Linotype has updated its free font management program to version 1.2.3 (build 833). The release fixes bugs and ensures that the ‘Clean System Fonts Folder’ command also works on the System folder in Mac OS X 10.5. The font auto-activation plug-in for QuarkXPress 6 has also been updated. Version 1.2.3 of FontExplorer X is Mac-only: the promised Windows edition, previously in beta, is due for an “imminent release” according to Linotype.
www.linotype.com/fontexplorerX
Linotype FontExplorer X 1.2.3
Published 14 February 2008 plug-ins , software , updates & fixes 0 CommentsFor a little Valentine’s amusement, have a go on Extensis’ Typecaster Flash game. If fonts were people, how would they get on with each other? Find out by mixing and matching the fonts, then see if their corresponding (human) characters fall in love or fall into a fight. Best line: “You don’t even look like your picture. First of all, you’re a dude…”
http://blog.extensis.com/typecaster
Badia Software has released an upgraded version of its Exportools plug-in that enhances Adobe InDesign CS3’s ability to export multiple sets of text and pictures from page layouts to other formats in one go. The plug-in now exports to SVG, INX (InDesign Interchange) and version CS3 INDD files, as well as PS, EPS, PDF, JPEG and TXT. Exportools 2.0 can also export just the objects you have specifically selected in a layout, and can be set up to open the exported files automatically in their default applications. $99.99, Mac only (Tiger or Leopard).
www.badiasoftware/IDproducts/id_exportools
13-14 February 2008
Olympia 2, London
www.publishing-expo.co.uk
Event for professional image makers, buyers of imaging equipment and services, manufacturers and distributors of imaging products and enthusiasts
24-27 February 2008
NEC, Birmingham
www.focus-on-imaging.co.uk
How newsrooms can succeed in the digital era
28-29 February 2008
Madrid, Spain
http://www.ifra.com/website/ifraevent.nsf/wuis/EE530BD43B2B603DC1257300001EE611?OpenDocument&CS&E&&E
Awards for national press in the UK
Shortlist will be published on 3 March 2008
8 April 2008
Grosvenor House, Park Lane, London
www.britishpressawards.com/2008
14-16 April 2008
Earl’s Court, London
www.londonbookfair.co.uk
Event for sign and large-format printers
22-24 April 2008
NEC, Birmingham
www.signanddigitaluk.com
Print media and publishing exposition
29 May - 11 June 2008
Dusseldorf, Germany
www.drupa.de
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