Cumulus 7.5 New Features and Enhancements Feature additions and improvements enhance workflow, security and reliability across the entire Cumulus product line.

Cumulus 7.5 is a significant update to the Cumulus product line that addresses many user requests and also Software versions covered: includes Cumulus Core technology enhancements that improve performance and reliability. Indicates features new to Cumulus 7.5. Cumulus Workgroup 7.5 Indicates features improved for Cumulus 7.5. Cumulus Enterprise 7.5 BrandAssistant on Cumulus 7.5

Compatibility Enhancements Features Benefits Comments Servers and clients do not need to be upgraded to Vista simultaneously, Vista Cumulus 7.5 Clients and Servers are now compatible with Windows Vista. making the migration easier—either can be upgraded first.

Enhanced support for older Office formats remains as is. Additional Cumulus 7.5 offers enhanced metadata support for the new Microsoft Office 2007 functionality for PowerPoint has also been added. (See “Enhanced Pow- 2007 file formats. erPoint Handling” on page 3.)

Support for other Adobe CS3 application file formats will be made avail- Adobe InDesign CS3 Adobe’s InDesign 3 is supported in Cumulus 7.5. able in subsequent product updates.

Over 40 filters for enhanced metadata support have been added or improved for See the complete list online: New and Improved Filters Cumulus 7.5, including support for Apple’s iWorks applications Pages and Key- a http://canto.com/filters note.

Cumulus 7.5 has been successfully tested with a full 50 new digital camera RAW See the complete list online: New RAW Format Support formats. a http://canto.com/raw

User Interface Improvements Features Benefits Screenshots

Drag & drop asset records into the Collection Basket for easy organization, one- click access and optional processing through any of the available asset actions. A user’s saved Collection Basket contents are also available when that user is Collection Basket logged in via a Web Client. This image shows how asset records are dragged into the Collection Basket (right) and how icons along the top of the Basket enable to the user to apply asset actions and other Cumulus 7.5 functions to the Basket’s contents.

Another new property of category view sets is the option to display the number of asset records assigned to each category right next to the category name. This Categories: Display Assigned Asset Records Count makes it easy for users to see at a glance how many (if any) asset records have been assigned to a category.

Cumulus 7.5 catalog administrators can now choose specific master categories (tabs) to be shown with each category view set. This makes it possible to hide Categories: Hiding Master Category Tabs certain tabs from certain users or groups. Example: If you want to hide your Sources master category tab from customers, you’d deselect that master category in the category view set(s) you make available to your customers.

Category view sets can now be configured to auto-switch to a specific master cat- Categories: Autoswitch to Master Category Tab egory tab when the view set is selected.

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Features Benefits Screenshots The panes previously available beneath the category pane (information, calen- dar, preview, etc.) can now be displayed even when the category pane itself is Categories: Hiding the Category Pane hidden. A new menu option under the View menu is used to show and hide the category pane. What was previously called “Collection Window Layout” is now referred to as “Workspace.”

Targa (.tga), Photoshop (.psd, .psb), GIF (.gif) and PNG (.png) files saved with “transparency” enabled are now rendered as thumbnails Transparency support for Previews and Thumbnails and previews with the file’s transparency intact. Trans- parent areas appear as checkerboard patterns. The appearance of the checkerboard pattern is configured in each user’s preferences.

The user interface for creating asset actions has been improved to permit multi- ple asset processors for output. Now you can, for example, convert a selection of Actions Configuration images into PowerPoint slides and have Cumulus 7.5 save the resulting file as a Zip archive.

Users can now “drag” around the preview of a large image, making it easy to see Preview Viewing everything.

The contents of a subpane can be “force refreshed” to compensate for manual Refresh Record Pane Button changes made to the selection in the pane above.

If an asset is not available for preview, the cataloged thumbnail will be shown. If an image thumbnail is not available—audio files, etc.—the icon used by the Preview Updates cataloging operating system is used. (The same functionality is also now in the Web Clients.)

