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Extensis Portfolio has long been a good way for graphics pros to organize images and other media so they can more easily manage those files for presentations or design comps on CD, DVD, via the Web, or from their own hard drive. With version 8, Extensis has enhanced and fine-tuned Portfolio by streamlining its interface and deepening its functionality so that you can work on images more quickly. Some of the new features in Porfolio 8:
Fast Cataloging: Fast cataloging quickly adds files to your Portfolio catalog in the background, allowing you to start working with them instantly.
Improved File Format Support for MS Office (coming soon), DNG, RAW, Quark,
Pro Video: Preview, index text and read metadata from the formats you use most, including: Microsoft Word and Excel files in Windows, full-screen previews from Adobe DNG RAW files, added support for current RAW files, and thumbnails and full-screen previews of Quark XPress documents (Mac).
Full Custom Sort: Drag and drop, reorder or sort items in galleries, SmartGalleries and disk folders. This information is retained separately for each user in a workgroup environment.
Scratchpad Galleries: Scratchpad galleries are temporary baskets used for sorting, editing and merging files from multiple galleries or searches into a single gallery. These can be used for printing, collecting or publishing.
Digital Camera Auto-Rotation: Portfolio now automatically rotates thumbnails and previews from digital cameras that record the camera’s orientation, streamlining photographers’ post-shoot workflow.
HTML Help, Video Tutorials, Sample Catalogs: The answers are at your fingertips with Portfolio’s new searchable HTML-based help system. We even include new sample catalogs with pre-mapped custom fields and SmartGalleries for specific workflows — making it easier to customize Portfolio to your needs.
Enhanced Item Properties: The properties dialog is now the one-stop location to find and edit any metadata. The most common information needed (such as file type, resolution and file size) has been consolidated to the first tab for faster viewing.
Leverage Previews: Portfolio’s ability to use Screen Previews rather than the original files makes the process of finding and sharing your files — even those that are offline — much faster.
Movie Metadata: Portfolio can now read common metadata such as frame rate, duration and audio tracks from video files.
Custom XMP Read and CS File-Info Panels: Take advantage of the IPTC4XMP standard known as IPTC Core, used by Adobe Creative Suite 2 applications. This effectively extends Portfolio’s custom fields into the most popular creative applications, allowing a two-way exchange of information.
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February 18th, 2006 at 7:52 am
[…] Extensis Portfolio 8 was announced in October 2005. Extensis Portfolio has long been a good way for graphics pros to organize images and other media so they can more easily manage those files for presentations or design comps on CD, DVD, via the Web, or from their own hard drive. With version 8, Extensis has enhanced and fine-tuned Portfolio by streamlining its interface and deepening its functionality so that you can work on images more quickly. Here’re some of the features enhancements in Portfolio 8 reviewed by Macworld: “Improved interface and operation One criticism I had of version 7.0 (4 mice; October 2004) was that several critical tasks involved too many arcane steps. Extensis designers have addressed those issues and have streamlined additional functions. […]