Al Rassam Al Arabi for Windows allows the user to enter Arabic text into CorelDRAW, Illustrator, Freehand, Photoshop, Flash, and so on.

The user can add Arabic text into photo-retouching and illustration applications that do not accept Arabic text directly. It provides an editing window that allows the user to type and edit Arabic text. After typing the Arabic text, the user can export it into the specific application. Al Rassam Al Arabi is bundled with 22 ArabicXT fonts.

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Manufacturer: Layout Limited

ArtOptimizer is a workflow solution to automatically reduce the size of images linked to Adobe Illustrator document by eliminating excessive image data.

BPT-Pro2 makes Adobe Illustrator a highly functional 2D-CAD program, equipped with eight types and 17 different tools, all accessed through the Illustrator toolbox with a convenient information palette. Easily display the dimensions of objects with free curved lines, and measure everything from the segment of an object, to the object itself, and even groups of objects.

New functions have been added for various industries such as object number tool and comment tool.

Dimension tool - indicates the measurements for all the objects and segments, such as vertical, horizontal, oblique, and free curved lines.

Also, the measurements of the segments that are intermixed with straight and curved lines can be indicated with this tool that shows the total measurements.

Radius and diameter tools - shows the measurements of the radius and diameter of an arc (part of a real circle).

Fillet tools - transform the edges of squares and curves by peeling off angles with add, separate, and delete tools.

Angle tool - shows the measurement of angles both inside the object as well as outside the object.

Slant tool - make revisions to the slant of the objects and segments quickly.

Arc tools - describe an arc with two points, three points, and radius.

BPT information - indicates the total distance moved for the tools listed above and controls the transfer with a grid, intersection point, or path.

The length measurement function can calculate the length of a straight line or free curved line precisely and immediately, and moreover, it calculates the total measurement of selected objects and segments in a second.

Comment tool (new function) - add comments onto a diagram, objects or graphics. This tool is very convenient and easy to use. Control the angle of arrows and comments using the shift key.

Object number tool (new function) - number parts of objects. Numbers do not need to be in order. This tool has a function that uploads the number calculated automatically.

Schedule tool (new function) - easily create a borderline set up with title block and schedule of the materials. Drag and drop to create.

Manufacturer: Baby Universe, Inc.

CADpatterns adds 134 vector-based swatch patterns for use in Illustrator documents. All CADpatterns are easy to edit or colorize in Mac or Windows.

Swatch patterns tile seamlessly and include: stipples, crosshatches, bricks, wood grains, stone, tile, and building materials.

Features:

• fill selected objects with one of 134 patterns meeting ANSI standards;

• use the rotate, reflect, scale, or shear tools to adjust the pattern without affecting the object;

• each CADpattern is comprised of vector lines that are easily edited; and

• customize the color, line weight, or shape.

Manufacturer: Hot Door, Inc.

Cut corners at high speeds! Draw in any scale, edit and dimension artwork with a mouse click, and numerically control objects or points. Click and drag with CADtools 6 to make design work easy and elegant right inside Adobe Illustrator.

ClassicFrames are the ideal tool to give the final classy touch to images. The frames provided are graphic reproductions of those found framing expensive paintings. With a ClassicFrames Photoshop Plug-in there are 70 beautiful, traditional, picture frames.

Features:

• version 2.0 adds RGB 16-bit support;

• 70 beautiful, traditional, rounded picture frames per volume;

• create or combine existing frames for infinite variations;

• multiple layers of edges or frames.

• native for Mac OS X or Windows (Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Corel PHOTO-PAINT, and PaintShop;

• volume 5 or 6 for include exquisite circular or oval frames, perfect for medallions and portraits;

• create or combine existing frames for infinite variations;

• no step and repeat artifacts like other Plug-ins;

• compare four frames quickly side by side for easy selections;

• create multiple mats in a snap;

• adjust the frame width;

• combine multiple frames for multiple mats easily;

• use the library (60 frames provided) or use a custom-designed moulding; and

• now includes weave and texture mats for beautiful classy weave or texture/pattern effects.

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Manufacturer: Human Software Company Inc., The

DB Palette is a very convenient tool that all Illustrator users can use to work more efficiently and comfortably. It is not just an image-registration palette — it can bundle all images together (including linked files such as EPS) and export them into one folder for transporting to the printing company. DB Palette is also an advanced Plug-In software program that people working with Illustrator can use to share image files created in DB Palette within the network.

Easily register images to be used in Illustrator into the palette by pressing one button. To use drag and drop into the document from the palette. Specify and register the database folder. After that, choose the images in the database folder to use them. DB Palette includes a substantial search function which can easily find objects.

