SintraWorks News
SintraWorks Releases PDFClerk Pro 3.12
This update contains the following changes:
- Changed: Changed: On Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), or higher, when a PDF containing rotated pages is opened, they are now “normalized”, so that they are no longer internally rotated, while their visual appearance remains unaltered.
- Fixed: Splitting pages while showing a box other than the media box no longer causes incorrect splits.
- Fixed: Mirroring rotated pages no longer causes content misalignment.
- Fixed: Adding links and other static annotations based on selected text is accurate again.
- Fixed: Creating a new annotation now deselects any selected annotations.
- Fixed: PDFClerk Pro no longer tries to save new files with “(Unsaved)” in their name.
- Fixed: Various internal bugfixes.
SintraWorks Releases Metron 2.5
Metron is SintraWorks’ professional level metronome, offering unparalleled flexibility when practising musical excerpts or even whole pieces.
This update contains the following changes:
- New: Score view for defining sequences and rhythm patterns, greatly simplifying their creation. (No more drilling down into bars and time signatures, etc.).
- New: Record sequence and setlist playback sessions.
- New: iTunes access to Metron files (for accessing and managing recorded sessions).
- New: Precision sliders: move your finger away from the slider while dragging the slider thumb, to gain more fine-grained control over sliding speed.
- New: Updated graphics for iPhone 4 Retina display
- New: Change tempo by tapping during playback.
- New: Minimum beats per minute lowered to 1. (Effective minimum 1/4 BPM.)
- New: Maximum beats per minute increased to 500. (Effective maximum 1000 BPM.)
- New: Option to keep playback running in background.
- New: Back panel is now fully orientation savvy.
- New: New back-panel interface skin.
- Changed: Replaced the Bars editor (and its sub editors) with a single score editor.
- Changed: Front panel tempo and variance sliders now access the full range of their settings. Use precision sliding (or the plus and minus buttons) to easily change values.
- Changed: Various cosmetic improvements.
- Fixed: Navigation buttons are now always correctly updated when playing and navigating setlists.
- Fixed: During playback a new tempo mark will now reset a tempo variance, if one is active.
- Fixed: Tempo variance setting is remembered between sessions.
- Fixed: Tempo factor setting is remembered between sessions.
PDFClerk Pro December Discount Promo
We are happy to announce that during the month of December, the first 250 copies of PDFClerk Pro sold using the coupon code SWPDFX on the payment page, get a 40% discount, so hurry before the discounted copies run out.
SintraWorks Announces CommandPDF 1.0
SintraWorks today is delighted to announce CommandPDF 1.0 for Mac OS X. CommandPDF is a PDF imposition tool designed to handle intense imposition workflows. It consists of one GUI application to design and test imposition templates, and two command line applications, one to impose PDF documents according to a chosen imposition template, and a daemon to automate the process. CommandPDF will also overlay the pages of documents on top of each other (useful for letterheads and for multilingual publications, etc.).
Feature Highlights include:
* CommandPDF Template Editor to visually design and test imposition templates
* Fully customisable impositions (incl. Step & Repeat): Create imposition templates for books, magazines, business cards, etc.
* CommandPDF command line application for efficient imposition of PDF documents, without the overhead of a GUI application
* CommandPDFd a multithreaded command line daemon that automates the workflow by watching a user designated input folder for incoming PDF documents, processing them according to a designated imposition template, and placing the results in a designated output folder
* Run multiple daemons for multiple workflows (with different templates)
* Overlay/underlay pages of one PDF document onto the pages of another document
* Overlay finishing and proofing marks onto the final document
* Launchctl script support
Printing, graphic design and prepress professionals alike will immediately appreciate CommandPDF's flexible and advanced control over the layout of the final document. CommandPDF was designed from the ground up to be efficient with large source documents, and calculates impositions blindingly fast. The template editor's instant previews, make it cheap to experiment in time sensitive environments: play with margin settings, page distribution, finishing marks, or any other layout options. Create layouts that fit professional needs, whether for in-house printing, publication, distribution, and more.
Minimum Requirements:
* Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and later
* Intel Mac
* 16 MB Hard Drive space
Pricing and Availability:
CommandPDF 1.0 is available with a single-user license for 199.95 USD (Approx. 150 EUR at current exchange rate). Before registration it functions as a full-featured demo, whose only limitation is that each page is stamped with a watermark. As an introductory offer SintraWorks is offering CommandPDF 1.0 at 30% off the regular price, until December 14th 2010.
SintraWorks Releases PDFClerk Pro 3.11
This update contains the following changes:
- New: Added merging of annotations from multiple PDF documents.
- New: Added imposition template option to print CMYK plate identifiers for offset printing.
- Fixed: Corrected layout errors that had crept into the document window in the French and German localizations in 3.10.