ZDNet: Mentalix imaging software gets the picture for Linux users

“Imaging professionals have pretty straightforward
technology requirements: A fast CPU, graphics card, and hard drive
are essential–coupled with competent and efficient graphics
software. Mentalix’s Pixel!FX Deluxe suite of graphics handlers for
the Linux platform neatly fills the latter requirement for the
imaging professional.

Pixel!FX Deluxe is actually a collection of Mentalix’s Pixel!FX
software products running in X-Windows. The $4,350 package includes
the basics required to scan, edit, and view images as well as the
additional software components needed for optical character
recognition (OCR), managing an image database, compressing and
decompressing image files, and printing. A 30-day trial of the 10MB
downloadable file is $50. A disc and documentation is available for
$100. (The evaluation fee is discounted from the purchase
price.)

To download and install the software–normally a mundane
task–Mentalix requires users to supply quite a bit of information.
Before you can start the download, you must supply your name, phone
number, e-mail address, your computer’s host name, and its unique
ID. (There’s a link included on the on-screen form that details how
to get the machine ID.) Mentalix keys the software to your specific
machine, so that the download and password files will not work on a
different system.”

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