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Open Text Corporation (Ontario, Canada) released Open Text Desktop Viewer v8.3 (formerly Imagenation from Spicer Corporation) and Open Text Content Viewer Toolkit v8.3 (formerly Image a•X).
Open Text Desktop Viewer is for accessing, sharing, and distributing your company’s information. It can handle document viewing requirements — from native file viewing and 3D CAD model viewing, to direct scanning and cleanup of paper documents, to document markup and revision — for hundreds of industry-standard formats.
With Open Text Desktop Viewer v8.3, organizations dependent on document distribution and output will benefit from faster and more efficient desktop interactivity between documents, scanners, and browsers. New file-format support in this version includes Autodesk AutoCAD 2009, Autodesk Inventor 2008 2D & 3D, SolidWorks 2009 2D & 3D, Excel 2007, and DWF 7.3.
The release of Open Text Desktop Viewer v8.3 and the accompanying release of Open Text Content Viewer Toolkit v8.3 (formerly Image a•X) demonstrates Open Text’s commitment to our customers and partners to continuously improve and provide innovative solutions to our market. These newly released versions include a number of important enhancements such as Unicode API support in the Content Viewer Toolkit and SMF 4.0. Systems affected include Open Text Desktop Viewer v8.3 and Open Text Content Viewer Toolkit v8.3.
For more information, contact Open Text.
Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.
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