduced to US $ 99 (interface locked and data file open)
- Full unlocked version now available for US $ 499

Suggested Uses

- Ad agencies can use Astro to catalogue projects, like photos, Word files, etc.
- Photographers can catalogue all photos on a CD-ROM
- Web hosting firms can catalogue created web sites

Pricing & Availability

A fully functional demo version of Astro 1.2v1 is available for downloading at the web site:

http://www.troi.com/software/astro.html

Astro runs on Mac OS version 9.1 through Mac OS 9.2.2 or later or Mac OS X 10.1.5 or later. Astro is available as a stand-alone runtime version (no FileMaker license required) or for use with FileMaker 5 or later (FileMaker license required).

For Thumbnail generation QuickTime version 5 or later needs to be installed. For some graphics format Astro can only generate thumbnails if they are embedded as Pict in the resource fork of the file. This is the case for for example Adobe Illustrator and Quark Express files.

We offer the locked version for $ 99 (interface locked and data file open). A full open version is available for US $ 499. This includes a single user license of Troi Dialog Plug-in and Troi File Plug-in, a US $96 value.

Current owners of Astro get a free upgrade to the runtime version of Astro. Current users can also upgrade to the full open version for only US $ 399.