• Create® 14.2.3 Universal
• iMaginator™ 4.2.2 Universal
• Videator™ 4.6.2 Universal
• PStill™ 5.7.5 Universal
• PhotoToWeb® 3.5 Universal
• TimeEqualsMoney™ 3.4.3 Universal
• SliceAndDice™ 4.3.4 Universal
• PackUpAndGo™ 3.2.2 Universal
• GIFfun™ 4.2 Universal
• PreferenceCommander ™ 2.3.4 Universal
• StoneWorks™ Widget Universal
• Global Warmth™ 2.3.3 Universal
• StampInStone™ 3.5.3 Universal
• FontSight™ 3.2 Universal
• Videation Nation™ 1.4 Universal
• XaoS for Videator 3.3 Universal
• StarMores™ 1.1 Universal
• Qouija™ 1.1 Universal

March 13 2008

• Contains:
  • Create® 14.2.2 Universal
  • iMaginator™ 4.2 Universal
  • Videator™ 4.6 Universal
  • PStill™ 5.7.4 Universal
  • PhotoToWeb® 3.4.3 Universal
  • TimeEqualsMoney™ 3.4.3 Universal
  • SliceAndDice™ 4.3.3 Universal
  • PackUpAndGo™ 3.2.2 Universal
  • GIFfun™ 4.2 Universal
  • PreferenceCommander ™ 2.3.3 Universal
  • StoneWorks™ Widget Universal
  • Global Warmth™ 2.3.3 Universal
  • StampInStone™ 3.5.3 Universal
  • FontSight™ 3.2 Universal
  • Videation Nation™ 1.4 Universal
  • XaoS for Videator 3.3 Universal
  • StarMores™ 1.1 Universal
  • Qouija™ 1.1 Universal
  
  
• Applications launch twice as fast!
• Absolutely and Finally fixes 'License Limit Exceeded' problem on Leopard
• The problem was resolved at a system level (Yes, it was an Apple bug!)

• Contains:
  • Create® 13.0 Universal
  • Videator™ 3.1 Universal
  • iMaginator™ 3.3 Universal
  • PStill™ 5.4 Universal
  • PhotoToWeb® 3.2 Universal
  • TimeEqualsMoney™ 3.2 Universal
  • SliceAndDice™ 4.1 Universal
  • PackUpAndGo™ 3.1 Universal
  • GIFfun™ 4.0 Universal
  • PreferenceCommander ™ 2.1 Universal
  • StoneWorks™ Widget Universal
  • Global Warmth™ 2.2 Universal
  • StampInStone™ 3.1 Universal
  • FontSight™ 2.2 Universal
  • Videation Nation™ 1.4 Universal
  • XaoS for Videator 3.2.7 Universal
  • StarMores™ 1.1 Universal

• Application will update the weather on launch
• You can copy/paste in licenses now

• Contains:
  • Create® 12.6.1 Universal
  • Videator™ 3.0 Universal
  • iMaginator™ 3.2 Universal
  • PStill™ 5.4 Universal
  • PhotoToWeb® 3.2 Universal
  • TimeEqualsMoney™ 3.2 Universal
  • SliceAndDice™ 4.0 Universal
  • PackUpAndGo™ 3.1 Universal
  • GIFfun™ 4.0 Universal
  • PreferenceCommander ™ 2.1 Universal
  • StoneWorks™ Widget Universal
  • Global Warmth™ 2.1 Universal
  • StampInStone™ 3.1 Universal
  • FontSight™ 2.2 Universal
  • Videation Nation™ 1.4 Universal
  • XaoS for Videator 3.2.7 Universal
  • StarMores™ 1.0 Universal

• Overlayed movies and blend filters with movies can be played at any speed
• Great for speeding up or slowing down an overlay
• By using the fade in and fade out speed adjustments, a movie can slowly gain speed over time too!
• Double-click or command-click the speed slider to set exactly


• Tools -> Effects Queue: New panel which allows you to preload sets of effects for use in performance DJ'ing
• <RETURN> fires effect and selects the next one for performance ease
• Loop or loop pallindrome switch
• Reorder them
• Store as many sets of effects as desired
• arrow keys might choose currently selected
• 'n' loads next set, 'p' loads previous set
• Type 1-9 to fire effect with that number
• Drag & drop an Effect from myFX library to load in


• Effects -> Wire to Sound... - Effects can have numeric and color values set by the sound output values
• If the movie has a soundtrack, or in Live mode, you have music attached, it uses that Otherwise it uses the internal microphone
• Effects -> Wire to Sound... and choose the parameters to wire
• You can invert the meaning of high and low
• You can select the valid range of a filter (clamp) - narrow it for smaller deviations


• New and Enhanced Effects (Image Unit PlugIns)
• Tile Puzzle effect: like a square Polka Dot
• Polka Dot now has vertical and horizontal spacing sliders
• Fun Mirror can now optionally distort in horizontal or vertical dimension


• Effects -> Duplicate in Reverse: take the set of filters, duplicate them in reverse order with fadein and fadeout swapped
  • Great for making effects loop smoothly
  • If you have Option key down, it will only duplicate and reverse the selected effect
  
  
• Option-Click adding of an effect automatically randomizes it


• Manually applied Transitions lets you set the destination image or movie now


• FadeIn/FadeOut set halfway for ease of applying changing effects
• Video view now tells you which parameter you are editing: start, end or main parameters of each point


• TimeLines Enhanced:
• Now has visual representation of Effects for easy selection and reordering
• Double-click images in Options area in Main window to bring up TimeLines quickly
• Selecting a filter anywhere updates all other effects chain diplays


• Any filter requiring images can now use XaoS input - example: blends
• Simply drag the "XaoS" fractal image from "Pix" into the image well in the options area
• Try Difference Blend Mode!
• You can also drag the XaoS into the main window as a short cut to adding a XaoS overlay


• Any filter requiring images can now use Live (Base) Input! Example: blends
• Simply drag the "Live Input" camera image from "Pix" into the image well in the options area
• Try Exclusion Blend Mode!
• You can also drag the Live Input token into the main window as a short cut to Add Live (Base) Input


• pix library has 3 new items:
• XaoS token - drag this into a blend filter's image well to add XaoS to a blend filter
• Live Input token - drag this into a blend filter or directly into window to add a Live Input
• Blank Canvas : you can add subeffects like stripes and transform to get rotating stripes for example!


• Edit -> Copy Effect -(control-c) will just copy the selected effect


• New Preferences:
• New Movie/Video preference: Stretch full screen to fit - uses all the screens bits on live full screen
• Transitions between slides can be randomized - both in Preferences -> Images, popup and in Transitions window
• Interface is now Aqua look by default - but the metal look is stil an option in Preferences.
• Randomize pane: lets you specify which style of effects, their duration, which is also randomizable
• this lets you Add Random Effects of different styles for easy instant VJ'ing
• Support for Random images added to blends:
• drag a folder of images into the Preferences -> Images -> Default Blend Image (or Folder) well
• This is great for adding vast variety to your composition when choosing Add Random Effects, for example.
• There is also a new popup to quickly choose any folder you've added


• File -> Save Frames...
• Save individual frames as TIFF, JPG or PNG
• Set the number of frames to skip to any arbitrary number
• Great for making animated GIFs of a movie as a platform independent way to show movie


• SubEffects - Any image, movie or text can have an independent chain of effects
• This lets you for example just bulge/animate text or apply effects to an overlayed image/movie only


• Dropping Music onto a Live Loop automatically sizes loop to length of music if it's the first one on
• It will ask if you want to size it to the length if it's not the first piece of music added



• Videator 3.0 Enhancements:
• Effects load super fast in the myFX library
• To size the video view to the exact size of a live camera, hold down Option key while resizing window
• This is good for optimal performance (for iSight it's 640 by 480)
• Effect Chain files (.iFilter) now store the size of the view/movie they were created with so that they are correctly resized when added to a new window or movie of a different size.
• Blend Effects and others that require image inputs now let you set the origin of fadein, fadeout and center paramaters
• Transitions added to Live window now allow you to change the final target image To add this style of transition to a movie, hold down Option while adding transition
• Timeline - squeezing or expanding an effect's duration keeps the fade in and fade out markers proportional
• Timeline - show start and end time of selected effect
• New Kaleidescopes automatically centers (but you can change their center)
• Saving Effects sets with multiple instances of same effect are named less verbosely
• Flip Vertical and Horizontal effects are now portable between different size windows
• When full screen is on second screen, feedback is echoed to main window for DJ'ing
• Cursor hides on full screen
• More Tool Bar Options: Full Window, Randomize Effects, Preferences panel - great for VJ'ing
• Open Recent menu items have tool tip which shows full path to the file


• Videator 3.0 Fixes:
• Music is synched to stop/start in timeline as you move play head Movies play correctly while recording
• Interpolated colors between fades now carry their alpha value
• Clicking a MARKER in options movie slider now selects that effect
• Selecting an effect in Timelines now correctly selects the same effect in Options area
• Fullscreen slide shows and movies are correct
• XaoS mini image appears
• Resize the middle splitView doesn't cause the UI to update
• Drag accepts clippings without any file extension as overlays now (like from iMovie)
• Star Holes and Tile effects on full screen works correctly now
• Full screen live transitions work properly now
• Moving movies that are part of randomized blends work


• Videator 3.0 Expert Stuff:

  
  Hidden Default:  to not scale blend images to fit (ie leave them full size in composite style blends)
  defaults write com.stone.Videator DoNotScaleToFitByDefault YES
  
  Hidden Default:  For best 2 monitor full screen performance, turn this hidden default on:
  defaults write com.stone.Videator DoNotEchoImage YES
  
  Hidden Default:  To set what a new text object says (by default it's "Text")
  defaults write com.stone.Videator TextString "Videator"
      This, combined with Option-click "Add Text"  is great for instant branding of your movie with movie, colorized text!
  	
  Hidden Default: if you are using fullscreen but some effects go black try setting this:
  defaults write com.stone.Videator FullscreenCrop YES
  
  Hidden Default: For performance, you might want to set these:
  defaults write com.stone.Videator LaunchWithQueue YES
  defaults write com.stone.Videator LaunchWithPreferences YES
  
  // These can be set with a GUI if you download "Videation Station Configurator"
  Hidden Default: For Automating Videator with use of Apple Remote Control device:
  defaults write com.stone.Videator AppleRemote YES
  
  Hidden Default: For turning Videator into an automated display station:
  defaults write com.stone.Videator AutomationMode YES
  

• Save as PDF menu item for easy export to high quality print ready PDF:
  File -> Save as PDF...
• Create PDF with clickable links in Acrobat and Preview:
• Apply links to objects and text just like for a web page
• Choose File -> Save Other -> Save PDF w/ Links in PStill
• This will create a link script file, set PStill to use it, launch PStill, save the PDF and ask PStill to convert it
• Works on links within this file and external links to the internet
• You need to install PStill for this functionality
• Embed Flash easily with pluginspage and <OBJECT> tag:
• Click EMBED tool, and drag out the desired size of the flash movie
• Info -> Object, click "Embed Multimedia Resource"
• Click "Source:" button to choose the SWF file in an open panel
• Click "Copy" from "Embed Source" dialog that appears
• Dropping in text clippings from Safari retains the web links (again!)
• Dropping in multiple images offsets them and only asks once for a scale by amount
• Opening multiple large images with Open... also only asks once and scales them all by that amount
• New Preference->Tools, Start with Alignment option
• Color Panel updates to the color of the selected text as selection changes
• Duplicating pages with tables create independent and working tables

• Contains:
  • Create® 12.6 Universal
  • Videator™ 2.3 Universal
  • iMaginator™ 3.1 Universal
  • PStill™ 5.3 Universal
  • PhotoToWeb® 3.2 Universal
  • TimeEqualsMoney™ 3.2 Universal
  • SliceAndDice™ 3.2 Universal
  • PackUpAndGo™ 3.1 Universal
  • GIFfun™ 4.0 Universal
  • PreferenceCommander ™ 2.1 Universal
  • StoneWorks™ Widget Universal
  • Global Warmth™ 2.1 Universal
  • StampInStone™ 3.1 Universal
  • FontSight™ 2.2 Universal
  • Videation Nation™
  • XaoS for Videator 3.2.4
  • StarMores™ 1.0

• All new Info window that allows you to see many inspectors at once!
  
