FW: FilterMeister: First Public Beta

["MacBeth, Bill" <bill.macbeth@compaq.com>]

All,
Does anyone have comments of FilterMeister versus Filter Formula (note -
Filter Formula, not Filter Factory) as a filter development environment?

Thanks, Bill

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Alex Hunter [SMTP:alex@afh.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, June 01, 1999 3:50 AM
> To:	FFDG
> Subject:	FilterMeister: First Public Beta
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> As many of you in the FFDG know, a small group of us have been
> working for the past couple of years on a worthy successor to Adobe's
> Filter Factory.
> 
> It's called "FilterMeister" and it's here at last!
> 
> FilterMeister (FM) will eventually be available in three editions:
> 
> 1. A professional edition called "FM Pro".
> 
> 2. A low-cost shareware edition called "FM Lite".
> 
> 3. A freeware edition called "FM Free".
> 
> FM Free has all the features and functionality of FM Lite, except that
> it cannot generate standalone filters.
> 
> FM Pro has the functionality of FM Lite, plus advanced features
> and optimizations for producing commercial-quality plug-in filters.
> 
> FM Free and FM Lite have been in private beta testing for several
> months, and today we are opening up FM Free for Public Beta
> testing.
> 
> To download your copy of the beta release of FM Free, go to the
> official FilterMeister web site at
> 
> 	http://www.filtermeister.com/
> 
> and follow the link to the FilterMeister Public Beta site.
> 
> The self-extracting download package contains the FM Free beta
> plug-in, a "Getting Started" manual in PDF format by Werner Streidt,
> and several sample standalone filters produced with FM Lite by
> Werner Streidt, Ilya Razmanov, and others.
> 
> So don't wait!  Download your copy of FM Free now, and start
> producing those filters you've always dreamed of, but couldn't
> create because of limitations in Filter Factory.
> 
> Best of all, FilterMeister is 99.9% upward-compatible with Filter
> Factory, so you can immediately use your legacy FF code to
> produce equivalent filters in FM.  In fact, you can directly import
> your old Filter Factory *.8bf modules into FM in one easy step with
> the Load... button. Migrating from FF to FM couldn't be easier!
> 
> We have set up a new mailing list for FilterMeister.  To subscribe
> to it, send an e-mail to
> 
> 	fmml-request@lists.best.com
> 
> with the command 'subsingle' (without the quotes) in the body
> of the message.
> 
> Once subscribed, post your questions and messages by e-mailing
> them to: 
> 
> 	fmml@lists.best.com
> 
> We can also discuss the relationship between Filter Factory and
> FilterMeister here in the FFDG mailing list.
> 
> Best regards,
> -Alex Hunter
> FilterMeister programmer