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CONVERT SCANNED PAPER DRAWING INTO YOUR CAD-PROGRAM
WITH RASTERVECT

RasterVect is a useful program for those who work with scanned drawings. With this program you can transform raster drawings into vector format. Raster drawing can be imported by scanning original paper drawings. The target vector formats (DXF, WMF, EMF, EPS and AI) are supported by most CAD applications that use vector graphics, such as AutoCAD, Corel Draw and many others.

There are viewing tools like zooming, scrolling and color selection. RasterVect has: TWAIN support for importing from any scanners; the ability to automatically recognize orthogonal and inclined lines, as well as arcs and circles; the ability to maintain the scale of the initial paper drawing. RasterVect can transform a grey and colored images in black-and-white for subsequent recognition; can change a turn of the raster image; can correct union points of lines, arcs and circles. There is also support for lines, arcs and circles alignment.

The list below summarizes the process of transformation of a paper drawing to a CAD drawing using the RasterVect:
- Create a raster file by scanning the paper drawing into RasterVect using a scanner.
- Use RasterVect to convert the raster file into a vector DXF file.
- Import the DXF file into your CAD program and edit the drawing.

Designed to work on all Windows platforms, vectorizer RasterVect saves a lot of time. It's a replacement for traditional tracing and digitizing. It does provide a way to getting a paper drawings into your CAD program for quick and easy editing.

RasterVect : Video tutorial

Tutorial has 8 videoclips in swf (Macromedia Flash) format. Each clip has 1-1.5 MB size.

RasterVect : Step by step

RasterVect : Features

Recognition:

- Four various conversion methods (outline, centerline etc).
- Color and black-and-white images vectorization.
- Orthogonal lines, inclined lines, polygons, arcs and circles recognition .
- ORTHO and SNAP modes.
- Keeping of the initial drawing scale (in english or metric measurement units).
- Batch Mode.
- Recognition Wizard.
- Windows interface and command line interface.

Input/output:

- JPEG (RGB, GrayScale, YCbCr, CMYK, YCbCrK) loading and saving.
- JPEG2000: JP2, J2K and JPC code stream formats (JPEG-2000 Part-1 standard, ISO/IEC 15444-1) loading and saving.
- TIFF (rev.6.0, Packbits, CCITT G.3 and G.4) with RGB, CMYK, B/W, CIELab color spaces loading and saving. Also FAX (CCITT3) format supported for loading.
- PNG with various compression levels loading and saving.
- Compressed and uncompressed BMP in 2,16,256 or 16M colors loading and saving.
- Compressed and uncompressed PCX in 2,16,256 or 16M colors loading and saving.
- DIB, RLE, TGA (TARGA, VDA, ICB, VST, PIX) loading and saving.
- Portable Bitmap PBM, PGM and PPM loading and saving.
- WBMP (Wireless Bitmap) uncompressed and black/white loading and saving.
- GIF in 2,4,8,16,32,64,128 or 256 colors loading and saving.
- EPS, WMF, EMF (input as raster).
- ICO and CUR loading.
- PDF, PS (saving only).
- RAW Camera formats (CRW, CR2, NEF, RAW, PEF, RAF, X3F, BAY, ORF, SRF, MRW, DCR) loading.
- DCX (multipage PCX), multipage TIF, animated GIF and AVI loading and saving.
- Own combined (raster+vector) file format RVS loading and saving.
- Saving/loading of specific file format parameters and saving/loading of preview dialogs (e.g. you can set quality of a Jpeg and view immediately the quality loss).
- Progress monitoring with saving and loading.

Input (extra):

- Image properties getting without loading it.
- Image acquisition from TWAIN scanners with full control of the scanner capabilities.
- Image acquisition from WIA scanners and cameras with full control of the scanner (or camera) capabilities.
- Screen capture by various methods (all desktop, rectangle selection, object and active window).
- Video capture from various video sources.

Vector Output:

- DXF (AutoCAD Drawing Interchange Format - various versions).
- EPS (Encapsulated PostScript).
- AI (Adobe Illustrator format).
- WMF (Windows Metafile).
- EMF (Enhanced Metafile).

Image processing and analysis:

- Decreasing and increasing of raster lines thickness.
- Image and paper resizing.
- Image rotation any angle by various methods.
- Image deskew by various methods.
- Horizontal and vertical flip.
- Image invert conversion.
- Selected region cropping.
- Conversion to gray scale and negative.
- Conversions of true color to black/white images with ordered or threshold dithering and with Floyd-Steinberg algorithm.
- Color to other color replacing .
- Median cut and Neural network color quantizers, for fast and accurate color reduction.
- Reduction to any number of colors (with colormap output).
- HSV and RGB channels separations.
- Color equalization.
- Regulation of contrast, HSL, HSV/ HSB and RGB components.
- Copying, cut and paste into a new or existing window of all or part of the image.
- Application effects to the selected zones (also irregular).
- Raster filters: median, smoothing, average, despeckle and so on.
- Holes removing.
- Application of 3x3 filters.
- Fast Fourier Transformation (FFT) with preview.
- Maximum (dilation), Minimum (erosion), Opening and Closing filters with preview.
- Picture filters (wallis, soften, sharpen, color emboss, gaussian blur, morph, antialias, remove red eyes, auto equalize and user filters).
- Contour filters (edge detect, find edges and trace).
- Various art, distortion and noise raster effects.
- Preview of all the effects in a single dialog, with 8 preset filters and save/load filters from file.
- Progress monitoring for image processing tasks.
- Multilevel Undo/Redo for raster editing.
- Macro commands (in batch process also).

