Corel Corporation today announced the launch of its brand new partner information portal, Corel Partners www.corelpartners.co.uk. Corel Partners is the ‘go to’ portal for indirect channel sales, where partners can find the latest product information, marketing collaterals, information on loyalty and co-operative campaigns as well as tactical sales incentives from Corel.

Powered by RelayWare™ relationship management software by Foundation Network Ltd., Corel Partners is a centralised information service that enables Corel to effectively communicate with its diverse range of partners, including distribution, retail, retail, corporate, academic, and reseller partners across EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa). Read the rest of this entry »

PORTLAND, Ore.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–onOne Software, Inc., a leading developer of time-saving solutions for professional and advanced amateur photographers, today announced a new version of Photo Essentials 3 for Adobe Photoshop Elements. onOne Photo Essentials 3 is a collection of five tools that painlessly correct color, remove unwanted backgrounds, add photographic effects and enlarge photos. These easy-to-use tools help photography enthusiasts get the job done quickly and easily in Adobe® Photoshop® Elements.

Supporting the new Adobe Photoshop Elements 8.0, onOne’s Photo Essentials 3.0 offers these capabilities:

* New Photo Essentials Palette – The Palette provides quick access to all five modules from a single location right inside Photoshop Elements. Read the rest of this entry »

The new version of the font management software solution developed by Linotype comes with support for the Snow Leopard operating system. In addition to the support for Mac OS X 10.6x, FontExplorer X Pro 2.0.3 brings several enhancements to allow users check the languages supported by a specific character set of a font, while providing a way to clear the font cache directly when working with the QuarkXPress 8 graphic design software. Read the rest of this entry »

Quark has announced the release of QuarkXPress 8.1, an update available as a free download to existing users.

The QuarkXPress 8.1 update improves PDF output capabilities and introduces features that make the page layout process even more intuitive and productive says Quark.

Additionally, QuarkXPress 8.1 introduces a ‘Native Transparency’ mode for creating PDFs, which can offer designers faster and more flexible PDF output support and provide greater control over the PDF workflow process. Read the rest of this entry »

For years, Microsoft had it easy. The two busiest groups within the software behemoth were the accountants, adding up all the billions in profits, and the CD/DVD burning team, which simply had to burn more copies of Windows and Office to keep up with demand.

Today, life is a little less rosy for Microsoft, as it calls out in its recent 10-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. As TechFlash highlights, Google Android is now called out by Microsoft as a competitor, as are Apple, Opera, and Google in browsers, whereas only Mozilla was deemed worthy of Microsoft’s competitive glare in 2008. Read the rest of this entry »

X-Rite, Incorporated (NASDAQ: XRIT), the world leader in color management, measurement and communication technologies, and its wholly owned subsidiary Pantone, the global authority on color and provider of professional color standards for the design industries, today announced plans for the upcoming Print 09 trade show (booth #6939, McCormick Place South, Chicago, IL, September 11-16 2009). The companies will unveil new products and demonstrate how latest X-Rite/Pantone line of design, prepress and print solutions can help customers achieve their color everywhere, fast. Read the rest of this entry »

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) has introduced Adobe Acrobat 9 software, a significant upgrade that will transform the process of creating and sharing electronic documents. Acrobat 9 delivers native support for Adobe Flash® technology, the ability to unify a wide range of content in rich PDF Portfolios, and access to real-time capabilities for co-navigating a PDF document with colleagues. Read the rest of this entry »

QuarkXPress® 8, is the next major release of the industry standard page-layout and design software that revolutionised publishing more than 20 years ago QuarkXPress 8 offers users an enhanced design experience. The new, intuitive interface delivers updates that allow for more design with fewer clicks. For example: Read the rest of this entry »

Adobe has announced Acrobat 9 Pro, an updated version of its PDF-creation software. The software is also available as part of the new Creative Suite 3.3, which adds the software to the previously-available Design Premium, Design Standard, Web Premium and Master Collection bundles.

The Design Premium suite gains the Fireworks CS3 Web graphics and site prototyping tool, and all versions ship with a bonus seven-hour Total Training DVD (Adobe CS3 Design Workflow).

Acrobat 9 Pro costs £425, or £145 as an upgrade. The software is also available as Acrobat 9 Extended for £619 (or £245 as an upgrade) — which includes support for 3D CAD formats — or Acrobat 9 Standard for £245 (£99 as an upgrade), which is aimed at large companies using corporate Read the rest of this entry »

Exstream software by HP, which provides enterprise software solutions for businesses around the world, has signed an agreement with Pantone – to streamline document creation processes. It may be noted that – Pantone is a provider of professional color standards for the graphics, fashion, interior, and industrial design. Read the rest of this entry »

SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced that the new Adobe® Acrobat® 9 Pro software (see separate release issued today) will be integrated into Adobe Creative Suite® 3.3 Design Premium and Standard editions, Creative Suite 3.3 Web Premium and Creative Suite 3.3 Master Collection editions. Adobe Creative Suite 3.3 Design Premium also includes Adobe Fireworks® CS3 as a special offering for designers who need to rapidly prototype and generate Web sites. This powerful update to Adobe’s industry-standard design and development software gives designers, Web professionals and print service providers new ways to create and deliver engaging content. Read the rest of this entry »

Students can obtain QuarkXPress® 7 (plus Quark Interactive Designer™ and Quark XPert Tools Pro) totally FREE of charge. They can use it at home for the full academic year, provided their school purchases the Quark School Unlimited User License priced at £1,750 excluding VAT.This offer is only available until 30th April 2008

Here’s how it works:1 Order the site license QUK-122922-S
2 Add QUK-123991 to the order, plus a contact within the school responsible for managing the student licenses
3 The contact within the school directs the students to download the software at:
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If your prepress shop is like most shops, you will have a spectrophometer from X-Rite kicking. It may have a layer of dust on the case from being on the shelf for a number of years, but you have one.

