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Prolase 7 Features New Graphics Capabilities

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American LaserWare and Software Mechanics Pty Ltd have teamed up to design a better solution for getting graphics from popular drawing programs into Prolase. This capability requires the installation of a custom print driver. To create a ProLase compatible file the user simply "prints" from the drawing program to a file through the custom ProLase print driver.  

Instead of using importers that require extensive knowledge of a large variety of formats, and continous updating to keep up with frequent format changes, this technique allows for a large variety of drawing programs to produce ProLase's internal graphic format.  When programs update their format, this technique continues to work without change as long as the updated program still has a "print" function.  In other words instead of us learning all of their formats we can teach them to produce ours... 

This technique works with almost any Window's program the produces vectors and has a "print" function including popular drawing programs like Autocad, AI, and Corel but also many other programs including Word, Notepad, Wordpad, Quickbooks, Open Office, etc.