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March 13 2008
Stone Works™ March 13 2008 - 17 apps, a widget & a video screen saver
All Universal - Leopard ready - download now!
This release tested against shipping Leopard.
All apps feature a streamlined licensing mechanism.
Applications will launch between twice and 100 times faster!
- Contains:
- Applications launch twice as fast!
- Absolutely and Finally fixes 'License Limit Exceeded' problem on Leopard
- The problem was resolved at a system level (Yes, it was an Apple bug!)
Create® 14.2.2 Eighth year of free upgrades for our registered users!
Features & Fixes in this release
Licenser is between twice and a 1000 times faster!
Copy multiple graphics/text in Safari - Paste into Create
- Create can now accept multiple graphics and text that are copied from Safari or TextEdit
- this is useful for quickly loading the elements of a page into a Create document - and the links come along!
The custom CSS field in Info -> Web and Info -> Object for Table Group has an OK button
- it's active when you have made edits to the Graphic's custom CSS
- Note that choosing statements from the CSS popup automatically saves changes
Selecting any .html file in a folder when making Web Pages no longer asks about replacing but just uses
the folder the .html file is in to output the new web pages, overriding as needed.
Applescript 'exportselection' uses transparent background on PNG, GIF and TIFF
Save as Applescript... opens correctly in Script Editor now
Scripts -> Grab Forms from Web Page : this new script will let you enter one or more web addresses
it will find any forms on those pages and add them to Create as "EMBED" objects.
Added 'target="top"' to the Script field on Info -> Web
Added "#" (this document) to URL field (good if you want to add Script to this object!)
Web -> Web Templates : great starting points for making your websites!
Every color well has a new handy magnifying glass to quickly pickup a color
Objects now show pop-up alignment lines when centers are aligned as well as edges
Round Boxes are truly round now - so you can make lozenges very easily!
Page Info and Table Group Info now have handy popup for background images
- Library -> Images now has a subfolder "Backgrounds" that are loaded into these popups
- Hold down COMMAND key while choosing one to reveal Backgrounds folder in the Library
Page will let now you tile the background image in both X and Y, just X or Y or just once
With CSS Only, you can fix any object to the browser so it doesn't scroll when the browser scrolls
- Info -> Web "Fixed Position" with the graphic selected
- If you want to center it horizontally, add this custom CSS to the object's custom CSS:
left="auto"
With CSS Only, you can add any custom CSS to any object!
- Info -> Web with the graphic selected - add your own.
- Note the handy popup button to the right of the text with some presets.
With CSS Only, you can add fancy borders to Table Groups
- Info -> Object, select a Table Group and click "Enable CSS" if need be
- You can set border style, color, width and which borders appear
- Styles include: double, dashed, dotted, dotDashed, dotDotDashed, inset, outset, ridge, grooved, and solid
- You can also set how Table images repeat: once, tiled, tile x or tile y
- You can also set the "Fixed Position" of the table to the browser
- You can also add any custom CSS that you want to the table
- Use the handy popup to the right of the text for presets.
Turning text into splines has two new features:
- If you hold down SHIFT key while selecting Objects -> Make Into Spline, individual character parts are separate objects
- The extra MoveTo point that appeared in Leopard no longer appears!
PDF & EPS display follow the Preference -> Images -> High/Low quality selection
- Choose "Low" Quality if you need greater rendering speed
- Choose "High" Quality if you need greater rendering accuracy at high zooms
- (note this does not affect printing which is always the highest quality)
EPS saves and prints to PDF at full resolution regardless of viewing quality
Hi-resolution images saves and prints to PDF at full resolution regardless of viewing quality
No Logo switch is obeyed even by pages with their own custom HTML
Centered CSS Only web output is now truly centered
QuickTime Movies play in Table Groups now and work even if you move the underlying
Images that have text wraparound layout more accurately in Web pages
We believed we've finally fixed the problem with the Licenser (it was in a system level call not us, I swear!)
if you were getting the 'License Exceeded' panel - then grab this version!
New Photo Browser Features:
- Limit by Folder Popup - choose a folder to limit photos to just those in that folder
(this is great if you have tons of folders in your photo browser)
- Reload button to reload every folder containing the images in your browser
(this is good if you've meanwhile added more images to your folders)
Command-click on an Info dark grey title bar to open all or close all sub infos
- this can quickly "clean up" having many open info sub panels
3 new clip arts: Saturn, Jupiter and Uranus in Tools -> Library Resources -> Art
CSS Only documents with layers respect ordering of all items from layers
Escape key clears selection on a page (or ends editing if editing a text block)
Arrow Keys nudge objects even if Info is key window (instead of hearing a Beep!)
Rotated Fills work on Text Along Path objects now
Add Guides Applescripts will add the guides to a master layer if you are on a master layer
- this makes it much easier to modify if you need to because you need to do it only once
Envelope Applescript works properly again
Arrow editor shows tick marks the same way as document now
PDF documents with file extension "PDF" load the same as those with extension "pdf"
CreateDocUpgrader works better on ancient NeXTSTEP Create files
Fixes the 'License Limit Exceeded' problem on Leopard
CSS Only documents can now have centered content
Updating external CSS files that are added to a document get correctly updated in web output
Setting "Other..." line spacing or list on subsequent pages of a text block chain works now
Lists now output to HTML correctly on Leopard
Release Notes window autocloses when you open a new or existing document
If you do not want new documents to offset their location - you can set this hidden default:
defaults write com.stone.Create DoNotCascadeWindows YES
Application Features
- Address Book Merge Features
- You can add Address Book Fields (ABF) anywhere in your document for merging
- Choose Object -> Add Address Fields... to insert these into text blocks
- Choose File -> Merge with Addresses... to create merged document
There are three possible merge styles for merging addresses:
- into one new document (easy to print!)
- into new document for each person selected (perhaps for archiving)
- many per page (like labels)
- Format -> Auto Guides... can layout guides for newsletters or label templates instantly!
- 14.1 works on Panther/Jaguar as well as Tiger/Leopard
- Easy drag-on licensing
- Leopard Ready :
- Latest Leopard Look to document windows
- QuickLook and CoverFlow viewing of documents in Finder
- Take Snapshots and add effects: Tools -> Snapshot / Choose Image...
- Photo Browser can load thousands of photos for instant retrieval: Tools -> Photo Browser
- Launch time is much faster now
- Release Notes window now gives you instant access to recents, art, help, support, forum and other resources
- With multiple objects selected, resizing any object will resize all of them by the same amount
- Neighbor Alignment guides appear automatically when you create, move or resize objects
- Option-Drag to copy an object:
- with Shift key aligns to original object in largest delta axis
- Shows a ghost of where shifted object will end up
- shows the alignment lines with other objects
- Dragging art and images from Library shows the full image/art during the drag
- More Align/Distribution of Objects Features:
- Align & Distribute panel has new option: "Gap" to distribute objects' interspacing evenly along either axis
- Format -> Align and Size -> Distribute Evenly (Command-Option-i)
distributes the objects with an even gap on the axis with the largest gap
- New Align Widget in Toolbar with 9 functions! See its tool tips.
- Make Same Width (Control-w) and Make Same Height (Control-h) have command keys
Document Features
- Create autosaves documents in Tiger and beyond
- in the unlikely event that Create crashes, you won't lose your work
- Change the interval or turn it off in Preferences -> Document -> Autosave Every:
- Saving and opening files is much faster and file sizes greatly reduced
- Compress Document for even better performance
- Turn this on in Preferences -> Document -> Smallest & Fastest
- By default, this feature is off for maximum backward compatibility
- Choose File -> Export "Create pre Version 14.0" to make pre V 14.0 compatible file if feature is on
- Pasted images are stored internally as files, not in the XML:
- which makes saving much faster
- and documents can be much smaller in file size
- First save converts all inline images to embedded files
- New Menu Item: File -> Save Other -> Save to Templates...
- lets you save a document to the Templates folder for easy access from File -> New from Template
- Your Pages library will also be updated
- File -> New from Template submenus will get updated afterwards
- Adding a file to your Page library also updates the Templates menu
- New Command Keys for working with pages:
- Add Page: Command-Control-a
- Insert Page: Command-Control-Shift-a
- Duplicate Page: Command-Control-Option-a
Web Features
- 100% Pure CSS positioning instead of tables in HTML now possible!
- Turn on in Web -> Web Options, "Misc", "CSS Only" switch
- Available on a per page basis as well in Info -> Web, "More..", "Options" pane
- You should probably also check XHTML for best compliance
- Each page produces a pos_[html_name].css with exact layout for each element
Benefits:
- You can overlap any items you want now with this on!
- Front to back ordering is the same as in the document (z-order)
- HTML Source is very readable and easy to change by hand
- Fixed Size Text (see below) will automatically get a scroller if there's more text than can fit into the size of the box
Disadvantages:
- may not work on ancient browsers
- Center in Table doesn't work since positioning is absolute
- Still working out the details - work in progress!
Web Resource enhancements:
- Dragging from Web Resources icon well to Slice And Dice will link that slice to the resource
- this is like dragging a page from Master Layers' well, but for resources
- Dragging from Web Resources icon well to editing Text selection puts a link on that Text to the resource
- Output resources into a "photos" and "gallery" folders as well as resources and images/li>
- PNG files dropped into Create are automatically added to the Web Resources as well as GIFs/li>
- Hint - if you want all images to be automatically added (if you haven't scaled them), set this hidden default:
defaults write com.stone.Create AddWebImagesToResourcesOnDragIn YES
- Images dragged in from Safari to Web Resources are now correctly added
- Double-click the file icon to reveal it in Finder
- Add arbitrary code before any other html, for example for PHP code like WebYep:
defaults write com.stone.Create BeforeHTML "Any valid string of html in quotes"
Hint: Convert any embedded " to ' and use PreferenceCommander to do this from a GUI
- If you want images placed into a folder other than "images", set this hidden default to the name of the folder.
In this example, it's "CreateImages". Be sure to have "Images in sub folder" selected in Web Options, "Misc"
defaults write com.stone.Create ImagesFolder "CreateImages"
- Output graphic names use base 36 for uniquing which results in more info in name
- Ordered lists preserve the font on the ordering elements
- Lists no longer have huge spaces on either side of them
Text Features
- Text now has three sizing modes set in Info -> Object "Text Resizing" popup:
(or Control-Click to get context menu with these options!)
