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OmniFormat has been successfully installed on your computer. 

Overview:

OmniFormat is a free utility that allows automated conversion and image manipulation of over 75 file formats including PDF, HTML, DOC, XLS, PPT, JPG, GIF, TIF, PNG, PCX, XML, PS, TXT, Photo CD, FAX and MPEG.

OmniFormat includes HTML2PDF995, a utility for rapid, quality conversion of HTML to PDF and other formats. HTML2PDF995 is suitable for use in server scripts for high speed, dynamic PDF generation on web servers.

OmniFormat "watches" a folder for image files. When images are placed into the Watch folder, they are automatically processed. [Note: original files placed in the Watch folder will be deleted.] Processing may include a combination of conversion and image manipulation. OmniFormat may be optionally run as a Windows System Service.

OmniFormat supports Optical Character Recognition (OCR). In order to convert image formats to text, the free OmniFormat Optical Character Recognition module must be downloaded from OmniFormat and installed.

OmniFormat can automatically apply Digital Rights Management to documents and images using the free Signature995 Standard Encryption Module

Using OmniFormat:

OmniFormat may be accessed from Start Menu under Software995.

1. Specify the Watch folder that OmniFormat will monitor.  Note: It is possible to specify UNC network paths such as \\servername\folder instead of mapped paths. This may be done by modifying watch.txt directly.

2. Select an output format.

3. Press "Start Monitoring."

4. Place image files into the Watch Folder. OmniFormat accepts over 75 image formats (see below). Note: original files placed in the Watch folder will be deleted.

Options:

Memory Usage: High is fastest but should only be used on systems with 512 MB or more RAM. Set this to Medium or Low for systems with less memory.

Modulation - Brightness, Saturation and Hue may be adjusted. A setting of 100 leaves the values unchanged.

Contrast - Normal leaves the image unchanged.

Rotation - 0 leaves the image unchanged.

Normalize - Automatic contrast adjustment. Default setting is off.

Size - Same as original is default. When unchecked, specify Maximum Width and Height to constrain the size of the image. Selecting Fit to Maximum Height and Width will force image to resize itself to both the Maximum Width and the Maximum Height. This is useful for thumbnail creation.

Resolution of Files Created from PDF - Select Dots Per Inch of images created when PDF documents are converted. Default is 72.

Convert 1 image per page when converting from PDF - Selected by default. When unselected very large files may be generated.

Windows Service - OmniFormat may be run as a Windows System Service on NT, Windows 2000 and XP. When the system is rebooted, OmniFormat will run as an invisible, background process. In order to install or uninstall OmniFormat as a service, users must have administrative privileges. The service must be stopped before OmniFormat may be configured or run in visible mode. In order to process XML and XLS files when run as a service, you may need to select Services->OmniFormat->Properties->Log On and change Log On to "This account" and specify a user account. When run as a service on Windows 2003, Omniformat, it may be necessary to upgrade by purchasing a key.

When running as a service, it may be necessary to specify UNC network paths such as \\servername\folder instead of mapped paths. This may be done by modifying watch.txt directly.

Image to PDF Page sizes - Specifies the PDF page size when converting from image formats. Available sizes include:

Page size Size in points (72 points per inch)
11x17 792  1224
Ledger 1224   792
Legal 612  1008
Letter 612   792
LetterSmall 612   792
ArchE 2592  3456
ArchD 1728  2592
ArchC 1296  1728
ArchB 864  1296
ArchA 648   864
A0 2380  3368
A1 1684  2380
A2 1190  1684
A3 842  1190
A4 595   842
A4Small 595   842
A5 421   595
A6 297   421
A7 210   297
A8 148   210
A9 105   148
A10 74   105
B0 2836  4008
B1 2004  2836
B2 1418  2004
B3 1002  1418
B4 709  1002
B5 501   709
C0 2600  3677
C1 1837  2600
C2 1298  1837
C3 918  1298
C4 649   918
C5 459   649
C6 323   459
Flsa 612   936
Flse 612   936
HalfLetter 396   612

Custom page sizes may also be specified by entering values in the list box in the following format:

width<x>height

Example: In order to output Arch E1 specify:

2160x3024

Move Converted Files to Output Folder:

Converted files will be in the specified Output folder. This setting will not affect Single Pass mode.

