For the art director that needs it all, this set has every graphic design tool from our offerings.

Includes: Galaxy Gauge 18 Imperial or Metric, Galaxy Gauge Elite, Galaxy Pocket Toolbox (Pixel Wrench, Pocket Color Map, Press Ranger card, Ultraprecision Gauge, and Pocket Gauge), Color Map Pro, three Press Ranger cards, Font ID 2.0, Uncoated Color Set (Color Map Pro Uncoated, two Pocket Color Map Uncoated, and five Press Ranger cards Uncoated), and a voucher for a display ad on Design Link.

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Manufacturer: Scientific Illustration Services

ARTS Split Pro is an industrial-strength, stand-alone for splitting PDFs. It features a set of tools that allow users to perform intelligent splitting based on page content and watched folders, and is built on an engine that has the power to process more than 2000 pages per minute.

By selecting areas on a page, or specifying particular text and applying a particular command to that text or area, coordinate files can be created in Acrobat to split PDFs based on the text on the pages. ARTS Split Pro can split PDFs using several methods:

• bookmarks;

• control file;

• control file — full path;

• coordinate file, using ARTS Split Pro Assistant and Adobe Acrobat;

• file size; and

• single pages.

split by bookmarks enables the user to split a PDF based on the bookmarks it contains. Each page that is book marked becomes the start of a new fragment, and the title of the bookmark is used to name the fragment. The subsequent pages without bookmarks that follow each split are added to the fragment until the next page that contains a bookmark appears; at which time the next fragment is created. The level of bookmarks to use can also be defined with the top-level bookmarks being level one.

split by control file (control file by definition is a file used by ARTS Split Pro to control the splitting process), enables the user to predefine the page ranges and file names for the resulting fragments, the smaller PDFs produced by the splitting process.

A text file listing the page range and final output name for each fragment is used, and when split by control file is executed, the file is split and each fragment is given a file name from the control file and placed in the specified folder.

Choosing split by control file — full path splits a file based on the settings the user specifies in the control file, with each fragment being stored in the directory indicated by the full path in the control file.

split by file size enables the user to split a PDF based on the user's desired file size of each fragment. Specify the size of the PDF fragments and ARTS Split Pro will split the PDFs to the closest possible size as measured in kilobytes.

Use ARTS Split Pro Assistant to create coordinate files for intelligent, page-content-based splitting. Coordinate files can be used to make ARTS Split Pro splits based on the text on the pages of a PDF.

Some simple examples include:

• split when an invoice ID or other unique identifier on the page changes;

• split when specific text — such as page number or chapter heading — appears on a particular page, and use this text to name the resulting split file;

• split when a text string appears on two pages in a row, then split the file and make the file name this repeating string; or

• split when a text string appears on two pages in a row.

Additionally, using watched-folder mechanisms or manually, the full range of commands available for use with coordinate files allow the user to:

• split based on changing page content;

• split if specified text is found on page;

• split if specified text is found within a rectangle;

• new COM methods: SplitByBookmarks, SplitByControlFile, SplitByCoordFile, SplitByFileSize, and SplitIntoSinglePages;

• GUI options include logging enabled, silent mode, and overwrite mode;

• additional rectangle commands for coordinate files;

• view commands feature for ARTS Split Pro Assistant;

• extract text from a PDF to a text file;

• fill the document summary from the text on the page; or

• use text from the PDF as the fragment's file name.

Use watched folders to automate splitting. ARTS Split Pro's watched folders allow an automated splitting process to be created and can be accessible from a desktop or across an entire network. The user specifies the folders to watch and any PDFs placed in these designated folders will be processed according to the user's specified settings.

The watched-folders function can also be used in conjunction with control files and coordinate files, allowing a fully automated, intelligent, server-side splitting solution.

ARTS Split Pro can be directed from the command line also. The command line calls can be used to run a splitting process and can be integrated into a user's PDF applications.

Manufacturer: ARTS PDF, Inc.

AsiaFont Studio is the only commercially available two-byte font editor for large Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Unicode fonts. It can handle fonts with up to 65,536 characters!