Organize images into categories by group and folder, locate using a keyword search. Sort by name and change the sorts using icons and the lists. It is easy to find the data — even if the amount of stored data in the palette is huge.

It is possible that DB Palette cannot reproduce and express the information of type party after being modified by an application other than Illustrator CS.

Manufacturer: Baby Universe, Inc.

Get a bundle and save. The Design Collection includes Squizz, Textissimo, and OttoPaths for Adobe Photoshop and Corel PHOTO-PAINT.

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Manufacturer: Human Software Company Inc., The

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StockLayouts' predesigned layouts with stock photos and artwork provide fast and affordable solutions for producing exceptional print marketing materials.

Features:

• exceptional agency-quality design;

• fully customizable layout files with editable linked graphic files;

• high-resolution, royalty-free stock photos and artwork;

• photos are CMYK and 300 DPI resolution;

• illustration and clipart graphics are scalable EPS;

• royalty-free license — use layouts, photos, and artwork with limitations;

• mix and match artwork, stock photos, and layouts to create unique designs without starting from scratch;

• commercial-press ready files;

• colors accurately defined with bleeds pulled out and folds set up; and

• provides suggested copy content for headlines and subheads.

Volume 1 contains:

• 126 design templates in Vol 1, completely designed and ready to go;

• 60 design templates in Vol 2 and 3, completely designed and ready to go;

• 605 graphic elements.

Volume 2 contains:

• 61 template designs, including 15 brochures, 7 newsletters, 8 postcards, 6 ads, 25 stationery and logos; and 421 graphic elements .

Manufacturer: StockLayouts LLC

EXDXF-Pro3 provides you with the capability to import CAD standard DXF files to Adobe Illustrator, and to export AI files to CAD, allowing you to make your data compatible in both applications.

FILTERiT4 provides the ultimate in live features with this collection of Plug-in effects.

New to version 4:

• 3D Transform;

• create images for animation (trace option);

• fractal-ize;

• 13 live effects including live cutout; and

• work directly on the art board (except 3D transform).

Features:

• real-time effects;

• enables the user to work on artwork directly;

• features similar to those in Illustrator but with better functionality;

• tremendous set of power tools;

• incredible speed;

• editing Bezir paths has never been easier;

• seamless integration and clean interface;

• adjustments and changes are made instantly and live;

• compatible with Illustrator 10;

• support for Color Picker on live trail, trail tool, and metabrush tool;

• faster performance with Illustrator 10; and

• minor interface modifications for Mac OS X.

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Manufacturer: CValley, Inc.

FlightCheck Designer (formerly FlightCheck Collect) is a stand-alone application that assists designers as well as service providers in preflighting all major desktop-publishing files.

In addition to OS X compatibility, the new features of FlightCheck Designer include: support for OpenType, TrueType, and Adobe Type 1 fonts; expanded support for a variety of native applications, including Microsoft Word, Publisher, and PowerPoint; the ability to open and verify multiple documents in a single session; and sort lists of colors, fonts, images, and so on with a simple click of the file header.

FlightCheck Designer's simple interface will assist designers in checking digital documents for over 150 potential problems. Obeying FlightCheck Designer's user-definable preferences (called ground controls) the product finds problems with colors, fonts, and images which are the main focus for designers. FlightCheck Designer has the same powerful collection features as the award-winning preflighting application, FlightCheck.

Features:

• enhanced speed;

• Ghent PDF Workgroup rules added to PDF FlightPlan;

• Pass4Press PDF specification check added to PDF FlightPlan; and

• German, Dutch, and French language options in one package.

Supported files and versions:

• QuarkXPress: v. 3.1 - 6.0

• PageMaker: v.4.2 - 7.0

• Photoshop: v.4.0 - 9.0 (CS2)

• Illustrator: v6.0 - 12.0 (CS2)

• FrameMaker: v5.5 - 6.0

• InDesign: v. 1.0 - 4.0 (CS2)

• Acrobat: v. 3.0 - 7.0 (PDF v1.6)

• Microsoft Word: v 2000 - 2002

• Microsoft Publisher: v. 2000 - 2002

• Microsoft PowerPoint: v1997 - 2002

• FreeHand: v7.0 - 11.0 (MX)

• Corel Draw: v8.0 - 9.0

• PostScript Levels I, II, and III.

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Manufacturer: Markzware Software

FlightCheck is the revolutionary stand-alone application that scans documents using a simple drag-and-drop approach to warn of over 150 potential problems, easily and automatically.

FlightCheck scans native document files, even without the application that created it, to eliminate using the eyeball method to check documents. FlightCheck verifies all the documents' elements such as colors, fonts, and images and ensures they are valid. After verification, FlightCheck reports a host of possible problems such as missing images or fonts — even fonts in EPSF files.

