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Extensis Ships First-Available Font Management Plug-ins for Adobe® CS3
Free auto-activation plug-in and update now available for Adobe Illustrator CS3 and InDesign CS3.
Extensis, a brand of Celartem, Inc., today released free plug-ins for Suitcase Fusion and a free update for Suitcase for Windows to provide the world’s most advanced font activation and deactivation for Adobe® Creative Suite® 3 documents. Extensis is the first font management provider to release plug-ins that have been designed for and tested on Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium and Standard editions and Web Premium and Standard editions software. The Suitcase Fusion plug-in ensures that any time users open an Adobe Illustrator® CS3 project; the exact fonts are automatically and accurately activated or deactivated. The Suitcase for Windows product update works with both Adobe Illustrator and Adobe InDesign® CS3 applications.
“Font Management is a critical need for creative professionals using Adobe Illustrator CS3 and Adobe InDesign CS3,” said Will Eisley, director of product management, Illustration and Layout Products at Adobe. “We applaud Extensis for being the first to bring this benefit to both our customers through font management plug-ins for Creative Suite 3 that enables consistent and predictable font auto-activation.”
Suitcase Fusion™ and Suitcase™ for Windows auto-activation plug-ins utilize Extensis’ patented Font Sense™ auto-activation, allowing users to work fluently with fonts in CS applications and eliminate potential font problems before workflow disruption can occur. Font Sense technology provides a robust and industry-proven mechanism to identify and match exact versions of fonts. Extensis uses this cross-platform technology in its own font management applications to ensure that an application can activate the exact version of a font. Font Sense is available in Suitcase Fusion, Suitcase for Windows and Font Reserve Server and allows for true font identification in Illustrator, InDesign and QuarkXPress documents. Read more
KODAK Solutions Deliver Accurate, Consistent Color Proofs
The industry’s broadest portfolio of GRACoL (General Requirements for Applications in Commercial Offset Lithography) and SWOP (Specifications for Web Offset Publications) certified proofing solutions from Kodak continues to expand.
The KODAK MATCHPRINT Inkjet Proofing Solution has received IDEAlliance’s GRACoL Coated #1 certification for the HP Z2100 Photo Printer. This latest certification provides customers with further confidence that Kodak’s proofing solutions deliver optimal performance and predictability as measured by industry standards, guidelines and benchmarks. Read more
Photoshop Plug-in Sends Files Directly
YouSendIt, Inc., the software-as-a-service (SaaS) leader in digital content delivery on the Web, announced today that it has expanded its service offerings by releasing a plug-in for Adobe’s Photoshop that allows designers to quickly and seamlessly send files of any size directly from Photoshop.
“The YouSendIt Photoshop plug-in is our contribution to the growing number of creative professionals who have integrated YouSendIt into their workflows to make sending files of any size a seamless process,” said YouSendIt founder, Ranjith Kumaran. “This is just one example of a bigger framework we are building for all creative environments.”
The YouSendIt Photoshop plug-in, now available for Photoshop CS2 and CS3 for Windows, makes it easy for creative professionals to send large files directly from the Photoshop workflow. YouSendIt’s plug-in eliminates the need for designers to struggle with FTP transfers, burn a CD to mail via overnight courier or encounter e-mail bounce-backs from attachments that are larger than recipient networks allow. Most importantly, files delivered through YouSendIt are secure and can be tracked with assured delivery and a delivery receipt. The sender will now know exactly when files have been received. Read more