Features:

• make OpenType fonts with 65000+ glyphs with access to 100,000+ Unicode characters including the private-use area and supplementary plane;

• import and convert CID-keyed fonts into DBCS TrueType format;

• import TTC font collections;

• manually or automatically hint fonts;

• import or export fonts in TrueType or Type 1 format;

• encode fonts a hundred different ways;

• draw new characters quickly and easily with VectorPaint tools;

• import, edit, and build fonts in OpenType font format;

• use Python macro system to make custom font tools;

• use Asian glyph-edit-interface template; and

• access many characters with IME input (works with Windows 2000 or Windows XP)

Specifications:

• import formats are OpenType, PC/Mac TrueType, PC/Mac Type 1, CID, TTC, and CMap (only the Mac version can import Mac-format fonts), EPS;

• export formats are OpenType, PC/Mac TrueType, PC/Mac Type 1, and EPS (only the Mac version can export Mac-format fonts);

• tools include draw, erase, VectorPaint, mirror, composite, set start point, interpolate, envelope, remove overlap, merge contours, subtract contours, snap to guides, check connections, nodes at extremes, meter, TrueType and Type 1 manual hinting, undo (100+ levels), sketch, knife, magic wand, rotate, skew, scale, intersect contours;

• filters include bold, outline, side bearings control, scale, slant, rotate, auto hint, and many more — all programmable and applicable font wide (program sequences of filters and apply them to any range of characters, including the whole font or set of fonts); and

• macro-based filters include digital, shadow, bevel, drops, slices, and mosaic;

• Windows: glyph, font chart, preview/kerning/metrics, preview, OpenType, classes, map, macro editor, OpenType sample, and anchors; and

• encoding: Big5, GB, Unicode, Shift-JIS, Unicode, Custom, ANSI, ASCII, and virtually all known code pages and encodings.

Manufacturer: FontLab Ltd.

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AutoEye is a revolutionary new way to enhance and improve digital images. Using patented Intelligent Visual Imaging Technologies (IVIT), AutoEye reclaims color and detail that is lost in the transition from film or prints to digital. Unlike any other software solution on the market, AutoEye actually rebuilds the color and detail in images.

Auto Eye can perfect any image with absolutely no user knowledge of complex correction concepts and processes such as adjustment curves, levels, cast removal, contrast, and histograms. With advanced color-rebuilding algorithms, AutoEye can enhance darker images or areas of a dark image without burning or over correcting in lighter areas (a common problem encountered with the traditional tools found in Photoshop). AutoEye fully supports Photoshop actions and can batch process files through Photoshop.

AutoEye examines, and then automatically enhances, digital images providing full-spectrum color correction, increased color vibrancy, contrast and sharpness, and rebuilt detail. AutoEye automatically removes moir patterns that occur when scanning printed images and features a basic dust and scratch remover.

Features:

• color correction features use patented IVIT to rebuild and reclaim lost color in images;

• contrast features adjust all pixel values in the images at once (highlights, shadows, and midtones);

• sharpness features use IVIT to enhance images to bring back lost detail and to sharpen the quality of the visual to more closely match the original non-digital image;

• saturation features increase the vibrancy found in the colors of an image;

• brightness features adjust the relative lightness or darkness of the color within an image (e.g., photos shot in low light or that are over-lit can be adjusted and compensated for);

• moir-pattern-removal features instantly remove annoying patterns produced when scanning printed images from newspapers, magazines, and fine-art prints;

• de-speckle features find dust and scratches and safely removes them without destroying the rest of the image; and

• tonal-range features adjust the visual gamma of the source image to further enhance and bring out the hidden detail and colors in an image that are not seen by the human eye but are visible to AutoEye.

Professional designers and photographers will find that AutoEye can help them to maintain a better quality of images in print. The patented IVIT in AutoEye helps rebuild colors which are usually lost when an image is converted to CMYK and that become flatter and without life.

Visual feedback of all enhancements is easily viewed in the manual mode. AutoEye features a large dynamic onscreen preview featuring full zoom and panning, and support for before-and-after previews.

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Manufacturer: Auto F/X

BitFonter is a stand-alone application for the organization, editing, and converting of fonts.