FlightCheck watches for problems such as unused spot colors that may result in printing additional plates, fonts that have been stylized from a style menu, image boxes that have a background color of None, RGB, TIFF, and JPG compressed images, and so on. These problems could result in poor printing or worse yet, stop the print job. After the user is ensured all is well, FlightCheck collects all related files into a single job, including images and both screen and printer fonts, and puts them into a special FlightCheck-approved folder.

FlightCheck 5.7 new enhancements are:

• Brand new Ground Control for detecting embedded fonts in native files;

• Improved accuracy for reading Illustrator CS EPS files;

• Improved support for fonts activated through Extensis Suitcase;

• Detection of PANTONE colorized text for both InDesign and QuarkXPress;

• Detection of boxes with a 'Content Of None' in QuarkXPress;

Features:

• Carbon support for Macintosh OS X, including Tiger 10.4;

• PDF FlightPlans include PDF/X-1a and PDF/X-3;

• special PDF object model;

• cross-platform ground controls;

• supports OpenType fonts;

• preflight support for Microsoft Word v4, 5, 6, 8 (Office 2000), and 9 (Office 2001) for both Mac and Windows files;

• enhanced speed;

• Ghent PDF Workgroup rules added to PDF FlightPlan;

• Pass4Press PDF specification check added to PDF FlightPlan;

• German, Dutch, and French language options in one package;

• 70 new views which are essentially the same as the ground controls for colors, fonts, and images (these enable the user to get, for example, a specific list of just TIFF images or TrueType fonts, and zeroing in on (or printing) user-definable specific data;

• four new ground controls for detecting the presence of application-generated clipping paths, ICC Profile usage, PostScript color-space management and ink density (highest pixel value in rasterized TIFF or EPS images); and

• a next problem button has been added to the problems layout (locate the next occurrence of any problems based on the currently selected criteria, and skip pages that do not have any related problems).

Macintosh Supported Applications and Versions:

Supported files and versions:

• QuarkXPress: v. 3.1 - 6.0

• PageMaker: v.4.2 - 7.0

• Photoshop: v.4.0 - 9.0 (CS2)

• Illustrator: v6.0 - 12.0 (CS2)

• FrameMaker: v5.5 - 6.0

• InDesign: v. 1.0 - 4.0 (CS2)

• Acrobat: v. 3.0 - 7.0 (PDF v1.6)

• Microsoft Word: v 2000 - 2002

• Microsoft Publisher: v. 2000 - 2002

• Microsoft PowerPoint: v1997 - 2002

• FreeHand: v7.0 - 11.0 (MX)

• Corel Draw: v8.0 - 9.0

• PostScript Levels I, II, and III.

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Manufacturer: Markzware Software

Enfocus Instant Barcode allows creative professionals to easily create, verify, fix and read barcodes directly within the familiar environment of Adobe Illustrator. It supports the most commonly used barcode system, including EAN-8, ISSN and ISBN making it easy to integrate barcodes in design. Instant Barcode automatically ensures the barcode is of good quality placing it on a white rectangle if needed or warning when it is not properly scaled.

Enfocus Instant PDF 08 makes producing press-ready PDFs easy for creative profes-sionals. Using award-winning Enfocus Certified PDF technology, it's the simplest and most reliable way to create PDFs that comply with your print or advertisement vendors' specifications.

To join the Layouts is one Plug-In for Adobe Illustrator

Joins paths with ending points that fall within a configurable distance. JoinPaths closes paths and suppresses isolated points in Adobe Illustrator or Macromedia Freehand. All paths with at least one point selected are analyzed and joined if one or more selected paths are within the specified distance.

It binds layouts whose extreme points are touched or are close, to a skeletal distance. This functionality applies to the selected layouts, whatever the tool for selection used, i.e. that so only one point of a layout is selected, this layout is considered as a whole selected.

It can also join the extreme points of a layout closes but not closed, whose two ends are superimposed but nondependent.

That makes it possible to take again drawings generated automatically by other software or illustrations badly concues. That regulates also a problem of Illustrator which sometimes refuses to join two points.

It was concu in the beginning to take again layouts generated automatically by drafting packages technical, exported in DXF and reconverted in Illustrator.

With Adobe Illustrator 6, 7, 8 and 10 (under OS X) a pallet allows a faster access to the functions To join the Layouts.

It is this version whose demonstration is downloadable. It does not function with Adobe Illustrator 5.0. The preceding version remains available on request.

Versions compatible with Adobe Illustrator 9 and 10 (OS 9 or OS X) are also available.