If multiple Watch folders are specified, converted files will be placed in the specified output folder. In order to specify a separate output folder for each Watch folder, create the text file ..\omniformat\outputfolders.txt and add a folder on each line separated by a carriage return line feed. The order must match that of the Watch folders. Add an entry to the [Omniformat] section of ..pdf995\res\pdf995.ini: Output Folder = MULTIFOLDER. Remove the entry to revert to standard behavior. If multiple users access the Watch folders or OmniFormat is run on a server, a server key should be purchased.

Note: The options settings will be stored for future use. You must manually revert the settings to their defaults.

Processing Sub-folders:

OmniFormat will process subfolders of watch folders if the following entry is added to the [Omniformat] section of ..pdf995\res\pdf995.ini: 

Process Subfolders=1. 

Excel:

On non-English operating systems, if pdf995 is not the default printer, it may be necessary to add

System on=on

to the parameters section of pdf995\res\pdf995.ini AND to change the value to the word for "on" in the system's language. Examples:

Spanish system:
System on=en

Swedish system:
System on=på 

German system:
System on=auf

Italian system:
System on=su

The easiest methods of determining the replacement value is to print to pdf995 manually from Excel and observer the print dialog. It will state: PDF995 _ Ne00. The correct value will be in place of the "_". Alternatively, record a macro of printing an xls file with pdf995. Look at the macro source for the reference to PDF995 _ Ne00. Likewise, the correct value will be in place of the "_".

Associate a different Output format with each Watch folder:

If multiple Watch folders are specified, each folder can be configured to generate a different file type. In order to specify a separate file type for each Watch folder, create the text file ..\omniformat\outputformats.txt and add a the desired extension on each line separated by a carriage return line feed. The order must match that of the Watch folders. Remove the file to revert to standard behavior. If multiple users access the Watch folders or OmniFormat is run on a server, a server key should be purchased.

Single Pass:

In order to reprocess all images in a folder, run Single Pass. This is especially useful if you need to adjust image properties without converting them to a different format.

Command line mode:

OmniFormat may be invoked from the command line to convert documents. Pass the input file name. Example:

omniformat.exe c:\myfolder\myfile.tif

Alternately, pass the input file in quotes, a space and the desired output format in quotes. Example:

omniformat.exe "c:\myfolder\myfile.jpg" "TIF"

Adding Monitor at Startup=1 to the OmniFormat section of pdf995\res\pdf995.ini will cause OmniFormat to monitor the watch folders at startup.

Custom pre-processing:

OmniFormat can call custom procedures based on the file type being converted. Under the [OmniFormat] section of ..pdf995\res\pdf995.ini add an entry for the file type. The value can specify a command, batch file or executable. The term "%s" will be substituted for the input file name and path prior to execution. The term "%n" will be substituted for the input file name prior to execution. The term "%p" will be substituted for the input file less the extension prior to execution. The term "%crlf%" will be substituted for a carriage-return, line-feed prior to execution.

 Example:

[OmniFormat]

doc=copy %s c:\temp\%n

This will copy all doc files to the temp folder before processing.

The following:

tif=""c:\program files\omniformat\engine\convert.exe" "%s" "%pjpg""                                  

jpg=del %p.tif

Will convert a tif to jpg (note the extra set of parentheses for use with long path names).

Custom post-processing:

OmniFormat can call custom procedures. Under the [OmniFormat Post Process] section of ..pdf995\res\pdf995.ini add an entry for the output file type. The value can specify a command, batch file or executable. The term "%s" will be substituted for the output file name and path. The term "%n" will be substituted for the output file name prior. The term "%crlf%" will be substituted for a carriage-return, line-feed prior to execution. This does not support conversions where a single file is converted to multiple single page images. Example:

[OmniFormat Post Process]

PDF=copy %s c:\temp\%n

This will copy all PDF output files to the temp folder.

Additional ImageMagick Parameters:

In order to specify additional parameters to be passed to ImageMagick, add

Additional ImageMagick Parameters=

to the Omniformat section of pdf995\res\pdf995.ini. Example:

Additional ImageMagick Parameters=-units PixelsPerInch -density 72x72

Search the Internet for ImageMagick documentation about convert.exe for more information.