Features:

• organize fonts into projects for easier management;

• convert from any supported format to any other;

• supports bitmap TrueType fonts with full Unicode and optional grayscale support;

• provides professional image-editing tools, transformations, and filters;

• uses PhotoFont technology for creating full-color fonts with transparency;

• rasterization of outline fonts to bitmaps;

• converts bitmap to outline fonts;

• converts scanned images or digital photographs into outline fonts in minutes (requires FontLab or TypeTool installed on the same computer); and

• Unicode support for multiple-code pages and encodings.

Specifications:

• Import formats: Mac OS NFNT, Windows FON and FNT, TrueType (embedded bitmaps for both the Mac and Windows versions), IBM AFP, HP PCL SFP and SFL, BDF (black and white, grayscale, and color), ABF, FontLab Template, unpacked FBIT, and PhF.

• Export formats: Mac OS NFNT, Windows FON and FNT, TrueType (embedded bitmaps for both Mac and Windows versions), IBM AFP, HP SFP and SFL, BDF (all modes), FontLab Template, and PhF.

• Picture import formats: PNG, PICT, and TIFF.

• Picture export formats: PNG, PICT.

• Rasterization of outline fonts from any installed font (using system rasterizer) and from any font opened in FontLab or TypeTool (using FreeType rasterizer).

• Tracing of bitmap fonts to FontLab or TypeTool.

Tools: (all tools can work in any color mode, from black and white to 24-bit color with transparency.):

• Drawing: pencil, eraser, brush, text, line, rectangle, ellipse, fill, marquee selection, freeform selection, magic-wand selection;

• Special: metrics editor and extract characters from image;

• Encoding: full Unicode support, all known code pages and encodings;

• Windows: project, font (with the glyph preview and string-preview panels), glyph, preview, and image;

• Panels: information, palette (includes optional transparency selector), and brushes;

• Transformation: scale, slant, rotate, and bold (for black-and-white fonts only);

• Filters and effects: change color depth, resize, merge fonts, sharpen, soften, Gaussian blur, smart blur, brightness/contrast, hue/saturation, colorize/texturize, remove background, median noise, custom filter, and more;

• undo levels: up to 100 levels (customizable); and

• 175-page user manual.

Manufacturer: FontLab Ltd.

Reach for C128Tools to print these barcodes within Microsoft Windows, the Macintosh, and Linux/UNIX documents and applications. The barcode fonts in C128Tools can be used with any database, spreadsheet, Crystal Reports, or a custom application. There's no need to use specialized, proprietary labeling software. Use any application adding barcode printing with the fonts in C128Tools.

Code 128 barcodes are used extensively by the shipping industry as well as for inventory, identification, and tracking purposes. Code 128 is part of many labeling specifications.

Code 128's character set supports the lower 128 ASCII characters, including upper and lowercase letters, numbers, punctuation, and control codes. Code 128 barcodes include a mod 103 check digit to ensure data integrity. Code 128 is much denser than Code 39 and is the symbology of choice when space is at a premium.

C128Tools supports code set A, code set B, code set C, and UCC-128/SSCC barcodes. It includes five different fonts in TrueType and Type 1 PostScript format. Changing between the various fonts enables the user to alter the width of a barcode, while changing the point size alters the symbol's height.

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Manufacturer: Azalea Software, Inc.

Creating Code 39 barcodes couldn't be easier. Just use C39Tools to make Code 39 (Code 3 of 9) barcodes from within any Microsoft Windows or Macintosh application. The barcode fonts in C39Tools can be used with a database, spreadsheet, or custom application. It's as easy as simply changing fonts.

Code 39 is by far the most popular barcode symbology. It's used for ID, inventory, and tracking. The Code 39 character set includes both letters and numbers, the input string can be of variable length, and the barcode symbol itself can vary widely in height and width.

The C39Tools font package includes 27 different Code 39 fonts. Switching between the various fonts enables the user to change the width and density of a barcode without changing its height. C39Tools also includes an OCR-B font for the optional human-readable characters above or below the barcode itself.

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Manufacturer: Azalea Software, Inc.

Codabar is used for ID cards, by blood banks, and some package-delivery carriers. This set of TrueType and Type 1 fonts generates Codabar barcodes from within any application and prints to any printer. Codabar barcodes are digits only. Add the start and stop digit before and after the string, and then format it all in the included font.

Use in word processors, spreadsheets, or database applications. Also available for Linux and UNIX platforms.

