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 While it fixes these errors, Adobe has withdrawn the software update from 13 March, which included support for the formats of several new camera types.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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XChange International, the source for extended technology worldwide, are pleased to announce the immediate availability of MadeToPrint XT for QuarkXPress 7 (Macintosh and Windows) as well as MadeToPrint for InDesign CS/CS2 for Acrobat 8 compatibility. MadeToPrint is an award-winning output organisation tool that provides features such as batch processing, token-based file naming and flexible layer output that go beyond the host application¹s built-in output functionality. More than that, the XTension allows hotfolder based processing of Quark 7 files, thus enabling users to output QuarkXPress documents completely unattended.

MadeToPrint XT was developed to streamline and enhance one of the most neglected but vital aspects of QuarkXPress: printing. At its simplest, MadeToPrint XT combines all the aspects of a given print job into a simple selectable item. These can include: the desired printer on the network, any special settings required for that device, page setup configuration and print dialogue settings‹including custom separation definitions and registration-mark text and placement. Features include the ability to automatically update and relink images before the current Quark document is output.

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Feb 01, 2008 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) — Corel, a developer of graphics, productivity and digital media software, announced that the newest version of its graphics suite, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4, is now fully integrated with Bitstream s WhatTheFont service and ConceptShare, two web applications that accelerate the design process by providing users with online access to font identification and client feedback.

In December, Corel and ConceptShare, a company advancing online collaboration, announced the launch of CorelDRAWConceptShare.com, a site where CorelDRAW users could share designs online and collaborate with clients and colleagues.

With the launch of CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4, the two companies have taken the partnership one step further, introducing the new CorelDRAW ConceptShare docker, an online collaboration tool that is fully integrated within CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4.

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An Astounding New Plug-In for Adding and Designing Borders/Edges/Frames effects, more than 3000 frames and 1200 edges included

NEW MagicFrame 3000 Drawing Tools and Type effects plug-in for Windows XP/Vista or on Mac OS Universal Tiger / Leopard provides easy-to-use effects for all design and web-related projects

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Adding to its line of filter plug-ins for Adobe Photoshop® , Corel PhotoPaint® ,Human Software is now shipping its new release of MagicFrames 3000.

MagicFrames comes as a filter plug-in compatible with applications supporting Adobe Photoshop® 7 and above - including CS3 on Windows or Mac OS X Universal- MagicFrames works great also with Adobe Elements® , Corel PhotoPaint®, Paintshop and more

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Getty’s Images Inc, a global supplier of pictures and video to media and advertising companies, is for sale. The sale could reach a forecasted price of $1.5 billion.

“While the evaluation process, including discussions with various interested parties, is ongoing, there can be no assurance that any transaction will occur,” the company said in a statement.

Getty’s shares soared on Tuesday after it acknowledged it is exploring strategic alternatives.

With the enlistment of investment bank, Goldman Sachs, to facilitate financial advice, several private equity firms have expressed interest in Getty, such as Bain Capital and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.

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Quark Inc. announced the availability of Quark® Deluxe Edition for Education, a complete set of web, print and interactive design tools including QuarkXPress® 7, Quark Interactive DesignerTM, Quark Print Collection and Quark XPert Tools Pro.

“It is important that students and faculty have access to the design tools that will help them be successful in multi-channel creative environments,” said Cherie Walker, director of channel sales for Quark. “The Quark Deluxe Edition for Education is a collection of Quark products for page layout, interactive design and imposition priced to be an exceptional value for individuals and educational institutions.”

QuarkXPress 7 offers designers leading graphic design and page layout capabilities including precise transparency control, Composition Zones® for live collaboration on QuarkXPress documents, compatibility with Mac OS X Leopard and Windows Vista® certification. Combined with Quark Interactive Designer, Quark Print Collection and Quark XPert Tools Pro, Quark Deluxe Edition for Education delivers a power publishing solution in a single box.

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Meadows Publishing Solutions today announced the release of DesignMerge Pro for Adobe InDesign CS3, supporting both Apple® and Windows-based platforms. DesignMerge Pro will provide Adobe InDesign users with sophisticated variable data printing and data publishing features. The modules work within the application, enabling professional mail-merge, variable data printing, and document assembly features. The entire process is database-driven, completely flexible, and very easy to use.

