Developer claims Noventri Designer can turn any computer and monitor into a simple digital signage player

Digital signage software should not cost anything. At least that is what Noventri thinks and it has decided to make its software available for download absolutely free.

Noventri has announced an early build of Noventri Designer, which it said is an easy-to-use and feature-rich digital signage software available for immediate download. The only thing that Noventri asks is that users provide feedback, suggestions and ideas for improvement of the software on the Noventri forum. It said user feedback will be used to evolve and improve the digital signage software so that it directly meets the demands of users in the industry.

Standalone software offer free functionality

"With Noventri Designer users can start creating digital signage content immediately. The software does not need to be used with Noventri Eco-Series SF-100e digital signage hardware," said Andrew Hoffman, Noventri vice president. "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."

Noventri Designer is capable of content creation in resolutions up to 1920x1200 with multiple region types. Content can be played on a main monitor or a secondary monitor and the software will function as a simple digital signage player.

Features of Noventri Designer include the ability to create unlimited, independent regions that can be layered and overlapped with transparency support to create layouts. And its maker said support for industry standard image formats including, BMP, JPEG, GIF, TIFF and PNG with additional formats such as PDF and PowerPoint will be made available at a later date.

Scheduling and alerts extend flexibility

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. And it added that newly designed scheduling tools, when coupled with the Eco-Series SF-100e, will allow for scheduling of content, as well as scheduling the display to go into standby mode during non-peak hours to save energy.

The addition of an emergency Setup panel allows users to prepare and be ready for the worst, according to the company: it said users could 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.

To download go to: http://www.noventri.com/eco/digital-signage-software.php.