• Click anywhere in the dark title bar to show/hide each sub info
• Remembers and restores open sub infos and window location
• Preferences -> Tools "Use Original Info Panel" lets you select the old one if you want
• Preferences -> Tools "Animate" unchecked will turn off animation for faster response
• Table tool can take badly formatted data from Pages
• Applying bold, italic, and other font changes to an entire text block preserve any font differences within the block
• Recent Menu items now show a help tip with the full path to that item
• Add a bigger Image Well to your tool bar - choose Tools -> Customize Toolbar...
• Command keys while editing text and no selection work again.
• URLs with spaces are correctly converted to %20.

• Easily replicate Base Image for collage compositions
  • Choose Effects -> Reuse Base Image
  • Or from the effects list, choose Reuse Base Image
• Each overlayed Image or Text can have its own chain of Sub Effects so you can create independent effects in different parts of the canvas - for example, text wrapped around a sphere, or a glassy or blurred overlayed image, or pictures of people each with an oval crop with fadeout.
  Click on the "Add Sub Effects" button - it will turn Yellow when that effect is selected and ready to receive new effects, and then click on a new filter from the list or menu, or drag on an effect from the library. You can also apply subchains to sub effects of type text or image!
• Interoperates with Videator 2.3™
• DOWNLOAD NOW!

September 11 2006

• This update has new versions of StoneWorks widget, Create 12.5.6, Videator 2.0, iMaginator 3.0, PStill 5.3, TimeEqualsMoney 3.2 and PhotoToWeb 3.2!
• Contains:
  • Create® 12.5.6 Universal
  • Videator™ 2.0 Universal
  • iMaginator™ 3.0 Universal
  • PStill™ 5.3 Universal
  • PhotoToWeb® 3.2 Universal
  • TimeEqualsMoney™ 3.2 Universal
  • SliceAndDice™ 3.2 Universal
  • PackUpAndGo™ 3.1 Universal
  • GIFfun™ 4.0 Universal
  • PreferenceCommander ™ 2.1 Universal
  • StoneWorks™ Dashboard Widget Universal - with more features!
  • Global Warmth™ 2.1 Universal
  • StampInStone™ 3.1 Universal
  • FontSight™ 2.2 Universal

• Each overlayed Movie, Image and Text can have its own chain of Sub Effects so you can create independent effects - for example, several movies playing in perspective, or text wrapped around a sphere, or a glassy or blurred image...
• Updated Online Help and printable PDF
• You can VJ and change settings while Full Screen is playing on second monitor
• Full Screen plays on second monitor if attached
  • Hidden default to set it to another monitor number - example the second monitor:
    defaults write com.stone.Videator FullScreenMonitorNumber 1
• Time Slider in Options area now has small button on far right to go into large detail mode
• Interoperates with iMaginator 3.0™
• Try Effects -> Add Random Effects for a good time!
• Add Random Effects has been enhanced to:
  • New Toolbar item "Add Random Effects" for even quicker fun
  • Subsequent Add Random Effects... add the effects in temporal order for ease of further editing
  • To add just to the current selection, hold down OPTION while choosing Add Random Effect...
  • To not add any blend effects, hold down SHIFT key while choosing Add Random Effects...
  • Full Screen Random Effects plays correctly now
• You can connect multiple cameras to have multiple live windows
• DOWNLOAD NOW!

• Each overlayed Image or Text can have its own chain of Sub Effects so you can create independent effects in different parts of the canvas - for example, text wrapped around a sphere, or a glassy or blurred overlayed image, or pictures of people each with an oval crop with fadeout.
  Click on the "Add Sub Effects" button - it will turn Yellow when that effect is selected and ready to receive new effects, and then click on a new filter from the list or menu, or drag on an effect from the library. You can also apply subchains to sub effects of type text or image!
• Copy only the selected effect by choosing Edit -> Copy Effects with Option Key down
• Write only the selected effect to an Effects file dragged from the Image Well with Option key down
• Effects -> Disable Others turns off all effects except the selected one (command-O)
• Effects -> Enable All turns on all effects (command-A)
• Updated Online Help and printable PDF
• Interoperates with Videator 2.0™
• Faster and better memory usage
• DOWNLOAD NOW!

• New "Highlight Text" tool - See Tools -> Customize Toolbar... and drag the Highlighter tool to your toolbar. It works on a selected piece of text while editing the text - it toggles the highlighting on and off.
• New Menu item to Highlight and Unhighlight selected text: Font -> Hightlight
• Choosing an Image Editor application in Preferences really works on Power PC again
• SliceAndDice Info -> Object pane explains that you need to set SliceAndDice links in SliceAndDice
• SliceAndDice objects no longer allow you to incorrectly set links in Info -> Web pane
• Fixed obscure but annoying SliceAndDice bug where non-existing subimages would stop web production

• Added support for combining many files in a folder to a single PDF in Watched Folders
  Use the new Job Options key "CombineJob"
  Valid options for the key "JobType" in a job options file:
ConversionJob // standard
CombineJob // combine a folder of images/pdfs/ps into one PDF - based on numeric ordering
NormalizeJob // Normalize PS
NormalizeJobEPS // Normalize EPS
PosterizeJob // to make tiled poster
SeparatorJob // to create folders with separations from PStill processed PDF
• Support for rewriting of TIFF files that might not work otherwise - put this in the JobOptions file:
  • RewriteTIFF = YES;
  • or in a terminal window, type:
    defaults write com.stone.PStill RewriteTIFF YES
• Text Extraction works on INTEL now
• Non-integral media bounding boxes are rounded up to nearest point instead of rounding down which might have caused miniscule clipping
• Better wording on Open and Save panels depending on type of Job (eg Normalize to EPS...)
• Saving a JobOptions file will add it the list of available jobOptions when you save to PStill's magic JobOptions folder
• Halting all jobs in watched folder no longer auto-quits PStill

• Renaming a photo leaves it in the same folder as it was before
• The bottom field in the drawer now shows the full path to the photo - which is useful when photos come from various folders differing from where the album is stored

• Universal
• French Localization Fixes
• Typing RETURN stays on the same entry - and moves between fields
• Use TAB to move between entries
• Purchase... takes you to Stone Store

• Now opens all the Stone Works applications - flip knife to the back to see the newer apps
• Link to Stone Store corrected
• Universal!

July 19 2006

• Contains:
  • Create® 12.5.4 Universal
  • Videator™ 1.2.1 Universal
  • iMaginator™ 2.5 Universal
  • PStill™ 5.2 Universal
  • PhotoToWeb® 3.1 Universal
  • TimeEqualsMoney™ 3.1 Universal
  • SliceAndDice™ 3.1 Universal
  • PackUpAndGo™ 3.1 Universal
  • GIFfun™ 4.0 Universal
  • PreferenceCommander ™ 2.1 Universal
  • StoneStudio™ Dashboard Widget Universal
  • Global Warmth™ 2.1 Universal
  • StampInStone™ 3.1 Universal
  • FontSight™ 2.2 Universal

• Runs natively on Intel or Power PC
• Full Support for Embedded and Nested Tables and Lists in Tiger
• New folder button in Preferences "Set Scratch Folder" and "Set Resources Folder" work again
• Saving unsaved documents with images from the temporary directory works again
• Colored text backgrounds (drag on with Command-key, drag on with Command-Option to remove) fill text block
• Chained text can also have colored backgrounds
• Editing text on colored backgrounds works again
• Setting the ruler units from Preferences also synchs open documents to that measurement
• Choosing an Image Editor application in Preferences works on Power PC again
• New Stone Store menu item
• Fixed slow down when typing in long document with lots of links
• When you delete an image, and drag in a new one of the same name, the document will use the new image, not the old one
• Saved applescripts open on INTEL now
• If window snaps to Document size, you can expand it fully vertically now
• Speeded up large library loading
• Looks harder for lost images when making websites

• Universal
• Typing RETURN stays on the same entry - and moves between fields
• Use TAB to move between entries
• Purchase... takes you to Stone Store

• Paint layers open correctly again in Mac 10.4.7
• Interoperates with Videator™
• Polka Dot plug-in refined to have antialiased edges
• Fixed INTEL crasher
• Better memory usage
• Sped up library loading times

April 5 2006

March 16 2006

• Correct handling of subsetted fonts
• Automatic smoothing of images included as JPEG when quality is 60 or below - this further reduces image size and makes the images look better
• New hidden defaults (you can set these in Job Option files too!)
  • Extra scan for duplicate fonts to reduce output size
    defaults write com.stone.PStill optimizefonts YES
optimizefonts = YES; /* job options file entry */
  • For Separations to Composite module, duplexed EPS's will look right:
    defaults write com.stone.PStill combineDuplexImg YES
combineDuplexImg = YES; /* job options file entry */
  • handleEPSasPS causes EPS not to be centered but placed in the lower left which is very useful for combining multiple elements on one page
    defaults write com.stone.PStill handleEPSasPS YES
handleEPSasPS = YES; /* job options file entry */
• More free Scripts!
• Updated Separations to Composite module:
  • Now works on PDF input
  • Use with automated workflow
  • Can handle spot color plates with Scripts
  • Available as a Professional Module
• Other fixes and improvements for speed and stability

March 7 2006

• Runs on 10.2, 10.3 and 10.4 Tiger PPC and INTEL
  
• Contains:
  • Create® 12.5.1
  • PStill™ 5.1
  • PhotoToWeb® 3.0
  • TimeEqualsMoney™ 3.0
  • SliceAndDice™ 3.0
  • PackUpAndGo™ 3.0
  • GIFfun™ 4.0
  • Not part of Stone Studio but included in Stone Works:
    • iMaginator™ 2.3.2 Universal
    • PreferenceCommander ™ 2.0
    • StoneStudio™ Dashboard Widget
    • Global Warmth™ 2.0
    • StampInStone™ 3.0
    • FontSight™ 2.1

• Runs natively on Intel or Power PC
• Full Support for Embedded and Nested Tables and Lists in Tiger
  • Text Embedded Tables go right into any text block and support:
    • New menu items: Format -> Text -> Table... to bring up inspector
      shortcut: COMMAND-CONTROL-t
    • merging of cells
    • nesting of tables
    • background color of cells set independently
    • alignments: top, center, bottom, right, left, center, justified
    • border thickness and color set independently
    • resize by dragging borders
    • add web links to any text in table
    • full support for rich text too
  • Lists and lists within lists go right into any text block and support:
    • New menu items: Format -> Text -> Lists... to bring up inspector
      shortcut: COMMAND-CONTROL-l
    • your choice of numbering, lettering, bullets, checks etc.
• Original style Table entries wrap - these can still be useful for certain types of tables
• Spacing Panel has a control key: COMMAND-CONTROL-s (be sure that text is active for this and the table and list editors to work!)
• Add background color to text blocks:
  
