2007
Lafot Monitor Control LMC 03: Monitor Calibration With Superior Jenoptik/MAZET Sensor
Poland isn’t exactly known for its elegant design, but it is well-known for its equipment robustness and above all: accuracy. We don’t readily associate precision instruments with robustness, but in the case of Lafot, the monitor calibration instrument that is commercialised under the totally not-sexy name of “Lafot Monitor Control…
Atomik RoundTrip XML Publishing
British EasyPress Technologies’ Atomik RoundTrip is an XML to QuarkXPress and vice versa conversion system. It allows you to import XML into QuarkXPress documents and export QuarkXPress documents into XML format. Atomik RoundTrip makes itself known to QuarkXPress 7 users as two palettes with a third that becomes visible when…
Report Analyses Smart Connection Enterprise 5
IT-Enquirer just released the results of an in-depth report comparing Smart Connection Enterprise version 4.x to the new version 5, which is a completely new system. The aim of the report was to ascertain how the versions compare, and what sets Smart Connection Enterprise 5 apart from the competition.
…Leopard Users Attention: CandyBar 3 Changes Icons and Dock
IconFactory and Panic Software joined forces again, and started developing CandyBar 3 long before Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard hit the streets. And now, a good month after Leopard has been released, CandyBar 3 has too. Much to my surprise, CandyBar 3 is a replacement for CandyBar 2 and for…
Final Cut Studio 2: Color for Professional Colorists
Color is Apple’s newest addition to the Final Cut “Pro” software suite. Color is a professional video and film grading and manipulation tool. It is an environment with the look and feel of Shake, with different “rooms”. Color can colour correct video and film projects coming from Final Cut Pro…
SOHO Labels 3 Now Also for DVDs
Version 3 of Chronos’ labelling software is a hit. SOHO Labels replaces Labels and Envelopes and for a good reason; SOHO Labels doesn’t just do labels and envelopes. It now also does DVDs and jewel boxes. I was wary of this new capability, with Disc Cover and discLabel being long-time…
Leopard’s Font Book Makes Third-Party Tools Obsolete For Some
Font Book has long been Mac OS X’s least attractive application. It made a market for third party developers such as Extensis and Insider Software. Even Linotype released its own excellent font organiser and offers it for free. But Leopard’s Font Book is no longer the weakest link in the…
Leopard’s Preview: Can You Throw Away Your Copy of Acrobat Yet?
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard has a completely new Preview application, and many of us have been reading about it, and some of us have actually used it. To graphic designers, publishers and document managers, the most interesting about the new Preview is its behaviour. Will its behaviour with images…
Sony Gets Closer to “Pro” With The Alpha 700
I have been the proud and enthusiastic owner of a Sony Alpha 700 --at least for two weeks. This new digital SLR camera by Sony is a 12.2 megapixel dSLR which has the power, quality of build, and feature set,…
Digital ColourAtlas 3.0 Compares, Converts and Harmonises Colours Usefully
When I reviewed Genopal Pro the other day, my colleague Henk Gianotten pointed me to a software that he said I should definitely review. It was ColourAtlas 3.0, a German colour tool that can compare colours and create harmonies. When I saw the…
15TH ANNUAL EUROPEAN INK JET CONFERENCE STARTING IN A WEEK
IMI Europe announced that on Wednesday 7 until Friday 9 November 2007, in the Sheraton Lisboa Hotel & Spa, Lisbon, Portugal, the European Ink Jet Conference will take place. VP’s, Directors, Business Development Managers, Sales Managers, Project Managers, and Engineers from Europe, Asia and North America are already registered for…
GridIron Nucleo Pro 2 Speeds Up Rendering Cinema 4D, Shake and Other Formats
Nucleo Pro 2 is an evolutionary upgrade from the previous version, but it’s an important one. Version 2 adds pre-composition proxies and the ability to manage the rendering of projects from 3D applications such as Maya, Cinema 4D, LightWave, Apple Shake, and After Effects CS3 of course.
