Message-Id: <mailto:199502131553.JAA20424@library.wustl.edu> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 02:50:07 +1100 From: "mailto:Iris.Radulescu@Lib.Monash" <Iris.Radulescu@LIB.MONASH.EDU.AU> Subject: Re: Databases To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
Hello, in this timid posting, I confess I have been a lurker for a while now. Just sharing my experience with one package that seems to answer most of the original poster's requirements (apart from visual editing and drag'n' drop!): I have used Watermark Professional for a little while and found it an outstanding TIFF viewer with powerful database capabilities. Although my evaluation did not include its database feature, I can say it has a very well developed database, stored locally, but it also claims to be capable of accessing a SQL Server database in client mode, using the same interface. This interface is based on a tabbed card metaphor, and includes groupings and keywords. As a TIFF viewer, it is outstanding. It reads all TIFF formats including compressed TIFF 4 (did not try any higher TIFF format....). It allows some degree of manipulation and re-saving, as well as annotation, drawing on the imaged page and adding "sticky notes". It scans, as well, and had no trouble using HP Scanjet IIcx. It is also a good OLE and OLE.Automation server. I used a sample program supplied by the local distributors (in Visual Basic) to create a quick application in VB that accesses my own database (ASCII or Access2) of pointers to TIFF files. OLE Automation allows commands to be sent by the client, including all scanning, manipulation, storage, etc functions. A truly outstanding product - with which I have no connection whatsoever except liking it and hoping to use it in the future for its viewing capabilities. I am unable t o access details about it, but it is a US product so it should be easy to track. Good luck.********************************************************************* Iris Radulescu Internet: mailto:Iris.R@lib.monash.edu.au * Snr Analyst/Programmer * Monash University Library - EDP Phone: +61 03 90 52609 * *********************************************************************