  • To add: just drag on a color Swatch with the command-key down
  • To remove: just drag on a color Swatch with the alternate key down
• Create tries to make horizontal and vertical lines and rectangles crisp looking (no antialias). However, if you do not want this optimization, you can now turn it off via this hidden default:
  defaults write com.stone.Create DoNotCrispHorizontalAndVerticalLines YES
• Your template files are now available in the main menu from File -> New from Template -> (any template files in a Pages folder)
• Mighty Mouse's scrollwheel will scroll sliders when you are over them

• dropping on files with spaces in them will be correctly percent escaped (ie %20)
• Revert to save while editing text works properly now
• Multipage documents with flowing text around graphics correctly updates subsequent text blocks on following pages
• Opening these documents will visit each previous page to make sure the flow is correct

12 Tutorial Movies to teach you the ins and outs of iMaginator:
• Visit our tutorial movies!
  
• Images and text can quickly be faded to any transparency for great collages
• Spotlight can now find base images too - and is Intel/PPC
• Zoom to Fit from Popup in Toolbar
• Zoom Image now has 400% and 800% by default
  

• Improved Color Management
• Stroked fonts are now written as graphics (maintaining the visuals perfectly)
• Improved TrueType handling (mainly for 'bad' Win32 TTFs, these are auto-repaired now)
• More free Scripts!
• Updated Separations to Composite module:
  • Now works on PDF input
  • Use with automated workflow
  • Can handle spot color plates with Scripts
  • Available as a Professional Module
• Other fixes and improvements for speed and stability

March 1 2006

February 14 2006

• Now works in Mail, Pages, iWeb, Keynote 3 as well as all standard native OS X apps
• Fixes the crasher users with 3rd party menu hacks installed were having
• Native for PPC and INTEL

January 13 2006

January 10 2006

• Runs on 10.2, 10.3 and 10.4 Tiger PPC and INTEL
  
• Contains:
  • Create® 12.5
  • PStill™ 5.0
  • PhotoToWeb® 3.0
  • TimeEqualsMoney™ 3.0
  • SliceAndDice™ 3.0
  • PackUpAndGo™ 3.0
  • GIFfun™ 4.0
  • Not part of Stone Studio but included in Stone Works:
    • iMaginator™ 2.2.2 Universal
    • PreferenceCommander ™ 2.0
    • StoneStudio™ Dashboard Widget
    • Global Warmth™ 2.0
    • StampInStone™ 3.0
    • FontSight™ 2.0

• Runs natively on Intel or Power PC
• Your template files are now available in the main menu from File -> New from Template -> (any template files in a Pages folder including:)
     ~/Library/Application Support/Create/Pages
     /Library/Application Support/Create/Pages
     /Network/Library/Application Support/Create/Pages
     /Library/Create/Pages
     /Network/Library/Create/Pages
     and your personal library folder's Pages folder if it's been set
  
• Your Library Resources look in two more places for shared resources:
     /Library/Application Support/Stone/Create/
     /Network/Library/Application Support/Stone/Create/
• Size inspector shows the exact size (bounding box) of the selected graphics - that is, the size of an image created from the graphics which may vary from the size of the graphic due to effects like rose, matrix, outlines, shadows, etc.
• Mighty Mouse's scrollwheel will scroll sliders when you are over them

• Movies which are really just sound files work now
• Align to Axes undo has correct text now

January 9 2006

January 4 2006

November 29 2005

12 Tutorial Movies to teach you the ins and outs of iMaginator:
• Visit our tutorial movies!
  
  30 new Effects Chains:
  
• Four new Effects filter files: Chia Pet (fuzzifies tiger), Photos (enhances photos), Liquid Metal and Mercury (trippy).
• 26 chains from Ron Bishop that can help you make cartoons or just great photos!
  
  Reading/Writing of Images
  
• New Image -> Image Properties panels shows EXIF, TIFF, and JFIF image info
  
• Reads RAW image formats: Canon (crw/cr2), Fuji, Minolta, Nikon, Sony, and OpenEXR
  
• Exported TIFF files now 3-10 times smaller
  
• EXIF tags are exported with JPGs, TIFF tags are exported with TIFFs, etc
  • You can add your own Artist, Copyright, Image Description and Keywords tags
  • Keywords & Image Description will get spotlighted
  • You can add over 23 other specialty tags as well!
  • These additions are saved with the iMaj document package
  
  
  Painting and "Unpainting"
  
• You can "Unpaint" on the Paint layer by holding down the command key while painting. This effectively "erases" the paint except on the Erase mode in which case it "restores" the picture below!
• 11 Blank Paint canvases to start painting on an empty canvas
• Shift constrains in vertical or horizontal direction
• If you are zoomed in so much that shift only constrains horizontally, add Option key to get vertical constraint
• Paint Layer file sizes are 10 to 100 times smaller!
  
• Painting uses much less memory now.
  
• If you want to speed up painting, and use no extra memory, but lose painting undo, set the "Fast painting, no undo" switch in Preferences, "General"
  
• If you still want undo, but don't want to use tons of extra memory, you can control how many levels of undo the program uses - by default, it's unlimited which can really chew up your memory! You set this in the Preferences Panel, "General" tab, Levels of Undo
  
  Ease of Use:
  
• Full Screen Preview mode - Tools -> Full Screen (click or press any key to stop!)
• Updated online help and User Manual PDF
• Shaded material uses "lightball" by default - which makes for incredible looking image
• Got MightyMouse? Scroll Wheels can move effects sliders when cursor is over the slider.
• Added German to English, French and Italian localizations (just change in System Preferences, International and relaunch!)
• Skew/Rotate rotation dial reflects image rotation - mousedown and drag far away from center to get really accurage control!
• Added Spell Checker fcr your keywords and tags
  
  Performance Enhancements:
  
• Documents containing paint layers save correctly in all cases now
  
• Fixed annoying memory leaks
  
• Miniaturizing a window draws image correctly as it miniaturizes now
  
• Correctly rotates & crops RAW image formats
  
• Dropping in a new image restores rotation to 0 (this could be quite confusing!)
• Rotation is now saved with the image file
• Reopening documents happens twice as fast!
• PNG's can be interlaced - see Preferences -> Image
• iMaginator shows its version in Finder now

November 7 2005

• Runs on 10.1, 10.2, 10.3 and 10.4 Tiger
  
• Contains:
  • Create® 12.4
  • PStill™ 4.2.1
  • PhotoToWeb® 2.5
  • TimeEqualsMoney™ 2.5.5
  • SliceAndDice™ 2.8.4
  • PackUpAndGo™ 2.4
  • GIFfun™ 3.8
  • Not part of Stone Studio but included in Stone Works:
    • iMaginator™ 2.1 Universal
    • PreferenceCommander ™ 1.0.1
    • StoneStudio™ Dashboard Widget
    • Global Warmth™ 1.3.2
    • StampInStone™ 2.7.2
    • FontSight™ 1.4

• More Automator Scripts (in Tiger)!
  • Launch Automator, select the Create Icon
  • add View in Create to a workflow:
    • Example: Choose Files in Finder, View in Create
    • When you run, select a bunch of photos to be set into a new Create document
  • Export Document as JPGs
  • Export Document as PDFs
  • Export Every Page as JPG
  • Export Every Page as PDF
  • Load Current Page
  • Load Every Page
• You can create HTML that can be mailed and still show images. You'll need to make sure you upload the images to your website for this to work because Mailers will try to load the image off of your server. See Web Options -> Misc -> "Images are on server:"
• New Applescript command "size to fit"
  • this is useful to make new text blocks fit all of their contents
  • it has one optional argument "with fixed width" - this will leave the width of the text unchanged and only resize the text block in a vertical dimension (height only).
  • if you do not include this argument, it will attempt to widen the text to fit the longest sentence, so this gives you some flexibility depending on whether you know the desired width or not.
• New Command Keys for Splines-Lines:
  • Add Point: Command-Option-n
  • Remove Point: Command-Option-r
• Neat tutorial movie on making gel buttons
• Currently, single page documents made into a web page do not create an index.html. If you do want an index.html created (assuming you have link or copy selected in index.html Creation), you can set this hidden default:
  defaults write com.stone.Create AlwaysCreateIndex YES

• Changed "Align -> Horizontal Centers" to "Align -> Vertical Axes" to be more explicit
• Changed "Align -> Vertical Centers" to "Align -> Horizontal Axes" to be more explicit
• Resetting Web Options to factory settings now correctly resets Extra HTML -> Before Content Field
• GIFs and JPEGs used as background images are preserved
• To find out more about LinkBack - visit LinkBackProject.org

September 7 2005

• Runs on 10.1, 10.2, 10.3 and 10.4 Tiger
  
• Contains:
  • Create® 12.3.8
  • PStill™ 4.2.1
  • PhotoToWeb® 2.5
  • TimeEqualsMoney™ 2.5.5
  • SliceAndDice™ 2.8.4
  • PackUpAndGo™ 2.4
  • GIFfun™ 3.8
  • Not part of Stone Studio but included in Stone Works:
    • iMaginator™ 2.1 Universal
    • PreferenceCommander ™ 1.0.1
    • StoneStudio™ Dashboard Widget
    • Global Warmth™ 1.3.2
    • StampInStone™ 2.7.2
    • FontSight™ 1.4

• Images library contains 11 blank canvases of various sizes
  • see Image Library, choose "Blank Paint" from the popup
  • great for painting on blank canvas or applying effects to text
• 6 new tutorial movies - or choose Help -> Tutorial Movies
• Now runs in English, French and Italian!
• Super optimized with OpenGL - can generate images twice as fast!
• Paint in any number of layers
  • Square and round brushes of any size
  • Erase with brush
  • Add paint in twenty different blend styles: over, addition, color blend, color burn, color dodge, darken blend, difference, exclusion, hard light, hue blend, lighten blend, luminosity blend, maximum, minimum, multiply blend, multiply, overlay blend, saturation blend, screen blend, and soft light blend
  • Constrain to vertical or horizontal with shift key
  • Click to make dots or squares
  • Size and color remembered in each paint layer
• Universal binary runs on PPC and INTEL
• Nine custom plug-ins - and they are improved!
• Over 33 new effects chains in Effects Library
• Set Crop rectangle exactly:
  • Image -> Set Crop...
  • Double-click or option-click the Crop Tool in the tool bar
  • Option-drag to move the crop rectangle around
  • Arrow keys nudge the crop rectangle - Control-Arrows resize it
• Drag the crop rectangle by holding down option key with mouse down
• Mask by Color and by Component plug-ins show clear parts of image now
• Reset image button works
• Launching via double-clicking a document works now
• Turning on and off the first effect works correctly now
• Hidden defaults you can set from Terminal that affect the licensing daemon in all Stone Studio apps released after July 10th 2005:
  • To have license daemon exit after you quit the app (you'll get slower second launches though):
    defaults write NSGlobalDomain QuitDaemonOnQuittingApp YES
  • To be able to reinstall the app even if you've run it this login session, but still get the same fast launch on second running:
    defaults write NSGlobalDomain AllowEasyReinstall YES