Many shops have an Eye-One, it virtually comes with every Prinergy system nowadays. You should use it to calibrate your Matchprint although many shops just calibrate it once and then stick it in a corner.

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The 1.4 update for Adobe’s Lightroom and the 4.4 update for Camera Raw, the Photoshop Raw importer, contain a number of errors. These relate to the way that Lightroom deals with the EXIF time stamp, the conversion of raw data to the open-source DNG format and the conversion of Olympus files. While it fixes these errors, Adobe has withdrawn the software update from 13 March, which included support for the formats of several new camera types. In the Adobe Blogs Lightroom Journal,Tom Hogarty from the Lightroom team recommends users who have already updated to uninstall the update and reinstall Lightroom 1.3.1 on their Windows-PC or Mac.

The EXIF error causes Lightroom 1.4 to incorrectly modify the EXIF time stamp in the original raw file, although the information written to the XMP sidecar files remains correct. Apart from this, the raw data itself is not affected by the errors. Lightroom also reports an error when converting Olympus JPDG photos.

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While Microsoft is looking to convince developers and consumers alike to try Silverlight, the alternative to Adobe’s Flash, the incumbent has made some strides of its own.

Adobe Systems Inc. has released the first version of its widely anticipated Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) cross-operating system runtime along with updates of its Flex framework for Windows and Mac platforms. The release of AIR is expected to let Web developers use their existing skills to build rich Internet applications (RIAs) for the desktop, smart clients and browsers.

AIR is a technology long in coming. Under development at Macromedia, AIR was acquired along with Flex, Coldfusion and Dreamweaver when Adobe acquired the developer tools company in 2005 for $3.4 billion.

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 Adobe is pleased to announce the release of the first Beta version of Digital Editions 1.5.

You can find it here

    The Beta is an opportunity for customers to test and provide feedback to Adobe on new features and compatibility with their digital publications.

    The key feature of Digital Editions 1.5 is the addition of new DRM support that provides “content portability” across computers and devices that you authorize with your Adobe ID.

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Major Upgrade Features Improved Interface, Faster Browsing & Enhanced Image Processing

 Apple® today introduced Aperture™ 2, the next major release of its groundbreaking photo editing and management software with over 100 new features that make it faster, easier to use and more powerful. With a streamlined user interface and entirely new image processing engine, Aperture 2 also introduces new imaging tools for highlight recovery, color vibrancy, local contrast definition, soft-edged retouching, vignetting and RAW fine-tuning, and lets users directly post their portfolios on the .Mac Web Gallery* for viewing on the web, iPhone(TM), iPod(R) touch and Apple TV®. At a new low price of $199, anyone can easily organize, edit and publish photos like a pro.

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 Bare Bones Software, developer of leading-edge power tools for Mac OS X, today released Yojimbo 1.5.1.

Yojimbo 1.5.1 is a maintenance update that includes fixes for various reported issues to this popular, easy to use information organizer. Yojimbo 1.5.1 requires Mac OS X 10.4.3 or later, and is compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). An update is available free of charge to all registered Yojimbo customers from the Bare Bones Software web site:

http://www.barebones.com/support/updates.shtml

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Scribus is an open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OS/2 and Windows desktops with a combination of “press-ready” output and new approaches to page layout.

Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation.
Download the Latest Scribus v1.3.3.11

Download ScribusThis stable release adds the following:
Several fixes and improvements to text frames and the Story Editor.
New Arabic Translation.
More translation and documentation updates.
Many improvements to PDF Forms exporting and non-Latin script handling in PDFs.
Several fixes to protect against possible crashes.
Improved Color Managed Display in some cases.
Some fixes to the Scripting plugin.

iRite by WebAssist achieves unparalleled cross-browser rich text editing in Dreamweaver.

Encinitas (PRWEB) January 24, 2008 — WebAssist today announced iRite™, a groundbreaking solution for Dreamweaver users that delivers the ability to edit text for web pages in the same way that you would edit text using a word processor like Microsoft Word. Bringing a familiar editing paradigm to Dreamweaver will provide users, of varying skill levels, a comfortable alternative to editing text by hand or through complicated HTML tags.

Without the rich text editor capabilities that iRite brings to the table, all the formatting and HTML coding has to be added manually in an additional process.

Based on the highly popular FCKeditor open source project, iRite allows formatted content to be brought over directly to text fields in Dreamweaver, or text can be formatted in Dreamweaver using the point-and-click menu that provides all the same features as word processing programs.

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