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Manufacturer: Azalea Software, Inc.

For pages prepared in languages other than English, hyphenation if often performed by hand or using customized desktop-publishing software. Now, Dashes Pro does it automatically and works with current desktop-publishing applications or word processors.

Dashes Pro supports RTF, XPress Tags, StyleEdit, and plain text formats. Use it with Microsoft Word, PageMaker, QuarkXPress, or any application that supports discretionary hyphenation.

In all of the languages offered, Dashes Pro is over 99.9% accurate against our word lists of 92,000 to 480,000 words. According to these lists, it inserts over 98.5% of the acceptable hyphens. Proper nouns and other unusual words can be entered into a user-exception dictionary. Dashes Pro also features an algorithm that breaks compound words in the Germanic languages and supports the new German orthography rules.

Dashes Pro hyphenates more than 2,000 words per second.

Available in 32 languages: Albanian, Bela Russian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Rumanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Swiss-German, Turkish, and Ukrainian. Available soon in Estonian and Maltese.

Manufacturer: Circle Noetic Services

DCSMerger handles Photoshop 3.0 through CS DCS 1.0 and 2.0 (single-file and multi-file format) image files.

DCS files can be difficult to work with in a composite workflow. Most applications only embed the master-file data (which is a 72 DPI low-resolution image) into the composite print stream. Therefore, the low-resolution image is used during in-RIP separations or composite PDFs. Most XTensions modules and OPI systems merge these DCS files but in the process, convert the spot colors within the DCS 2.0 files to CMYK. DCSMerger merges these files but keeps the spot-color information. The output format is a composite EPS which can be placed in any EPS-compliant layout application or can be converted to a PDF using Acrobat Distiller 4.0, 4.0.5, 5.0, and 6.0.

DCSMerger supports Photoshop compatible DCS 1.0 and DCS 2.0 images including single and multiple file formats. Version 1.5 also supports the DCS images from Adobe Photoshop CS and CS2.

Manufacturer: IMPRESSED GmbH

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DreamSuite Gel is a fun special-effects suite that can add vibrant, translucent depth effects to artwork. With DreamSuite Gel, generate stunning print and web graphics with ease using the award-winning DreamSuite engine to give an infinite variety of looks and combinations of visual results.

DreamSuite Gel was designed to be useful for everyday design projects. Great care was put into building an infinite amount of variation into the effects so the work is styled after a user's own tastes and avoids the canned look so many graphics programs are known for.

Features:

• gel applies vibrant depth to type and graphics with a brush or selection;

• gel painter creates unique hammered, chipped, and dented depth bevel effects;

• gel mixer blends and mixes an unlimited number of gel surfaces together;

• liquid crystal brushes on and flows soft, reflective, translucent glassy depth to artwork; and

• crystal painter brushes and paints with liquid mercury, melted gold, and other metals.

Visual presets ship with the DreamSuite Gel series. Import artwork and select a preset thumbnail to apply to artwork. DreamSuite Gel Suite is ideal for creating web graphics, buttons, banners, and navigation systems.

DreamSuite Gel features advanced onscreen brush controls to paint on textured surfaces and colors and provides control of depth by limiting the painting on imprints or extrusion on the bevels on a localized basis. In DreamSuite Gel, each effect has a set of controls that allow the user to adjust the effect's visual settings. Any onscreen tools associated with an effect are tied to the effect controls so the user may draw on screen and the brush applies the current setting.

DreamSuite Gel series can be used to create simple graphics with translucent depth or it can be used to paint over photos and add depth, color, and surface textures.

Features:

• complete support for Adobe Photoshop versions 4.0 and higher;

• includes integrated support for layers and transparency features;

• saves to the Photoshop (PSD) file format with layers intact;

• supports Photoshop actions;

• supports Photoshop layers;

• supports Photoshop's last filter command;

• saves and loads PSDs;

• works as a Photoshop Plug-in or as a stand-alone application;

• supports Photoshop transparency;

• easy to access in Photoshop under the filter menu.

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Manufacturer: Auto F/X

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DreamSuite Series One is a suite of powerful visual effects that allow anyone, professionals or novices alike, to create beautiful images and artwork. DreamSuite achieves visual results that are difficult or impossible to attain using any other software.