- Size to Fit: text grows and shrinks as needed in vertical direction when you edit it
When you resize text width with middle right knob, it grows or shrinks vertically to fit
This is the default mode, as it is closest to the old Create behavior
- One Line: good for headlines - text box is sized to just fit the text on one line
Centered Text stays centered as it grows and shrinks
Right Adjusted text stays right aligned as it grows and shrinks
Making Bold/Font changes keeps the text box the exact size
- Fixed Size: text is clipped to its box - but you see it all when editing
This is great for page layout design when you want the text block a certain size
Web page will show scrollers if there's text overflows
Also great for web page design for the same reason
- If a text block is chained, you cannot set its sizing mode, it's Fixed Size
Text Styles (Format -> Styles -> Styles..., "Edit") can support the different modes if you set this hidden default:
defaults write com.stone.Create TextStyleHasResizeMode YES
- you can alter a style's Text Resizing mode via Style Editing
- If you apply a Style to an entire text block, its text resizing updates
- Also if you update a style that has been applied to an entire block.
- this is off by default because it can lead to multiple identical styles except for ResizeMode
Text Wrapped Graphics now supports differing top, bottom, left and right margins
- Choose "Custom..." from the Standoff field combo box
- Or set them by entering TOP; BOTTOM; LEFT; RIGHT in the field (separate by semi-colons)
- Works best for square wrapped items!
Editing text supports multiple non-contiguous selections and operations on those selections
You can drag out a new text block in any direction
Support for replicating chains blocks of text depending on desired outcome:
To get: Perform:
new set of chained blocks copy blocks of original text, paste
not connected to previous (hint: table group the blocks to copy!)
another page with chained blocks Files -> Pages -> Duplicate Page
connected to this page
another page with chained blocks Set Image well to "Page", drag
independent of any other page Page icon into document
Dragging text clippings into editing text block with no selection works now
- if you have a selection, Create assumes you are adding a web link
Besides being able to easily create styles using the Image Well and dragging a style while a text is selected to the Styles window, you can now update a style by:
- select a Style in the Styles... window, and click the Edit button to expose the drawer
- make your changes on some text in the document
- drag the Styles icon onto the text in the Edit drawer - this will update the editing style instead of creating a new one
you'll see a link icon if its going to update the currently selected style
- you'll see a plus icon if no style is selected in the tableview
This can be useful when you want to use the Exact Attributes panel to set various character/paragraph settings
Graphic Features
- Line arrows now have:
- an optional dimension mark
- a new style "Tick"
- Color Panel Enhancements
If Color panel is visible, it updates to the color of the current graphic:
if a graphic has a fill, to the fill color, if it has a stroke to the stroke color, if it's text, to the first text color
If you change the color in the color well and there is a selection:
if 1 graphic is selected:
if it's a text block, the text color is changed
else the active effects inspector determines what's changed:
if it's the stroke inspector (and it's not neon), the stroke changes
if it's the fill inspector (and it is a simple fill), the fill color changes
if it's the multi inspector (and it has a shadow), the shadow color changes
if multiple graphics are selected:
if more of the graphics have simple fills or are text, that color changes
if more of the graphics have strokes, the stroke colors changes
If you want to turn off this new feature and only set colors explicitly in the Info panel:
defaults write com.stone.Create NoFastColorSetting YES
- Date Features
- Command-Option-Control-d activates menu item to insert date quickly
- If you are editing text, you can insert a date directly at selection
- Info-> Object of a Date now remembers your last date format and whether it updates
- new dates take their format from the Date Info
- dates inserted into text directly also take their format from Date Info
- Format -> Move All -> [ Left, Right, Up, Down ] now moves by current Grid amount
- Arrow Keys + CONTROL key nudges graphics by current Grid amount
Save As PDF w/Links in PStill
- Save As PDF w/Links in PStill with text inside of groups works now
- Provide a Server path for relative links in Save As PDF w/Links in PStill:
defaults write com.stone.Create serverPrefixForPDFLinks "http://www.stone.com"
Other Fixes and Enhancements
- Scaled, flipped and rotated groups ungroup correctly now
- Snap to points of scaled and rotated objects works correctly now
- When drag selecting objects, the first one selected is the one used for further alignment operations
- COMMAND-click on a line with one arrow end swaps the end
- COMMAND key overrides all constraints: Grid, Guides and Snapping Points
- Size inspector recognizes "," decimal separator for locales that use that separator instead of "."
- Make Natural Size on right-aligned text blocks anchors text on the right side
- Make Natural Size on center-aligned text blocks anchors text at their center
- Both of the above are done automatically for "One Line" text
- Double-click editing of text and tables deselects all but the editing object
- Pasting Styles onto objects doesn't change their size
- Option-drag to copy an item, then repeat "Duplicate" will preserve offset of drag
- Undeleting objects restores their selection
- Styles can now contain underlines
- Line width slider field now localized and working in German etc
- Latin 1 encoding works correctly now (charset=ISO-8859-1)
- Resizing highly scaled objects works correctly now
- Internal links in chained text update correctly when pages are added
- Table Groups clip when printed (so can also be used for masking elements)
iMaginator™ 4.2 Universal
- Licenser is between twice and a 1000 times faster!
- Added drag, open and drop on dock support for 20 new image types: JPEG 2000 (jp2), Pentax Raw (pef), Leaf America Raw (mos), Hasselblad Raw (fff), Hasselblad 3fr (3fr), Sony Raw (arw), Adobe Raw (dng), Apple Icon (icns), Olympus Raw (orf), Panasonic Raw (raw), Microsoft Icon (ico), Microsoft Bitmap (bmp), X Bitmap (xbm), Truevision TGA (tga), SGI Image (sgi), QuickTime Image (qtif), Kodak FlashPix (fpx), MacPaint (pntg), Radiance (pic), and Industrial Light and Magic Open EXR (exr)
- Rendering speed doubled - handles large images much better
- Cool new application icon by Joel Dabrowski
- New Filter: Replace Color: Tasks -> Replace Color
- lets you replace any color in the photo with another color
- apply as many of these as you want to alter your photo dramatically
- It's very easy to reuse a base image:
- First item in Effects Library and Images Library is "Reuse Base" image for dragging in
- Holding down "Option" key when adding a filter with an image will "Reuse Base" image
- Tasks -> Mask with Image to easily mask just a portion of your base image
- the masking image needs transparency and the base image will mask to the bits in the masking image
- Paint now has a Low density option which paints every other pixel
- Option key when clicking "Add Paint Layer" puts paint into erase mode
- Option key when clicking "Add Base Image" sizes it to 100%
- Set Crop... window is automatically validated as you type
- Leopard ready - 16 new filters!
- Fixes the 'License Limit Exceeded' problem on Leopard
- if you want the sliders to only update the picture when you mouse up (as opposed to continuously):
Preferences -> General -> "Slider update on mouseup"
- On large images, this can give much better performance
- Note: change takes effect next time you add/delete a filter or open a new document
- Names of images exported through image well are shorter
- And here are other recently added features!
Videator™ 4.6 Universal
- Using the multiple camera QuickTime Capture is much more responsive
- Optimized the drawing of points
- Added drag, open and drop on dock support for 20 new image types: JPEG 2000 (jp2), Pentax Raw (pef), Leaf America Raw (mos), Hasselblad Raw (fff), Hasselblad 3fr (3fr), Sony Raw (arw), Adobe Raw (dng), Apple Icon (icns), Olympus Raw (orf), Panasonic Raw (raw), Microsoft Icon (ico), Microsoft Bitmap (bmp), X Bitmap (xbm), Truevision TGA (tga), SGI Image (sgi), QuickTime Image (qtif), Kodak FlashPix (fpx), MacPaint (pntg), Radiance (pic), and Industrial Light and Magic Open EXR (exr)
- Live Video doesn't stop after painting or cropping
- New Menu Items:
- Help -> View Help in Browser
- Help -> Tutorial Movies
- Fixed crasher after choosing Instant Effects
- Licenser is between twice and a 1000 times faster!
- New Filter: Replace Color: Tasks -> Replace Color
- lets you choose to replace any color with another color
- this creates very trippy looking video
- Task Menu adds "Replace Color" and "Mask with Image"
- use image with transparency to mask the video to a shape
- Leopard ready - 16 new filters!
- Fixes the 'License Limit Exceeded' problem on Leopard
- Preferences -> Images "16:9" makes New Slideshows have a 16 to 9 ratio, and images are cropped to fit that exactly
- this is good for AppleTV output, for example
- Hidden Preference whereby no black appears in a movie made of slides (just like 16:9 but using the size of the first photo)
defaults write com.stone.Videator PhotosFillMovieByBeingCropped
- Uses new QuickTime 7.2 (Tiger/Leopard) Capture classes:
- Quicktime Capture is off by default - turn it on in Preferences if you have multiple cameras available
- Videator no longer "hogs" the video cameras - other apps and windows can open the same camera
- More accurate recording
- Multiple camera support:
- Handles more camera types
- HDV support if Final Cut Pro installed
- Instantly switch camera inputs
- Much faster recording session starts
- Add Another Camera also lets you change camera inputs on the fly
- Change sound input on the fly
- See sound record levels visually
- On Tiger, requires Software Update QuickTime 7.2 (free from from Apple)
- Preferences -> Movie/Video "Use Quicktime Capture" off allows older Sequence Grabber for video
- the new QT Capture has many new features
- the old Sequence Grabber may give more FPS on some machines
- New Tools -> Slide Editor...
- reorder, add, insert or delete slides
- drag in photos from Finder or iPhoto directly into the Slide Editor
- change the duration time and the transition time of the selected slides
- change the transition method (or even remove the transition) of the selected slides
- Cool new icon by Joel Dabrowski
- Export Movies easily to iPhone and AppleTV as well as iPod and other formats
- Effects -> Andrew's VJ Effects for a mandalic trance vision (it's sound wired so drop on a trance mp3 for maximal fun or just hum)
- Many optimizations and bug fixes and supercharged for Leopard!
- All new and improved 300 page searchable Help which you can download and print too!
- And here are other recently added features!
PStill™ 5.7.4 Universal
- Licenser is between twice and a 1000 times faster!