Filtering by input type:

At startup, Omniformat will check for the existence of .\omniformat\filter.txt. If the file does not exist, Omniformat will attempt to process all files placed in watch folders. Otherwise, it will compare the extension of files placed in the watch folder and only process them if the extension is listed in filter.txt. Example: If filter.txt contains "doc,xls,ppt", then Omniformat will only process files with a doc, xls or ppt extension.

adjustPdf995.exe:

Pass DMORIENT_LANDSCAPE or DMORIENT_PORTRAIT to set the default orientation for pdf995.

Pass DMCOLOR_COLOR or DMCOLOR_MONOCHROME to set the default color handling for pdf995.

Pass integer values according to papersizes.txt to set the default paper size for pdf995. For example, a value of 9 will set the printer to A4.

Pass SCALE=# (case sensitive) to adjust the scale of the printer. The value of # can vary between 1 and 100.

Optical Character Recognition:

In order to convert image formats to text the free OmniFormat Optical Character Recognition module must be downloaded from OmniFormat and installed. Office and PDF formats will be converted directly to text without use of optical character recognition. If PDF to TXT fails (in the case of a PDF generated from a scanned document, OmniFormat will use OCR). 

XML Processing:

OmniFormat may be used to dynamically convert XML data to any output format supported by OmniFormat including PDF. A Microsoft Word file is used as a template to supply layout information. OmniFormat replaces fields in the Word template's text, links and bookmarks with values specified in the XML file. Next it converts the document to the final format. 

Sample (acme.xml):

<ORDER
OutputFile="c:\invoices\acme corporation.pdf"
WordTemplate="c:\templates\invoice template.doc"
CompanyName="Acme Corporation Inc."
Address1="345 Garden Avenue" 
Address2="San Gorge, CA 94301"
Item1="Widgets"
Quantity1="2"
Price1="500"
Item2="" 
Quantity2=""
Price2=""
Total="500"
/>

OmniFormat will process acme.xml by 1. Substitution of the name-value pairs into "c:\templates\invoice template.doc" followed by 2. Conversion to c:\invoices\acme corporation.pdf. The template file is not modified by the process. "OutputFile" and "WordTemplate" are reserved names. The template file can be a URL. If Omniformat is invoked by a Service or configured to run as a service, in order to process xml files it may be necessary to add the following to the [Omniformat] section of .\pdf995\res\pdf995.ini:

Use MSXML=0

Adding "Ignore Word Links=1" to the [Parameters] section of ..pdf995\res\pdf995.ini will cause OmniFormat to ignore links and bookmarks in Word documents when creating PDFs. PDF is an intermediate format during conversion of Office documents to image formats.

Adding "Conversions Per Instance of Word=#" where # is a positive integer  to the [OmniFormat] section of ..pdf995\res\pdf995.ini will cause OmniFormat to use the same instance of Word for # conversions.  At the end of # conversions, the instance is closed and a new instance started. Increasing this value will increase conversion rates for Word documents. The default is 10. A value of 50 is reasonable.

Note: PdfEdit995 may be used to batch convert Microsoft Office documents to PDF.

Colors:

Adding "Colors=#" where # is a positive integer  to the [OmniFormat] section of ..pdf995\res\pdf995.ini will cause image format to image format conversion to adjust the number of colors in the resulting image. This will not affect conversion of PDF, Office format or html to image formats. It will affect gif to gif (done with single pass), tif to gif and other image to image conversions.

Digital Rights Management:

OmniFormat may be used to convert images and documents to rights managed PDF files. Pdf995 Standard Encryption may be downloaded free and uses 128 bit RC4 encryption to  restrict users from printing, copying text and images and modifying PDF files. It also uses 128 bit RC4 encryption to password protect PDF files. Rights management may be configured via the Options dialog of OmniFormat. In order to turn off Standard encryption, all restriction options must be unchecked and the password must be empty.

