Graphics News Review

Extensis, a brand of Celartem, Inc., today released a free plug-in for Suitcase Fusion 12.1.3 to provide the world’s most advanced font activation and deactivation for Adobe InDesign CS3 documents. The plug-in ensures any time users open an InDesign project; the exact fonts are automatically and accurately activated or deactivated.

The plug-in is available now for download from the Extensis website and is free for registered Suitcase Fusion users. The new plug-in requires Adobe InDesign CS3. The Extensis Suitcase Fusion plug-in can be downloaded at www.extensis.com/en/support/product_support.jsp?id=100026

Currently, the plug-in is English language only. Extensis will release French, German and Japanese downloads soon after Adobe Creative Suite 3 is available in these languages. Extensis released plug-ins for Adobe Illustrator CS3 for Suitcase Fusion and an update for Adobe InDesign and Illustrator CS3 for Suitcase for Windows last month. Extensis will be releasing Adobe CS3 plug-ins for its font management Server products in the near future. Read more

DTP Tools are pleased to announce the release of the new version of Page Control plug-in for InDesign. Version 1.1 now fully supports InDesign from version CS to CS3.

New features:

• Thumbnails are now resized to reflect the proportions and position of the pages; available in all versions CS- CS3.
• Automatic updates
• De-activation of plug-in is now possible for easy license transfer.

Page Control Key Features

• Resize one or every page or spread in a document individually.
• Create landscape and portrait pages in the same document.
• Resize master pages.
• Automatic resizing of pages according to master page.
• Custom pasteboard sizes.
• Print or export to PDF retaining page sizes.
• No new panels; Page Control’s commands are added to InDesign’s own Pages panel menu.

A free Page Control Reader guarantees InDesign documents containing multiple page sizes will be accessible to, and editable by, service providers and collaborators who do not have Page Control installed.

Pricing and Availability

Page Control is available for InDesign CS, InDesign CS2 and InDesign CS3 on both Windows and Macintosh OS X. A single license price is $59 USD and is available for instant purchase and download at www.dtptools.com/pagecontrol Upgrade from previous versions is free.

A 14-day try-out version of Page Control is available for download at www.dtptools.com/pagecontrol or at the following direct download links:
Mac try-out download link: www.dtptools.com/id/pagecontrol/Page_Control_1.1.zip
Windows try-out download link: www.dtptools.com/id/pagecontrol/Page_Control_1.1.msi

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) and Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG) today announced the Photoshop® CS3 Extended plug-in for the Google 3D Warehouse, enabling Adobe® Photoshop CS3 Extended users to take further advantage of the software’s powerful compositing, painting and image-editing toolset for editing 3D content. With the plug-in, users will be able to query and download free 3D content from the Google 3D Warehouse, Google’s free online repository for 3D models and content, directly within Photoshop CS3 Extended. 3D Content then can be placed, manipulated and used in composites with the new 3D tools in Photoshop CS3 Extended.

The plug-in is available for free download from the Adobe Labs Web site at labs.adobe.com

“We were happy to collaborate with Adobe on the Photoshop Extended plug-in for the Google 3D Warehouse. With this plug-in, users of Photoshop CS3 Extended can participate in the 3D Warehouse community, giving them the ability to search, store and share thousands of 3D models and content,” said Mark Limber, product manager at Google. “The Google 3D Warehouse repository, combined with Photoshop CS3 Extended, allows creatives, architects, manufacturers and others to find exactly what they need to bring their virtual worlds and conceptual designs to life.”

The Google 3D Warehouse is a free Google service which allows anyone to search for and download 3D models and content via a standard Web browser and now, with this plug-in, Photoshop CS3 Extended. Users can also submit their own models to share within the community by uploading them from Google SketchUp into the 3D Warehouse. Models include everything needed for a 3D world, including: buildings, houses, bridges, statues, sculptures, couches, cars, people, pets and more. If the model has a location on earth, such as a building in New York city, you can also download and view it in Google Earth. Read more