offset business / commercial software for mac

proofSIGN 1.9.0 is a product developed with useful features. proofSIGN includes setups to verify your proofs to ISO standards for offset litho sheetfed, web and newspaper printing, but you can now generate your own standards from any CMYK ICC profile using either the FOGRA media wedge, or the included proofSIGN chart.

Major Features:

1. When adding a new standard, proofSIGN uses the ICC profile description to name the target. This is now editable.
2. New Windows Installer adds the charts and manual to the Programs menu.
3. Better filename validation for added standards.
4. Small cosmetic changes to the preferences window location, and the add standard window.
5. ISO 12647-7 compliance check. This includes a â??H test for the CMYK primaries, and grey balance
6. New ISO 12647-7 default tolerances.
7. New proofSIGN chart that is complient with ISO 12647-7. This is available as a PDF, EPS & TIF
8. The Date / Time information is configurable. The options are Date & time (default), Date only, and none. This affects PDFs, and labels
9. Mac Universal Binary
10. PDF is colour coded. Failed checks appear in Red
11. PDF has ISO 12647-7 information for each colour proofSIGN verifies your printed proofs to any standard.

ObjectTools 2.5b5 is a mighty efficacious program that solves or simplifies many common problems faced by 4D developers.

Wouldn't it be great if you could store multiple types of data in one place? For example, say you want to store a bunch of preferences together.
"What about BLOBs?" you ask. BLOBs are OK. But BLOBs are a pain to manage, because you have to either retrieve the data in the same order you put it in, or you have to somehow manage a table of offsets to the data within the BLOB.
ObjectTools is a plugin that gives you a full suite of commands for managing an object. An object is like a BLOB, but instead of accessing the data by offset, you access each data item by name.
What can you store in an object? Any data type 4D has. What's more, you can directly access array elements within an object, remove individual items, and much more. A million and one uses
ObjectTools is the kind of tool that is of such general utility that its uses are virtually unlimited. Some common uses include:

• Passing parameters in interprocess messaging systems
• Dramatically reducing usage of variables and tables by putting related data into objects
• Creating associative arrays

Major Features:

1. Store and retrieve any 4D data type (except for 2D arrays) by name in any order, eliminating the need to remember and use numeric offsets
2. Access elements of arrays in an object without retrieving the array from the object
3. Store and retrieve an entire record from any table with a single command
4. Embed objects within objects to create hierarchically structured data storage
5. Save and restore objects to and from BLOBs
6. Dramatically reduce process and interprocess variable usage
7. Easily package data for interprocess messaging
8. Develop in an object-oriented style

Major Features:

1. Eye Candy's formerly stationary filters are set in motion in Eye Candy for After Effects, with new parameters which give users precise control over the effects' time and direction-based aspects. Now, bevels, glows and other complex, organic effects can mutate and snake around your footage with a few mouse clicks.
2. Superb simulations of natural phenomena include Fire, Smoke and Fur: Eye Candy for After Effects creates simulations of natural phenomena that are more fluid and beautiful than ever, not to mention easier than you ever imagined. Fire and Smoke render a wide range of lapping flames and billowing smoke with a few mouse clicks on simple controls. Fur is able to simulate anything from porcupine quills to waves of grain. Glass can create watery surfaces, layers of ice and shower doors, and Chrome's effects range from cool metallic gradients to wood surfaces. The wide range of dazzling possibilities in Eye Candy for After Effects will add fuel your creative fires.
3. Effects Adapt To and Modify Layer Transparency: Eye Candy takes full advantage of After Effects' advanced features; effects are able to rely on After Effects' alpha channel support to intuitively apply themselves according to layer opacity information. This means that you can draw outside layer boundaries without precomposing, and that the effects can be used with odd-shaped or shifting objects. The effects can even modify opacity information, allowing you to ignite a logo, for example, and still see through the semi-transparent smoke and flames.
4. Apply Effects Using Alpha Channels From Different--Even Invisible!--Layers: Added an Alpha Layer tool in Eye Candy for After Effects that allows users to apply effects in one layer based on another layer's alpha channel, even if the second layer is invisible. This means, for example, that if you have a text layer and a background layer, you can apply Carve to the background layer using the text layer's alpha channel, creating animated chiseled text on your background. In addition, the new Alpha Origin tool easily adjusts or offsets the Alpha Layer's position to your specifications.
5. Free, unlimited "Render Only" installations: A customer who wishes to use After Effects network render farms may install the full version of Eye Candy for After Effects on an unlimited number of "render only" machines for no charge.

