Deliver innovative ideas in print, web, interactive, and mobile design

Manufacturer: Adobe

Produce high-impact print designs and digital publication

Manufacturer: Adobe

Al-Rassam Al Arabi (for Windows) allows you to use Arabic in the world's leading design applications for Windows, and Kalimat (MAC OS X) allows you to use Arabic in all Macintosh illustration and photo retouching programs such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Macromedia Flash, CorelDraw and Avid Technology, Inc.

iPad Publishing For Everyone

Manufacturer: Quark, Inc

iPad Publishing For Everyone

Manufacturer: Quark, Inc

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.

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.

Elpical Claro Premedia provides a complete image processing workflow for printers, publishers and online communication companies that require fast processing of high volumes of images while achieving cost reduction and improved quality.

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.

One of the easiest ways to add barcodes to a document is by using a barcode font

One of the easiest ways to add barcodes to a document is by using a barcode font

One of the easiest ways to add barcodes to a document is by using a barcode font

One of the easiest ways to add barcodes to a document is by using a barcode font

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

Examine and Fix OpenType Fonts. For Mac and Windows.

Manufacturer: Fontlab

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.

Desktop Software for Creating Interactive Online Publications

Manufacturer: Papeer