Corel Corporation, a leading developer of graphics, productivity and digital media software, today announced the launch of PhotoImpact� X3, its award-winning digital photo editing software. PhotoImpact X3 combines easy-to-use photo editing, inspiring photo projects and amazing digital art to make digital photography and image creativity fun, fast and easy.

PhotoImpact is designed for the family memory keeper and the graphic arts hobbyist with its quick, effective photo enhancement tools and fun photo projects. Graphics hobbyists can paint, draw and experiment for hours while video enthusiasts can take their projects to the next level by exporting DVD menus from PhotoImpact directly into Corel’s DVD MovieFactory and VideoStudio.”

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Quark Inc. announced today Quark(R) Labs, a new portal featuring innovative QuarkXPress(R) 7 XTensions(R) that are not initially being released as commercial products. Designed as a testing ground for QuarkXPress technology and a community for QuarkXPress users and developers, Quark Labs offers free access to technology previews, proofs of concept and both new and familiar XTensions.

The new XTensions featured on Quark Labs are built to enhance a user’s experience with QuarkXPress 7 and increase productivity by automating common user actions. The XTensions on Quark Labs include Welcome Screen, Image Drag and Drop 1.0b, and ShadowCaster 3.3.

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Adobe Systems Inc. announced that Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 software for Macintosh is available for an estimated street price of US$89.99.

The software is available for pre-order at the website www.adobe.com/go/buyphotoshop_elements_mac.

According to the company, the new features based on proprietary Photomerge technology let users easily combine the best facial expressions and body language from a series of shots to create a single, perfect group shot. The new Quick Selection Tool reduces the time-consuming select-and-adjust task to a single click, Adobe noted.

The company said the Photoshop Elements 6 software offers creative options to tell stories in fun and engaging ways. Customizable layouts let users create scrapbook pages, photo books, greeting cards and burn to CD/DVD for high impact sharing that requires no previous experience.

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New, free tool supported by the Kuler community provides Dreamweaver users with latest access to colors
 WebAssist today announced the release of the free Dreamweaver Tools for Kuler, enabling instant access to the most recent, popular, or highest-rated colors and palettes right within Dreamweaver. With development contributions and support from the Adobe Kuler community, users can now experience the best in color choices and palette selections through Dreamweaver Tools for Kuler.

Kuler is the Adobe web application for designers to create, explore, and share color schemes. WebAssist’s Dreamweaver Tools for Kuler enables users to get the latest colors and sample colors from any Dreamweaver color picker. In addition, users can now insert a hex color value into code with a single mouse click.

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Pageflex 6.0: Providing the Tools to Produce Full-Featured Cross Media Campaigns with Less Hands-On Work
New Pageflex Campaign Manager produces personalized documents in print and digital formats, then seamlessly links cross media messages into a coordinated campaign

 Pageflex, a division of Bitstream Inc. (NASDAQ: BITS, www.bitstream.com) and a leading developer of enterprise variable publishing and web-to-print solutions, today announced the availability of Pageflex 6.0. This release builds on the Pageflex tradition of customer-focused innovation, and provides users with a comprehensive solution for creating, producing, and managing marketing campaigns. Pageflex 6.0 gives marketers an easy and robust way to track and analyze all aspects of their campaigns, providing them with the critical information needed to evaluate the return on their marketing investment. This release includes three new capabilities:

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Free update from Boris FX supports Apple Leopard and Windows Vista OS
DMN Newswire–2008-1-8– Boris FX, the leading developer of integrated effects technology for video and film, today made available Boris Title Toolkit 1.1. Boris Title Toolkit is a high-quality, titling plug-in for Adobe’s After Effects application. The new Boris point release enables Adobe After Effects (Adobe CS 3) artists to use the Boris Title Toolkit plug-in with new operating systems from Apple (Leopard) and Microsoft (Windows Vista). The update is offered as a free electronic download for existing Boris Title Toolkit 1.0 customers (www.borisfx.com).

“We are happy to update our award winning text tools for Adobe After Effects customers. Boris Title Toolkit is an excellent complement to the text options included within Adobe After Effects CS3 package,” comments Boris Yamnitsky, founder and president, Boris FX.

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XChange International, the source for extended technology worldwide, are pleased to announce the release of a new bundle of the popular Markzware Conversion Tools. The Conversion Tools Bundle includes award-winning Plug-ins for Adobe InDesign and XTensions software for QuarkXPress. Q2ID (QuarkXPress to InDesign), PUB2ID (Microsoft(R) Publisher(R) to InDesign) and ID2Q (InDesign to QuarkXPress) save users both time and money by converting documents to other formats automatically. The Conversion Tools Bundle saves users 20% off the normal retail price of the included products if purchased separately and the special offer expires 29th February, 2008.