DreamSuite includes a stand-alone imaging application as well as a Plug-in that works with Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Paintshop Pro, and Corel PHOTO-PAINT.

DreamSuite now ships with professional features that enable users to combine different effects together using layers and masking that are included.

Features:

• SmartLayers is a robust layering system that enables the user to combine masking, photos, effects, and color correction layers together in one document;

• masking layers enable the user to quickly and cleanly mask areas of an image to apply effects to selected areas;

• correction layers enable the user to adjust color details such as RGB and HSB to get the perfect balance of colors for effects;

• effect layers stack on top of each other on the layers palette so that the user can combine different effects in the same document, e.g., apply Liquid Metal and Gel effects together, or use FilmGrain to enhance a PhotoToned image;

• photo layers enable the user to add new photos and composite them together and then change layer opacity, layer order, clone, or delete layers;

• unlimited undo and redo functionality allows the user to go back to undo brush strokes, effect settings, object transformations, and more;

• layer presets enables the user to save an effect and all layers used to create the effect and then apply the result to another image or set of artwork;

• load layer presets using visual thumbnails displayed in the new Layer Preset catalog;

Includes hundreds of new presets created just for the new Pro versions of DreamSuite products. These new creative presets lets users instantly apply effects that give amazing results.

The new Pro version has increased rendering speed and operation on both Macintosh and Windows systems. Speed increases range from 50% - 300% depending on the effect, image size, and machine. DreamSuite Pro is optimized for increased speed gains when used with a dual or hyper-threaded-processor enabled machine.

Featured Effects:

• 35 mm Frame to put photos into 35 mm slides and create collages;

• Dimension X provides over a dozen unique depth bevels, shading, glassy reflection, and more;

• Photo Border adds stylized borders around photos and overlap collages;

• Chisel provides unique hammered, chipped, and dented depth-bevel effects;

• Focus simulates soft focus, zoom, rotated, and motion focus effects;

• Photo Depth adds depth to photos by fraying, denting, and crimping;

• Crackle simulates photorealistic aged photo cracks and crackled surface;

• Hot Stamp adds punch to type and graphics with roughened edges, blends, and melded glows;

• Photo Tone provides blended sepia tones, focal glows, and mottled backgrounds;

• Crease interactively bends and creases photos for unique depth looks;

• Instamatic surrounds photos with a photorealistic instamatic frame;

• Putty to bend, twist, enlarge, push, reshape, squish, and reform images with Bezir tools;

• Cubism adds artistic cubed shapes to photos and backgrounds;

• Liquid Metal to brush and paint with liquid mercury, melted gold, and other metals;

• Ripple provides interactive photorealistic ripples, waves, and water surfaces;

• Deckle to rip and tear photos to give them a torn, deckled appearance;

• Metal Mixer blends metal surfaces together for a mix of unique depth effects and metal blending;

• Tape provides photorealistic masking tape, transparent, duct, sports, and other tape styles.

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Manufacturer: Auto F/X

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DreamSuite Series 2 is a powerful collection of 12 unique visual effects for enhancing photographs. This series offers a wide diversity of visual options to make any photo more distinctive.

DreamSuite was designed to be useful for everyday design projects and to provide an infinite amount of variation for the effects.

Effects:

• 2 1/4 provides photorealistic 2 1/4 film frames with unique translucency;

• photopress an effect to press photos down into the background;

• 4 x 5 are photorealistic 4 x 5 film frames with unique translucency;

• photo strips to slice and overlap image strips adding unique visual effects;

• filmgrain to simulate traditional high-grain films;

• plasticwrap will make elements in a photo look like they are pressing against a sheet of plastic;

• filmstrip to interactively bend and crease photos for unique depth effects;

• puzzle pieces will turn photos into realistic pieces that can be moved around and layered;

• filmframe art provides creative filmstrip effects for combining images together artistically;

• tile to shape photos using tiles and depth;

• mesh that gives the effect of weaving strips of photos; and

• wrinkle applies photorealistic wrinkles and depth shading.

DreamSuite Series 2 features advanced onscreen image-transformation tools, full support for layer transparency, layering multiple effects, and much, much more.

