S tone Design has released updates today for Crete and PhotoToWeb. Create, now at version 12.2.1, is the companyis Mac OS X native drawing suite, while PhotoToWeb, version 2.2, is the companyis Web photo album creation tool. Both updates include many new features, and the Create update includes a handful of fixes. From Stone Design:
Create 12.2.1 2004-10-04
Features:
- <TAB> key hides/shows all the panels currently visible or recently hid
- You can convert graphics to grayscale using Image Wellis TIFF, copy/paste to other applications reading TIFF, export as TIFF
Discussion: Set the "Color Depth" to "Gray" in Preferences, Image pane, "TIFF Settings"
- Page Numbers can begin on a logical page as opposed to actual page:
eg: letis say you have a non-numbered Cover page - then page 2 can display page 1
eg: letis say you are doing chapters - you can start the page number at an arbitrary number
- Changing Image Quality in Preferences, Image updates the image immediately
This can really speed up PDF display if you set Quality to low - especially if the PDFis are large and/or you are zooming in on the page
- Named graphics display their name in the selection status field - text display itis first characters
- hidden default to allow long HTML and IMAGE names (up to 64 characters total)
Note - old mac os 8 web servers have a 31 character limit- default write com.stone.Create LongNames YES
Fixes:
- Due to the way Panther strokes rectangles, old documentis rectangles will open to avoid the bitten out upper left corner
- Optimized copy to make it much faster
- Found and removed memory leaks
- French tool palette works now
- Italian localization improved
- Preferences are mostly localized to each of the 8 languages
(please submit updates to [email protected]!)- Images dragged in from Omniweb are not duplicated
PhotoToWeb 2.2
- New polished look with Customizable Tool Bars
- You can save Photos in Grayscale if you choose
- Greatly simplified Web Options/Preferences with more options:
You can set up a documentis options and save/restore preferences from there - only one UI, one place to go - More exposed options:
- Set a default font family for your albums
- Font sizes for Caption, Title, Headlines, Nav Bar, and Thumbnails
- Control relative size of rich Story text
- Choose to smooth thumbnails
- Align thumbnail text to top, center or bottom
- Scratch folder for temporary files
- Check for updates daily, weekly or monthly
- Save a backup file
- Optionally add Type/Creator to the image and html files
- Use up to 64 characters in photo names
- Author Tag
- Choose whether Home links to first photo or TOC
- Revert to Saved works properly again
- Easier than ever to use - even for first time users! 2004-10-04
You can find more information on Create at the companyis Web site. The suite is priced at US$149, and the update is free to registered users. PhotoToWeb also has its own Web page, and that product is priced at US$69, and the update is free.