Q2ID is a plug-in for converting documents from QuarkXPress(R) to InDesign(R) format. Q2ID now includes Universal Binary support as well as CS3 compatibility.

The plug-in is designed for use by Service Bureaus, Translation Services, Data Conversion Specialists, and other users migrating to the Adobe InDesign platform. The product can convert Quark documents created with either the Microsoft(R) Windows(R) or Apple(R) Macintosh(R) versions of QuarkXPress into Adobe InDesign for Macintosh format. The repurposed legacy content from Quark files preserves the content, pages, layers, look and feel of the original document.

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Zevrix Solutions announces the release of BatchOutput 3.0, a major update to its popular professional solution to automate output from Adobe InDesign. BatchOutput allows users to automatically print multiple InDesign documents, as well as output them to PDF, PostScript, EPS and JPEG. In addition to new output formats, the new version provides compatibility with Mac OS X Leopard, sortable file list and other improvements.

Toronto (ON), Canada - January 7, 2008 - Zevrix Solutions announces the release of version 3.0 of BatchOutput, a major update to its popular professional solution to automate printing and export to PDF, PostScript, EPS and JPEG from Adobe InDesign.

BatchOutput automates printing and output of multiple InDesign documents to various formats using output presets or custom settings. It allows users to output multipage InDesign documents as single pages, change job name in printer queue, suppress the output warnings, and open files invisibly for the user. BatchOutput also automatically composes complex variable file names, which makes it equally indispensable for output of single documents.

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Tim Sheahan, printweek.com,

XChange International has unveiled updates for two of its popular software titles, BatchOutput and MBC4.

Output automation software BatchOutput automatically prints and exports to a range of formats including PDF, PostScript, EPS and InDesign.

New features in version 3.0 include compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, the ability to export to JPEG and EPS files and the option to overwrite output files with the same name.

Barcode utility MBC4 is available as a universal binary for the first time. The software produces barcodes as EPS files for use in a range of applications, including QuarkXPress, Photoshop, FreeHand and Illustrator.

As well as featuring new barcode types and greater support for the special features of EAN/UCC 128 barcodes, more than 200 barcode types are included in the package.

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Windows, Linux users should download new Player; Apple patched Mac OS X’s version Monday
 (Computerworld) — Adobe Systems Inc. patched its Flash Player earlier this week, fixing nine critical vulnerabilities that hackers could use to attack Windows, Mac and Linux machines.

“Multiple input validation errors have been identified in Flash Player 9.0.48.0 and earlier that could lead to the potential execution of arbitrary code,” Adobe said in the advisory posted on the company’s site. “These vulnerabilities could be accessed through content delivered from a remote location via the user’s Web browser, e-mail client or other applications that include or reference the Flash Player.”

Danish vulnerability tracker Secunia ASP collectively tagged the nine bugs as “highly critical,” its second-from-the-top threat ranking.

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Vulnerability identifier: APSB07-20

CVE number: CVE-2007-6242, CVE-2007- 4768, CVE-2007-5275, CVE-2007- 6243, CVE-2007- 6244, CVE-2007- 6245, CVE-2007-4324, CVE-2007- 6246, CVE-2007-5476

Platform: All platforms

Affected software versions: Adobe Flash Player 9.0.48.0 and earlier, 8.0.35.0 and earlier, and 7.0.70.0 and earlier.
Summary

Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Flash Player that could allow an attacker who successfully exploits these potential vulnerabilities to take control of the affected system. A malicious SWF must be loaded in Flash Player by the user for an attacker to exploit these potential vulnerabilities. Users are recommended to update to the most current version of Flash Player available for their platform.
Affected software versions

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XChange International announce release of PhotoSpray 1.8 for Adobe Photoshop or Photoshop Elements

XChange International, the source for extended technology worldwide, are pleased to announce the release of PhotoSpray 1.8. PhotoSpray is an Adobe® Photoshop® or Adobe Elements® plug-in that offers the ability to spray pictures on top of any RGB photos or layers. This method of painting lets users brush sets of images on top of any photo.

Brushes can be adjusted through a variety of parameters, ideal for photo-realistic painting. PhotoSpray ships with Sprayettes Volume I, a collection of more than 50 realistic-sprays including plants, flowers, leaves, trees, bushes, rocks, clouds, geometrical objects, balls, etc. Additional sprays may be added with Volumes 2 through 4, each volume a collection of 100 new sprays.