After…
ProofMaster, Your Best RIP For Proofing
ProofMaster isn’t just a RIP for photographers who like to save money when printing to fine art papers or photo papers. It’s first and above all one of the most powerful proofing RIPs available in the market. ProofMaster is based on open standards, supports thermal, inkjet and virtual proofing devices,…
ExpoImaging Release New Depth-of-Field Guide
IT Enquirer discussed the ExpoAperture Depth-of-Field Guide, a unique tool which instantly shows you the relationships between focal length, focus distance, aperture and resulting depth-of-field. ExpoImaging released the follow-up to the original DoF Guide, the ExpoAperture2 Guide. A photographer using the ExpoAperture2…
PDF tools from callas software are ready for “Leopard”
callas software PDF tools for professional colour conversion, correction of typical errors while printing and for optimizing PDF files for prepress, printing and long-term archiving with PDF/A already support the new operating system Mac OS X v10.5 “Leopard”.
Users of earlier Apple operating systems, Adobe Acrobat Professional and…
PasteBoard 7 XTension by Markzware
PasteBoard XT changes the width and height of the QuarkXPress 7 pasteboard. It allows you to adjust by value as well as by percentage, giving a wider range of options than what is possible by default in QuarkXPress. Throughout my own use of QuarkXPress 7 I have been wondering why…
Coda 1.0.5, The Web Designer’s Best Friend
When Panic Software released Coda, most reactions were mildly to enthusiastically positive. Here and there were some points of criticism, but most of the comments were that Panic’s Cabel Sasser has made the web site editing application everybody has been waiting for. After he had ironed out the first-version wrinkles,…
Gradual SWITCH 07 Makes Workflow Automation Almost Fun
PowerSWITCH 07 is the high-end member of Gradual Software’s SWITCH 07 family. And SWITCH 07 is the latest version of this workflow automation solution that is best known in publishing and prepress environments. PowerSWITCH 07 consists of a server workflow application and clients that log in to the PowerSWITCH. Users…
Still images with Final Cut Pro 6
How do you create a still image in Final Cut Pro 6? That is what I will be trying to show you in this mini-tutorial. Still images can be used in DVD Studio Pro as part of a menu, and you can use them for printing a DVD cover.
…New Wolfram Service Opens Up Access to Interactive Mathematica Technology
With the release of Mathematica 6, Wolfram Research reinvented the way we think about technical computing, for the first time making it possible to create sophisticated custom applications with just a few short lines of code.
Now those revolutionary advances are being extended to interactive publishing, with a…
Soundtrack Pro 2
I remember when Apple released the first version of Soundtrack Pro I was thrilled. I am not a sound engineer, but I have a sort of love affair with sound editing, music scores, and what have you got. And Soundtrack Pro was to enable much of the high-end features that…
Flash Decompiler: Wonderful Tool to Analyse Flash
Eltima Software released Flash Decompiler Trillix some time ago. I had a chance to play around with it, and I was sceptical at first. Decompiling --unless done that hard way-- usually leads to nothing useful. Well, that’s definitely not the case with Flash Decompiler Trillix. The resulting files are neatly…
Quark Interactive Designer: Does it Make Sense?
Quark delivers Quark Interactive Designer as an add-on for QuarkXPress 7. Quark Interactive Designer was reviewed by IT Enquirer earlier. We then found Quark Interactive Designer to be a valuable addition if you want to make QuarkXPress 7 a complete vertical and horizontal publishing design solution. But due to…
Report Analyses Quark Publishing System 7, Smart Connection Enterprise, and K4
IT-Enquirer just released the results of an in-depth report comparing the three most important editorial workflow and management systems —QPS 7, Smart Connection Enterprise, and Softcare K4 — focusing in particular on productivity, ease-of-use, ease-of-management, and efficiency. The aim of the report was to ascertain how the three systems compare…
Canto Cumulus Integrates with Quark Publishing System 7
Canto and Quark announced an integration between the Canto Cumulus digital asset management system and the newly announced Quark Publishing System (QPS) 7.
New capabilities for QPS 7 work groups include XMP and IPTC legacy and core metadata searching to find any image, text element or other asset.…