Each effect has a set of controls that allow the user to adjust the effect's visual settings. Any onscreen tools associated with an effect are tied to the effect controls so the user may draw on screen with an effect path and then adjust the controls that affect only that path.

Controls generate dynamically so the user can interactively adjust the visual on screen with the tool and the effect updates. Custom settings are associated with the selected component of the effect — change the component and the visual will update to the new parameters.

DreamSuite Series 2 features complete support for Adobe Photoshop versions 4.0 and higher. This includes integrated support for layers and transparency features. DreamSuite Series 2 even saves to the .PSD file format with layers intact.

Benefits:

• supports Photoshop actions;

• supports Photoshop layers;

• supports Photoshop's last filter command;

• saves and loads native PSD files;

• works as a Photoshop Plug-in, or as a stand-alone application;

• supports Photoshop transparency; and

• easy to access in Photoshop under the filter menu

Use DreamSuite Series 2 in conjunction with Photoshop actions to perform batch processing tasks to hundreds of images in one easy-to-apply session.

Features:

• intelligent control-interrupt system enables the user to interrupt the effect when updating;

• adjustable preview features a 1600% marquee-zoom capability with built-in panning support with proxy mode to render blazingly fast;

• save and replay effect settings for instant results;

• presets are resolution independent providing the same results while working on any sized file;

• presets are saved in a visual preset catalog with thumbnail previews;

• memory dots record current settings;

• stores and works from the original image when generating effect layers so images can be freeform transformed multiple times with no quality loss;

• dynamic features enable the user to work in a true nonlinear fashion — go forward or back by adjusting the controls;

• unique photo-placement tool allows users to place images inside of effects and have the images automatically scaled and orientated to match the angle and perspective of the effect;

• file loading and saving support for: PSD, TIFF, BMP, JPG, and PNG;

• on-demand help provides comprehensive detailed instructions about the control during mouse over; and

• choose from over a dozen interface flavors and desktop textures.

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Manufacturer: Auto F/X

For detailed bundled-product descriptions, refer to each individual product.

Bundle includes DreamSuite Series One Pro, DreamSuite Series Two Pro, and DreamSuite Gel Series Pro.

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Manufacturer: Auto F/X

DynaStrip is a flexible, native, PDF-imposition solution that, combined with any PDF-RIP that can perform in-RIP trapping and separation, DynaStrip can become cost-effective and highly flexible PDF workflow. DynaStrip imports native PDF files made from any application and will output native PDF files without an intermediate conversion into PostScript.

DynaStrip allows users to seamlessly operate in OS X, OS 9 and Classic modes. This compatibility lets users take advantage of OS X's multitasking capabilities, with superior stability and management of application memory.

DynaStrip's is more user-friendly than ever before. It boasts a simple yet sophisticated look and feel — unlike any other imposition software. Its wide range of easy-to-use tools will greatly reduce your learning curve and get you up-to-speed in no time. Still pressed for time? DynaStrip's wizard-like interface can automatically create templates in as little as three minutes.

DynaStrip now features new JDF support, further facilitating DynaStrip's integration with workflow systems adhering to the JDF standard. Direct-layout PDF Imposed PDFs can be directly displayed in DynaStrip's design window. True imposed source files — not thumbnails — are shown, allowing users to zoom page content at maximum resolution.

A high-end imposition solution is essential to successfully performing in today's competitive marketplace. DynaStrip is your key to handling more jobs, improving service levels, increasing client capacity and ultimately generating more revenues. DynaStrip is the most complete imposition solution available — from the very simple to the highly complex-makes it a must-have in any prepress environment.

Features:

• integration with major workflows;

• ganging of jobs, combine posters and fliers or two signatures with totally different bindings — limitless page sizes or number of pages on the sheet;

• accepts incoming files, such as PDF, PostScript, EPS, or DCS, from more than 100 applications;

• outputs to any printer, digital-imaging device, imagesetter, or platesetter;

• up to ten different, simultaneous setups can be created to combine any plate with any output device;

• anamorphic scaling on each color for web-growth compensation and plate rotations ensures maximum quality at the output;

• raster mode (TIFF Preview) for pre-RIPing workflow solutions that generate low-resolution files for individual RIPed pages;