- Latest PStill Engine: V1.72.16 of 26. February 2008
- Fixed bugs with EPS placement
- Correctly transcode PDF with alpha images and graphics - be sure to turn on
"Use transparency from input PDF"
- Cache Fonts will use your home Library if Computer Library is not writeable
- New option for Job Options file or via defaults to NOT optimize CMYK colors
- Useful for making separations where you want registration marks on all plates
defaults write com.stone.Pstill NoColorOptimization YES in a terminal-
NoColorOptimization = YES; for Job Options files
- PDF/X 1A converted PDFs show as correctly produced in Acrobat (and PStill's very own Tools -> PDF Checker)
- Poster Maker lets you type in an exact width in case you do not want to scale the input PDF
- Fixes the 'License Limit Exceeded' problem on Leopard
- Powerful PDF Checker: Tools -> PDF Checker to see lots of info about any PDF dragged onto that window
- New menu item: Conversion -> Convert all EPS in Tree
- finds and converts "in place" all found EPS files in a selected folder
- names the output the same as the .eps file but with .pdf
- overwrites any existing .pdf with that name unless you set this hidden default:
defaults write com.stone.PStill PreserveExistingPDFFilesThatShadowEPS YES
- Better support for embedding clickable links into PDF with Create
- Support for 16 bit images
- Will not crash if info objects are missing from the PDF
- Fixed "Repurpose with PStill" alias to new PStill default location
- Support for logging Watched folder start and finish info:
defaults write com.stone.PStill WatchedFolderLogFile "/tmp/PStill-ConversionLog.txt"
- Leopard ready
PhotoToWeb® 3.4.3 Universal
- Fixes the 'License Limit Exceeded' problem on Leopard
- PhotoToWeb responds to the Apple Remote Control now:
- to turn on, Preferences -> Misc, "Enable Apple Remote Control"
- Pause/Play toggles slide show between manual and automatic
- Next goes to next slide, Previous goes to Previous slide
- When Slides are on a second screen, choosing an image in Thumbnails will:
- go to that slide in the slide show
- go to manual mode (click Play button to continue)
- Good for use in discussions when you are pointing out something specific
- Hidden default in case you want only photos and no text links on Library Tree Table of contents:
defaults write com.stone.PhotoToWeb NoTextOnLibraryTreeTOC YES
- Leopard ready
TimeEqualsMoney™ 3.4.3 Universal
- Fixes the 'License Limit Exceeded' problem on Leopard
- You can round up to the nearest whole 1, 5, 10, 15 or any preferred minutes in a session
- Set this in Preferences -> Misc, "Choosing 'NOW' in Stop rounds up to nearest minutes"
- Leopard ready
SliceAndDice™ 4.3.3 Universal
- mailto links are auto-scrambled to fool robots
- Leopard ready - built-in QuickLook engine
- Fixes the 'License Limit Exceeded' problem on Leopard
- Create's Master Layer's window has handy web icon to drag a page's address to any SliceAndDice cell
- You can change the output folder to any name or series of folders
- Set in Preferences
- Do not use spaces in names, though!
- Zoom bug not accepting rollovers fixed
- Other recently added features, including XHTML, are here
PackUpAndGo™ 3.2.2 Universal
- Launches much faster!
- Leopard ready
GIFfun™ 4.2 Universal
- Launches much faster!
- Fixed French localization
- Leopard ready
PreferenceCommander ™ 2.3.3 Universal
- Leopard ready
- Launches much faster!
- Fixes the 'License Limit Exceeded' problem on Leopard
StampInStone™ 3.5.3 Universal
- Launches much faster!
- Fixes the 'License Limit Exceeded' problem on Leopard
- Handles diacriticals and 8-bit characters in stamps
- Handles images with latin characters in file names
- Handles TIFF images with incomplete tag information (10.4.9 bug)
- Leopard ready
TrueBlue™ 3.4 Universal
- Launches much faster!
- Leopard ready
XaoS™ 3.3 Universal
- You must have this version for Videator 4.6 and greater!
FontSight™ 3.2 Universal
- New special installer builtin for Leopard
- Loads MUCH faster on Leopard
- Be sure to uninstall before reinstalling on Leopard!
- You must run the installer for operation on Leopard
- Updated the versions of the Installer and the Bundle to be the same
Qouija™ 1.1 Universal
- First release of the eternally cosmic intention revealing application! Free!
June 7 2007
Videator™ 4.0 Universal
- Mix in as many live cameras as you want!
- Connect as many cameras to your computer as you like - the MacBook Pro has 2 builtin fire wire ports, the iSight and 3 USB ports natively
- Choose Video -> Add Another Camera
- You can add effects chains to each camera's input - try Oval clip!
- Turn your Desktop into a live Videator Composition!
- Choose Video -> As Desktop
- Blow the minds of your colleagues
- It's very easy to create animated rotations now
- There is a new sub menu Tasks -> Rotate with these items:
- Spin Once: adds a rotation at the beginning of the selection lasting for the length of time in Preferences, Images, "Transition"
- Spin All: adds a series of rotations over the duration of the selection
- Rotate Right: rotates the camera/movie to the right
- Rotate Left: rotates the camera/movie to the left
- Kaleido Spin: turns your mac into an everchanging Kaleidoscope!
- XaoS Kaleido: even more fantastic, adds fractals to the everchanging Kaleidescope - you must have XaoS installed
- Prepared and supercharged for Leopard!
- Read this for more recently added features!
- As well as the 3.0 added features
iMaginator™ 3.4.1 Universal
- You can get a trial license
- Updated and enhanced for Leopard Mac OS X 10.5
- Setting custom canvas size prevents resizing when you change filters, add new images, etc
- Add a transform (Tasks -> Skew/Rotate) to move base image in a custom canvas
- Lazy loading of Effects makes library load faster
- Added more applescript:
- set rulerunits to [0-3]
- set showrulers to [true|false]
- Library buttons are correct for aqua window
- See also recently added features
StampInStone™ 3.2.1 Universal
- You can get a trial license
- Can handle images with latin characters in file name
- Can handle TIFF images without incomplete tag information (10.4.9 bug)
March 13 2007
Stone Works™ March 13 2007 - 16 apps, a widget & a video screen saver
All Universal - download now!
Create® 13.0 Seventh year of free upgrades for our registered users!
Features:
- Web -> Sample... is all new and shows off the new CSS features
- CSS - add your own custom style sheets, use builtin-ones or add pre-made stylesheets
- Web -> Web Options -> CSS
- Validate your CSS and learn about CSS
- You can add CSS which overrides any of the automatically created CSS
- CSS Style Sheet with zero margins, link colors and hover info automatically made
- CSS Style sheet containing all used fonts is now automatically created - "font_<DOCUMENT_NAME>.css"
- However, you can override this with your own definitions in extra HTML or additional style sheets!
- You can change the name of this file with a hidden default:
defaults write com.stone.Create CSSTextStylesFileName "MyCSS"
- css style sheets are stored in a folder named "css" in your output html folder - you can change it with hidden default:
defaults write com.stone.Create cssFolder "" // Put files in top level
defaults write com.stone.Create cssFolder "images" // put in folder named images
- XHTML - Create can now make XHTML 1.0 pages on a per-document or per-page basis
- Web -> Web Options -> Misc, "XHTML"
- On by default, to take use of new CSS power!
- Web Output now handles:
- multiple line spacing
- paragraph indents, tails and first line indents
- before and after paragraph spacing
- live text wrapping images on left or right edges of text block
- Text which flows around graphics can now be output to web as live text
- the links in the text and graphics remain active
- Caveat: graphics must be at right or left side of text block
- To get old behavior of an image (more WYSIWYG), "Output to web as image" in Info ->Object
- uses CSS style float and alignment for older browsers
- File -> Master Layers... has new link well for ease of connecting pages to SliceAndDice sub images
- First, save document and give each page a descriptive human readable name
- Then select a page, and drag the link icon to any SliceAndDice sub image
- Preferences -> Document pane: "Add Design Notes/Scratch Pad" option:
- New documents will add an extra page layer for scratch graphics and notes
- Great for making graphics for SliceAndDice that you do not want output to web
- Mac OS X 10.5 Features
- Look under Tools menu if you are running Leopard!
- If you open an existing or recent document, and the Untitled document is totally empty, it's closed automatically
- Edit -> Insert -> Line Break (command-RETURN)
- This is useful when you want a single paragraph style around items separated by a newline
- This results in a <br /> in the output HTML
- Edit -> Insert -> Paragraph Break
- This is the same as typing a RETURN into the text
- Edit -> Select -> Next (^n) selects the next object further back or none, if bottom object. Loops.
- Edit -> Select -> Previous (^p) selects the previous object layered above, or none, if top object. Loops.
- Stackable Info window's scroller scrolls with mighty mouse scroll button now
- You can override the default title automatically given a web page by adding a title tag to the Extra HTML -> Extra HEAD field:
My own special title for this page!
- Quicktime movies added directly to page will run in IE7 now
- Embed HTML pages with the <OBJECT> tag (NOT XHTML compliant however!):
- Click EMBED tool, and drag out the desired size of the flash movie
- Info -> Object, click "Embed Multimedia Resource"
- Click "Source:" button to choose the HTML file in an open panel
- Click "Copy" from "Embed Source" dialog that appears
- This can give you the effect of frames and sub-pages!
- Optimized Library loading by loading objects lazily
- Embed Flash easily with IE7 compliant javascript, pluginspage and <OBJECT> tag:
- (note if XHTML is selected, only the conformant Javascript is output!)
- Click EMBED tool, and drag out the desired size of the flash movie
- Info -> Object, click "Embed Multimedia Resource"
- Click "Source:" button to choose the SWF file in an open panel
- Click "Copy" from "Embed Source" dialog that appears
- Scripts -> Guides -> Add Any Guides... lets you specify exactly the location of any number of guides to add all at once
- Save as PDF menu item for easy export to high quality print ready PDF: File -> Save as PDF...
- See also recently added features
Fixes:
- Exact Attributes panel, all paragraph functions work correctly
- Dropping in text clippings from Safari retains the web links (again!)