MultiPage lets you create multiple pages in Adobe Illustrator and export or print multiple pages with ease.

With Perspective you can quickly draw realistic compositions in Illustrator with amazing speed and accuracy. Create dimensional vector objects in isometric, oblique, or perspective views. Use Perspective drawing tools to make shapes that recede in space, or instantly transform your flat artwork to the sides of objects! You can easily change your view by adjusting the grid and watch your Perspective objects automatically update!

PrintShop Mail is an application for variable printing. PrintShop Mail does only one job. It personalizes layouts. Using familiar layout and database tools, create the layout and manage the necessary data. Then let PrintShop Mail do the rest. The document layout is sent to the RIP only once, and variables (the personalization), text, or graphics are exchanged at high speed.

This technology enables output at a maximum speed on any PostScript printer. The RIP plays an important role in the overall speed of the process. High-volume mailings and sophisticated layouts cannot be created with word processors. In such a solution every single page will be generated, transported over the network, and processed separately before finally being RIP-ed and printed. This might be practical with one hundred addresses, but higher volumes inevitably block the entire production site for hours on end. PrintShop Mail is the answer to that problem.

One of the biggest advantages of PrintShop Mail is the seamless inclusion of colors and fonts into documents. Use any font, in any style, size, and direction (including barcodes and OCR-B fonts). The Macintosh version also allows the user to apply variable images such as signatures and photos.

Features:

• easy personalization;

• employs professional layouts created in QuarkXPress, PageMaker, and other popular applications;

• easy use of data from any database that supports DBF exports;

• prints and personalizes in one step;

• uses color to make mailings more attractive;

• Macintosh version supports variable images;

• optimizes PostScript output;

• evaluates and combines data with a simple command language;

• supports barcodes and OCR-B;

• extended ASCII conversion between Macintosh and Windows, various extended ASCII character sets included;

• splits job functionality; and

• available in Dutch, English, French, German, Spanish, and Japanese.

On the Mac platform the following features were in version 4.X, but are NOT included in version 5:

• No Guidelines

• No Imposition (and no cropmarks)

• Can do Repetition (but don't see little preview window)

• No Hot folders

The Designer version prints only demo pages, but gives the user the opportunity to design a complete variable-data print job. This job can be accepted by the PrintShop Mail provider using the same software, including the option to print up to several numbers of records. The Limited version processes 200,000 records.

Manufacturer: Atlas Software BV

Select, a Plug-in for Photoshop and Corel PHOTO-PAINT provides color corrections without masking. With professional color-correction tools such as multi selective color correction and swap color correction, the user can test and output up to nine sets of color corrections side by side.

The selective color correction is an essential tool, as there is no other way to precisely change the yellow in orange or the blue in green. With Select, easily and accurately apply sophisticated color retouching to RGB or CMYK images within Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Macromedia Freehand, or Corel PHOTO-PAINT.

Select works precisely and very smoothly. View exact results with a proprietary WYSIWYG mechanism. Use exclusive color-correction features such as the unique selective multicolor correction, advanced plate manipulation, and fully adjustable curves as found on high-end color systems and drum scanners.

Easily re-color images in RGB or CMYK, and mask, even the most difficult image, at the same time. Automatic color correction is perfectly smooth on the edge. Use up to six channels for multicolor masks.

Select is visual but precise. Pick a color, select a target color, and adjust the range. Provides exceptional color-display accuracy. Easily perform true selective-color changes on up to six specific colors, with similar controls and capabilities as those available on high-end drum scanners. Select and adjust specific colors without affecting other color densities and eliminate time-consuming masking. Independent-range adjustment per channel, providing for no color break in images.

Features:

• combine colors in a similar fashion as a high-end, prepress workstation such as Scitex;

• easily and quickly manipulate in percentages, a matrix of colors;

• multiply, add, subtract, or combine any color or plates;

• exchange or swap separations, create duotones, tritones, sepia, and more;

• create four-color black and white from color images;

• remove color casting;

• perform custom UCR/GCR;

• create special separations (touch plates);

• from RGB video pictures, adjust the colors;

• easily perform ghost effects using an instant preview of changes in real CMYK or RGB;

• provides preview of the effect plate by plate, and a densitometer reading for perfect control;

• includes a library of effects or customize effects, and save for future or repetitive use;

• four curves adjust global-color correction in any color range of the image with numeric entries;

• instantly preview changes on a CMYK-calibrated display of the original picture and the corrected version, or view channels independently;

• advanced-zoom mechanism enables the user to check, precisely and instantly, color changes in full detail;

• save adjustments for further editing and use on other images; and

• output color corrections side by side.

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Manufacturer: Human Software Company Inc., The