Mask operations:

- Color contour of a selected region (polygonal, irregular, circular and rectangular).
- Magic wand selection (inclusive, exclusive and global).
- Multiple selections (normal, additive and subtractive modes).
- Invert conversion and expansion selected region.
- Multi polygonal regions.

Raster paint operations:

- Various paint tools (sketch, line, ellipse, curve, rectangle, round rectangle, flood fill, spray, eraser and eyedropper).
- Various pen styles (solid, clear, dash, dot, dashdot and dashdotdot).
- Various brush styles (solid, clear, cross, diagonal cross, b-diagonal, f-diagonal, vertical and horizontal).
- Choice of pen and brush colors.

Raster objects operations:

- Create object from mask selection.
- Operation with Clipboard (cut, copy and paste objects).
- Combination objects with background.
- Deselection and deleting of objects.
- Horizontal and vertical flip.
- Objects rotation any angle.
- Objects move and copying.
- Undo for objects editing.

Vectorial objects handling:

- Move, copying (including array), turning, mirroring, erasing and scaling of single or multiple vectorial objects.
- Creation and editing of lines, rectangles, circles, arcs, polylines, polygons and text.
- Polylines exploding.
- AutoCAD style grips for quick and easy vectors editing.
- Ortho, Snap and Object Snap modes.
- Automatic Object Snap and Bring to Snap possibilities.
- Measuring vector tools (distance, list).
- Multiple undo and redo for vector editing.

Layers operations:

- Support for multiple layers with separated transparency.
- Select from 37 layer operations (blend modes).
- Moveable and resizeable layers.
- Magnify layers (rectangle or like a lens/glass).

Image rendering:

- Three mode of rendering: Raster, Vector and combined (Vector above Raster).
- Real time Zoom-in and Zoom-out (by percentage, zoom in rectangular area or by one mouse click). Zoom-previous is also available.
- Real time Pan (click and drag the image with mouse).
- Scrollbar in two dimensions for the fast exploration of the image.

Printing:

- Printing (and print preview) functions to print single images specifing page alignment or absolute position.

RasterVect : Supported Platforms
Windows 95 / 98 / NT4 / 2000 / ME / XP

RasterVect : Minimum Hardware Requirements
Pentium-100. 32 MB RAM

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Able Launch Bar : Purpose
Tired for dozen of icons on your desktop or Start menu? Try this simple but powerful Launch Bar to organize your shortcuts (applications, documents, links, folders path and more..). Folders categories organization, shortcuts Drag & Drop support, auto-hide function...
Able Launch Bar is a toolbar similar to the Quick Launch bar. This is Application Desktop Toolbar with built-in Windows Explorer. Able Launch Bar offers a system of shortcuts far more superior than Quick Launch. Arranged into folders, they are just the same as folders in the Explorer window. Able Launch Bar support for Drag & Drop helps quickly fill the folders with shortcuts from your desktop or start menu.

Program features:

Able Launch Bar : In the news
Version 3.5 of Able Launch Bar has been released! This is an indispensable tool for all Windows users. Designed to work on modern Windows platforms, Able Launch Bar saves a lot of time. It does provide a way to fast application launch.
In the last version:
- Drag&Drop features have been extended.
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Animated Captures Maker : Purpose
Animated Captures Maker is a software tool to make presentations and tutorials about using software programs. It is a simple but powerful screen-recording software that allows you to capture cursor movements, menu selections, pop-up windows, layered windows, typing, and anything else you see on your screen. You can capture screen in many ways, including full screen capture, region capture, active window capture, object capture. The program has an easy-to-use and intuitive interface. Whatever you can see on your screen, Animated Captures Maker will record easily and fastest in animated GIF format. It will especially suit making demos, tutorials, and training animations. With created tutorials and presentations you can advertise your software or answer questions about the use your programs visually for supporting your customers. Animated GIF format is the most browser-friendly and compatible graphics format that can be used for Web animations. GIF format can store its own selective palette information within its binary data, and can produce good-quality results by using a Lossless type of compression that can reduce file size, while maintaining image integrity. Animated GIF's are supported by most browsers either directly or by plugins. You also can view Animated GIF in the most common Windows help format (*.CHM, also known as "compiled HTML").