- Dropping in multiple images offsets them and only asks once for a scale by amount
- Opening multiple large images with Open... also only asks once and scales them all by that amount
- Singe page save as PDF works again
- Zoom Window is now Zoom like other Apple applications
- Zoom submenu is Zoom View to disambiguate
- Printing across a network won't crash
SliceAndDice™ 4.1 Universal
Videator™ 3.1 Universal
- myFX -> Artists - a new folder of effects which replicate the styles of Warhol, Lichtenstein, Rembrandt, Seurat, Dali, Esher, Impressionist and Sketch
- Hint: Click "Instant Effects" button, "Artists" to see all the Artist's effects at once
- Wired to Sound shows an icon in any filter where it's active for ease of adjusting settings
- Preferences -> Random pane
- New random category: 'Images' - takes images from your default images folder and uses them randomly
- Choose Specific Effects - you can now select exactly which effects form the random pool
- Transitions can have movies as target images now
- Delete button in Time Lines works again
- Fixed drag effect over PIX (images) library crasher
- Subtle Fade-in/Fade-out bugs fixed
- Changing Text wtih FadeIn/Fadeout updates now
- Leopard ready
- See also recently added features
iMaginator™ 3.3 Universal
- Setting custom canvas size prevents resizing when you change filters, add new images, etc
- Add a transform (Tasks -> Skew/Rotate) to move base image in a custom canvas
- Lazy loading of Effects makes library load faster
- Added more applescript:
- set rulerunits to [0-3]
- set showrulers to [true|false]
- Library buttons are correct for aqua window
- Leopard ready
- See also recently added features
Global Warmth™ 2.2
- Application will update the weather on launch
- You can copy/paste in licenses now
StarMores™ 1.1 Universal
- Simple star (no recursion at all) is now possible
February 6 2007
Stone Works™ February 6 2007 - 16 apps, a widget & a video screen saver
All Universal - download now!
Videator 3.0 Major Features
- Overlayed movies and blend filters with movies can be played at any speed
- Great for speeding up or slowing down an overlay
- By using the fade in and fade out speed adjustments, a movie can slowly gain speed over time too!
- Double-click or command-click the speed slider to set exactly
- Tools -> Effects Queue: New panel which allows you to preload sets of effects for use in performance DJ'ing
- <RETURN> fires effect and selects the next one for performance ease
- Loop or loop pallindrome switch
- Reorder them
- Store as many sets of effects as desired
- arrow keys might choose currently selected
- 'n' loads next set, 'p' loads previous set
- Type 1-9 to fire effect with that number
- Drag & drop an Effect from myFX library to load in
- Effects -> Wire to Sound... - Effects can have numeric and color values set by the sound output values
- If the movie has a soundtrack, or in Live mode, you have music attached, it uses that
Otherwise it uses the internal microphone
- Effects -> Wire to Sound... and choose the parameters to wire
- You can invert the meaning of high and low
- You can select the valid range of a filter (clamp) - narrow it for smaller deviations
- New and Enhanced Effects (Image Unit PlugIns)
- Tile Puzzle effect: like a square Polka Dot
- Polka Dot now has vertical and horizontal spacing sliders
- Fun Mirror can now optionally distort in horizontal or vertical dimension
- Effects -> Duplicate in Reverse: take the set of filters, duplicate them in reverse order with fadein and fadeout swapped
- Great for making effects loop smoothly
- If you have Option key down, it will only duplicate and reverse the selected effect
- Option-Click adding of an effect automatically randomizes it
- Manually applied Transitions lets you set the destination image or movie now
- FadeIn/FadeOut set halfway for ease of applying changing effects
- Video view now tells you which parameter you are editing: start, end or main parameters of each point
- TimeLines Enhanced:
- Now has visual representation of Effects for easy selection and reordering
- Double-click images in Options area in Main window to bring up TimeLines quickly
- Selecting a filter anywhere updates all other effects chain diplays
- Any filter requiring images can now use XaoS input - example: blends
- Simply drag the "XaoS" fractal image from "Pix" into the image well in the options area
- Try Difference Blend Mode!
- You can also drag the XaoS into the main window as a short cut to adding a XaoS overlay
- Any filter requiring images can now use Live (Base) Input! Example: blends
- Simply drag the "Live Input" camera image from "Pix" into the image well in the options area
- Try Exclusion Blend Mode!
- You can also drag the Live Input token into the main window as a short cut to Add Live (Base) Input
- pix library has 3 new items:
- XaoS token - drag this into a blend filter's image well to add XaoS to a blend filter
- Live Input token - drag this into a blend filter or directly into window to add a Live Input
- Blank Canvas : you can add subeffects like stripes and transform to get rotating stripes for example!
- Edit -> Copy Effect -(control-c) will just copy the selected effect
- New Preferences:
- New Movie/Video preference: Stretch full screen to fit - uses all the screens bits on live full screen
- Transitions between slides can be randomized - both in Preferences -> Images, popup and in Transitions window
- Interface is now Aqua look by default - but the metal look is stil an option in Preferences.
- Randomize pane: lets you specify which style of effects, their duration, which is also randomizable
- this lets you Add Random Effects of different styles for easy instant VJ'ing
- Support for Random images added to blends:
- drag a folder of images into the Preferences -> Images -> Default Blend Image (or Folder) well
- This is great for adding vast variety to your composition when choosing Add Random Effects, for example.
- There is also a new popup to quickly choose any folder you've added
- File -> Save Frames...
- Save individual frames as TIFF, JPG or PNG
- Set the number of frames to skip to any arbitrary number
- Great for making animated GIFs of a movie as a platform independent way to show movie
- SubEffects - Any image, movie or text can have an independent chain of effects
- This lets you for example just bulge/animate text or apply effects to an overlayed image/movie only
- Dropping Music onto a Live Loop automatically sizes loop to length of music if it's the first one on
- It will ask if you want to size it to the length if it's not the first piece of music added
- Videator 3.0 Enhancements:
- Effects load super fast in the myFX library
- To size the video view to the exact size of a live camera, hold down Option key while resizing window
- This is good for optimal performance (for iSight it's 640 by 480)
- Effect Chain files (.iFilter) now store the size of the view/movie they were created with so that they are correctly resized when added to a new window or movie of a different size.
- Blend Effects and others that require image inputs now let you set the origin of fadein, fadeout and center paramaters
- Transitions added to Live window now allow you to change the final target image
To add this style of transition to a movie, hold down Option while adding transition
- Timeline - squeezing or expanding an effect's duration keeps the fade in and fade out markers proportional
- Timeline - show start and end time of selected effect
- New Kaleidescopes automatically centers (but you can change their center)
- Saving Effects sets with multiple instances of same effect are named less verbosely
- Flip Vertical and Horizontal effects are now portable between different size windows
- When full screen is on second screen, feedback is echoed to main window for DJ'ing
- Cursor hides on full screen
- More Tool Bar Options: Full Window, Randomize Effects, Preferences panel - great for VJ'ing
- Open Recent menu items have tool tip which shows full path to the file
- Videator 3.0 Fixes:
- Music is synched to stop/start in timeline as you move play head
Movies play correctly while recording
- Interpolated colors between fades now carry their alpha value
- Clicking a MARKER in options movie slider now selects that effect
- Selecting an effect in Timelines now correctly selects the same effect in Options area
- Fullscreen slide shows and movies are correct
- XaoS mini image appears
- Resize the middle splitView doesn't cause the UI to update
- Drag accepts clippings without any file extension as overlays now (like from iMovie)
- Star Holes and Tile effects on full screen works correctly now
- Full screen live transitions work properly now
- Moving movies that are part of randomized blends work
- Videator 3.0 Expert Stuff:
Hidden Default: to not scale blend images to fit (ie leave them full size in composite style blends)
defaults write com.stone.Videator DoNotScaleToFitByDefault YES
Hidden Default: For best 2 monitor full screen performance, turn this hidden default on:
defaults write com.stone.Videator DoNotEchoImage YES
Hidden Default: To set what a new text object says (by default it's "Text")
defaults write com.stone.Videator TextString "Videator"
This, combined with Option-click "Add Text" is great for instant branding of your movie with movie, colorized text!
Hidden Default: if you are using fullscreen but some effects go black try setting this:
defaults write com.stone.Videator FullscreenCrop YES
Hidden Default: For performance, you might want to set these:
defaults write com.stone.Videator LaunchWithQueue YES
defaults write com.stone.Videator LaunchWithPreferences YES
// These can be set with a GUI if you download "Videation Station Configurator"
Hidden Default: For Automating Videator with use of Apple Remote Control device:
defaults write com.stone.Videator AppleRemote YES
Hidden Default: For turning Videator into an automated display station:
defaults write com.stone.Videator AutomationMode YES
Create® 12.6.1 Seventh year of free upgrades for our registered users!
Features and Fixes:
- Save as PDF menu item for easy export to high quality print ready PDF:
File -> Save as PDF...
- Create PDF with clickable links in Acrobat and Preview:
- Apply links to objects and text just like for a web page
- Choose File -> Save Other -> Save PDF w/ Links in PStill
- This will create a link script file, set PStill to use it, launch PStill, save the PDF and ask PStill to convert it
- Works on links within this file and external links to the internet
- You need to install PStill for this functionality
- Embed Flash easily with pluginspage and <OBJECT> tag:
- Click EMBED tool, and drag out the desired size of the flash movie
- Info -> Object, click "Embed Multimedia Resource"
- Click "Source:" button to choose the SWF file in an open panel
- Click "Copy" from "Embed Source" dialog that appears
- Dropping in text clippings from Safari retains the web links (again!)
- Dropping in multiple images offsets them and only asks once for a scale by amount
- Opening multiple large images with Open... also only asks once and scales them all by that amount
- New Preference->Tools, Start with Alignment option
- Color Panel updates to the color of the selected text as selection changes
- Duplicating pages with tables create independent and working tables
PStill™ 5.4 Universal
- Latest PStill engine: 172.11
- New Options in Job Options and Preferences:
- Font section:
- Rotated fonts as outlines (this can fix a problem where rotated italized fonts are twice slanted)
JobOption key = "rotatedFontsAsPaths"
- Extra font processing - Embedded fonts are gathered and cleaned up - this can fix problems with Adobe and Apple embedded fonts
However, it may take a little more time, but make the end document smaller
- Color Management window
- Under ICC Profiles, a new switch "Apply ICC Color Management to images only"
When checked the ICC profiles are applied only to images in the document
Job Options key: "ICCImageOnly"
- New Suppress Elements option to suppress Annotations and Page Outlines
- Set in the Conversion -> Suppress Elements panel
noAnnotations = YES; // JobOptions key- action: annotations and outlines are ignored in the PDF transcoding
- purpose: this can clean up PDF, make it smaller and remove redlining for example
- NOTE: This panel now updates your current settings correctly too!