• impose trapped PDFs, regardless of whether the trapping information is embedded in

the pages or on annotation layers;

• only PDF-imposition solution that makes full use of Adobe Extreme PDF Trapper technology;

• powerful object-oriented architecture provides full control over any object on the sheet;

• add bleed, modify gutters, place text tags, move color bars, position cutting marks, or

insert objects in an adjustable bounding box;

• template creation is kept to a minimum and basic templates can be used and modified on the fly with no need to create, save, and load templates for each custom job;

• accepts Preps and Presswise templates, generating a new sheet layout with all objects according to original specifications;

• user-friendly Interface;

• maximizes compatibility with emerging technologies;

• classic version available in two output formats, Compact Size (maximum size 30" x 30" or 760 mm x 760 mm) and Full Size (unlimited format);

• application and accompanying documentation, such as tutorials, HTML Help, and User's Guide, are available in English, French, Spanish, and German;

• seamlessly operates in OS X, OS 9 and Classic modes;

• offers a wide variety of Windows versions;

• direct-layout PDF previews;

• displays imposed PDFs directly in the design window;

• built-in linear marks that can be screened, dotted, or dashed;

• use linear marks as white to block part of a page;

• import Scenic Soft Preps or PressWise templates on the fly;

• up to 80 different bindings can be used in a single job;

• provides remapping directly in the color table;

• retrieval of pages using a specific color can be performed in the color table;

• create plate specifications and position the press sheet with x and y coordinates;

• visualize a plate in the layout and combine plates with output devices layout for increased output capabilities;

• all objects can be precisely positioned and rotated;

• all pages can be modified and edited;

• all objects are independent;

• paginate from a text file;

• provide page offsets for each color using a text file (used for nonlinear web growth, two-way creep, fanning, bottling, or any other compensation);

• supports multiple output Formats (i.e., PDF, EPS, PS);

• supports JDF for integration with workflows using JDF standard;

• supports PageFlow, RAMpage Prinergy, ICF/Brisque, and other PostScript separation workflows;

• normal or layout output mode;

• print page numbers, outline page trims, or skip flats without pages;

• outstanding flexibility enables the user to output profiles based on devices and plates;

• multilevel adjustments for platesetters and punches;

• adjustments on back only;

• correction angles to prevent ghosting;

• output-file-name customization using text and variables;

• supports PostScript, composite or pre-separated;

• supports over 120 applications from any platform;

• continuously updated filters;

• supports Portable Document Format (PDF), composite or pre-separated;

• imports native PDF as source files and direct creation of imposed PDF flats without using Acrobat Distiller;

• imposed PDF can be editable or not;

• launches Acrobat for page or flat preview; and

• plate-setups feature enables user to view and position both the press sheet in the plate and the plate in the output device's imaging area.

DynaStrip easily integrates into current workflows, including: ArtPro by Artwork Systems (PCC), Brisque by Creo, Celebrant by Fujifilm, Crescendo by ArtQues, Nexus by Artwork Systems, PageFlow by Artwork Systems (PCC), PrePage-it by Polkadots, Prinergy by Creo, RAMpage by Rampage Systems, Xenith by Xitron, and SWiNG & TWiST by DALiM.

DynaStrip AUTOMATION and DynaStrip FUSION are two highly specialized variations of the classic DynaStrip.

DynaStrip AUTOMATION can be used as a hot folder workflow — an efficient application for page pairing in a newspaper environment. Automatically indexes files entering the hot folder, inserts the pages and, as soon as a plate is filled with pages, sends it to the output device. No more waiting for missing files before outputting flats!

Features:

• waits for the document files to enter the hot folder(s);

• parses the files to find the number of pages and colors;

• fills in the imposition index and assigns pages to the layout; and

• sends flats as soon as they are filled for output.

DynaStrip FUSION can build up to 200 versions of the same document, using the same template without layering. DynaStrip FUSION creates versions with their own document lists to either replace or merge pages or colors. Zoning advertisements, direct marketing publications, and multilingual documents are just some of the examples for which DynaStrip FUSION can increase the speed at which document versions can be created.

Features:

• up to 200 versions and document lists for the same job;

• replacement of pages or colors;

• color-merging capability; and

• output of entire version or only replacement flats.

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Manufacturer: Dynagram

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