• Now works with Automator in Tiger!
  • Launch Automator, select the Create Icon
  • add View in Create to a workflow:
    • Example: Choose Files in Finder, View in Create
    • When you run, select a bunch of photos to be set into a new Create document
• New scripts under Scripts menu developed by Ron Bishop:
  • Save each page to PDF or JPG (this is great for imposition of output in some manner)
  • Save each page as ... (go to a movie or PhotoToWeb)
  • Make Quicktime Movie - you'll need QuickTime Pro to be able to save them though
• The current visible page or layer is now selected in the Master Layers panel
• Master Layers panel shows page numbers of layers and pages
• Master Layers allows resizing of both layer names and pages
• Neat tutorial movie on making gel buttons

• Saving Art or PDF with embedded Create containing linked text will save the contents of the text blocks - before, they would be empty, now, they contain the same text, however the blocks are not linked because this is a page level feature - and in the case of imposition, you would not want this since you might be reordering pages and want the blocks to contain the same text as before.
• Pasting a page number onto another page immediately updates it's page number
• To find out more about LinkBack - visit LinkBackProject.org

• Uses more secure, faster, and smaller ZLIB 1.2.3
• Spot color "Black " images are now written as plain B/W images
• Extended the dump vector to handle more glyphs for font widths calculation. Previously PStill needed the font to define these gylphs in its default vector, including the Euro sign.
• Watermark scripts with CMYK work better now
• Super high precision character placement with numeric accuracy > 4
• Memory usage reduced and conversion is even faster
• Reduces GFX heavy input by factor of 30-50%. In particular smooth fills that were generating very large output are now dumped much smaller and leaner - in one case output size dropped from 30 MB to 3 MB for the same page and output fidelity!
• Works on systems before Panther 10.3.9
• Hidden defaults you can set from Terminal that affect the licensing daemon in all Stone Studio apps released after July 10th 2005:
  • To have license daemon exit after you quit the app (you'll get slower second launches though):
    defaults write NSGlobalDomain QuitDaemonOnQuittingApp YES
  • To be able to reinstall the app even if you've run it this login session, but still get the same fast launch on second running:
    defaults write NSGlobalDomain AllowEasyReinstall YES
• Latest PStill Engine: 1728

• Fixed the remove columns or rows inside a group bug
• Hidden defaults you can set from Terminal that affect the licensing daemon in all Stone Studio apps released after July 10th 2005:
  • To have license daemon exit after you quit the app (you'll get slower second launches though):
    defaults write NSGlobalDomain QuitDaemonOnQuittingApp YES
  • To be able to reinstall the app even if you've run it this login session, but still get the same fast launch on second running:
    defaults write NSGlobalDomain AllowEasyReinstall YES

July 11 2005

• Runs on 10.1, 10.2, 10.3 and 10.4 Tiger
  
• Contains:
  • Create® 12.3.7
  • PStill™ 4.2
  • PhotoToWeb® 2.5
  • TimeEqualsMoney™ 2.5.5
  • SliceAndDice™ 2.8.3
  • PackUpAndGo™ 2.4
  • GIFfun™ 3.8
  • Not part of Stone Studio but included in Stone Works:
    • iMaginator™ 2.0 Universal
    • PreferenceCommander ™ 1.0.1
    • StoneStudio™ Dashboard Widget
    • Global Warmth™ 1.3.2
    • StampInStone™ 2.7.2
    • FontSight™ 1.4

• Super optimized with OpenGL - can generate images twice as fast!
• Paint in any number of layers
  • Square and round brushes of any size
  • Erase with brush
  • Add paint in twenty different blend styles: over, addition, color blend, color burn, color dodge, darken blend, difference, exclusion, hard light, hue blend, lighten blend, luminosity blend, maximum, minimum, multiply blend, multiply, overlay blend, saturation blend, screen blend, and soft light blend
  • Constrain to vertical or horizontal with shift key
  • Click to make dots or squares
  • Size and color remembered in each paint layer
• Universal binary runs on PPC and INTEL
• Nine custom plug-ins - and they are improved!
• Over 33 new effects chains in Effects Library
• Set Crop rectangle exactly:
  • Image -> Set Crop...
  • Double-click or option-click the Crop Tool in the tool bar
  • Option-drag to move the crop rectangle around
  • Arrow keys nudge the crop rectangle - Control-Arrows resize it
• Drag the crop rectangle by holding down option key with mouse down
• Mask by Color and by Component plug-ins show clear parts of image now
• Reset image button works
• Launching via double-clicking a document works now
• Turning on and off the first effect works correctly now
• C'est vrai! En français aussi! Merci beaucoup, Baptiste Laget!
• Hidden defaults you can set from Terminal that affect the licensing daemon in all Stone Studio apps released after July 10th 2005:
  • To have license daemon exit after you quit the app (you'll get slower second launches though):
    defaults write NSGlobalDomain QuitDaemonOnQuittingApp YES
  • To be able to reinstall the app even if you've run it this login session, but still get the same fast launch on second running:
    defaults write NSGlobalDomain AllowEasyReinstall YES

• Page selection popup shows page names, if assigned in Web -> Page Name (or using Master Layers panel)
• You can widen the Master Layers panel to see long page names
• Page thumbnails shows page name as well for ease of reordering
• Updated Web -> Help...
• Integrated Tiger look of Documents with Toolbars
• Hidden defaults you can set from Terminal that affect the licensing daemon in all Stone Studio apps released after July 10th 2005:
  • To have license daemon exit after you quit the app (you'll get slower second launches though):
    defaults write NSGlobalDomain QuitDaemonOnQuittingApp YES
  • To be able to reinstall the app even if you've run it this login session, but still get the same fast launch on second running:
    defaults write NSGlobalDomain AllowEasyReinstall YES

• Page numbers in a table group on a master layer update correctly on the pages containing the layer
• In a doc with many master layers, zooming will update all layers correctly
• LinkBack images from iMaginator will maintain new aspect ratio of image if it changes
• To find out more about LinkBack - visit LinkBackProject.org

• Create automatic web slideshows - see Web Options -> Layout, "Auto Slideshow"
• Set the duration of each photo in the slide show
• New Tiger integrated look of documents and library
• Polishing of the recent new features listed here
• Hidden defaults you can set from Terminal that affect the licensing daemon in all Stone Studio apps released after July 10th 2005:
  • To have license daemon exit after you quit the app (you'll get slower second launches though):
    defaults write NSGlobalDomain QuitDaemonOnQuittingApp YES
  • To be able to reinstall the app even if you've run it this login session, but still get the same fast launch on second running:
    defaults write NSGlobalDomain AllowEasyReinstall YES

• Memory usage reduced and conversion is even faster
• Reduces GFX heavy input by factor of 30-50%. In particular smooth fills that were generating very large output are now dumped much smaller and leaner - in one case output size dropped from 30 MB to 3 MB for the same page and output fidelity!
• Works on systems before Panther 10.3.9
• Hidden defaults you can set from Terminal that affect the licensing daemon in all Stone Studio apps released after July 10th 2005:
  • To have license daemon exit after you quit the app (you'll get slower second launches though):
    defaults write NSGlobalDomain QuitDaemonOnQuittingApp YES
  • To be able to reinstall the app even if you've run it this login session, but still get the same fast launch on second running:
    defaults write NSGlobalDomain AllowEasyReinstall YES
• Latest PStill Engine: 1728

• Handles OTF fonts better

June 15 2005

• Runs on 10.1, 10.2, 10.3 and 10.4 Tiger
  
• Contains:
  • Create® 12.3.6
  • PStill™ 4.1.4
  • PhotoToWeb® 2.4.3
  • TimeEqualsMoney™ 2.5.5
  • SliceAndDice™ 2.8.3
  • PackUpAndGo™ 2.4
  • GIFfun™ 3.8
  • Not part of Stone Studio but here for your convenience:
    • iMaginator™ 1.1.2
    • PreferenceCommander ™ 1.0.1
    • StoneStudio™ Dashboard Widget
    • Global Warmth™ 1.3.2
    • StampInStone™ 2.7.2
    • FontSight™ 1.4

• Improved Help -> Tutorial help documents
• Integrated Tiger look of Documents with Toolbars

• custom page sizes get restored on open again
• changing page size refreshes gutter area again
• masked matrices redraw correctly after paste or reopen
• You can undo "replace" and "replace all" in Find
• Spotlight plug-in works correctly now (groups were being politely ignored!)
• LinkBack images from iMaginator will maintain new aspect ratio of image if it changes
• To find out more about LinkBack - visit LinkBackProject.org
• Resources that come from a temporary directory are automatically embedded to preserve them between reboots
• Better French localization

• RollOver Pane is less confusing when no secondary image has been added yet

• Works on systems before Panther 10.3.9 - earlier versions bit by dyld bug!
• Better French localization
• Latest PStill Engine: 1728

• Works better on Tiger
• Columns size to fit the window without growing overly large
• You can manually enter descriptions even if they are not in your preferences lists

1. When you select an application, it's location and version number are shown in the new status button at the bottom of the window. If PreferenceCommander finds several versions of the same application, it will alert you on the button.
2. Clicking the status button shows you each instance of the application in Finder - a great way to route out old versions laying around!
3. You can add other application folders and immediately search them - see Preferences
4. If you have circularly linked file system, PreferenceCommander will launch anyway (fixes hang a few folks had on launch)
5. Expert stuff: You can set a Default to watch the apps being loaded:
   
   defaults write com.stone.PreferenceCommander Debug YES
   
   If you don't want it loading a particular folder, make the folder end in a "#" and set this default:
   
   defaults write com.stone.PreferenceCommander OmitFoldersEndingInHashMark YES
   
   If you don't want the program to load icons for each app (saves about 25% of the launch time)
   
   defaults write com.stone.PreferenceCommander NoIcons YES

• C'est vrai! En français! Merci beaucoup, Baptiste Laget!
• Two new Core Image Units: (brings total to 9!)
  • Mask by Color: set the color to erase from the image - and the threshold of how close to the color to erase
  • Mask by Component: choose which color channel and threshold to erase
• Select either the 'Aqua' or original 'Metal Finish' user interface - see Preferences -> General
• View and manipulate just the selected effect's points - or all the effects' points. This can really help if you have many effects in the chain! See Preferences -> General
• A new toolbar widget has been added to quickly select All or Just Selected points - See Tools -> Customize Toolbar...
• Watch All Effects responds to <SPACE BAR> to pause/resume
• Watch All Effects can be canceled by typing any other key to stop
• Oval Clip & Crop Fade Mask work correctly when zoomed or transformed
• Added 3 new effects chains to Effects Library - check them out!
• Image scrolls when you move points or crop past visible
• LinkBack from Create will launch iMaginator correctly now
• Spotlight plug-in works correctly now
  • plug-in is inside of iMaginator so no extra installation needed
  • Be sure no other copies of iMaginator or the iMaginator.mdimporter are on
      your computer or else plug-in won't work due to a current limitation of Spotlight
• Document size and location are remembered for new and between sessions
• Kaliedoscope spelled correctly in menu
• Strings are in UTF-16 so app works better in Japanese, etc.
• Fixed a crasher in image well when no effects were selected

May 11 2005

• Runs on 10.1, 10.2, 10.3 and 10.4 Tiger
  
• Contains:
  • Create® 12.3.4
  • PStill™ 4.1.2
  • PhotoToWeb® 2.4.3
  • TimeEqualsMoney™ 2.5.4
  • SliceAndDice™ 2.8.2
  • PackUpAndGo™ 2.4
  • GIFfun™ 3.8
  • Not part of Stone Studio but here for your convenience:
    • iMaginator™ 1.0.1
    • StoneStudio™ Dashboard Widget
    • Global Warmth™ 1.3.2
    • StampInStone™ 2.7.2
    • FontSight™ 1.4