- Features and Fixes:
- Takeover of PDFDOCINFO from src to target PDF
- Writing of FAX G4 compressed bitmap images in PDF and PS/EPS outout for smaller output size (turned on by selecting "Maximum Compression" in Preferences-> Misc)
- Fix for outlined Type 3 fonts that were composed of Type 1 call in a Type 3 container
- Fix missing Type 3 font text in output
- Fix for Option -M regenfonts to skip fonts without valid FontNames (-M regenfonts will cause more text to be written as text and not as paths, especially for Adobe Apps PS/EPS input)
- Fixed overflow for bad TTF fonts
- Resolved issue with PS output from Reader 8
- Fix for PageMaker's redef of showpage problem (caused circular ref.)
- Experimental support for CCF fonts
- ImageType 3 support (Masked PS images)
- PNG predictors filter support
- TTF writer now repairs more bad fonts
- Autorepair of bad Type 1 fonts (with missing elements)
- Optional 'mangeledfonts' replacment strategy
- New pattern handler
- Stabilty enhancements
- Key/Values that can be set either as Job Options in hot folders or via the Command Line:
noCheckForIDups = YES; // JobOptions keydefaults write com.stone.PStill noCheckForIDups YES- action: pdf is not searched for duplicate images
- purpose: speeds up transcoding but can result in larger PDF if there are duplicate images
regenfonts = YES; // Job Options keydefaults write com.stone.PStill regenfonts YES- action: Subsetted fonts are regenerated - especially good for improperly written Adobe Apps PDF
- purpose: Text that may have resulted in outlines can be rendered as text, can fix bad PDF
regenallfonts = YES; // Job Options keydefaults write com.stone.PStill regenallfonts YES- action: All included fonts are regenerated - especially good for improperly written Adobe Apps PDF
- purpose: Text that may have resulted in outlines can be rendered as text, can fix bad PDF
combineDuplexImg = YES; // Job Options keydefaults write com.stone.PStill combineDuplexImg YES- action:
Combines 'stacked' images and gfx elements. That are
elements that stack in color (usually Black, Spot color, Spot color, ...)
and would print ok when separated. This mode is helpful when converting
such input to Process colors (CMYK). Don't use with Spot colors!
Normalize to EPS and Normalize to PS shared keys:
keepflate = YES;defaults write com.stone.PStill keepflate YES- action: causes rewritten images in PS or EPS to retain their original compression
- purpose: produces smaller output in PS and EPS
Normalize to EPS special keys:
epscreator = "name of program that created EPS;defaults write com.stone.PStill epscreator "Create"- action: Causes override of %%Creator: comment for EPS output
- purpose: some prepress preflight setups will reject input not created by so-and-so an application
epsrgb = YES;defaults write com.stone.PStill epsrgb "YES"- action: causes EPS to be in their native colorspace and not CMYK
Normalize to PS special keys:
numcopies = 5;defaults write com.stone.PStill numcopies N- purpose: allows you to specialize how many copies are designated in the output PS
SliceAndDice™ 4.0 Universal
- Change another's cell's image when you mouse over a sub image
- Make nav bars like the row of icons and changing text underneath on Stone Design home page
- To try out an example:
- choose Samples -> Set 3rd Image
- Then, choose File -> Slice and Dice...
- If you want that third image to 'stick' even when you mouseover the destination cell, uncheck 'Use the rollover in this cell' on destination cell
- Documents now have rulers and guides
- Preferences -> Start With Rulers
- Preferences -> Units to set inches, points (pixels), picas or centimeters
- Click in ruler to drag a new guide
- Dragging points will snap to guides
- Sub Image pane has an Extra Javascript field - example 'target="_blank"' to open a new window
iMaginator™ 3.2 Universal
- New Plug-In Effect: 'Tile Puzzle'
- Plug-In 'Fun Mirror' can be warped horizontally or vertically
- Easily replicate Base Image for collage compositions
- Choose Effects -> Reuse Base Image
- Or from the effects list, choose Reuse Base Image
- Or drag 'Base Image' icon from Images Library into window
- Base Image can be used in any filter that uses an image input
- Drag 'Base Image' icon from Images Library into effect's image well
- Try it on exclusion blends and offset the blend origin!
- Document uses Aqua look by default, Metal is still available via Preferences
- See also recently added features
December 6 2006 (all these applications are available in Stone Works download)
Introducing StarMores™ - the free fractal star generator!
Introducing Videation Nation™ - free real time video effects screen saver!
Videator™ 2.3 - Video Jocking made easy! Make movies, slideshows, fractals, podcasts with over 108 effects in realtime!
- Turn your Mac into a Museum quality art installation:
- Download the new helper application Videation Station Configurator
- Configure Videator to use the Apple Remote Control
- Configure Videator to automatically display media loops
- Build your own media loops with your music and movies with Videation Station Configurator
- XaoS will now perform any launch commands you specify as a string of power keys
- See Videation Station Configurator's Help for more info!
- Fixed timing and stability issues with XaoS - be sure to grab latest XaoS!
- Adding random effects on top of other random effects is much more stable
- Effects -> Andrew's VJ Effects makes you a VJ artist instantly!
- XaoS - the realtime fractal generator interoperates with Videator! Make mind-bending fractals...
- Replicate Live and Movie inputs
- the live video feed (or movie) can be replicated with it's own chain of effects
- Choose "Add Live Input" from the list from fX or Effects menu
- Add sub effects to these to get spectacular recursive results!
- New folder of instant effects in myFX: "Live Input" - drag these on!
- Instant Effects button also shows these Live Input effects
- Effects -> Add Random Effects has new Preferences pane "Random"
- Set the time duration of each random effect
- This duration can also be randomized
- Choose which kinds of effects are added by category: Blur, Distortion, Halftone, Stylize, Tile, Transition, Color Adjustment, Color Effect, Composite, Generator, Gradient and Sharpen
- This makes it easy to create styles of random loops for Videation Nation™
- Support for randomizing images when initializing filters requiring image inputs
- Drop in a folder containing images into the well on the Preferences "Images" pane
- This adds variety to your composition when choosing Add Random Effects, for example
- Export all the frames that make up a movie
- Choose as tiff, png or jpg
- Option to export only certain frames
- See File -> Save Frames...
- Polka Dot plugin lets you set both horizontal and vertical spacing of dots
- Effects update correctly as you record live video into a movie
- Only currently active effects' points are labeled on live video
- You can connect multiple cameras to have multiple live windows
- DOWNLOAD NOW!
Stone Works™ December 6 2006 - every Stone application ready for INTEL and PPC in Universal binaries! download now!
Create® 12.6 Sixth year of free upgrades for our registered users!
Features and Fixes:
- All new Info window that allows you to see many inspectors at once!
- Click anywhere in the dark title bar to show/hide each sub info
- Remembers and restores open sub infos and window location
- Preferences -> Tools "Use Original Info Panel" lets you select the old one if you want
- Preferences -> Tools "Animate" unchecked will turn off animation for faster response
- Table tool can take badly formatted data from Pages
- Applying bold, italic, and other font changes to an entire text block preserve any font differences within the block
- Recent Menu items now show a help tip with the full path to that item
- Add a bigger Image Well to your tool bar - choose Tools -> Customize Toolbar...
- Command keys while editing text and no selection work again.
- URLs with spaces are correctly converted to
%20.
iMaginator™ 3.1 Universal
- Easily replicate Base Image for collage compositions
- Choose Effects -> Reuse Base Image
- Or from the effects list, choose Reuse Base Image
- Each overlayed Image or Text can have its own chain of Sub Effects so you can create independent effects in different parts of the canvas - for example, text wrapped around a sphere, or a glassy or blurred overlayed image, or pictures of people each with an oval crop with fadeout.
Click on the "Add Sub Effects" button - it will turn Yellow when that effect is selected and ready to receive new effects, and then click on a new filter from the list or menu, or drag on an effect from the library. You can also apply subchains to sub effects of type text or image!
- Interoperates with Videator 2.3™
- DOWNLOAD NOW!
September 11 2006
Stone Works™ September 9 2006 - every Stone application ready for INTEL and PPC in Universal binaries! download now!
- This update has new versions of StoneWorks widget, Create 12.5.6, Videator 2.0, iMaginator 3.0, PStill 5.3, TimeEqualsMoney 3.2 and PhotoToWeb 3.2!
- Contains:
Videator™ 2.0 - Make movies, slideshows, podcasts with over 108 effects in realtime!
- Each overlayed Movie, Image and Text can have its own chain of Sub Effects so you can create independent effects - for example, several movies playing in perspective, or text wrapped around a sphere, or a glassy or blurred image...
- Updated Online Help and printable PDF
- You can VJ and change settings while Full Screen is playing on second monitor
- Full Screen plays on second monitor if attached
- Hidden default to set it to another monitor number - example the second monitor:
defaults write com.stone.Videator FullScreenMonitorNumber 1
- Time Slider in Options area now has small button on far right to go into large detail mode
- Interoperates with iMaginator 3.0™
- Try Effects -> Add Random Effects for a good time!
- Add Random Effects has been enhanced to:
- New Toolbar item "Add Random Effects" for even quicker fun
- Subsequent Add Random Effects... add the effects in temporal order for ease of further editing
- To add just to the current selection, hold down OPTION while choosing Add Random Effect...
- To not add any blend effects, hold down SHIFT key while choosing Add Random Effects...
- Full Screen Random Effects plays correctly now
- You can connect multiple cameras to have multiple live windows
- DOWNLOAD NOW!
iMaginator™ 3.0 Universal
- Each overlayed Image or Text can have its own chain of Sub Effects so you can create independent effects in different parts of the canvas - for example, text wrapped around a sphere, or a glassy or blurred overlayed image, or pictures of people each with an oval crop with fadeout.
Click on the "Add Sub Effects" button - it will turn Yellow when that effect is selected and ready to receive new effects, and then click on a new filter from the list or menu, or drag on an effect from the library. You can also apply subchains to sub effects of type text or image!
- Copy only the selected effect by choosing Edit -> Copy Effects with Option Key down
- Write only the selected effect to an Effects file dragged from the Image Well with Option key down
- Effects -> Disable Others turns off all effects except the selected one (command-O)
- Effects -> Enable All turns on all effects (command-A)
- Updated Online Help and printable PDF
- Interoperates with Videator 2.0™
- Faster and better memory usage
- DOWNLOAD NOW!
Create® 12.5.6 Sixth year of free upgrades for our registered users!
