Live Picture's network version debut
Author(s):James A. Martin
Source:Macworld. 13.5 (May 1996): p39.
Document Type:Brief article
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Live Picture is coming to a network near you. Live Picture
(408/464-4200, support@livepicture.com) has shipped an integrated set
of software tools that lets a Silicon Graphics Indy workstation
relieve a networked Macintosh of Live Picture's most
resource-consuming tasks, such as final-image-file rendering and
PostScript rasterizing. (Formerly distributed in North America by
MetaTools--formerly named HSC Software--Live Picture is now handled by
the company that developed it, Live Picture.)

With the Live Picture Network software, a graphic artist rotates,
distorts, and edits an IVUE-formatted image in Live Picture on the
Mac, as always (IVUE is Live Picture's proprietary image-manipulation
file format). But a Unix-based, multitasking Indy workstation, not a
Power Mac, handles the processes of converting graphics files to IVUE;
rendering final, edited graphics in Live Picture's FITS format or as
PostScript files; accessing and storing FITS and IVUE files; and
performing OPI conversions.

Live Picture Network's file-sharing capabilities, coupled with the
image-editing program's routine of breaking a large file into separate
tiles, let multiple artists work on different aspects of the same
image simultaneously. Live Picture Network software works over any
AppleTalk-compatible network. In addition, the OPI module includes a
plug-in that lets users import IVUE files into QuarkXPress for
creating for-position-only graphics.

Live Picture Network's prices will start at $54,500, which includes 20
user licenses plus the server software for rendering. Indy
workstations start at $15,000.

Source Citation (MLA 7th Edition) 

Martin, James A. "Live Picture's network version debut." Macworld May
1996: 39. Academic OneFile. Web. 27 June 2013.