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Markzware today announced the release of FlightCheck v6.10, the company’s flagship prepress application that manages quality control of digital files destined for print or electronic distribution. Version 6.10 comprises numerous improvements and updates, including enhanced preflighting speed — up to four times faster than previous versions. The solution now recognizes QuarkXPress 7 files, and appropriately reports on font paths. In addition, improvements have been made to the software’s PDF Ground Controls. And a new ‘Get More’ button found in the Ground Controls pop-up menu, enables users to immediately access and download pre-defined Ground Controls based on output intentions and file specifications. [ Price: US$499 ~ Requires: Mac OS X 10.4 or later ~ Demo available ]

Now Accepts Images, Plus Dramatically Faster Search Makes Finding Information Effortless

Bare Bones Software, developer of leading-edge power tools for Mac OS X, today released Yojimbo 1.5, the effortless information organizer, now with support for image files.

This new version significantly improves on Yojimbo’s searching and filtering performance. Spotlight search results are also more complete, thanks to indexing of additional item properties, including tags. Yojimbo 1.5 also includes fixes for various reported issues and adds other refinements to this reliable, easy to use information organizer.

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The software is intended for use with Photoshop CS2 or CS3 running on Windows XP or Windows Vista.

By Paul McDougall - InformationWeek
December 7, 2007 04:25 PM

Microsoft on Friday released for download the final version of a plug-in that allows users of Adobe Photoshop digital imaging software to work with files created in Microsoft’s new HD Photo format.

The plug-in is intended for use with Photoshop CS2 or CS3 running on Windows XP or Windows Vista. Use with other versions or platforms aren’t officially supported, Microsoft said.

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Adobe today quickly released the expected update to both the Mac and Windows versions of Photoshop Lightroom to version 1.3.1. Earlier this week the company had promised the update sometime next week.

Highlights of the update include:

• The Lightroom 1.3 Print Module could previously cause the application to crash on either OS X 10.5 or 10.5.1 during template usage.

• On Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.5.1, the import process from a card reader or other device into Lightroom could fail to import all or a portion of the selected images.

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A PDF creation tool that gives you control over file size and resolution, allows PDF password security, supports PDF/A-1b archive format, and more at a low cost.

Redmond, WAshington, December 01, 2007. Solid Documents, a leading provider of document utility products, today announced the release of Solid PDF Creator version 2.0. In addition to improvements to PDF creation quality, version 2 features support encryption, document properties and output to standard PDF or PDF/A-1b archive compliant format and much more.

“We offer functionality and simplicity at an affordable price,” said Michael Cartwright, CEO of Solid Documents. “When it comes to working with documents, we all want simple, affordable solutions. Solid PDF Creator provides a great PDF creation solution without requiring that you pay a fortune.”

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SAN JOSE, Calif.–Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) announced the Adobe® Flash® Media Server 3 family of products, which offers streaming media and real-time communication capabilities to the broadest possible audience. With industry standard H.264 video capabilities and High Efficiency AAC (HE-AAC) audio support, Adobe Flash Media Server 3 provides content owners with increased protection for streaming high quality video and allows for the delivery of interactive media applications that work consistently across multiple browsers and operating systems. Adobe Flash Media Server 3 provides a more efficient instant-on video experience virtually anytime, anywhere – to the Web, the desktop with Adobe Media Player and to mobile devices with Adobe Flash Lite™ 3. With new pricing options, customers have a wide array of choices for the broadcasting of high quality streaming media experiences.

“Adobe’s award-winning Flash technology is driving the shift from traditional media consumption to engaging interactive experiences,” said John Loiacono, senior vice president of Creative Solutions at Adobe. “By offering the Flash Media Server 3 product line coupled with new pricing options, Adobe is reducing the barrier to entry for content owners who want to deliver streaming video or real-time communications online. Whether they opt for interactive social media services or linear streaming, our customers can feel confident that their media is more secure and that the end-user experience is the highest quality.”

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OTTAWA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Corel Corporation (NASDAQ:CREL; TSX:CRE), a leading developer of graphics, productivity and digital media software, announced that it has partnered with ConceptShare Inc., an emerging leader in online collaboration. www.CorelDRAWConceptShare.com, launched today, will be the first project in a five year partnership between the two companies. This new online tool enables designers to easily share their work with other designers, colleagues or clients, providing a more dynamic and collaborative experience, while accelerating the design process.

CorelDRAWConceptShare.com helps designers and clients by making it easier to review concepts, make adjustments and complete projects faster. By moving consultations online, CorelDRAWConceptShare.com also saves time and money by eliminating the need to travel for face-to-face meetings. In addition, discussions about visual concepts are centralized, improving information flow and the speed of decision making between designers and their key stakeholders.

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