Features and Fixes:
- New "Highlight Text" tool - See Tools -> Customize Toolbar... and drag the Highlighter tool to your toolbar. It works on a selected piece of text while editing the text - it toggles the highlighting on and off.
- New Menu item to Highlight and Unhighlight selected text: Font -> Hightlight
- Choosing an Image Editor application in Preferences really works on Power PC again
- SliceAndDice Info -> Object pane explains that you need to set SliceAndDice links in SliceAndDice
- SliceAndDice objects no longer allow you to incorrectly set links in Info -> Web pane
- Fixed obscure but annoying SliceAndDice bug where non-existing subimages would stop web production
PStill™ 5.3
- Added support for combining many files in a folder to a single PDF in Watched Folders
Use the new Job Options key "CombineJob"
Valid options for the key "JobType" in a job options file:
ConversionJob // standard
CombineJob // combine a folder of images/pdfs/ps into one PDF - based on numeric ordering
NormalizeJob // Normalize PS
NormalizeJobEPS // Normalize EPS
PosterizeJob // to make tiled poster
SeparatorJob // to create folders with separations from PStill processed PDF
- Support for rewriting of TIFF files that might not work otherwise - put this in the JobOptions file:
- RewriteTIFF = YES;
- or in a terminal window, type:
defaults write com.stone.PStill RewriteTIFF YES
- Text Extraction works on INTEL now
- Non-integral media bounding boxes are rounded up to nearest point instead of rounding down which might have caused miniscule clipping
- Better wording on Open and Save panels depending on type of Job (eg Normalize to EPS...)
- Saving a JobOptions file will add it the list of available jobOptions when you save to PStill's magic JobOptions folder
- Halting all jobs in watched folder no longer auto-quits PStill
PhotoToWeb® 3.2 Universal
- Renaming a photo leaves it in the same folder as it was before
- The bottom field in the drawer now shows the full path to the photo - which is useful when photos come from various folders differing from where the album is stored
TimeEqualsMoney™ 3.2
- Universal
- French Localization Fixes
- Typing RETURN stays on the same entry - and moves between fields
- Use TAB to move between entries
- Purchase... takes you to Stone Store
StoneWorks™ Dashboard Widget Universal
- Now opens all the Stone Works applications - flip knife to the back to see the newer apps
- Link to Stone Store corrected
- Universal!
July 19 2006
Stone Works™ July 19 2006 - every Stone application ready for INTEL and PPC in Universal binaries! download now!
- Contains:
- Create® 12.5.4 Universal
- Videator™ 1.2.1 Universal
- iMaginator™ 2.5 Universal
- PStill™ 5.2 Universal
- PhotoToWeb® 3.1 Universal
- TimeEqualsMoney™ 3.1 Universal
- SliceAndDice™ 3.1 Universal
- PackUpAndGo™ 3.1 Universal
- GIFfun™ 4.0 Universal
- PreferenceCommander ™ 2.1 Universal
- StoneStudio™ Dashboard Widget Universal
- Global Warmth™ 2.1 Universal
- StampInStone™ 3.1 Universal
- FontSight™ 2.2 Universal
Create® 12.5.4 Sixth year of free upgrades for our registered users!
Features and Fixes:
- Runs natively on Intel or Power PC
- Full Support for Embedded and Nested Tables and Lists in Tiger
- New folder button in Preferences "Set Scratch Folder" and "Set Resources Folder" work again
- Saving unsaved documents with images from the temporary directory works again
- Colored text backgrounds (drag on with Command-key, drag on with Command-Option to remove) fill text block
- Chained text can also have colored backgrounds
- Editing text on colored backgrounds works again
- Setting the ruler units from Preferences also synchs open documents to that measurement
- Choosing an Image Editor application in Preferences works on Power PC again
- New Stone Store menu item
- Fixed slow down when typing in long document with lots of links
- When you delete an image, and drag in a new one of the same name, the document will use the new image, not the old one
- Saved applescripts open on INTEL now
- If window snaps to Document size, you can expand it fully vertically now
- Speeded up large library loading
- Looks harder for lost images when making websites
TimeEqualsMoney™ 3.1
- Universal
- Typing RETURN stays on the same entry - and moves between fields
- Use TAB to move between entries
- Purchase... takes you to Stone Store
iMaginator™ 2.5 Universal
- Paint layers open correctly again in Mac 10.4.7
- Interoperates with Videator™
- Polka Dot plug-in refined to have antialiased edges
- Fixed INTEL crasher
- Better memory usage
- Sped up library loading times
April 5 2006
Electric Sheep™ 2.6.7 - the free Screen Saver from ElectricSheep.org with iTunes!
March 16 2006
PStill™ 5.1.1
- Correct handling of subsetted fonts
- Automatic smoothing of images included as JPEG when quality is 60 or below - this further reduces image size and makes the images look better
- New hidden defaults (you can set these in Job Option files too!)
- Extra scan for duplicate fonts to reduce output size
defaults write com.stone.PStill optimizefonts YES
optimizefonts = YES; /* job options file entry */
- For Separations to Composite module, duplexed EPS's will look right:
defaults write com.stone.PStill combineDuplexImg YES
combineDuplexImg = YES; /* job options file entry */
- handleEPSasPS causes EPS not to be centered but placed in the lower left which is very useful for combining multiple elements on one page
defaults write com.stone.PStill handleEPSasPS YES
handleEPSasPS = YES; /* job options file entry */
- More free Scripts!
- Updated Separations to Composite module:
- Now works on PDF input
- Use with automated workflow
- Can handle spot color plates with Scripts
- Available as a Professional Module
- Other fixes and improvements for speed and stability
March 7 2006
Stone Studio™ March 7 2006 - every Stone application ready for INTEL and PPC in Universal binaries! download now!
- Runs on 10.2, 10.3 and 10.4 Tiger PPC and INTEL
- Contains:
- Create® 12.5.1
- PStill™ 5.1
- PhotoToWeb® 3.0
- TimeEqualsMoney™ 3.0
- SliceAndDice™ 3.0
- PackUpAndGo™ 3.0
- GIFfun™ 4.0
- Not part of Stone Studio but included in Stone Works:
Create® 12.5.1 Sixth year of free upgrades for our registered users!
Features:
- Runs natively on Intel or Power PC
- Full Support for Embedded and Nested Tables and Lists in Tiger
- Text Embedded Tables go right into any text block and support:
- New menu items: Format -> Text -> Table... to bring up inspector
shortcut: COMMAND-CONTROL-t
- merging of cells
- nesting of tables
- background color of cells set independently
- alignments: top, center, bottom, right, left, center, justified
- border thickness and color set independently
- resize by dragging borders
- add web links to any text in table
- full support for rich text too
- Lists and lists within lists go right into any text block and support:
- New menu items: Format -> Text -> Lists... to bring up inspector
shortcut: COMMAND-CONTROL-l
- your choice of numbering, lettering, bullets, checks etc.
- Original style Table entries wrap - these can still be useful for certain types of tables
- Spacing Panel has a control key: COMMAND-CONTROL-s
(be sure that text is active for this and the table and list editors to work!)
- Add background color to text blocks:
- To add: just drag on a color Swatch with the command-key down
- To remove: just drag on a color Swatch with the alternate key down
- Create tries to make horizontal and vertical lines and rectangles crisp looking (no antialias). However, if you do not want this optimization, you can now turn it off via this hidden default:
defaults write com.stone.Create DoNotCrispHorizontalAndVerticalLines YES
- Your template files are now available in the main menu from File -> New from Template -> (any template files in a Pages folder)
- Mighty Mouse's scrollwheel will scroll sliders when you are over them
Fixes:
- dropping on files with spaces in them will be correctly percent escaped (ie %20)
- Revert to save while editing text works properly now
- Multipage documents with flowing text around graphics correctly updates subsequent text blocks on following pages
- Opening these documents will visit each previous page to make sure the flow is correct
iMaginator™ 2.3.2 - The original image processing powerhouse for Tiger Mac OS X 10.4!
12 Tutorial Movies to teach you the ins and outs of iMaginator:
- Visit our tutorial movies!
- Images and text can quickly be faded to any transparency for great collages
- Spotlight can now find base images too - and is Intel/PPC
- Zoom to Fit from Popup in Toolbar
- Zoom Image now has 400% and 800% by default
PStill™ 5.1
- Improved Color Management
- Stroked fonts are now written as graphics (maintaining the visuals perfectly)
- Improved TrueType handling (mainly for 'bad' Win32 TTFs, these are auto-repaired now)
- More free Scripts!
- Updated Separations to Composite module:
- Now works on PDF input
- Use with automated workflow
- Can handle spot color plates with Scripts
- Available as a Professional Module
- Other fixes and improvements for speed and stability
March 1 2006
Electric Sheep™ 2.6.6 - the free Screen Saver from ElectricSheep.org with iTunes!
February 14 2006
FontSight
- Now works in Mail, Pages, iWeb, Keynote 3 as well as all standard native OS X apps
- Fixes the crasher users with 3rd party menu hacks installed were having
- Native for PPC and INTEL
January 13 2006
Electric Sheep™ 2.6.5 - the free Screen Saver from ElectricSheep.org with iTunes!
January 10 2006
Stone Studio™ January 1 2006 - every Stone application ready for INTEL and PPC in Universal binaries! download now!
- Runs on 10.2, 10.3 and 10.4 Tiger PPC and INTEL
- Contains:
- Create® 12.5
- PStill™ 5.0
- PhotoToWeb® 3.0
- TimeEqualsMoney™ 3.0
- SliceAndDice™ 3.0
- PackUpAndGo™ 3.0
- GIFfun™ 4.0
- Not part of Stone Studio but included in Stone Works:
Create® 12.5 Sixth year of free upgrades for our registered users!
Features:
- Runs natively on Intel or Power PC
- Your template files are now available in the main menu from File -> New from Template -> (any template files in a Pages folder including:)
~/Library/Application Support/Create/Pages
/Library/Application Support/Create/Pages
/Network/Library/Application Support/Create/Pages
/Library/Create/Pages
/Network/Library/Create/Pages
and your personal library folder's Pages folder if it's been set
- Your Library Resources look in two more places for shared resources:
/Library/Application Support/Stone/Create/
/Network/Library/Application Support/Stone/Create/
- Size inspector shows the exact size (bounding box) of the selected graphics - that is, the size of an image created from the graphics which may vary from the size of the graphic due to effects like rose, matrix, outlines, shadows, etc.