HTML2PDF995:

OmniFormat uses Word to convert from HTML and MHTML by default. HTML2PDF995 uses the Microsoft Internet Explorer control. It is faster and more accurate than Word rendering and printing of HTML and MHTML. Adding "Use HTML2PDF995=1" (Do not include the quotes) to the [OmniFormat] section of ..\pdf995\res\pdf995.ini will configure OmniFormat to use HTML2PDF995 instead. In addition, HTML2PDF995 may be called from other applications or the command line to convert HTML to PDF by passing the full path or URL of the desired file to be converted. The path or URL must be in quotes. The PDF output file may be specified as the second argument. It must also be in quotes.

Example:

"c:\omniformat\html2pdf995.exe" "www.software995.com" "c:\pdf995\output.pdf"

Header text, footer text and margins should be specified in the Internet Explorer-File-Page Setup dialog. They may alternatively be specified by adding the following entries to the [Parameters] section of pdf995.ini:

HTML Header=header text
HTML Footer=footer text
HTML Margin Bottom=#
HTML Margin Top=#
HTML Margin Left=#
HTML Margin Right=#

If blank entries are desired it may be necessary to a value of "blank" (ie. HTML Header=blank).

Printing of background colors and images may be configured in Internet Explorer,Tools, Internet Options, Advanced, Printing. Adjust the "Print backrgound colors and images" box. It may also be specified programmatically. Specify a "yes" or "no" in the [Parameters] section of pdf995.ini:

HTML PrintBackground=yes|no

Running HTML2PDF995 and OmniFormat from the command line on a Web Server (requires an OmniFormat Server key):

The following JavaScript will generate a PDF and open it in the client's browser:

<%@ LANGUAGE=JScript %>
<%
//create the pdf 
shl = Server.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
argument = "\"c:\\omniformat\\html2pdf995.exe\" "
//argument = argument + "\"c:\\pdf995\\readme.html\" "
argument = argument + "\"www.epad995.com\" "
argument = argument + "\"c:\\inetpub\\wwwroot\\out.pdf\""
//run html2pdf995 and wait for it to return
shl .Run(argument, 0 , 1 )

//display the pdf
Response.ClearContent
Response.ContentType = "application/pdf"
Response.Redirect ("http://localhost/out.pdf") 
%>

Internet Information Server information:

The IWAM account requires user rights to the PDF995 and OmniFormat folders. It may also require write permission to the Internet Explorer Temp folder and List permission on the containing folder (in the case of the default installation, that would mean that the IWAM  account requires List permission on the C:\ folder (it does not need to propagate - it's just required so that when the security request for the permissions list on the folders is made, the system is allowed to view the permissions for the folders; remember that the folders in question are all merely objects in the C:\ folder).

The default IWAM setting - membership of the Guests and Web Applications groups is sufficient.  However, you will need to add the PDF995 printer to that user's context. This may be accomplished by using "runas" with Internet Explorer, and specifying PDF995 as the default printer, which will effectively set up all of the registry entries for that user. Alternatively, you can add printers by referring to Microsoft Knowledge base article Q184291. This article additionally gives details of how to configure the LocalSystem account for printing.  That will only be required if you are running your web application in the "Low" context (ie, in the same process as IIS).  Applications are configured by default to run in the "Medium" context (Out of process, but pooled) context, which runs under the IWAM account.

The following will also enable printing from IIS via the IWAM account: Log into the IWAM account (do not use Run As) )and print to pdf995 manually or html2pdf995 before invoking it in IIS. This will load the user profile. This may be achieved programmatically. See Microsoft's article: How To Programmatically Cause the Creation of a User's Profile. The password to the IWAM account can be accessed by following this Microsoft Article: PRB: Configured Identity Is Incorrect for IWAM Account. This will allow html2pdf995 to temporarily set a default printer.

If you cannot log on to the IWAM account using Control-Alt-Delete or do not wish to change the password for the IWAM account, html2pdf995 will attempt to use PDF995 as the default printer. You can adjust the printer used by default by adding a "Default Printer" entry to the [HTML2PDF995] section of pdf995\res\pdf995.ini. The default value is

Default Printer=PDF995,winspool,Ne00:

If you log in as the administrator, you can determine how the above setting should appear by setting PDF995 as the default printer and then looking at the Device setting in HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Windows or HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows.

