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DESCRIPTION
Excentro is a simple but advanced tool that can create guilloche designs like backgrounds, borders or rosettes.
The guilloches are vintage design elements that were frequently used for anti-counterfeiting security purposes on banknotes, passports, checks and certificates during the past two hundred years. As the times changed and digital copy and printing technologies perfected, guilloches no longer presented sufficient security measures that could prevent forging and counterfeiting of valuable papers. Today the main part of security technology lies in the special paper or tricky inks the designs are printed upon or with.
Still, it is too early to say that the days of guilloche designs are over. They can still be used to prevent the counterfeiting of products that do not require the highest level of security (i.e. theater tickets, diplomas or gift certificates). Or, they can just be used to decorate and add some aesthetic value to a product giving the ‘money-like’ look and value.
TIM27 While a cool program, $400 seems pretty steep for something used for such a narrow purpose considering you can buy Illustrator for $500. (Version 1.7)
FROMAGE-HEAD Your comparison is not fair. I'm not sure you can do similar tasks in Illustrator. And there is a lite version which is suffiscient to make interesting designs at $25. (Version 1.8)
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May 8 2005
BLUE The demo version is quite usable in that the designs can be exported in Illustrator format.
You can then import them into vector programs which you need to do any way to add colour effects
What you can't do is save in the program's native format.
It is worth while to explore this program for an different way in making designs (Version 1.6b3)
LEX LUTHOR Should release two versions - a 'lite' cut-down version for artist's/enthusiasts/hobbyists etc,... and another for the affluent commercial peeps. (Version 1.5.4)
