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The goal of FitPlot 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.
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.
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
Version 3.5:
- Since this version the minimum version is MacOSX 10.5. This is due to new features and underhood changes.
- As promised in the 3.2 version, the adoption of the core image technology brings new possibilities in image retouching directly from inside FitPlot. Adjusting comprehends color spaces, brightenss, contrast, saturation, exposure and tinte (just to start…). These functions are exclusively for raster images (jpg, tif, png…) and not for vectorials (pdf, eps, ps). Note: Image retouching is applied inside FitPlot. The source image (inserted in the FitPlot document) is not affected by the adjusting at all.
- Attributes Copy and Paste (edit menu and contextual menu) Now you can copy and paste attributes from an image to another in the FitPlot document.
- You can copy size (area), angle, shadow, line, dash, label and all image adjust settings.
- Attributes to copy / paste are determined by the new attributes preferences tab.
- Note: In the image adjust panel there is a special push button to copy and paste only the color spaces, brightenss, contrast, saturation, exposure and tinte values.
- If you have organized your FitPlot templates in the templates folder then you should be able to see all your files divided by folder (printer) and file name, as in the snapshot below.
- If you haven't organized your templates yet, here's some suggestion:
- Start FitPlot, choose new document from the file menu.
- Go to the page setup menu, select printer, dimensions ant orientation, then click Ok.
- Now you have a FitPlot document of the given size (for the given printer). You can complete the template setting printer margins (Tool menu) essential for correct automatic resizing in packing algorithm, and finally placing images, logos etc. you want to be present when opening from this template.
- Now choose Menu->Save as Template…, you will be bringed directly in the Templates folder.
- Click on the New Folder button if you need a new printer folder.
- Finally give the document a self-explaining name (such as A4, A3, 32"x42" etc.).
- Do the same for other printers / sizes and you'll have the File -> New From Model… menu populated with your items (needs to restart FitPlot!).
- Pasteboard images (images inserted in FitPlot via Copy and Paste from other application via Drag and Drop from a web browser)
- The pasteboard images policy (used in earlier versions) has been changed in order to apply them the new image adjust functionality (it was not possible on images not resident on the local disk).
- The old pasteboard behavior panel in the preferences has disappeared.
- Now it will works this way: when you paste or drop an image from another program or web browser, the image is inserted in the FitPlot document and, at the same time, it is saved on the disk (as temporary file). Saving the FitPlot document, you'll be requested to store all the used temporary images in a folder that is up to you to choose and with a name composed by a prefix (you decide it, too) and an automatic progressive numbering.
- If you can decide to discard the document, doing so, while quitting FitPlot all unused temporary images will be erased. As a side effect of this (r)evolution, when pasting objects copied from a vectorial program (such as Pages® or Illustrator®), the resulting image will mantain its vectoriality (the temporary file will be, in effect, a PDF), with all the advantages of a vectorial image (enlarging without loss of quality).
- Low Res image (for editing). Added a control in the preferences (environment) to set the image's resolution to be used during editing and while in low resolution mode.
- In the window toolbar there is a low / high resolution button to render images to screen in low or high quality. Printing is not affected by this control, of course.
- In high resolution mode it is always used the best resolution available for the image.
- Low quality mode (for editing) is set by this slider between 0.1 (rough) and 1 (fine).
- Images in low resolution are useful to speed up video refreshing while editing. Even in high resolution mode, while editing (move or crop), the low resolution image is used.
- Improved batch image replacing: while replacing one or more images, the new one will retain (where possible) all the attributes of the replaced one.
- Packing: you can optionally include printer margins in the area for packing calculation.
- In this way, for example, if you have images of 21x29,7cm (A4) you can pack them one per page in an A4 paper size (before, if printer margins were set, the result was a packing not possible message).
- Here's the new packing dialog:
- Added menu (contextual, too) to change link / reveal an image in the Finder.
- Constrained movement (shift key) of images strongly improved.
- Added tool buttons to show / hide info and edit panels.
- QuickLook very improved. Now it shows attributes and image adjusting in the preview / icon of the document.
- Added splashScreen.
- Drag & drop moving (alt - cmd drag) of an image on the page drawer (to move the image to the page where dropped), now works correctly.
- Some setting (preferences) are now saved in the document file itself; only general purpose preferences are stored in the preference file (com.pamarcu.fitplot.plist in Library/preferences in the User folder).
- Avoided possible bug when setting the snap preferences to 0 (now is no more possible to be mistaken!).
- Other fixing / optimisation not worthing to mention.
Version 3.5:
- Since this version the minimum version is MacOSX 10.5. This is due to new features and underhood changes.
- As promised in the 3.2 version, the adoption of the core image technology brings new possibilities in image retouching directly from inside FitPlot. Adjusting comprehends color spaces, brightenss, contrast, saturation, exposure and tinte more...
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later
FitPlot User Discussion (Write a Review)
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The goal of FitPlot is simple:
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.
- 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.
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.
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Though I have this clear in my mind, I have not written it out on the product page and in the online help.
Sorry, I'll make it clear on the FitPlot docs soon.
All downloaders before december 11 2006, should download it again.
Sorry for the glitch.