It may be necessary to adjust the web.config file so that "identity impersonate" is set to false if using ASP.NET. This may be done either in the global web.config file or in a web.config file in the directory containing the asp or aspx file which calls html2pdf995.exe. If using ASP, you can disable identity impersonate via IIS.

Autolaunch should be turned off using PdfEdit995 when running html2pdf995.exe on IIS.

When using Omniformat or html2pdf995 from IIS on Server 2003 or later, you may need to give 
iusr_servername and/or iwam_servername full permissions to the folder having the input document.

The following may be necessary for doc to pdf conversion with IIS6:

1. Installing FrontPage extensions to IIS will create a "MSSharePointAppPool"
2. In IIS properties, the Home directory tab for the website has to be switched from DefaultAppPool to "MSSharePointAppPool"
3. The the latest service pack for Microsoft Office 2003 may fail when OmniFormat calls MSWord. Uninstall Microsoft Office 2003 from the web server in order to remove the service pack. Reinstall Microsoft Office 2003 without the service pack

Error Handling:

Omniformat monitors Office format conversions and use of html2pdf995. If the conversion time exceeds 600 seconds, Omniformat will terminate instances of the Office application or html2pdf995, launch another instance of Omniformat if Omniformat is not processing from the command line and terminate itself. The timeout value can be adjusted by adding the following to the [Omniformat] section of pdf995\res\pdf995.ini where ## is the number of seconds desired:

Progress Timeout=##

Omniformat may be configured not to restart Office applications or html2pdf995 by adding the following to the [Omniformat] section of pdf995\res\pdf995.ini:

Terminate Helper Application=0

Omniformat may be configured to restart both itself and Word after processing a specified number of files. Configure this by adding the following to the [Omniformat] section of pdf995\res\pdf995.ini where ## is the number of files that should be processed before a restart:

FilesToProcessBeforeRestarting=##

TIFF Options:

The TIFF output in OmniFormat may be configured by adjusting the output resolution in the Options dialog and adjusting the type of TIFF file created:

In the OmniFormat section of .\pdf995\res\pdf995.ini add:

PDF to TIFF=tiff24nc

The value can be set to any of the following:

Color, uncompressed output: 

tiff12nc - Produces 12-bit RGB output (4 bits per component). 
tiff24nc - Produces 24-bit RGB output (8 bits per component). 

Black-and-white output with different compression modes: 

tiffcrle - G3 fax encoding with no EOLs 
tiffg3 - G3 fax encoding with EOLs 
tiffg32d - 2-D G3 fax encoding 
tiffg4 - G4 fax encoding 
tifflzw - LZW-compatible (tag = 5) compression 
tiffpack - PackBits (tag = 32773) compression

PowerPoint Options:

The PowerPoint output format may be configured by adding the following to the Omniformat section of the pdf995\res\pdf995.ini file:

Powerpoint Outputtype=

Specify a value of between 1 and 9. Options include:

1 - slides, 2 - two slide handouts, 3 - three slide handouts, 4 - six slide handouts, 8 - four slide handouts, 9 - nine slide handouts. 

The free version of OmniFormat will display a sponsor page in your web browser each time you launch the software. If you would prefer not to see sponsor pages, you may download a license key for $9.95. 

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Table of Supported Image Formats:

Source formats accepted by Omniformat
Formats in red may be exported from Omniformat


Format

Description

Notes

Export

ANS

Text with Layout

Available if Word 2000 or later  is installed

 

ASC

Text with Layout

Available if Word 2000 or later is installed

 

AVI

Microsoft Audio/Visual Interleaved


 

AVS

AVS X image


 

BMP

Microsoft Windows bitmap


CMYK

Raw cyan, magenta, yellow, and black samples

 

CUT

DR Halo


 

DCM

Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) image

Used by the medical community for images like X-rays.

 

DCX

ZSoft IBM PC multi-page Paintbrush image


 

DIB

Microsoft Windows Device Independent Bitmap

DIB is a BMP file without the BMP header. Used to support embedded images in compound formats like WMF.