• New integrated Tiger look of Documents with Toolbars
• Spotlight "Importer" automatically installed (remove any old ones!)
• Create is now both a LinkBack Server and LinkBack Client!
  • To publish, copy graphics and paste them in other LinkBack application
  • To receive a link, paste the graphic copied from other LinkBack application
    • To re-edit this link, either double-click the image or choose Edit -> Edit in [OTHER APP]
  • To find out more about LinkBack - visit LinkBackProject.org

• Drag on a PDF (or non-Web image) from Web Resources correctly adds the PDF as the graphic or text's link
• Drag from Image well works better with iMaginator
• Rectangles with dashes can have other line caps other than square extended ones
• Multiple "Duplicate"'s leave graphics in same order
• Spanish, French and German localizations enhanced
• Multiple licenses in Found tableview in License panel are selected correctly
• LinkBack server (like iMaginator!) will launch even if not launched now

• Works on systems before Panther 10.3.9 - 4.1.1 was bit by dyld bug!
• More support for preprocessing PS with Mac OS X Panther and Tiger's "pstopdf"
• If you are preprossing PS, it will now retain any found cropbox
• If you want to set the CropBox from a Job Option File - use this format:
  CropBox = "x,y,w,h";
• Better French localization
• Latest PStill Engine: 1728

• Works better on Tiger
• Columns size to fit the window without growing overly large

• New Tiger integrated look of documents and library
• Multiple licenses in Found tableview in License panel are selected correctly
• Polishing of the recent new features listed here

• Watch All Effects responds to <SPACE BAR> to pause/resume
• Watch All Effects can be canceled by typing any other key to stop
• Oval Clip & Crop Fade Mask work correctly when zoomed or transformed
• Added 3 new effects chains to Effects Library - check them out!
• Image scrolls when you move points or crop past visible
• LinkBack from Create will launch iMaginator correctly now
• Spotlight plug-in works correctly now
  • plug-in is inside of iMaginator so no extra installation needed
  • Be sure no other copies of iMaginator or the iMaginator.mdimporter are on
      your computer or else plug-in won't work due to a current limitation of Spotlight
• Kaliedoscope spelled correctly in menu
• Strings are in UTF-16 so app works better in Japanese, etc.

April 4 2005

• Runs on 10.1, 10.2, and 10.3 (Panther) and Beyond...
  
• Contains:
  • Create® 12.3.3
  • PStill™ 4.1
  • PhotoToWeb® 2.4.2
  • TimeEqualsMoney™ 2.5.3
  • SliceAndDice™ 2.8.2
  • PackUpAndGo™ 2.4
  • GIFfun™ 3.8
  • Not part of Stone Studio but here for your convenience:
    • Global Warmth™ 1.3.2
    • StampInStone™ 2.7.2
    • FontSight™ 1.4

• Create is now both a LinkBack Server and LinkBack Client!
  • To publish, copy graphics and paste them in other LinkBack application
  • To receive a link, paste the graphic copied from other LinkBack application
    • To re-edit this link, either double-click the image or choose Edit -> Edit in [OTHER APP]
  • To find out more about LinkBack - visit LinkBackProject.org

• German localization seriously improved by Alexander Wolfe
• Tables in groups display now in long documents
• Images dropped into untitled documents won't collide with similarly named images

• Support for preprocessing PS with Mac OS X Panther and beyond's "pstopdf"
  • this may give you better font inclusion and handling of PS Level 3 commands
  • this can take a lot longer - so use carefully!
  • see "Preprocess PS" switch in Preferences -> Output Options
  • you can add this option to any Job Option file with:

    			PreprocessPS = "YES";
    			

• Font subsetting has been further optimized for even TINIER pdf file sizes!
• Handles inDesign CS Mac OS X files
• For incorrectly written PS (such as inDesign CS) that has bounding box BUT no PageBoundingBox, you can get the correct results by setting this hidden default, or using it as a key-value in a job options file:

  	defaults write com.stone.PStill UseBoundingBoxForPageSize YES
  

• When you combine many files, they are sorted numerically so eg 10.eps follows 9.eps (not 1.eps as it would alphabetically)
• Null titles and titles with parenthesis are rendered correctly in Acrobat
• Selecting Job Options set from Conversion Panel works correctly (broken in 4.0 - so get this version!)
• New module for Color Managment: 'Conversion -> Color Management'
  • Map CMYK colors to named Spot Colors (potentially with other CMYK values)
  • Change colorspaces of documents using ICC profiles - CMYK, RGB and/or Gray
  • You can get these ICC profiles free!
• Expert PhotoShop DCS to PDF expert module embedded into application - available with the Separations to Composite module
• New module for suppresion of elements interface: 'Conversion -> Suppress Elements'
  • Suppress any set of these:
    • strokes
    • fills
    • images
    • all text
    • just black text
    • just colored text
    
    These features can be accessed from the Watched Folder's pPref Options files:
  • New keys and hidden defaults to suppress elements - you can set these via hidden defaults in a terminal or in a job options file:
    • SuppressFills = YES; /* no fills */
    • SuppressImages = YES; /* no images */
    • SuppressText = YES; /* no text */
    • SuppressBlackText = YES; /* no black text - keep colored text */
    • SuppressColorText = YES; /* no colored text - keep black text */
    • SuppressStrokes =
      To set on the commandline, example:
      defaults write com.stone.PStill SuppressImages YES
      But use with caution since these are not reset and you might find yourself wondering why elements are not appearing!
      
  • New 'suppression' script. You can suppress elements with .sl scripts like this one which finds large rotated text:
    

    
    define interceptShow() {
    	variable a,b,c,d,e,f;
    	
    	(a,b,c,d,e,f) = currentFontMatrix();
    	
    	if (c > 241.1) {
    		supressOutput();
    	}
    }
    

• More sanity checking in PDF conversion routines
• Minor software release versions are recognized correctly by "Check for updates"
• Improved lowres scaling
• Fixed potential overlong widths arrays in PDF for errornous encoding vectors
• Autorotate pages script interface
• Retaining hidden text for PDF->PDF conversion
• Improved handling for position shifted PDFs (e.g. created by Pitstop)
• Better handling of outline generation
• You can set the number of sheets of paper in the Tile Poster module
• Latest PStill Engine: 1728

February 22 2005

• Optimized for Panther!
• Runs on 10.1, 10.2, and 10.3 (Panther) and ...
  
• License system works much better for the occasional system that had trouble with it. Be sure to assign DNS addresses to your router if it gives you trouble - relaunching the application will fix it in any regard.
• Contains:
  • Create® 12.3.2
  • PStill™ 4.0
  • PhotoToWeb® 2.4.2
  • TimeEqualsMoney™ 2.5.3
  • SliceAndDice™ 2.8.2
  • PackUpAndGo™ 2.4
  • GIFfun™ 3.8
  • Not part of Stone Studio but here for your convenience:
    • Global Warmth™ 1.3.2
    • StampInStone™ 2.7.2
    • FontSight™ 1.4

• 4 new sets of navigation bars by Robert Curtis
• When master layers are applied to a document, "New Page" will automatically add those layers to the new page.
• You can turn smoothing off by default for the FreeHand tool with this hidden default:
  defaults write com.stone.Create IgnoreSmoothing
• You can select a tool via applescript

  
    tell application "Create"
  	tell the front document
  		choosetool named "freehand" persists 1
  	end tell
    end tell
   Valid names: Pointer, Scale, Shear, Rotate, Rectangle, Circle, Line, Arc, Freehand, Spline, Text, RoundBox, Star, Embed, Table, BoxGraphic
  
  
  
  

• Automatic check for version works correctly now
• License system works much better for the occasional system that had trouble with it. Be sure to assign DNS addresses to your router if it gives you trouble - relaunching Create will fix it in any regard

• New module for Color Managment: 'Conversion -> Color Management'
  • Map CMYK colors to named Spot Colors (potentially with other CMYK values)
  • Change colorspaces of documents using ICC profiles - CMYK, RGB and/or Gray
  • You can get these ICC profiles free!
• Expert PhotoShop DCS to PDF expert module embedded into application - available with the Separations to Composite module
• New module for suppresion of elements interface: 'Conversion -> Suppress Elements'
  • Suppress any set of these:
    • strokes
    • fills
    • images
    • all text
    • just black text
    • just colored text
    
    These features can be accessed from the Watched Folder's pPref Options files:
  • New keys and hidden defaults to suppress elements - you can set these via hidden defaults in a terminal or in a job options file:
    • SuppressFills = YES; /* no fills */
    • SuppressImages = YES; /* no images */
    • SuppressText = YES; /* no text */
    • SuppressBlackText = YES; /* no black text - keep colored text */
    • SuppressColorText = YES; /* no colored text - keep black text */
    • SuppressStrokes =
      To set on the commandline, example:
      defaults write com.stone.PStill SuppressImages YES
      But use with caution since these are not reset and you might find yourself wondering why elements are not appearing!
      
  • New 'suppression' script. You can suppress elements with .sl scripts like this one which finds large rotated text:
    

    
    define interceptShow() {
    	variable a,b,c,d,e,f;
    	
    	(a,b,c,d,e,f) = currentFontMatrix();
    	
    	if (c > 241.1) {
    		supressOutput();
    	}
    }
    

• More sanity checking in PDF conversion routines
• Minor software release versions are recognized correctly by "Check for updates"
• Improved lowres scaling
• Fixed potential overlong widths arrays in PDF for errornous encoding vectors
• Autorotate pages script interface
• Retaining hidden text for PDF->PDF conversion
• Improved handling for position shifted PDFs (e.g. created by Pitstop)
• Better handling of outline generation
• You can set the number of sheets of paper in the Tile Poster module
• Latest PStill Engine: 1727c

• Added Zoom In and Zoom Out to the main Tools menu - with command keys: COMMAND-> (zoom in) and COMMAND-< (zoom out)
• Hidden preference to inhibit display of web tables when you Slice and Dice

  
       defaults write com.stone.SliceAndDice DoNotOpenInBrowser YES
  

• Minor software release versions are recognized correctly by "Check for updates"

• 4 new sets of Navigation Bars by Robert Curtis
• You can set the width/height/max or scale of ALL photos in all albums in a library easily
• Licensing system works better - app quits faster and launches successive times faster
• Minor software release versions are recognized by "Check for updates"
• Polishing of the recent new features listed here

• Licensing system works better - app quits faster and launches successive times faster
• Minor software release versions are recognized by "Check for updates"

• Licensing system works better - app quits faster and launches successive times faster
• Minor software release versions are recognized by "Check for updates"

• Licensing system works better - app quits faster and launches successive times faster
• Minor software release versions are recognized by "Check for updates"

January 5 2004

• Optimized for Panther!
• Runs on 10.1, 10.2, and 10.3 (Panther)
  
• Contains:
  • Create® 12.3.1
  • PStill™ 3.6.2
  • PhotoToWeb® 2.4
  • TimeEqualsMoney™ 2.5
  • SliceAndDice™ 2.8
  • PackUpAndGo™ 2.4
  • GIFfun™ 3.8
  • Not part of Stone Studio but here for your convenience:
    • Global Warmth™ 1.3
    • StampInStone™ 2.7
    • FontSight™ 1.4

