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Art Text - 1.2

Create and design textual graphics, headings, Web banners, and buttons.

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All Time:	(4.4)
Version 1.2:	(5.0)
Selected Version:	1.2
Release Date:	2007-03-14
License:	Shareware
Downloads (version 1.2):	1,446
Downloads (all versions):	4,615
Price:	$29.95

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Product Description:

Art Text is an application to create high quality textual graphics, headings, logos, icons, banners and buttons. The program implements the latest Mac OS X technologies which allow you to easily modify any texts and vector shapes into a fancy graphic.

Pre-designed styles, shapes, icon art images, shading materials and other advanced visual effects make Art Text a powerful and intuitive program. Not only professionals, but anyone, who wants to make his text work look attractive, will find a use for the program.

Use the result with iWork, Microsoft Office, BeLight applications and other programs. It will become an indispensable part of your presentations, brochures, flyers, postcards, business cards and even websites.

Key Features:

80+ pre-designed styles to get you started;

Text and special artwork content (about 370 pictograms) as a source;

Shading Pro tool (ability to cover/shade anything with shading material - any object can get the glassy, plastic or metallic look, it is also possible to add the effect of smooth or rough surface to any of the objects);

Option to fill and outline text or artwork with different colors, gradients or textures;

Apply shadow and glow effects;

Ability to combine text with background image;

Bend text using 22 adjustable vector transformation shapes or Bezier splines;

Ability to export into a file or clipboard in PDF, TIFF, JPEG, GIF, PNG.

What's new in this version:

36 pre-designed styles including Web 2.0 category added.
Option to set export area size in pixels.
Horizon-Spline and Curved Text transformation types were added.
Spline-Curve transformation got the ability to transform text with multiple number of spline-parts.
19 new shading materials become available.
Option to create Custom Material using an image was added.
70 pictograms were added.
Export Improvements:

export to PDF got faster;
image displacement with respect to background fixed;
correct positioning of export frame with shadow applied;
transparency control became available when exporting to GIF;

LinkBack technology supported, which allows to import the result into other LinkBack supporting applications for editing it.
Other minor improvements.

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:

Mac OS X 10.4 or later

Feedback Summary:

Version 1.2:
Overall Rating:	(5.0)	Features:	(5.0)	Support:	Not rated (0.0)
Ease of Use:	(5.0)	Quality / Stability:	(5.0)	Price:	(5.0)

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What to do - Version: 2.2.2, 11/26/2009 10:09AM PST

johnlove

Way back when, I gladly purchased Art Text because TypeStyler disappeared for OS X.

The following thought remains after a year plus, namely, Art Text is relatively more complicated to use, much more. If I remember TypeStyler, every window had a space towards the bottom to type the text .. then selected the appropriate style from the Menu .. CMD-C or CMD-Shift-4 to get the image to the Clipboard .. in business .. quick and easy. The hard part was to choose the specific style, but that was my problem.

I just revisited your update to 2.2, even though what I own, 1.2.4, seems (?) to work for 10.6, I guess.

I say "I guess" because I do not remember how to input the text .. all the talk about a Text Panel .. truth is, I can't seem to find it.

Dunno .. a text style generator just should not be this complicated.

I'd jump in a heartbeat to TypeStyler, but come on, $100, not to mention their repeated assertions to the effect "OS X any minute now!" I just remember this evasion.

So I am in a quandry, to choose between (IMHO) a overpriced TypeStyler and a very, very complicated Art Text.

Thanks for listening.

John Love

TypeStyler is back - Version: 2.2.2, 11/20/2009 06:17AM PST

sirron33

TypeStyler is back after 7 years. Now you have a choice.

Oversold - Version: 2.2.1, 8/31/2009 09:22AM PST

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Martin Turner--2008

The seller's rubric says: "Whether you're an advertising manager or a small business owner, you'll find Art Text to be a powerful tool."

Quite wrong. If you're the advertising manager, your job is to buy advertising from people who know how to do it, or instruct your own graphic designer to do the design for you in-house. Cutesy Word Art (which is what this really is) will just show up your product as being amateurish.

This is a fun app, not a professional design solution. Use it for hobbies, clubs, personal pages, whatever. Just don't let it near your business.