DOC

Word Document

Available if Word 2000 or later is installed

 

DPX

Digital Moving Picture Exchange


 

EMF

Microsoft Enhanced Metafile (32-bit)

 

 

EPDF

Encapsulated Portable Document Format


EPI

Adobe Encapsulated PostScript Interchange format

 

EPS

Adobe Encapsulated PostScript

 

EPSF

Adobe Encapsulated PostScript

 

EPSI

Adobe Encapsulated PostScript Interchange format

 

 

EPT

Adobe Encapsulated PostScript Interchange format with TIFF preview

 

FAX

Group 3 TIFF

See TIFF format. Note that FAX machines use non-square pixels which are 1.5 times wider than they are tall but computer displays use square pixels so FAX images may appear to be narrow unless they are explicitly resized using a resize specification of "150x100%".

FITS

Flexible Image Transport System


 

FPX

FlashPix Format

 

G3

Group 3 FAX

 

GIF

CompuServe Graphics Interchange Format

8-bit RGB PseudoColor with up to 256 palette entires. 

GRAY

Raw gray samples

 

 

HPGL

HP-GL plotter language

 

 

HTML

Hyper-Text Markup Language

Available if Word 2000 or later is installed or if HTML2PDF995 is used

 

ICO

Microsoft icon

Also known as "ICON".

 

JBIG

Joint Bi-level Image experts Group file interchange format

 

JNG

Multiple-image Network Graphics

JPEG in a PNG-style wrapper with transparency. 

 

JP2

JPEG-2000 JP2 File Format Syntax

 

JPC

JPEG-2000 Code Stream Syntax

 

JPEG/JPG

Joint Photographic Experts Group JFIF format

 

MAT

MATLAB image format


 

MHTML

Web Archive

Available if Word 2000 or later is installed or if HTML2PDF995 is used

 

MONO

Bi-level bitmap in least-significant-byte first order


 

MNG

JPEG Network Graphics

 

 

MPEG/MPG

Motion Picture Experts Group file interchange format (version 1)

 

M2V

Motion Picture Experts Group file interchange format (version 2)

 

MTV

MTV Raytracing image format


 

OTB

On-the-air Bitmap


 

P7

Xv's Visual Schnauzer thumbnail format


 

PAL

16bit/pixel interleaved YUV

 

PALM

Palm pixmap


PBM

Portable bitmap format (black and white)


PCD

Photo CD

The maximum resolution written is 768x512 pixels since larger images require huffman compression (which is not supported).

PCDS

Photo CD

Decode with the sRGB color tables.

 

PCL

HP Page Control Language

For output to HP laser printers. Write only.

PCT

Apple Macintosh QuickDraw/PICT

 

PCX

ZSoft IBM PC Paintbrush file


 

PDB

Palm Database ImageViewer Format


 

PDF

Portable Document Format

 

PFA

Postscript Type 1 font (ASCII)

Opening as file returns a preview image.

 

PFB

Postscript Type 1 font (binary)

Opening as file returns a preview image.

 

PGM

Portable graymap format (gray scale)


 

PICON

Personal Icon


 

PICT

Apple Macintosh QuickDraw/PICT file


 

PIX

Alias/Wavefront RLE image format


 

PNG

Portable Network Graphics

 

PPM

Portable pixmap format (color)


 
PPT PowerPoint Presentation Available if PowerPoint 2000 or later is installed.

PS

Adobe PostScript file

 

PS2

Adobe Level II PostScript file

 

PS3

Adobe Level III PostScript file

 

PSD

Adobe Photoshop bitmap file

PTIF

Pyramid encoded TIFF

Multi-resolution TIFF containing successively smaller versions of the image down to the size of an icon. The desired sub-image size may be specified when reading via the -size option.

 

PWP

Seattle File Works multi-image file


 

RGB

Raw red, green, and blue samples (8 or 16 bits, depending on the image depth)

 

RLA

Alias/Wavefront image file


 

RLE

Utah Run length encoded image file


 

RTF

Rich Text Format

Available if Word 2000 or later is installed

 

SCT

Scitex Continuous Tone Picture


 

SFW

Seattle File Works image


 

SGI

Irix RGB image


 

SUN

SUN Rasterfile


 
SVG Scalable Vector Graphics  

TGA

Truevision Targa image

Also known as formats "ICB", "VDA", and "VST".

