COMPANY: Invers Software | URL: www.icalamus.net | TYPE: Standalone | PLATFORM: Mac | PRICE: 129.00 EUR
			iCalamus is a frame-oriented typesetting program for MacOS X which offers an easy approach to DTP. iCalamus is an excellent choice for all layout purposes from simple posters and business letters over complex magazines up to books and scientific works. Complete Unicode support and the smart PDF import offer easy access to creating and layout work. The user interface with its low learning curve guarantees fast success. iCalamus doesn't limit your layout freedom by offering prepared layouts. Its practical tools offer many options for your own creative and productive layout work. iCalamus is a modular program which will grow in the future via external modules, including those from third-party developers. iCalamus has been developed in Objective C with intensive usage of Apple's Cocoa library. You can import all image and text formats which are supported by Mac OS X into iCalamus documents. Images from digital cameras, scanners or iPhoto libraries can be imported as well as whole web page content and PDF documents. Grab text content from large PDF documents easily for further text processing. Elaborated masking options and many predefined, partly dynamically changeable frame shapes offer freedom for creativity. Working in precise measurement units is the other side of the iCalamus world. Use virtual copies for multiple document elements and change them afterwards with a few mouse clicks. Print output uses all printers which are supported by Mac OS X. Optionally output documents in various PDF formats (e.g. PDF-X, encrypted PDF, PDF Fax). iCalamus Features: Contents: * Loads all image formats supported by MacOS X * Loads all text formats supported by MacOS X * Imports image data from scanner * Imports image data from digital camera * Supports all fonts useable with MacOS X * Loads URL based contents (URL or file path) * Snapshot from web pages into frame (as image) * Typeless frames = content defines frame type * Frame and vector shape object are identical (frame shape can be edited as vector object) * Frame shape can be used for clipping * All contents (text, images, graphics) can be output with stepless opacity Output: * Output on printer * Output to PDF file * Exchange via system pasteboard * Drag 'n' drop support * Print marks in bleed area: cut'n'crop marks, color and grayscale controls, info line Support: * Modular system * Unlimited Undo/Redo * Zoom up to 10,000% * Unicode * MacOS X Spell Checking support * Document grid, adjustable * Page guides and guide columns can be defined * Multiple views (in one or more windows, realtime updated!) * User-defined workspaces (Inspectors, visibilities, positions, sizes) can be defined, saved and loaded * Document-specific informations can be saved for Spotlight Tools: * Selection tool (select frames or 'grab points', move) * Vector path edito tool * Rotation tool * Text tool (text editor) * Image tool for easy import of image frames * Freehand vector tool (draws vector paths) * Frame tool (creates typeless frames) * Line shape tool * Hand tool (movings) * Magnifier tool (zoom) Pages: * Double page / Single page mode * Add pages (take layout of existing layout pages optionally) * Remove pages * Move layout pages (resorting) * Assign master pages to layout pages * Manage master pages with indicator colors Layers: * Unlimited number of layers for Layout and master pages * Layers can be added, moved and removed * Layers can be switched visible/invisible * Layers can be protected * Manage layers with indicator colors. Guides of elements in the according layer will then be shown in the indicator color Frames: * Various frame shapes (may be enhanced by plug-ins) * Various line shapes * Various line end types (can be scaled separately) * Corners can be set to Miter/Round/Bevel * Path rotation direction can be defined * Outline can be switched visible/invisible * Outline width can be defined * Outline shape can be used for content clipping optionally * Many vector shapes can be adjusted (e.g. stars with adjustable number of rays) * Gradiation blend colors can be assigned to frame shape and content separately * Gradiation blend angle can be adjusted (for shape and content separately) * Shadow can be defined with transparency, blur radius and offset * Frames can be named Frame handling: * Group frames and ungroup frame groups * Grouped frames are sub elements of frame groups like an image is sub element of a frame * All sub elements of a frame can be accessed by opening the frame (transparent editing) * Frames and vector grab points can be selected at the same time (thus you can operate them simultaneously) * Selected guides can be moved with other selected frames or grab points at the same time * Snapping on various guides (guide grids, page guide columns, 'normal' guides) * Frames can be moved backward and forward in a layer's frame hierarchy) Colors: * Supported color modes: RGB/CYMK * Color gradiation blends with unlimited colors * Colors can be sorted * Colors can be deleted Text styles: * Text styles can be named and managed with indicator colors * Adjustable parameters: font, font size, kerning, fill color * More assignable parameters: underlined, strikethrough, outline, shadow (with adjustable color each), superscript and subscript Text rulers: * Text rulers can be named and managed with indicator colors * Adjustable parameters: horizontal justification, first line indent, line distance, left and right indent, space before and behind paragraphs, fixed or variable line height * Tabulators: left, right, centered, numeric point * Each text ruler can have a text style (paragraph styles) Inspectors: * Context-sensitive inspector for frame contents * Geometry inspector, supporting X/Y/W/H, rotation, mirroring, scaling, shearing and optional geometry protection * Frame inspector offers outline, shape and shadow parameters * Align inspector (supports distribution and alignment) * Textwrap inspector * Color inspector for outline, content color, shadow and text color * Text inspector for creative work without styles * Text style inspector * Text ruler inspector * Page inspector * Layer inspector * Navigator inspector (small overview on current view) * Numbering inspector (free page number formats) Highlights of the current iCalamus update: * NEW: Multiple Paste introduced: If multiple frames are selected, clipboard content can be pasted at once into these selected frames * NEW: 'Paste in Place' and 'Drag and Drop' use a more user-friendly method for creating frames: Frames get an automated size fitting into the visible part of the document * NEW: Alias copies can be converted into physical copies * NEW: The new zoom option 'Fit Sheet in Window' offers to show all pages of the current sheet in optimum size in the window * Pasting RTFD data from system services no longer ignores images * Critical 'no size' frames are fixed when the document is loaded