All of the features of Adobe InDesign are available when using DesignMerge software. DesignMerge also supports the most popular VDP output formats including PostScript and PPML, and is fully compatible with systems offered by Canon, Xerox, HP, EFI, and Konica-Minolta, among others.  For more information about DesignMerge technology, please visit http://www.designmerge.com/aboutplugins.

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 Wildform, Inc. today announced the release of Flair, a completely redesigned version of and major upgrade to its award-winning WildPresenter multimedia presentation and rapid e-learning software.

Key elements of the Flair update include:

    * A new interface which provides easier access to all the program’s features and a more intuitive workflow.
    * Support for the PowerPoint 2007 PPTX format. Flair is the only PowerPoint to Flash converter available that creates fully editable files including text, art, animations and transitions.
    * New LMS options that make it easy to add SCORM and AICC tracking to any presentation.
    * The ability to instantly add scrolling text and image boxes.
    * Support for the use of presentation remote controls.
    * Improvements to Flair’s unique tool that automatically combines PowerPoint and video. Now fine-tuning of synchronization is a snap.
    * The ability to create and use presentation templates and multimedia object templates.
    * A scalable timeline.
    * Additional preloader options.
    * The ability to add text boxes to shapes.
    * And many additional work flow enhancements.

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A fully-fledged HTML to RSS converter that offers you an easy way to create and maintain RSS feeds.

 ExtraLabs Software today announces the release of RSS Wizard 3. RSS Wizard is an HTML to RSS converter than can generate the RSS feed out of virtually any web page without having to edit it first. RSS Wizard generates RSS 2.0 feeds and allows you to create, edit and publish an unlimited number of RSS channels. The program has a great collection of features such as the built-in scheduler, autodetecting of RSS tags, command line support, XML editor and built-in FTP client.

The program has been especially developed to meet the needs of both novice and advanced users. Now the RSS Wizard features a built-in scheduler so that now it can function in a 100% automatic mode creating excellent RSS channels without any user assistance.

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Embroidery and decorations technology developer Wilcom International and digital media software provider Corel have collaborated to launch the DecoStudio, a new graphics and embroidery technology for users in the apparel and promotional items industries.

According to the company, DecoStudio offers the ease-of-use for CorelDRAW graphics suite while delivering the digitizing quality of Wilcom ES. With DecoStudio users can combine embroidery and print and can move between vector art and embroidery elements, while keeping everything in one file for production purposes. The company also claimed that the designs can be layered with different techniques including screenprint, direct-to-garment, print embroidery, applique and more.

Martin Kristiaman, chief executive at Wilcom International said: “After surveying our vast user base, we discovered that CorelDRAW was by far the most popular graphics tool for the print and embroidery industry worldwide, so we are truly excited about our partnership with Corel. We believe DecoStudio is a new milestone that benefits the multi-decorations industry and makes it easy for users to visualize and design a creative mix of garment printing, embroidery and applique.”

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Corel Corporation (NASDAQ: CREL; TSX: CRE), a leading developer of graphics, productivity and digital media software, today unveiled the newest version of its award-winning graphics suite, CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite X4. With more than 50 new and significantly enhanced features, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 provides users with the tools, resources and confidence to tackle a wide variety of projects - from logos and Web graphics, to multipage brochures, to high impact signage and digital displays. New text and page-layout enhancements, market-leading file format compatibility, and an expanded collection of high-quality content make this powerful suite the ultimate design partner, helping users turn inspiration into stunning results.

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 Apago Inc., a software developer for the graphic arts and document management industries, today announces the release of PDF Shrink 4.2, a Mac OS X utility for reducing the size of PDF files. PDF Shrink optimizes the content and structure of Free Update Supports Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Adobe Acrobat 8
PDF documents, making them easier to use in email attachments, on the Web, for on-screen reading, for document archiving, and more. Free to registered users of PDF Shrink 4, this update adds the ability to process entire folders of PDF files and improves compatibility with Apple’s Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and Adobe Acrobat 8. Apago will demonstrate PDF Shrink and its professional companion product, PDF Enhancer.

“This update includes full support for Mac OS X 10.5 and Adobe Acrobat 8, and it implements several new features that our users have requested,” states Dwight Kelly, president of Apago. “PDF Shrink is an invaluable tool for reducing the size of PDF files while retaining the maximum quality possible.”

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