 

TIFF

Tagged Image File Format

Also known as "TIF".

TIM

PSX TIM file


 

TXT

Raw text file

May use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) when selected as an export format (see OCR section above)

 

VICAR

VICAR rasterfile format


 

VIFF

Khoros Visualization Image File Format


 

WBMP

Wireless bitmap

Support for uncompressed monochrome only.

WK4

Lotus 1-2-3

Available if Word 2000 or later is installed. Requires  Import Converter

 

WPD

Word Perfect

Available if Word 2000 or later is installed. Requires Word Import Converter

 

WPG

Word Perfect Graphics File


 

WPS

Microsoft Works

Available if Word 2000 or later is installed

 

WRI

Microsoft Write

Available if Word 2000 or later is installed

 

XBM

X Windows system bitmap, black and white only

Used by the X Windows System to store monochrome icons.

 

XCF

GIMP image


 

XLS

Excel

Available if Excel 2000 or later is installed.

 

XML

Extensible Markup Language

See below.

 

XPM

X Windows system pixmap

Also known as "PM". Used by the X Windows System to store color icons.

 

XWD

X Windows system window dump

Used by the X Windows System to save/display screen dumps.

 

 

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PhotoEdit995 allows you to create or edit graphic images, retouch photographs, and perform other alterations on image files including jpeg, gif, tiff, and Photoshop psd. When used with the free Photo Edit graphics module, it is a professional image editing solution whose capabilities rival those of similar programs. It offers you access to an assortment of painting tools; layers and channels, with support for transparency; gradients and blends; transformations such as rotation and scaling; masking; a variety of selection tools; and more. It works with multiple file formats and is Photoshop compatible.

To create a Photo Album or UltraPdf document:

UltraPdf is an exciting, new way to publish and share digital photographs, PDF, HTML and Microsoft Office documents. UltraPdf binds multiple photos and documents into a single, indexed UPDF file making it easy to organize and distribute digital photo albums, project documents and presentations. UltraPdf is available free at www.ultrapdf.com.

To backup your data:

Backup995 is a utility that protects against data loss from computer hardware failures and damage from malicious internet viruses. The importance of creating backups is universally recognized, but for most people the effort involved is so tedious and time-consuming that backing up is frequently neglected. Backup995 is the quick and easy way to safeguard against loss of valuable files. Backup995's Incremental Backup Technology, its Backup Scheduler and its Data Archiving features mean that from now on backups can be done automatically, quickly and on a regular basis.

To open and create ZIP files:

Zip995 is the fast, free way to open and create popular Zip Archive format files. It is fully compatible with other Zip Archive utilities. It includes advanced archiving features such as encryption, variable compression levels, file updating and the ability to create self-extracting zip files.

ePad995 Paperless Notes:
www.epad995.com
ePad995 allows you to create virtual sticky notes and reminders directly on your Windows desktop. ePad notes are just like post-it notes for your computer. Jot down tasks, messages, ideas, appointments, phone numbers, birthdays, or just place a memorable quote in a note and stick it on the desktop. ePad notes can be positioned anywhere you wish, or hidden in your task bar. Accessing them is simple, and the notes are even resizable. ePad note contents can be formatted to include fonts, colors, transparency, display mode, effects, hyperlinks, bullets and numbering. You can paste a website URL or email address in an ePad note and have it right on your desktop. The Find feature allows you to quickly locate a note by content or title.

WordBrowser995 Desktop Dictionary:
www.wordbrowser995.com
WordBrowser995 is an English language dictionary and thesaurus for your PC desktop. It offers easy access to definitions, synonyms, antonyms, and compound phrases. WordBrowser995 quickly looks up text typed into the Word box in real time. It also looks up selected text in Internet Explorer or the Windows clipboard. It draws from a comprehensive collection of over 150,000 words and phrases to provide the most relevant results.

OmniFormat comes with absolutely no warranty. This software contains a partial version of ImageMagick installed in c:\omniformat\engine. ImageMagick  comes with absolutely no warranty. ImageMagick is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. For more details ImageMagick

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