Noventri’s Free Digital-Signage Software

Noventri (Smithsburg, MD) is offering its Noventri Designer software for free. An early build of the software is available for download at www.noventri.com/eco/digital-signage-software.php. In turn, the company asks users to provide feedback and suggestions for improvement at www.noventri.com/forum. User feedback will be used to improve the software so that it directly meets user demands.
With Noventri Designer, users can start creating digital-signage content immediately. The software doesn’t need to be used with Noventri Eco-Series SF-100e digital-signage hardware. Once downloaded to a PC, users can begin designing content on existing computers and displaying that content to their monitors. The free software requires no licensing or subscription fees.
The software can create content in resolutions up to 1,920 x 1,200 with multiple region types. Content can be played on a main or a secondary monitor, and the software will function as a simple, digital-signage player.
Features of Noventri Designer include:
• Unlimited, independent regions can be layered and overlapped with transparency support to create layouts.
• Support for industry-standard image formats, including BMP, JPEG, GIF, TIFF and PNG, with additional formats, such as PDF and PowerPoint, to be made available later.
• Noventri Designer will include tools to manage all aspects of the process from content design to scheduling and management of the SF-100e digital-signage players, all in one software package.
• Newly designed scheduling tools, when coupled with the Eco-Series SF-100e, allow you to schedule what content appears on the display and to schedule your screen to go into standby mode during non-peak hours to save energy.
• Emergency Setup Panel allows you to prepare and be ready for the worst.

Pre-load multiple messages into the Eco-Series SF-100e and trigger those messages to be displayed with virtually no delay in the event of an emergency.
Noventri, which has been involved in manufacturing, sales, service, installation, content creation and management of digital signage since 1999, has served such names as Marriott, Sheraton, Java City, Aramark, the Houston Astro s Minute Maid Park, the Orioles’ Camden Yards, and The Newseum.
(301) 790-0103; www.noventri.com