FitPlot 4.7.0
Device: Mac OS
Category: Graphics & Design
Price: $18.99, Version: 4.5.2 -> 4.7.0 (iTunes)
Description:FitPlot is a simple to use, yet powerful, Mac app which makes easier the daily work with printers and plotters.What FitPlot can do?FitPlot extends the capabilities of your printer devices.In FitPlot you can place, resize, rotate, duplicate, and much more, images and documents of all graphic types (tif, jpg, png, gif, psd, pdf, eps).This is done quickly and accurately, right on the virtual paper on which you are going to print.You can place images of the types listed above, also you can drop images or use the copy / paste directly into the FitPlot page (for example drag and drop from a browser or copy and paste elements from a graphic application).Why to use FitPlot?Because it is an application that is fast, practical and precise at the same time.You can get immediately results achievable only with more expensive programs, and, unlike these, in a much more straight and intuitive way.In addition FitPlot provides a set of specialized tools for every need:• Quick and precise layout: of existing images / PDF or dragged / pasted images (from a browser or another graphic app), exact positioning, duplication, rotation, enlargements and reductions, aligning, batch operations and more…• Packing / nesting of the images: you can fill images in the available space (in a sheet of given width and variable-length [roll] or in one or more sheets of fixed size).• Merging of PDF elements: taking advantage of the transparency to white, characteristic of the PDF, you can merge, for example, a sheet of letterhead paper (PDF) with the raw text of a letter and export the resulting image in a new PDF to be sent for e-mail.• Imposition: given a multipage PDF, you can arrange the pages on the canvas so that, after print, folding and trimming, you get a brochure fully paginated.• Create posters of any size composing the pieces printed on single sheets, taking care of print margins and overlaps.• Resizing scale drawings: you can translate a drawing scale into another easily. You can even determine the drawing scale just knowing one real dimension in the drawing.• Last minute image retouch: raster images in a FitPlot document can be adjusted directly. You can adjust brightness, contrast, saturation, exposure, tinte and color space.• Print log: FitPlot keeps a chronology (log) of print jobs it has performed. Each print is a (record) that keeps all is needed to quantify the job: page size, copies, date, inserted files, sheet coverage area.• Lessons / examples showing the program usage are published on a dedicated YouTube channel:http://www.youtube.com/user/FitPlot/videos
What's New
• ICD: [ink coverage density] testify the ink coverage per square unit (density), and is useful to calculate the analytic cost of a printing.• Log Browser panel. Now it is possible to see the print jobs log directly inside FitPlot, having a look at all those parameters that are useful to make bills, statistics and so on.• Pages Browser panel. Starting with this version, FitPlot offers a utility panel for browsing pages in a multipage FitPlot document. The panel replaces the pop over of the previous version and the drawer of the oldest versions. The advantage is that the new panel can permanently stay in front even when editing the document, since it can count on a very optimized refreshing.• Other improvings1. Fit to object view and general re-organization of the view menu2. Sandbox dialog (when opening file) can now be cancelled3. Progress bar (with long operations) is more reliable• Bug fixing1. Corrected bug in the log folder selection (printers panel).2. Corrected error in the size / resolution computations in the image adjust panel3. Corrected bug when selecting white as background color in the preferences panel.4. Other minor bug fixed
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