Requirements:

• Intel or PowerPC processor.
• Mac OS X 10.4.0 or later.
• Adobe After Effects 7 or later.

ScreenGrid 1.2.1 is a tool to make operations to drag and grow windows comfortable. When you drag or grow a window, ScreenGrid helps you to

1. Snap the window to screen edges.
2. Snap the window to virtual grid on screens.
3. Snap the window to window edges.
4. Layout windows with certain offsets.
5. Limit the movement of the window horizontally, vertically and 45 degrees.

PermanentPress 1.2 is created as a helpful printer and lithographer for you. Back in 1940, if a company wanted to print a book of matches, a poster or playbill, or run a full-color advertisement in a major publication, they needed to use the services of a qualified printer and lithographer. The job of the lithographer would be to take the original artwork, mechanical layouts and photographs and convert them so they could be reproduced in any number of offset printing processes. Once their work was completed, it was up to the printer to select the appropriate ink and stock to run the job.

While these skilled laborers were working with the state-of-the-art equipment in 1940, the state-of-the-art was far less sophisticated than in present day. Even in the most competent hands, printing and lithography equipment lacked precision and often times created less than desireable results.

FlexoStepX for Illustrator CS2 1.1 steps & repeats label artwork. FlexoStep is the answer 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.

Peterson StroboSoft 1.22 is a tool to tune tuning for your fretted or unfretted, stringed instruments with the 0.1 cent accuracy. Tune brass and wind instruments using an external microphone or pick-up device as well. StroboSoft turns your computer into a Peterson accurate hardware tuner that you can use in the studio or on the road!

Create instrument profiles that include your instrument type, its selected tuning, as well as transpose or drop settings. Plus, with the capability to store unlimited instrument profiles, you can add new tunings and save them under your own custom names for quick recall between live sets on stage or switching recording projects in the studio. Just use your notebook's built-in mic or plug in a microphone and start tuning. Use StroboSoft to adjust more than just your tuning. Save time and money by intonating your electrics at home. Intonate your electrics quickly and easily using StroboSoft's Visual Intonation Guide. The built-in INTONATE function will visually assist you while intonating your instrument. The LED on the selected string will fill with color when you are in the proper octave; just isolate the strobe display after that and you're done!

StroboSoft will pay for itself after one set-up!
Even if you have never used a strobe tuner before, StroboSoft's large, easy to read screen makes tuning simple. Now, sound out of tune only because you want to. With 52 preset alternate tunings on-board (Deluxe only), take your tuning to the next level and get the sound you are looking for.
Use the multi-function window (under note display) to view information on the note you are tuning such as MIDI note number and frequency value. See how far you are out of tune instantly with the real-time cents display that outputs how many cents you are out with 0.1 cent resolution.

Take advantage of Peterson Sweetened Tunings with StroboSoft Deluxe. Sweetened tunings are a collection of offsets assigned to particular tunings designed to make chords sound, well...sweeter! No more flat chords or having the guitars sound "out of the mix". Peterson's GTR and BAS Sweeteners are proprietary settings based on the equal temperament scale. StroboSoft Deluxe also supports instruments with the Buzz Feiten Tuning System.

An oscilloscope is a useful instrument for testing signals because it allows you to see the signals at different points. Use the oscilloscope in StroboSoft to analyze noise and isolate it from making its way into your recordings. The spectrum analyzer in StroboSoft provides harmonic detections and visual recognition of fundamental frequencies.

StroboSoft provides everything you need to accurately tune and even set-up your guitar or bass without the need for any expensive additional sound cards. You can successfully use StroboSoft with your stock hardware by plugging your instrument into the computer's sound card input. StroboSoft's selectable sampling rate will support all sound cards up to 96kHz. Use the stereo/mono selectors to tune two instruments at once! Have an electric guitar on the "L" channel while an acoustic can be hooked into the "R" each with individual settings!

For MS Windows, StroboSoft requires Windows 2000, XP Home or XP Professional (or later). It will not work on Windows 98, 98SE or ME.
For Mac OSX, Version 10.4 or above is required. However, StroboSoft Version 1.10 will run on Mac OSX Version 10.3.

Mac OSX version is now a "Universal" application and will run on both Power-PC and Intel Macs. This change means OSX 10.4 or above is required. Improved multi-threading, particularly when the Scope or Spectrum windows are open; this would cause glitches in the audio input.