• Documents now show an image preview of the first page in Finder and Open Panel
• Documents now produce metadata for instant content search
• New Font-> Exact Attributes panel to set exact baselines, kerning, paragraph and line spacing, left/right indents, ligatures, underline etc.
    Note: A new tool bar item has been added for this panel
    Note: A new button in Info -> Object when Text is selected has been added for this panel
    Note: if you want this panel to popup every time you create or edit text, set this hidden default:
  defaults write com.stone.Create
• Page down/page up/page end/page and home keys work even while editing text
• New "Glo" effects in Library Resources, Effects
• Support for Right To Left languages along a path, inside shapes, and Super Text Circle, Bowl and Rainbow
    Note: be sure Format -> Text -> Writing Direction -> Right to Left is selected
    Note that this switch is also on the new Exact Attributes panel
• Updated and expanded Help - see Help -> Help Center

• Double-click documents to launch doesn't confuse the Licenser anymore
• Scripts menu load in future Mac OS X versions

• Improved lowres scaling
• Fixed potential overlong widths arrays in PDF for errornous encoding vectors
• Autorotate pages script interface
• Retaining hidden text for PDF->PDF conversion
• Improved handling for position shifted PDFs (e.g. created by Pitstop)
• Better handling of outline generation
• You can set the number of sheets of paper in the Tile Poster module
• New keys and hidden defaults to suppress elements - you can set these via hidden defaults in a terminal or in a job options file:
  • SuppressFills = YES; /* no fills */
  • SuppressImages = YES; /* no images */
  • SuppressText = YES; /* no text */
  • SuppressBlackText = YES; /* no black text - keep colored text */
  • SuppressColorText = YES; /* no colored text - keep black text */
  • SuppressStrokes = YES; /* no strokes */
  • DontSuppressWhiteStrokesInGrayscale = YES; /* except white strokes in grayscale documents */
    
    To set on the commandline, example:
    defaults write com.stone.PStill SuppressImages YES
    But use with caution since these are not reset and you might find yourself wondering why elements are not appearing!
    
• New 'suppression' script. You can suppress elements with .sl scripts like this one which finds large rotated text:
  

  
  define interceptShow() {
  	variable a,b,c,d,e,f;
  	
  	(a,b,c,d,e,f) = currentFontMatrix();
  	
  	if (c > 241.1) {
  		supressOutput();
  	}
  }
  

• Latest PStill Engine: 1728

• Licensing system works better - app quits faster and launches successive times faster
• Minor software release versions are recognized by "Check for updates"
• Polishing of the recent new features listed here

December 7 2004

• Optimized for Panther!
• Runs on 10.1, 10.2, and 10.3 (Panther)
  
• Contains:
  • Create® 12.3
  • PStill™ 3.6
  • PhotoToWeb® 2.4
  • TimeEqualsMoney™ 2.5
  • SliceAndDice™ 2.8
  • PackUpAndGo™ 2.4
  • GIFfun™ 3.8
  • Not part of Stone Studio but here for your convenience:
    • Global Warmth™ 1.3
    • StampInStone™ 2.7
    • FontSight™ 1.4

Features:
• Export as GIF from image well is much better resolution
• You can now export the selection to a bunch of new image types
  • The Image well has a new Any icon "???" - Click it to choose the image type
  • File -> Save Other... -> Save Image... also brings this save panel up
  • supported types:
    • DirectDraw Surface (*.dds)
    • Graphics Interchange Format (*.gif)
    • Macintosh Icon (*.icns)
    • Windows Icon (*.ico)
    • Amiga IFF (*.iff)
    • JPEG Network Graphics (*.jng)
    • Independent JPEG Group (*.jpg)
    • Commodore 64 Koala format (*.koa)
    • Multiple Network Graphics (*.mng)
    • Portable Bitmap (*.pbm)
    • Portable Graymap (*.pgm)
    • Portable Network Graphics (*.png)
    • Portable Pixelmap (*.ppm)
    • Photoshop (*.psd)
    • Sun Rasterfile (*.ras)
    • Targa files (*.tga)
    • Tagged Image File Format (*.tiff)
    • Wireless Bitmap (*.wbmp)
    • X11 Bitmap Format (*.xbm)
    • X11 Pixmap Format (*.xpm)
    • Thanks to FreeImage under FreeImage Public License - "license-fi.txt" in Resources folder
    • Visit http://freeimage.sourceforge.net/ for source and more information
• Selection knobs are drawn on top of all the graphics for ease of manipulating obscured graphics
• Arrow Heads: you can set linejoin and linecap separately from the line
• Arrow Editor: you can expand the window if you need more space to edit the arrow
• Page Layers: you can reorder the layers by dragging them
• Page Layers: you can instantly set the Z ordering (front to back) of the layers
• Support for version control software "Subversion" as well as CVS
  If you are using yet another version control software, its subfolders can be maintained with this hidden default: defaults write com.stone.Create VersionControlFolderName "Name_Of_Folder"
• Option-drag to copy objects, if the Shift key is down, constrains the copy to the axis in the direction moved the most
• Text blocks and Text along paths/shapes now respond to Bigger Font and Smaller Font
• Text blocks and Text along paths/shapes now respond to Alignment (left,center,right and justified)

• Option-click and drag to copy graphics drops graphics exactly where you release "ghosted" copies
• Longer timeout for Licenser - this fixes the "Create won't stay licensed" bug
• Minor revisions are now recognized as new versions
• Typing and moving with lots of guides is very fast now
• Moving guides on complicated drawings is very fast now
• Page Layers now guaranteed to have unique IDs on opening
• Arrows on beziers won't get clipped
• Rotated text resizes better, and undos correctly
• TextAlongPath and TextWithShape get inspected correctly again

• Licensing system works better - app quits faster and launches successive times faster
• Minor software release versions are recognized by "Check for updates"
• Polishing of the recent new features listed here

• minor versions are now detected in updates
• Job Option sets and Preference Sets are indicated in the UI with a checkmark when selected
• DeviceN multitone colorspaces with more than 3 colors can be successfully converted.
• You can resize the main Convertor window
• Added a "Clear All" button to the Combine Many window
• Licensing system works better - app quits faster and launches successive times faster
• Minor software release versions are recognized by "Check for updates"
• Latest PStill Engine: 1727c

• Licensing system works better - app quits faster and launches successive times faster
• Slices draw all the way across when zoomed in at 75% (under 100%)
• Minor software release versions are recognized by "Check for updates"

• Licensing system works better - app quits faster and launches successive times faster
• You can resume any time slice - even if you have already stopped it.
• Minor software release versions are recognized by "Check for updates"

• Licensing system works better - app quits faster and launches successive times faster
• Minor software release versions are recognized by "Check for updates"

• Licensing system works better - app quits faster and launches successive times faster
• Minor software release versions are recognized by "Check for updates"

November 22 2004

• FontSight™ v 1.4
  • Collections work correctly in Panther and beyond
  • You can disable FontSight in Preferences...
  • Turn back on in FontSight Installer's Preferences
  • Shareware - only $19
  • FontSight™ Home

November 7 2004

• Optimized for Panther!
• Runs on 10.1, 10.2, and 10.3 (Panther)
  
• Contains:
  • Create® 12.2.2
  • PStill™ 3.5
  • PhotoToWeb® 2.3
  • TimeEqualsMoney™ 2.4.4
  • SliceAndDice™ 2.7.4
  • PackUpAndGo™ 2.4
  • GIFfun™ 3.8
  • Not part of Stone Studio but here for your convenience:
    • Global Warmth™ 1.2
    • StampInStone™ 2.6.2
    • FontSight™ 1.3.2

Features:
• Fuzzy shadows can be any color now! See: Effects -> Multiple, Shadow, new color well
• Hidden default to set language in Web Page Output, by default, it's EN (English)

  	default write com.stone.Create WebLanguage SP
  

Fixes:
• Text find/replace works correctly in chained text
• Spell Checker works correctly in chained text
• Merging documents with flowed text works
• Huge text blocks don't slow down Create
• French Fill Inspector is layed out better
• Applescript works on future Mac OS X releases ;-)
• Web page save panel correctly updates current page only, all on a page options
• Changing paper size updates display of window correctly

• Brand new updated and complete Help Center!
• New Story Text alignment options: Justify and Align Right
• hidden default to set language in Web Page Output, by default, it's EN (English)

  	default write com.stone.PhotoToWeb WebLanguage SP
  

• Various fixes: Web Thumbnails is working again, In Library sites, TOC button goes to actual TOC page when multiple TOC pages are created
• Polishing of the recent new features listed here

• Latest PStill Engine: 1727c
• Install Fonts works better - if it gives you trouble, just quit PStill and relaunch it, sometimes the system refuses to 'fork another process'.
• Type 0 CID fonts are now rewritten in 'correct' encoding meaning: PStill can now re-embed them directly, this makes for much smaller output from e.g. InDesignCS generated PDF
• Transparency is now transported correctly for subframes
• Fixes some issues with GoToR actions (you can now supply target pages to jump to) and /DOCVIEW tags. /SrcPg tag is correctly evaluated.
• Smoother output for renderers like Acrobat
• New hidden feature which allows multiple page sizes in one document
  defaults write com.stone.PStill IndividualPageSizes YES
     or in a job options file:
  IndividualPageSizes = YES;
• New hidden feature which forces flattened EPS to level 1 - useful for old DTP programs
  defaults write com.stone.PStill Level1EPS YES
     or in a job options file:
  Level1EPS = YES;
• New hidden feature which allows writing of files from interpreter - USE WITH CAUTION!
  defaults write com.stone.PStill AllowWritingFiles YES
     or in a job options file:
  AllowWritingFiles = YES;
• Actually runs even if you don't have libtiff installed ;-)
• LZW Image conversion supported
• Converting images works without hanging PStill
• Retains hidden text for PDF transcoded to PDF conversion
• Improved handling for 0-position shifted PDFs (e.g. created by Pitstop)
• Better handling of outline generation (paths are now autoclosed)
• Internal changes for better compatibility
• Much improved DeviceN (alternate colorspace) processing
• Enhanced and Improved scripting:
  • allows for automatic overprinting generation
  • several fixes and improvements in the area of compatibilty
  • Faster image handler for tiff transcoding
• Files dropped into the Combine Many... panel are sorted

• Automatically installs into PStill - Stone Design's low cost PDF distillery
• Now handles WINDOWS style TTFs such as in the Java framework too!
• Doesn't hang on /System/Library/Fonts anymore! ;-)
• Handles PS flavored OpenType fonts as well
• Free, as in liberty, but also in $

October 4 2004

• Optimized for Panther!
• Runs on 10.1, 10.2, and 10.3 (Panther)
  
• Contains:
  • Create® 12.2.1
  • PStill™ 3.4.3
  • PhotoToWeb® 2.2
  • TimeEqualsMoney™ 2.4.4
  • SliceAndDice™ 2.7.4
  • PackUpAndGo™ 2.4
  • GIFfun™ 3.8
  • Not part of Stone Studio but here for your convenience:
    • Global Warmth™ 1.2
    • StampInStone™ 2.6.2
    • FontSight™ 1.3.2

