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Phantasm CS Studio 1.0 comes as a completely convenient utility which builds on both Phantasm CS and Phantasm CS Designer. With the introduction of Phantasm CS Studio, new filters and effects have been introduced to provide additional creativity options.

Whereas standard color-adjustment tools such Curves and Levels don't fundamentally alter the artwork, simply the colors, the Duotone and Halftone filters and effects reconstruct the artwork to produce wonderful results. Duotones (which also refer to monotone, tritone and quadtone) are most commonly found in Adobe Photoshop(R); it is now available natively in Illustrator with the ability to modify all embedded objects including vector, text and images whilst maintaining all vector/bitmap attributes. Allowing a mix of process and spot colors, the resultant artwork is high quality commercial print-ready.

The Halftone filter/effect produces a range of stunning vector-based results, from standard dot types to custom Illustrator Symbols-based creations. Faithful to the original artwork (RGB or CMYK including spot colors), the level of adjustments possible ensures creative freedom.

Phantasm CS Studio provides the ultimate color checking toolset; an essential collection of native tools for anyone who readies artwork for publishing and print. A new Output Preview group of tools, comprising Quick Separations, Overprint Preview and Ink Coverage give immediate feedback on the technical construction of the color in a CMYK document.

The full Separations system is a high-end tool which actually separates all artwork in a document (except linked EPS DCS files - functionality of which can now be found in the native Photoshop format). The resultant new document can then be examined using the Phantasm CS Studio Separations palette allowing interactive panning and zooming within the document.

Unique to Phantasm CS Studio is the ability to in-line edit any embedded image (raster artwork) in an external package such as Adobe Photoshop(R) and then update any changes directly back within the Illustrator document.

Knowbody Smart Paste CS 3.0.6 brings an advanced and complete plugin which enables you to copy text from your clipboad. By default Word text would be read as RTF and you would have a mess in your styles menu. This small utility is only one extra menuitem under the editmenu, but it changes the world for you. It copies the bold, italic etc but uses you InDesign styles! No redefinition or creation of bad word styles any longer!

FlexoStepX for Illustrator CS 1.4 is a highly-efficient, high-quality utility which is designed specially for everyone in the flexographic printing business!

Finally, an affordable solution to the time-consuming, tedious, and mistake-prone act of stepping, repeating, and distorting label and packaging artwork. FlexoStep is very simple to use and extremely FAST! Just launch it from Macromedia Freehand or Adobe Illustrator, input the necessary parameters, and voila! The time to step, repeat, distort, and add printer's marks is reduced from about 10-15 minutes to 10 SECONDS!

Major Features:

1. Bearer bars (block or tractor)
2. Registration marks (inset or offset)
3. Cut marks
4. Running lines
5. Shadows
6. Color information automatically added (inset, offset, or spots)
7. Job information
8. Label rotation before stepping begins
9. Distortion applied to all artwork and printer's marks, and
10. Horizontal and vertical step orientation.

PictureXTracker for Adobe InDesign CS 4 5.0r5 proves itself to be a must have tool for anyone who has to work in an ever-changing work environment and has to handle lots of layout documents containing tons of pictures. No more painfully reassigning pictures whose file positions have changed!

PictureXTracker updates the allocation between document and pictures within a few mouse clicks, even if you work with complex folder structures. Save time as it is possible to update the picture allocations for many documents at once. PictureXTracker makes it easy for you to reassign pictures by showing you a preview and lots of picture information.

Major Features:

1. Add pictures manually to your selection via drag and drop.
2. Search for pictures using wildcards!
3. Search and replace entire picture paths!
4. Master pages, hidden and locked layers can be in- or excluded for processing.
5. Embedded pictures are supported in InDesign.
6. Targeted search for pictures with a certain resolution or a certain colour space.
7. Unicode support
8. Save periodic tasks in a selective list and access your settings at any time.

Requirements:

• InDesign CS 4 Default Browser

GLUON Cropster ID 8.0 offers you a considerable and convenient to use tool to deal with setting up mechanical and page markings. This powerful plug-in will set up crop marks for bleed, trim, safety, folds and page gutters. It also cCropster ID is the professionals' choice for setting up mechanical and page markings. Versions exist for InDesign 2 and CS 1 & 2, for Mac OS X.

This powerful InDesign plugin will set up crop marks for bleed, trim, safety, folds and page gutters. It sets up guides for all of the above mentioned crop marks and the GLUON-invented dimension arrows that others have imitated. Cropster enables the choice of machine centering on a page to facilitate double sided printing, and it features user definable presets. Use Cropster and yoll see why it is the industry standard for setting up electronic mechanicals.

Requirements: Adobe InDesign CS4