- Mighty Mouse's scrollwheel will scroll sliders when you are over them
Fixes:
- Movies which are really just sound files work now
- Align to Axes undo has correct text now
January 9 2006
Pac the Man Editor™ 1.0 - the free level editor for McSebi's free Pac the Man X game!
January 4 2006
Electric Sheep™ 2.6.4 - the free Screen Saver from ElectricSheep.org!
November 29 2005
iMaginator™ 2.2 - The original image processing powerhouse for Tiger Mac OS X 10.4!
12 Tutorial Movies to teach you the ins and outs of iMaginator:
- Visit our tutorial movies!
30 new Effects Chains:
- Four new Effects filter files: Chia Pet (fuzzifies tiger), Photos (enhances photos), Liquid Metal and Mercury (trippy).
- 26 chains from Ron Bishop that can help you make cartoons or just great photos!
Reading/Writing of Images
- New Image -> Image Properties panels shows EXIF, TIFF, and JFIF image info
- Reads RAW image formats: Canon (crw/cr2), Fuji, Minolta, Nikon, Sony, and OpenEXR
- Exported TIFF files now 3-10 times smaller
- EXIF tags are exported with JPGs, TIFF tags are exported with TIFFs, etc
- You can add your own Artist, Copyright, Image Description and Keywords tags
- Keywords & Image Description will get spotlighted
- You can add over 23 other specialty tags as well!
- These additions are saved with the iMaj document package
Painting and "Unpainting"
- You can "Unpaint" on the Paint layer by holding down the command key while painting.
This effectively "erases" the paint except on the Erase mode in which case it "restores" the picture below!
- 11 Blank Paint canvases to start painting on an empty canvas
- Shift constrains in vertical or horizontal direction
- If you are zoomed in so much that shift only constrains horizontally, add Option key to get vertical constraint
- Paint Layer file sizes are 10 to 100 times smaller!
- Painting uses much less memory now.
- If you want to speed up painting, and use no extra memory, but lose painting undo, set the "Fast painting, no undo" switch in Preferences, "General"
- If you still want undo, but don't want to use tons of extra memory, you can control how many levels of undo the program uses - by default, it's unlimited which can really chew up your memory! You set this in the Preferences Panel, "General" tab, Levels of Undo
Ease of Use:
- Full Screen Preview mode - Tools -> Full Screen (click or press any key to stop!)
- Updated online help and User Manual PDF
- Shaded material uses "lightball" by default - which makes for incredible looking image
- Got MightyMouse? Scroll Wheels can move effects sliders when cursor is over the slider.
- Added German to English, French and Italian localizations (just change in System Preferences, International and relaunch!)
- Skew/Rotate rotation dial reflects image rotation - mousedown and drag far away from center to get really accurage control!
- Added Spell Checker fcr your keywords and tags
Performance Enhancements:
- Documents containing paint layers save correctly in all cases now
- Fixed annoying memory leaks
- Miniaturizing a window draws image correctly as it miniaturizes now
- Correctly rotates & crops RAW image formats
- Dropping in a new image restores rotation to 0 (this could be quite confusing!)
- Rotation is now saved with the image file
- Reopening documents happens twice as fast!
- PNG's can be interlaced - see Preferences -> Image
- iMaginator shows its version in Finder now
November 7 2005
Stone Studio™ November 7 2005
- Runs on 10.1, 10.2, 10.3 and 10.4 Tiger
- Contains:
- Create® 12.4
- PStill™ 4.2.1
- PhotoToWeb® 2.5
- TimeEqualsMoney™ 2.5.5
- SliceAndDice™ 2.8.4
- PackUpAndGo™ 2.4
- GIFfun™ 3.8
- Not part of Stone Studio but included in Stone Works:
Create® 12.4 Fifth year of free upgrades for our registered users!
Features:
- More Automator Scripts (in Tiger)!
- Launch Automator, select the Create Icon
- add View in Create to a workflow:
- Example: Choose Files in Finder, View in Create
- When you run, select a bunch of photos to be set into a new Create document
- Export Document as JPGs
- Export Document as PDFs
- Export Every Page as JPG
- Export Every Page as PDF
- Load Current Page
- Load Every Page
- You can create HTML that can be mailed and still show images. You'll need to make sure you upload the images to your website for this to work because Mailers will try to load the image off of your server. See Web Options -> Misc -> "Images are on server:"
- New Applescript command "size to fit"
- this is useful to make new text blocks fit all of their contents
- it has one optional argument "with fixed width" - this will leave the width of the text unchanged and only resize the text block in a vertical dimension (height only).
- if you do not include this argument, it will attempt to widen the text to fit the longest sentence, so this gives you some flexibility depending on whether you know the desired width or not.
- New Command Keys for Splines-Lines:
- Add Point: Command-Option-n
- Remove Point: Command-Option-r
- Neat tutorial movie on making gel buttons
- Currently, single page documents made into a web page do not create an index.html. If you do want an index.html created (assuming you have link or copy selected in index.html Creation), you can set this hidden default:
defaults write com.stone.Create AlwaysCreateIndex YES
Fixes:
- Changed "Align -> Horizontal Centers" to "Align -> Vertical Axes" to be more explicit
- Changed "Align -> Vertical Centers" to "Align -> Horizontal Axes" to be more explicit
- Resetting Web Options to factory settings now correctly resets Extra HTML -> Before Content Field
- GIFs and JPEGs used as background images are preserved
- To find out more about LinkBack - visit LinkBackProject.org
September 7 2005
Stone Studio™ September 7 2005
- Runs on 10.1, 10.2, 10.3 and 10.4 Tiger
- Contains:
- Create® 12.3.8
- PStill™ 4.2.1
- PhotoToWeb® 2.5
- TimeEqualsMoney™ 2.5.5
- SliceAndDice™ 2.8.4
- PackUpAndGo™ 2.4
- GIFfun™ 3.8
- Not part of Stone Studio but included in Stone Works:
iMaginator™ 2.1 - The original image processing powerhouse for Tiger Mac OS X 10.4!
- Images library contains 11 blank canvases of various sizes
- see Image Library, choose "Blank Paint" from the popup
- great for painting on blank canvas or applying effects to text
- 6 new tutorial movies - or choose Help -> Tutorial Movies
- Now runs in English, French and Italian!
- Super optimized with OpenGL - can generate images twice as fast!
- Paint in any number of layers
- Square and round brushes of any size
- Erase with brush
- Add paint in twenty different blend styles: over, addition, color blend, color burn, color dodge, darken blend, difference, exclusion, hard light, hue blend, lighten blend, luminosity blend, maximum, minimum, multiply blend, multiply, overlay blend, saturation blend, screen blend, and soft light blend
- Constrain to vertical or horizontal with shift key
- Click to make dots or squares
- Size and color remembered in each paint layer
- Universal binary runs on PPC and INTEL
- Nine custom plug-ins - and they are improved!
- Over 33 new effects chains in Effects Library
- Set Crop rectangle exactly:
- Image -> Set Crop...
- Double-click or option-click the Crop Tool in the tool bar
- Option-drag to move the crop rectangle around
- Arrow keys nudge the crop rectangle - Control-Arrows resize it
- Drag the crop rectangle by holding down option key with mouse down
- Mask by Color and by Component plug-ins show clear parts of image now
- Reset image button works
- Launching via double-clicking a document works now
- Turning on and off the first effect works correctly now
- Hidden defaults you can set from Terminal that affect the licensing daemon in all Stone Studio apps released after July 10th 2005:
- To have license daemon exit after you quit the app (you'll get slower second launches though):
defaults write NSGlobalDomain QuitDaemonOnQuittingApp YES
- To be able to reinstall the app even if you've run it this login session, but still get the same fast launch on second running:
defaults write NSGlobalDomain AllowEasyReinstall YES
Create® 12.3.8 Fifth year of free upgrades for our registered users!
Features:
- Now works with Automator in Tiger!
- Launch Automator, select the Create Icon
- add View in Create to a workflow:
- Example: Choose Files in Finder, View in Create
- When you run, select a bunch of photos to be set into a new Create document
- New scripts under Scripts menu developed by Ron Bishop:
- Save each page to PDF or JPG
(this is great for imposition of output in some manner)
- Save each page as ... (go to a movie or PhotoToWeb)
- Make Quicktime Movie - you'll need QuickTime Pro to be able to save them though
- The current visible page or layer is now selected in the Master Layers panel
- Master Layers panel shows page numbers of layers and pages
- Master Layers allows resizing of both layer names and pages
- Neat tutorial movie on making gel buttons
Fixes:
- Saving Art or PDF with embedded Create containing linked text will save the contents of the text blocks - before, they would be empty, now, they contain the same text, however the blocks are not linked because this is a page level feature - and in the case of imposition, you would not want this since you might be reordering pages and want the blocks to contain the same text as before.
- Pasting a page number onto another page immediately updates it's page number
- To find out more about LinkBack - visit LinkBackProject.org
PStill™ 4.2.1
- Uses more secure, faster, and smaller ZLIB 1.2.3
- Spot color "Black " images are now written as plain B/W images
- Extended the dump vector to handle more glyphs for font widths calculation. Previously PStill needed the font to define these gylphs in its default vector, including the Euro sign.
- Watermark scripts with CMYK work better now
- Super high precision character placement with numeric accuracy > 4
- Memory usage reduced and conversion is even faster
- Reduces GFX heavy input by factor of 30-50%. In particular
smooth fills that were generating very large output are now dumped much
smaller and leaner - in one case output size dropped from 30 MB to 3 MB
for the same page and output fidelity!
- Works on systems before Panther 10.3.9
- Hidden defaults you can set from Terminal that affect the licensing daemon in all Stone Studio apps released after July 10th 2005:
- To have license daemon exit after you quit the app (you'll get slower second launches though):
defaults write NSGlobalDomain QuitDaemonOnQuittingApp YES
- To be able to reinstall the app even if you've run it this login session, but still get the same fast launch on second running:
defaults write NSGlobalDomain AllowEasyReinstall YES
- Latest PStill Engine: 1728
SliceAndDice™ 2.8.4
- Fixed the remove columns or rows inside a group bug
- Hidden defaults you can set from Terminal that affect the licensing daemon in all Stone Studio apps released after July 10th 2005:
- To have license daemon exit after you quit the app (you'll get slower second launches though):
defaults write NSGlobalDomain QuitDaemonOnQuittingApp YES
- To be able to reinstall the app even if you've run it this login session, but still get the same fast launch on second running:
defaults write NSGlobalDomain AllowEasyReinstall YES
July 11 2005
Stone Studio™ July 11 2005
- Runs on 10.1, 10.2, 10.3 and 10.4 Tiger
- Contains:
- Create® 12.3.7
- PStill™ 4.2
- PhotoToWeb® 2.5
- TimeEqualsMoney™ 2.5.5
- SliceAndDice™ 2.8.3
- PackUpAndGo™ 2.4
- GIFfun™ 3.8
- Not part of Stone Studio but included in Stone Works:
iMaginator™ 2.0 - The original image processing powerhouse for Tiger Mac OS X 10.4!