Features:
• <TAB> key hides/shows all the panels currently visible or recently hid
• You can convert graphics to grayscale using Image Well's TIFF, copy/paste to other applications reading TIFF, or Export..., as TIFF
    Discussion: Set the "Color Depth" to "Gray" in Preferences, Image pane, "TIFF Settings"
• Page Numbers can begin on a logical page as opposed to actual page:
    eg: let's say you have a non-numbered Cover page - then page 2 can display page 1
    eg: let's say you are doing chapters - you can start the page number at an arbitrary number
• Changing Image Quality in Preferences, Image updates the image immediately. This can really speed up PDF display if you set Quality to low - especially if the PDF's are large and/or you are zooming in on the page. This does not affect printing, which is always at the highest possible quality.
• Named graphics display their name in the selection status field - text display it's first characters
• hidden default to allow long HTML and IMAGE names (up to 64 characters total) Note - old mac os 8 web servers have a 31 character limit

  	default write com.stone.Create LongNames YES
  

Fixes:
• Due to the way Panther strokes rectangles, old document's rectangles will open to avoid the bitten out upper left corner
• Optimized copy to make it much faster
• Found and removed memory leaks
• French tool palette works now
• Italian localization improved
• Preferences are mostly localized to each of the 8 languages
    (please submit updates to info@stone.com!)
• Images dragged in from Omniweb are not duplicated

• New polished look with Customizable Tool Bars
• You can save Photos in Grayscale if you choose
• Greatly simplified Web Options/Preferences with more options:
  
  • You can set up a document's options and save/restore preferences from there - only one UI, one place to go
  • More exposed options:
    • Set a default font family for your albums
    • Font sizes for Caption, Title, Headlines, Nav Bar, and Thumbnails
    • Control relative size of rich Story text
    • Choose to smooth thumbnails
    • Align thumbnail text to top, center or bottom
    • Scratch folder for temporary files
    • Check for updates daily, weekly or monthly
    • Save a backup file
    • Optionally add Type/Creator to the image and html files
    • Use up to 64 characters in photo names
    • Author Tag
    • Choose whether Home links to first photo or TOC
• Revert to Saved works properly again
• Easier than ever to use - even for first time users!

• Fixed the memory leaks - runs in smaller footprint!
• You can close a Thermometer view, even if it's selected in Multiviewer
• You can double-click open a Thermometer from the Multiviewer
• Less spurious logging to the Console

• Default Stamping works properly again
• More robust engine and better memory usage

August 25 2004

• Optimized for Panther!
• Runs on 10.1, 10.2, and 10.3 (Panther)
  
• Contains:
  • Create® 12.2
  • PStill™ 3.4.3
  • PhotoToWeb® 2.1
  • TimeEqualsMoney™ 2.4.4
  • SliceAndDice™ 2.7.4
  • PackUpAndGo™ 2.4
  • GIFfun™ 3.8
  • Not part of Stone Studio but here for your convenience:
    • Global Warmth™ 1.1.1
    • StampInStone™ 2.6.1
    • FontSight™ 1.3.2
  
  
• Create® 12.2 Brand New Look Polished for best release ever!
  Features:
  • Fully updated and complete online Help
    Available:
    • Searchable from within Create®
    • Downloadable as printable PDF
  • Blends can fill any object at any angle - choose "Rotated" from Fill Inspector -> Blend popup and use Rotator!
  • You can stretch the window to float the page centered in a neutral background
    • Preferences -> Tools, uncheck "Snap window to document size"
    • Holding COMMAND key while resizing window temporarily reverses your preference
    • The background is a neutral gray. Other colors available via hidden defaults: pinstripe: defaults write com.stone.Create PageBackgroundColor -1 granite: defaults write com.stone.Create PageBackgroundColor 1 steel blue: defaults write com.stone.Create PageBackgroundColor 2

  • Simplified and reorganized Preferences panel with more preferences:
    Tools:
    • snap the window to show just the page
    • set tools drawer on right or left of document
    • set how often updates are checked for
    • launch without new document
    • set default grid spacing, color, snap, visibility and whether it draws atop graphics
    • set whether guides draw above or below graphics
    Image:
    • Choose if double-cick activates your image editor
    • Choose the application to view or edit the document
    Objects:
    • Choose a default color for basic fills
    • Choose a default blend for complex fills
    • Set default font to be used when you launch or change the default
  • Greatly simplified the Document HTML and Web Preferences by combining them into: "Web -> Web Options..."
    • Click "Save for Future Documents" to save current settings as defaults.
    • Click "Load Saved Settings" to update existing doc to these saved settings.
    • Click "Restore Factory Settings" to get Create's virginal default settings.
    • New features include:
      • Replace the "Table Of Contents" text if you like
      • Control space between Nav bars and content
      • Specify the Author of the web pages
  • Create's dock icon has many new menu items
  • New palettes of Art available under Library, Art:
    • Flow Chart symbols
    • 3 Dimensionsal Shapes
    • Standard Shapes
  • Typing 'p' will select the previously selected Tool -or use the menu item Tools -> Select -> Previous - (Command-Shift-b)
  • While dragging knob in Rotation Wheels (Size & Fill Inspector, Rotated Blends):
    • Shift key constrains rotationto 15 degree increments
    • Option Key constrains rotation to 5 degree increments
    • Shift-Option Keys constrains rotation to 1 degree increments
    • (note - these same contraints work with Rotation tool as well!)
  • Beautiful new Tool and Preference icons by Robert Curtis
  • Snazzy new Image Well Icons by Joel Dabrowski
  • Image Well shows that you are dragging something out better
  • RocketShip "T Bird" clip art in Library
  • Stepper control added to Text Wrap panel
  • Hide Text Tools when not viewing Text updates when you change the preference
  • Added "Duplicate" to the Edit menu - Command-D is shortcut
  • Go straight to the Stone Design Forum from the Help menu
  • Toolbar Grid/Guide has "Snap On" and "Snap Off" added to popup list
  • Context menu for Page (control-click with nothing selected) adds "Remove Page" to Copy, Paste and Duplicate
  • New Improved Bulk Labels applescript under Scripts menu
  • You can miniaturize the Library panel
  • Fill by point updates as you drag point in Fill Inspector, Blend, "Point"
  • When images are set to import as Copy, they are immediately copied into the document
    • This allows you to trash, move or delete the original
    • Even unsaved documents will get a copy
  • AppleScript enhanced by exposing these parameters:
    • Any Graphic: note, graphicname, textwrap, standoff
    • TextArea: ignorewrap
  • You can drag text clippings with web links into document
  • Custom HTML Embed object simplified
  • Turning on Continuous Spell Checking leaves it on for subsequent edits and sessions
  • You can embed movies and folders and files as well as images
  Fixes:
  • Rectangles have square line caps so no notch appears in upper left on thick stroked lines
  • Fixed occasional crasher with deleting wrapped graphics
  • Export no longer incorrrectly names window
  • Combined Paths will obey first path's closepath state
  • The Table object draws correctly regardless of location
  • Tables on other pages will be the right size after reopening the document
  • Table object can be saved as TIFF and other image formats now
  • You can undo Table column resizing
  • Context menu for graphics show the state of open/close path, line join and line cap
  • Special sliders look much better and have plus and minus icons
  • Sheared splines undo correctly in all cases
  • Applescript created Page Layers work correctly now
  • Improved French localization
  • Cleaned up Pattern Editor
  • Bigger Fonts works again in HTML
  • Table Groups easier to select
  • Table Groups made into Art show a thumbnail
  • Ruler Units in main menu show current units
  • Better undo after paste in live text editing
  • Objects in Matrices and Roses selectable by clicking or dragging over any piece
  • Save and Save As panel won't show the confusing popup of types which cannot be selected anyway
  • Export will show correct file ending for TIFF and PDF types
  • If you want smaller than regular fonts in HTML output turn "Use Bigger Fonts" off and set this hidden pref:
    defaults write com.stone.Create TinyFonts YES

  
  
• PStill™ 3.4.3
  • Further engine optimizations
  • Flattening multipage PDFs to EPS results in one EPS for each page
  
  
• PhotoToWeb® 2.1
  • Brand new look with Customizable Tool Bars
  • Easier than ever to use - even for first time users!
  • Enhanced story text handles left, center, right and justified alignments

  July 21 2004

• Stone Studio™ June 22 2004
  • Optimized for Panther!
  • Runs on 10.1, 10.2, and 10.3 (Panther)
    
  • Contains:
    • Create® 12.1
    • PStill™ 3.4.2
    • PhotoToWeb® 2.0.1
    • TimeEqualsMoney™ 2.4.4
    • SliceAndDice™ 2.7.4
    • PackUpAndGo™ 2.4
    • GIFfun™ 3.8
    • Not part of Stone Studio but here for your convenience:
      • Global Warmth™ 1.1.1
      • StampInStone™ 2.6.1
      • FontSight™ 1.3.2
    
    
  • Create® 12.1 Brand New Look Enhanced!
    Features:
    • Text Wrap - apply to any graphic over text: Object -> Text Wrap...
      
      
      • Works with chained text as well as simple text blocks!
      • Add these buttons as ToolBar items: Tools -> Customize Toolbar...
      • Graphics can be wrapped exactly (Shape) or around bounding box (Square)
      • Set the standoff (aka gutter or margin) around each wrapped shape
      • Any text block can ignore wrap: Info -> Object "Ignore Text Wrap" with text block selected
      • Mask Group any set of objects to have the text flow around the mask shape
      • Limitations and their workarounds:
        
        
        • Graphics which span entire width of text stop text flow - workaround is to resize the text block above the graphic, and add a new text chain below graphic by clicking the red "+" icon.
        • Group's contents are not analyzed - use mask group to get shape wrap on groups
        • HTML, to be WYSIWYG, outputs text and its wrapped graphics as one graphic - chain text and make blocks around the graphic if you want live text in the HTML output
        • For best results around paths with scaling and rotation, try converting them to Splines first - or if that is not what you want, copy the item to be wrapped, convert that to Spline and wrap the Spline and place the original object in the knockout.
        • If you find words are breaking over irregular shapes that are too close to the edges of the text - try Justifying the text. If you are still unhappy with the results, you might increase a hidden default which controls how wide a space must be before text is actually placed, the "TextPlacementLimit". By default, it's 20 points. To set it, type this in a terminal window:

          		defaults write com.stone.Create TextPlacementLimit 30

    • You can now resize the document to any size you like by holding down the COMMAND-KEY when you resize or maximize (the green window button) the window. This is good for small documents where you want to see the tool bar.
    • Contextual Menu for graphics has added cut, copy, paste, delete, send to back and bring to front
    • Control-click misspelled word to see list of suggested replacements
    • You can Option-Drag the selection right into the Art Gallery
    • Improved UI of Page Layers and Web Resources
    
    
    Fixes/Enhancements:
    • Mask Group can be used directly in Wrapped Text to fit shape
    • The toolbar's height is now taken into account so you can maximize the entire document to not use scrollbars
    • Option-click for copy waits until you actually start to drag to avoid unwanted copies now
    • Undo in the document works even if the Library Resources panel is the foremost
    • Renaming art works even if you just click away from cell (before it required a )
    • Help tip on rulers to remind you about the new way to create guides
    • Envelope Script works again - select an Address in Addressbook first for less typing!
    • Text in group is not accidentally resized on opening
    • Guides are more accurate and faster to apply new ones
    • Make Into Splines now observes scale and rotation
  
  
• PStill™ 3.4.2
  • Licensing Engine works better on Panther
  
  
• SliceAndDice™ 2.7.4
  • Licensing Engine works better on Panther
  
  
• TimeEqualsMoney™ 2.4.4
  • Licensing Engine works better on Panther
  
  
• PhotoToWeb® 2.0.1
  • Licensing Engine works better on Panther
  
  
• StampInStone™ 2.6.1
  • Licensing Engine works better on Panther
  
  
• Global Warmth™ 1.1.1
  • Licensing Engine works better on Panther

June 22 2004

• Optimized for Panther!
• Runs on 10.1, 10.2, and 10.3 (Panther)
  
• Contains:
  • Create® 12.0.1
  • PStill™ 3.4.1
  • PhotoToWeb® 2.0
  • TimeEqualsMoney™ 2.4.2
  • SliceAndDice™ 2.7.3
  • PackUpAndGo™ 2.4
  • GIFfun™ 3.8
  • Not part of Stone Studio but here for your convenience:
    • Global Warmth™ 1.1
    • StampInStone™ 2.6
    • FontSight™ 1.3.2
  
  
• Create® 12.0.1 A Brand New Look!
  Features:
  • Customizable Tool Bar - just add all your favorites tools the way you like. The icons were designed and implemented by Joel Dabrowski and Robert Curtis.
    