A new toolbar button activates the Cumulus 7.5 slide show viewing feature in full-screen mode to present the selection of asset records. The mouse scroll wheel Slideshow Icon can be used to navigate through the selection, turning Cumulus 7.5 into a univer- sal file-format presentation application.

Productivity Improvements Features Benefits Screenshots

Using the context menus available in Windows Explorer and the Mac OS X Find- er, users can conveniently catalog assets or entire folders without having to first Catalog directly from the Explorer/Finder launch Cumulus 7.5. Standard login options are provided, enabling users to also choose the target catalog.

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Features Benefits Screenshots Fields can now use formulas to calculate and fill the field’s value. Usage examples include auto- matically determining an image’s orientation (portrait or land- scape), creating space-efficient output displays for views and Metadata Field Formulas reports, performing numeric cal- culations and if-then decisions, and much more. Here, the text “Length: 26 seconds” is filled by a formula that takes the Duration field, rounds the value and surrounds the result with “Length:” and “seconds.” Notice that field labels are not used in this record view set, which saves space.

The individual pages of different PDF files cataloged using the PDF AssetStore PDF Page Merging can be packed into a single PDF—even over the Web using one of the Canto Web Clients.

PowerPoint files can now be handled directly by PowerPoint for previews and thumbnail creation, yielding the highest quality results. In addition, images embedded in PowerPoint files can now be cataloged as separate assets that are Enhanced PowerPoint Handling automatically linked to their “container” PowerPoint files. This image shows new configuration options that direct Cumulus 7.5 to place images used in PowerPoint slides and presentations in separate folders accessi- ble to PowerPoint.

Cumulus 7.5 can extract and catalog individual slides from Keynote presenta- tions, and individual images from Pages and Keynote files. Combined, these Apple iWorks Support features bring functionality to iWorks fans previously available only to users of MS Office.

The $Today and $Now variables are now available from a drop-down menu under the Advanced view of the Find Tool, making it easy to create saved que- ries that use time references such as one hour ago, yesterday, last week and Time Reference Query Variable Access more. This image shows a query that finds all asset records created “yesterday” ($today - 1d).

Cumulus Core Technology Enhancements Features Benefits Screenshots Catalog journaling virtually ensures that no damage comes to catalogs from power outages or other system failures. Journaling is a standard feature on all Catalog Journaling Cumulus 7.5 Servers, regardless of platform, and can be enabled (even on pre- 7.5 catalogs) using a single check box.

Catalog administrators can now add the read-only fields, CatalogName, Record Hidden Fields Now Visible ID and Category ID to record view sets for viewing and searching.

Cumulus 7.5 can now be activated by OLE, making it possible to use Visual Basic Visual Basic Support Enhancement to bring the application to the foreground.

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Automation Improvements Features Benefits Screenshots

Triggers can now be generated based on specific field values. For example, Cumulus 7.5 can now automatically email a manager when a workflow status field is set to “Delayed.” Triggers based on field values In this image, a catalog trigger is added that will react the Status field of any asset record in the catalog is changed to “Delayed.” The next step in the config- uration would be to select a manger who would then be notified via email of the delay.

Metadata stored in external files can now be imported automatically by the Cumulus 7.5 Scheduler. Configuration options enable you to choose the import file and import set, and even optionally delete the import file after the process Scheduler: Metadata Importing and Updating completes. Now it’s easy to automatically refresh product prices, sizes, colors or any other Cumulus 7.5 metadata fields whose values come from external data- base or accounting systems.

This action runs a query and searches the results for asset records whose assets cannot be found. A chosen metadata template to the records whose assets can- Scheduler: Find Missing Assets not be found. Use this feature, for example, to notify managers of missing assets.

This new Scheduler action makes it possible to run a query and force update the records found, using a chosen asset handling set. This provides a great way to off-load time-consuming tasks, such as building high-resolution thumbnails, to Scheduler: Search & Update Record time periods of reduced system load. Or, search for records whose status fields are set to “Archive” and update the records through an asset handling set that copies the assets to central storage used for archiving.

