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FitPlot - 2.6

pre-print plotter to optimize time

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This Version:	Not rated (0.0)
Current Version:	2.6
Release Date:	2008-09-20
License:	Shareware
Downloads (this version):	354
Downloads (all versions):	4,381
Price:	$14.00

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Product Description:

fitPlot overview

The goal of this application is simple:

place various pdfs (or other common graphic formats files such as jpg, tif, gif, eps, psd, image in the pasteBoard) on a virtual plotter sheet;
arrange all objects in a WYSIWYG environment moving and rotating them;
print the so arranged plotter sheet and eventually save it for later printings.

Who may need this program?

CAD users that may have to print several small drawings or more copies of a small drawing, can save their print job as pdf then drop their result on a larger format sheet in fitPlot.
Print services may find in fitPlot a quick and tiny preprint application. It may be useful to prepare visually more copies of an image in the choosen plotter format sheet, optionally giving images trim marks, resizing, rotating etc..
Web surfers who want a quick way to print found images. Keep an A4 (or Letter) format open aside while surfing on the web and drop on it the images I want to print. Easy and fast.

I know this can be done with blazoned vectorial applications, but here we have a small program that just do it, nothing less, nothing more.

What's new in this version:

New insert options allow to perform resizing, rotating, styling, packing operations on newly inserted images.
Revised packing algorithm. Now there are two ways, one suitable for single page printers and the other for sheet roll printers (plotters).
New transformations tool (takes place of the previous scale command). You can edit / transform a set of selected images changing their sizes / rotation / style in a single operation.
Preferences dialog revised (now it is organized by tabs and comprehends packing and insertion preferences).
New text styles added. Now you can add to images a text tag showing the relative file name, path, size (Kb) and date.
Zoom improved, now you can magnify up to x4. Boxed zoom + and - are available through keyboard (space+command or space+option+command) and click-drag a box around the interested area. Furthermore you can live zoom using the mouse scroll ball (or scroll wheel) while holding the alt (option) key.
New FitPlot unlocking code system (see here for details).
Other improving in the interface:
- Zoom + is centered on the screen portions currently displayed.
- Numeric fields in the info panel now accept localized decimal point.
- Added contextual help buttons where considered appropriate.
Fixed some discovered minor bug.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

Additional Requirements:

None

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Oh, Joy! - Version: 1.8, 7/6/2007 03:39PM PST

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mikabreto

Stimpson J. Cat here, I just used this to print out a progression of studies that I did of my favorite scurvy pal, Ren, and, I just gotta say, IT IS WORTH WAY MORE THAN $5. Sorry for shouting just then, but Mr. Horse let a mudskipper into my brain. Back to work, kiddies! Oh yeah, did I forget to mention? I dropped 39 PDF files onto the open window of this thing, shuffled them generally where I wanted to see them, and (after adjusting the page size to an absurd amount {and when I say absurd it's because I don't have a printer wider than 24 inches}) I printed the whole thing out real tiny on my desktop printer after saving to PDF and printing to page scale from Acrobat. When the only other thing that can do this is some programs that cost $700 or more, you can see the real advantage of a program that can do one simple thing. This is why there is now Photoshop and Lightroom, or other program pairings like that.