- Super optimized with OpenGL - can generate images twice as fast!
- Paint in any number of layers
- Square and round brushes of any size
- Erase with brush
- Add paint in twenty different blend styles: over, addition, color blend, color burn, color dodge, darken blend, difference, exclusion, hard light, hue blend, lighten blend, luminosity blend, maximum, minimum, multiply blend, multiply, overlay blend, saturation blend, screen blend, and soft light blend
- Constrain to vertical or horizontal with shift key
- Click to make dots or squares
- Size and color remembered in each paint layer
- Universal binary runs on PPC and INTEL
- Nine custom plug-ins - and they are improved!
- Over 33 new effects chains in Effects Library
- Set Crop rectangle exactly:
- Image -> Set Crop...
- Double-click or option-click the Crop Tool in the tool bar
- Option-drag to move the crop rectangle around
- Arrow keys nudge the crop rectangle - Control-Arrows resize it
- Drag the crop rectangle by holding down option key with mouse down
- Mask by Color and by Component plug-ins show clear parts of image now
- Reset image button works
- Launching via double-clicking a document works now
- Turning on and off the first effect works correctly now
- C'est vrai! En français aussi! Merci beaucoup, Baptiste Laget!
- Hidden defaults you can set from Terminal that affect the licensing daemon in all Stone Studio apps released after July 10th 2005:
- To have license daemon exit after you quit the app (you'll get slower second launches though):
defaults write NSGlobalDomain QuitDaemonOnQuittingApp YES
- To be able to reinstall the app even if you've run it this login session, but still get the same fast launch on second running:
defaults write NSGlobalDomain AllowEasyReinstall YES
Create® 12.3.7 Fifth year of free upgrades for our registered users!
Features:
- Page selection popup shows page names, if assigned in Web -> Page Name (or using Master Layers panel)
- You can widen the Master Layers panel to see long page names
- Page thumbnails shows page name as well for ease of reordering
- Updated Web -> Help...
- Integrated Tiger look of Documents with Toolbars
- Hidden defaults you can set from Terminal that affect the licensing daemon in all Stone Studio apps released after July 10th 2005:
- To have license daemon exit after you quit the app (you'll get slower second launches though):
defaults write NSGlobalDomain QuitDaemonOnQuittingApp YES
- To be able to reinstall the app even if you've run it this login session, but still get the same fast launch on second running:
defaults write NSGlobalDomain AllowEasyReinstall YES
Fixes:
- Page numbers in a table group on a master layer update correctly on the pages containing the layer
- In a doc with many master layers, zooming will update all layers correctly
- LinkBack images from iMaginator will maintain new aspect ratio of image if it changes
- To find out more about LinkBack - visit LinkBackProject.org
PhotoToWeb® 2.5
- Create automatic web slideshows - see Web Options -> Layout, "Auto Slideshow"
- Set the duration of each photo in the slide show
- New Tiger integrated look of documents and library
- Polishing of the recent new features listed here
- Hidden defaults you can set from Terminal that affect the licensing daemon in all Stone Studio apps released after July 10th 2005:
- To have license daemon exit after you quit the app (you'll get slower second launches though):
defaults write NSGlobalDomain QuitDaemonOnQuittingApp YES
- To be able to reinstall the app even if you've run it this login session, but still get the same fast launch on second running:
defaults write NSGlobalDomain AllowEasyReinstall YES
PStill™ 4.2
- Memory usage reduced and conversion is even faster
- Reduces GFX heavy input by factor of 30-50%. In particular
smooth fills that were generating very large output are now dumped much
smaller and leaner - in one case output size dropped from 30 MB to 3 MB
for the same page and output fidelity!
- Works on systems before Panther 10.3.9
- Hidden defaults you can set from Terminal that affect the licensing daemon in all Stone Studio apps released after July 10th 2005:
- To have license daemon exit after you quit the app (you'll get slower second launches though):
defaults write NSGlobalDomain QuitDaemonOnQuittingApp YES
- To be able to reinstall the app even if you've run it this login session, but still get the same fast launch on second running:
defaults write NSGlobalDomain AllowEasyReinstall YES
- Latest PStill Engine: 1728
TrueBlue 2.5
Turn your TrueType fonts and OpenType Fonts into PostScript Type 1 with Stone Design's free TrueBlue 2.5
June 15 2005
Stone Studio™ June 15 2005
- Runs on 10.1, 10.2, 10.3 and 10.4 Tiger
- Contains:
- Create® 12.3.6
- PStill™ 4.1.4
- PhotoToWeb® 2.4.3
- TimeEqualsMoney™ 2.5.5
- SliceAndDice™ 2.8.3
- PackUpAndGo™ 2.4
- GIFfun™ 3.8
- Not part of Stone Studio but here for your convenience:
Create® 12.3.6 Fifth year of free upgrades for our registered users!
Features:
- Improved Help -> Tutorial help documents
- Integrated Tiger look of Documents with Toolbars
Fixes:
- custom page sizes get restored on open again
- changing page size refreshes gutter area again
- masked matrices redraw correctly after paste or reopen
- You can undo "replace" and "replace all" in Find
- Spotlight plug-in works correctly now (groups were being politely ignored!)
- LinkBack images from iMaginator will maintain new aspect ratio of image if it changes
- To find out more about LinkBack - visit LinkBackProject.org
- Resources that come from a temporary directory are automatically embedded to preserve them between reboots
- Better French localization
SliceAndDice™ 2.8.3
- RollOver Pane is less confusing when no secondary image has been added yet
PStill™ 4.1.4
TimeEqualsMoney™ 2.5.5
- Works better on Tiger
- Columns size to fit the window without growing overly large
- You can manually enter descriptions even if they are not in your preferences lists
PreferenceCommander™ 1.0.1 - The preference manager for the rest of us!
- When you select an application, it's location and version number are shown in the new status button at the bottom of the window. If PreferenceCommander finds several versions of the same application, it will alert you on the button.
- Clicking the status button shows you each instance of the application in Finder - a great way to route out old versions laying around!
- You can add other application folders and immediately search them - see Preferences
- If you have circularly linked file system, PreferenceCommander will launch anyway (fixes hang a few folks had on launch)
- Expert stuff: You can set a Default to watch the apps being loaded:
defaults write com.stone.PreferenceCommander Debug YES
If you don't want it loading a particular folder, make the folder end in a "#" and set this default:
defaults write com.stone.PreferenceCommander OmitFoldersEndingInHashMark YES
If you don't want the program to load icons for each app (saves about 25% of the launch time)
defaults write com.stone.PreferenceCommander NoIcons YES
iMaginator™ 1.1.2 - An amazing new image processing powerhouse for Tiger Mac OS X 10.4!
- C'est vrai! En français! Merci beaucoup, Baptiste Laget!
- Two new Core Image Units: (brings total to 9!)
- Mask by Color: set the color to erase from the image - and the threshold of how close to the color to erase
- Mask by Component: choose which color channel and threshold to erase
- Select either the 'Aqua' or original 'Metal Finish' user interface - see Preferences -> General
- View and manipulate just the selected effect's points - or all the effects' points. This can really help if you have many effects in the chain! See Preferences -> General
- A new toolbar widget has been added to quickly select All or Just Selected points - See Tools -> Customize Toolbar...
- Watch All Effects responds to <SPACE BAR> to pause/resume
- Watch All Effects can be canceled by typing any other key to stop
- Oval Clip & Crop Fade Mask work correctly when zoomed or transformed
- Added 3 new effects chains to Effects Library - check them out!
- Image scrolls when you move points or crop past visible
- LinkBack from Create will launch iMaginator correctly now
- Spotlight plug-in works correctly now
- plug-in is inside of iMaginator so no extra installation needed
- Be sure no other copies of iMaginator or the iMaginator.mdimporter are on
your computer or else plug-in won't work due to a current limitation of Spotlight
- Document size and location are remembered for new and between sessions
- Kaliedoscope spelled correctly in menu
- Strings are in UTF-16 so app works better in Japanese, etc.
- Fixed a crasher in image well when no effects were selected
May 11 2005
Stone Studio™ May 11 2005
- Runs on 10.1, 10.2, 10.3 and 10.4 Tiger
- Contains:
- Create® 12.3.4
- PStill™ 4.1.2
- PhotoToWeb® 2.4.3
- TimeEqualsMoney™ 2.5.4
- SliceAndDice™ 2.8.2
- PackUpAndGo™ 2.4
- GIFfun™ 3.8
- Not part of Stone Studio but here for your convenience:
- iMaginator™ 1.0.1
- StoneStudio™ Dashboard Widget
- Global Warmth™ 1.3.2
- StampInStone™ 2.7.2
- FontSight™ 1.4
Create® 12.3.4 Fifth year of free upgrades for our registered users!
Features:
- New integrated Tiger look of Documents with Toolbars
- Spotlight "Importer" automatically installed (remove any old ones!)
- Create is now both a LinkBack Server and LinkBack Client!
- To publish, copy graphics and paste them in other LinkBack application
- To receive a link, paste the graphic copied from other LinkBack application
- To re-edit this link, either double-click the image or choose Edit -> Edit in [OTHER APP]
- To find out more about LinkBack - visit LinkBackProject.org
Fixes:
- Drag on a PDF (or non-Web image) from Web Resources correctly adds the PDF as the graphic or text's link
- Drag from Image well works better with iMaginator
- Rectangles with dashes can have other line caps other than square extended ones
- Multiple "Duplicate"'s leave graphics in same order
- Spanish, French and German localizations enhanced
- Multiple licenses in Found tableview in License panel are selected correctly
- LinkBack server (like iMaginator!) will launch even if not launched now
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