Animated Captures Maker : In the news
Version 2.1 of Animated Captures Maker has been released! This is an indispensable tool for those who makes presentations and tutorials. Designed to work on all Windows platforms, Animated Captures Maker saves a lot of time. It does provide a way to fast screen record and compact animation creation.
In the last version:
- Active window capture has been added.
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Able MPEG2 Editor : Purpose
Able MPEG2 Editor lets you remove any parts from MPEG2 (DVD) files without decoding. Using the included video player, you can easily remove any unwanted parts (TV Ads and so on) from MPEG2 (DVD) video files in minutes. You can preview the MPEG2 file, set ranges (start and end points) and cut to the good parts.

Some features: 
- Supports large video file, even large then 4GB.
- Fast cutting without decoding of MPEG2.
- Supports Drag-and-drop files.
- Very user-friendly interface.
- Supports Audio.
- Works without any quality loss.

Able MPEG2 Editor : In the news
Version 2.7 of Able MPEG2 Editor has been released! This is an indispensable tool for those who works with MPEG2 video. Designed to work on all Windows platforms, Able MPEG2 Editor saves a lot of time. It's a replacement for traditional decoding, cutting and encoding. It does provide a way to fast cutting without any quality loss.

Registered users receive new versions free-of-charge.
In the last version:
- Now output file has correct GOP-structure. More...

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Able Graphic Manager (formerly Able DXF manager)

• archiving
• electronic document transmission
• eliminating scans
• protecting intellectual property
• creating thumbnail images
• web publishing
• inserting in different documents (Word, Excel etc)
• forwarding of simple drawings
• presentations
• printing.

Programs features:

Programs features
Drag and Drop is supported
Batch Process mode (convert and print)
Command Line mode (view, convert and print).
There is an opportunity to select files using mask (*.*)

Displayed entities (DXF-files)

• Arc
• Attrib
• Blocks (including multiple inserted, scaled and mirrored)
• Circle
• Dimension
• Ellipse
• Elliptic arc
• Hatch (including solid)
• Leader
• Line
• LwPolyline
• Multi-line text
• Point
• Polyline
• Solid
• Spline
• Text (including fit-justified)
• Unicode Text (multilingual)
• Trace
• 3DFace

Displayed properties of entities (DXF-files)

• Color (including Bylayer and Byblock)
• Linetype (Solid, Dashed, Dot, Dashdot, Divide, Bylayer, Byblock)
• Width (for polyline and lwpolyline)
• Text rotation (any angle)
• Text justification (left, right, center, middle, top, bottom)

 Viewing

• Two color mode (color and monochrome)
• Any size (5 modes of a sizes setting)
• Extents selection (4 items)
• Any aspect ratio
• Any image resolution at saving to file
• Zoom (in, out, fit, window)
• Zoom filter (7 items)
• Scroll
• Entities Manager - display management of entities.

Converting (saving) to

• JPEG Bitmap (JPG)
• TIFF Bitmap (TIF)
• PaintBrush (PCX)
• Portable Network Graphics (PNG)
• Windows Bitmap (BMP)
• OS/2 Bitmap (BMP)
• Targa Bitmap (TGA)
• Windows Metafile (WMF)
• Enhanced Windows Metafile (EMF)
• Portable PixMap (PXM)
• Portable PixMap (PPM)
• Portable GreyMap (PGM)
• Portable Bitmap (PBM)

Status information (size, zoom, position, progress bar of file opening)

Image processing (Equalize, Contrast, RGB, HSV, HSL, FFT, convert to 24 bit, gray and B&W)

Effects (Negative, bump map, lens, wave, morph, user filters)

Copy to clipboard and Crop functions

 Printing

• Any system printer (from dialog window)
• Color or monochrome printing.
• Advanced print control (many options)
• Batch printing.
• Printing via command line.
• Multipage documents are supported.

All program settings are kept.

Supports localization tools for different languages

Screenshots

Able Graphic Manager : Supported Platforms
Windows 95 / 98 / NT4 / 2000 / ME

Able Graphic Manager: Minimum Hardware Requirements
Pentium-100
32 MB RAM

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Able Photo Slide Show is a program designed to display all digital photos and graphic files as a slide show using many transition effects, each image being shown for some predetermined time before going on to the next. Help File (in CHM format)

Have you ever wanted to see all the digital photos and other graphic files without opening each up individually (one after another)? 

Well, Able Photo Slide Show displays your graphic files continuously without you doing anything. You just point it to a file in folder, say how long to display each picture, select transition effects and then sit back and watch. If a picture is too large or less for your screen, it is resized to fit keeping the aspect ratio. 

1. Main Window	2. Project Manager.	3. Description Manager.
4. Options 1.	5. Options 2.	6. Options 3.
7. Sounds.

Windows 95 / 98 / NT4 / 2000 / ME

Pentium-100
32 MB RAM

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