A new menu option inverts the current collection, meaning that the current col- lection is replaced by all asset records not in the current collection. This offers a Collection Inverting great way of finding what you need when it’s easier to search for what you don’t need.

Cumulus 7.5 print templates can now be configured to create printed thumb- nails from your image assets, at resolutions you define. This means the thumb- nails in your printed documents can be output at high resolution print-ready High Resolution Thumbnail Printing resolutions, even when the thumbnails stored in your catalogs are smaller. The image here shows a configuration that will generate 300 DPI images for each of the image asset thumbnails printed. If the assets aren’t available at the time of printing, the existing catalog thumbnails are used.

Text fields included in your print templates can now be configured for multi-line Multi-line Field Printing output, making it possible to see more than a single line’s worth of information.

Canto Web Client Improvements Features Benefits Screenshots

The additional panels previously available only in the Native Clients—calendar, asset info, preview, thumbnail, etc.—are now available in the Web Clients. Category Pane Panels The image here shows Information and Calendar views in addition to the Cate- gories panel itself. A preview of the selected asset is shown in the bottom, right pane and the dark blue highlight indicates which pane is active.

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Features Benefits Screenshots

Category assignments can now be made via drag & drop. Asset records can be Drag & Drop Support added to the Collection Basket by dragging their thumbnails onto the Collection Basket icon. And asset records can be reordered via drag & drop too.

The contents of the Collection Basket can be saved and shared as a new collec- Collection Basket Updates tion, and the contents of the Collection Basket can be copied back as the main collection.

The asset record context menu now includes an option to immediately down- Direct Downloads load an asset, bypassing the Collection Basket entirely.

The asset references of assets cataloged via the URL AssetStore are displayed as Hyperlinks to Web-based Assets hyperlinks to the original asset.

The metadata of more than one asset record can be edited at a time using the new “Bulk Edit” feature. Options for updating text fields include replacing cur- Multi-record Metadata Edits rent field values and inserting new values before or after current values. This image shows new values being added for the “Workflow Status” (Label) field and the “Product Version” (multi-select string list) field.

Menu options not available to the logged in user by permissions are disabled to “Intelligent” Menu Options avoid confusion and access error messages.

If the Alt key is held down while opening a category, all subcategories are “Alt-Open” All Categories opened too.

Catalogs can be added to or removed from the collection at any time. Opening more than one catalog at a time enables users to find assets no matter which Add/Remove Catalogs catalog their asset records are found in. This image shows a collection window that already contains four catalogs. A fifth catalog is selected to be added.

Varient/Alternates Assignments Variant sources and alternates groups can now be assigned in the Web Clients.

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Features Benefits Screenshots

Using the “Show Original” menu option, assets are sent to the browser for in- line “live” previews. This means that formats such as PDF, Flash and QuickTime can now be handled by their respective browser plug-ins, for the best display quality and flexibility. (Right top) This image shows a PDF file cataloged in Cumulus 7.5 previewed via a Web Client using the Acrobat Reader Web browser plugin. The preview can be zoomed, printed and otherwise handled directly by the plugin, taking advan- tage of all features it offers.

Browser-based Live Asset Previews (Right middle) Here, a preview of a Flash animation is shown. Flash files play via “Show Original” Menu Option back from within the Web Clients just like they would from within the browser directly, complete with motion and audio tracks. (Right bottom) The 3D object embedded in this file can be zoomed, rotated and even changed from wireframe to shaded views, all from within the Web Client. The “Show Original” feature enables you to serve rich media right from within Cumulus 7.5. Distribute files, or just make them available for review, without having to modify your website. For file formats not supported by Web browser plug-ins, “Show Original” pre- sents a window from which users can choose an external viewing application.

The Web Client architecture has been improved for dramatic performance gains Performance Improvements for servers handling larger simultaneous connections.

A number of minor user interface improvements have been included to ensure a User Interface Clean-Ups smoother, more consistent experience.

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