Art Text 1.2.1

Art Text is an application to create high quality headings, logos, icons, banners and buttons. The program implements the latest Mac OS X technologies which allow you to easily modify any texts and vector shapes into a fancy graphic.
Use the result with iWork, Microsoft Office, BeLight applications and other programs. It will become an indispensable part of your presentations, brochures, flyers, postcards, business cards and even websites.
Pre-designed styles, shapes, icon art images, shading materials and other advanced visual effects make Art Text a powerful and intuitive program, which is a great example of delivering Mac OS X technologies to everyone.
Not just professionals, but anyone, who wants to make his text work look attractive, will find a use for this tool.
Main features:
- 50+ pre-designed styles to get you started;
- Text and special artwork content (about 300 pictograms) as a source;
- Shading Pro tool (ability to cover/shade anything with shading material — any object can get the glassy, plastic or metallic look, it is also possible to add the effect of smooth or rough surface to any of the objects);
- Option to fill and outline text or artwork with different colors, gradients or textures;
- Apply shadow and glow effects;
- Ability to combine text with background image;
- Bend text using 20 adjustable vector transformation shapes or Bezier splines;
- Ability to export into a file or clipboard in TIFF, JPEG, PDF, PNG or other formats.
Enhancements:
- 36 pre-designed styles including Web 2.0 category added.
- Option to set export area size in pixels.
- Horizon-Spline and Curved Text transformation types were added.
- Spline-Curve transformation got the ability to transform text with multiple number of spline-parts.
- 19 new shading materials become available.
- Option to create Custom Material using an image was added.
- 70 pictograms were added.
- Export Improvements: export to PDF got faster; image displacement with respect to background fixed; correct positioning of export frame with shadow applied; transparency control became available when exporting to GIF;
- LinkBack technology supported, which allows to import the result into other LinkBack supporting applications for editing it.
- Other minor improvements.