    Discussion: You all asked for it, so we delivered! Before, we had a crammed just a few tools into the space where the Text Ruler accessories go, and this represents a complete decoupling of the ruler and the toolbar as per Aqua guidelines. Since there is no ruler accessory needed when text is not being edited, you can gain futher document "real estate" by choosing a new preference in the Document tab of Preferences: "Hide Text Tools". Some users noted this caused a disconcerting jumping, so it's off by default.
    
    
  • Table tool - create and edit data tables
       Features include:
    

    	    prefill table with copied tab-delimited data
    	    edit data on the fly
    	    add and delete rows/columns
    	    set the height of the rows
    	    set the font of the table or any column
    	    set alignment of the table or any column
    	    show or hide and edit the column headers
    	    resize columns (header must be visible to do this!)
    	    reorder columns (header must be visible to do this!)
    	    set text color of data in table
    	    show vertical and/or horizontal grid, or no grid
    	    set background color, including alternating colors
    	    output faithfully to HTML
    	

  • Simplified guide interface - just click the ruler to add a guide
    
    Discussion: for Vertical ruler: click in ruler area, drag just to right of it. For Horizontal ruler: click in ruler area, drag just to the top of it.
  • First launch of a new version brings up Release Notes
  • Library Resources, Images has 4 new "Create" badges
  
  
  Fixes/Enhancements:
  • Zoom to 800% from menu item works again
  • Standardized Aqua Command Keys:

    	Apple-, 		Preferences
    	Apple-Option-H		Hide Other Apps
    	Apple-Shift-H		Flip Horizontally

  • Printed objects with shadows use Panther's capabilities
    
    Discussion: On Jaguar, Create had shadows before they were publicly available, and extra work had to be done to make them print. However, on Panther - they printed twice! This is fixed for Panther, and the old behavior remains for Jaguar. Should you notice that shadows don't print, you can set a hidden preference to restore Jaguar's behavior: defaults write com.stone.Create ShadowsNowPrint NO If you have set this, and you do upgrade to Panther, be sure to type this: defaults remove com.stone.Create ShadowsNowPrint
  • Master Layers Panel works properly (again!)

• Automatically adjusts rotation of Power Point documents
• Various other optimizations

May 18 2004

• Latest for Jaguar and Panther Ready
• Runs on 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and 10.3 (Panther)
  
• Contains:
  • Create® 11.4.2
  • PStill™ 3.4
  • PhotoToWeb® 2.0
  • TimeEqualsMoney™ 2.4.2
  • SliceAndDice™ 2.7.3
  • PackUpAndGo™ 2.4
  • GIFfun™ 3.8
  • Not part of Stone Studio but here for your convenience:
    • Global Warmth™ 1.1
    • StampInStone™ 2.6
    • FontSight™ 1.3.2
  
  
• Create® 11.4.2
  Features:
  • Cool new image well icons by Joel Dabrowski with conceptual help from Robert Curtis
  
  
  Fixes/Enhancements:
  • The Animation Module now works correctly with many graphics having different animation settings
  • The license manager works even in Panther 10.3.3 again

• New PDF Separator - create CMYK and spot separations quickly!
  DISCUSSION: Quickly separate any PDF once it's been processed by PStill.
  You can set the HalftoneFrequency via a hidden preference (it's 30 lines per inch by default):
  defaults write com.stone.PStill HalftoneFrequency 10

  	You can even set up a watched folder to automatically process these
  	types of job by adding these keys to the saved pPref file in the folder:
  	
  	JobType = SeparatorJob;
  	HalftoneFrequency = 50;
      /* valid options for the key "JobType": */
      ConversionJob	// standard
      NormalizeJob	// Normalize PS
      NormalizeJobEPS	// Normalize EPS
      PosterizeJob	// to make tiled poster
      SeparatorJob	// to create folders with separations from PStill processed PDF
  

• Redesign of application architecture to run much faster in smaller memory footprint
  DISCUSSION: We are using the very fast and efficient GC memory allocator as well as the optimized
  NSTask which gives the conversion process more attention
  
  
• PDF output should now be smaller and uniform for all platforms.
• Adds support for Acrobat 6.01 generated EPS using two-byte fonts
• Fixes dreaded flattenpath "runaway" problem
• Fixes ASCIIHexDecode to gracefully skip over spaces and SubDecode to accept procedures
• Any change to Job options will allow the next DRAGGED on file to take these settings
• Fixed subtle font extraction bug - should work on dfonts now
• Enhances compatibility with some bad PDF (most notably those not defining the whole encoding vector for fonts)
• Fixed bug when concat'ing several EPS that have an initial translation
• New hidden keys for job options or via dwrite, examples:

  defaults write com.stone.PStill PDFAuthor "Andrew Stone"
  defaults write com.stone.PStill PDFProducer "PStill OSX"
  defaults write com.stone.PStill PDFCreator "Whatever Is Needed"
  defaults write com.stone.PStill PDFTitle "My Custom Title"
  defaults write com.stone.PStill PDFSubject "About Interesting Subject"
  defaults write com.stone.PStill PDFKeyWords "Cool Funky Words"
  

• PDF transcoding now takes over bookmarks (outlines)
• Concatting PDFs preserves bookmarks (outlines)
• Concatting many EPS correctly establishes each translation
• Separations to Composite module enhanced (it's an extra module)
• Normalize to EPS and PS any PDF now, as well as any EPS/PS

• Better detection of actual first page
• Handles many more non-conforming PDFs

• Automatically installs into PStill - Stone Design's low cost PDF distillery
• Handles more badly formed .dfont's such as HelveticaNeue
• Handles more funky fonts like Celtic Border and Dark Horse
• Handles PS flavored OpenType fonts as well
• Free, as in liberty, but also in $

April 8 2004

• Latest for Jaguar and Panther Ready
• Runs on 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and 10.3 (Panther)
  
• Contains:
  • Create® 11.4.1
  • PStill™ 3.3.3
  • PhotoToWeb® 2.0
  • TimeEqualsMoney™ 2.4.2
  • SliceAndDice™ 2.7.3
  • PackUpAndGo™ 2.4
  • GIFfun™ 3.8
  • Not part of Stone Studio but here for your convenience:
    • Global Warmth™ 1.1
    • StampInStone™ 2.5
    • FontSight™ 1.3.2
  
  
• Create® 11.4.1
  Features:
  • PDF made from copy/paste or Image Well PDF has the native Create artwork embedded in it!
    DISCUSSION: You can create art in Create, export it as PDF to drop into other apps, and whenever you want, drop that PDF back into Create and edit the individual components again! If you don't want this feature, you can turn it off in Preferences -> Document, uncheck "Put Create® into PDF". Likewise, if you really want a PDF not it's Create® equivalent when you drag in a PDF with Create® in it, uncheck "Use Create® from PDF".
    
    
  • More context menu options when you Control-Click when graphics are selected:
    
    • Open or Close the paths of stroke effects
    • Change the Line Join of stroke effects: round, square, butt
    • Change the Line Cap of stroke effects: round, butt, miter
  • French Localization greatly improved
  • New Page Layer automatically selects its name for quick renaming
  • Duplicating Pages with text chains will automatically continue those chains
  • Individual Spline or Multiline objects can be scale grouped for applying equal transforms
  • Instant zoom in with Command-Option works with click as well as dragged out zoom rectangle
  
  
  Fixes/Enhancements:
  • Command keys follow Apple Apps like TextEdit, Mail, Keynote:
    
    • Bigger Font: command +
    • Smaller Font: command -
      which caused us to change these:
    • Bring Closer: command option ,
    • Send Further: command option .
  • Mixing many text alignments together in HTML works correctly now
  • Copy/Paste within a text block maintains all special styles now
  • Copy from text block and paste into the window works again
  • Deleting multiple pages won't inadvertently remove master layers
  • German version's Library Resources is scrollable again
  • Jaguar: spurious info button in text ruler removed
  • Rotated ovals turn into splines correctly now
  • Supertexts created in editable groups stay in the group

• PDF's are actually smaller than ever (especially if they use the base fonts Helvetica, Times, Courier, Symbol)
• Can handle incorrectly made Panther PDF's (An Apple bug we worked around)
  DISCUSSION: Some OS X apps were producing bad PDF due to embedding custom Times fonts. Since we no longer include any base fonts, you actually get smaller pdfs with this fix. Should you absolutely need to include the base fonts (I cannot think of any reason to), you can still turn on the "Include Standard Fonts" from the Font pane of Options and Preferences.
• Separations to Composite module enhanced
• You can normalize to EPS and PS any PDF now, as well as any EPS/PS

March 9 2004

• Latest for Jaguar and Panther Ready
• Runs on 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and 10.3 (Panther)
  
• Contains:
  • Create® 11.4
  • PStill™ 3.3.2
  • PhotoToWeb® 2.0
  • TimeEqualsMoney™ 2.4.2
  • SliceAndDice™ 2.7.3
  • PackUpAndGo™ 2.4
  • GIFfun™ 3.8
  • Not part of Stone Studio but here for your convenience:
    • Global Warmth™ 1.1
    • StampInStone™ 2.5
    • FontSight™ 1.3.2
  
  
• Create® 11.4
  Features:
  • New Icons by Robert Curtis
  • HTML text now provides right align and justified text
    Discussion: Previously, text could be either centered or left aligned. For old behavior, set this hidden default:
    defaults write com.stone.Create OldStyleFontTags YES
  • Full support for new typography panel (from gear popup on Font panel) in Panther
    Discussion: Text is now key archived to preserve new typographical features. You can open newly created documents on Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) and later, but not on previous versions of Mac OS X. Should you require full backward compatibility to 10.1, you can set a hidden preference, but you will not be able to fully utilize the new typography features:
    defaults write com.stone.Create Pre_10.2_File_Compatibility YES
  • New Applescript command to export just the selection:
    exportselection in <FILENAME>
  • Script menu has the standard scripts icon on Panther
  • New imposition scripts to flexibly create booklets from any document
       choose Scripts -> Create Booklet
  • Grid can be set to 1/10,000 of an inch now
  • Text copied from Safari now has the links left it - for instant recreation of web pages
  • Smart Paste (cascading pastes) can be established with arrow keys as well as with moving
  
  
• PStill™ 3.3.2
  • Separations to Composite module now available
  • Embedded Mac OS X created PDF fonts can be replaced by installed version of font if "prefer installed fonts over document fonts" is on
  • JPEG Quality slider's help tip shows the current quality
  
  
  

  February 24 2004

• TrueBlue 2.0 ships
  Turn your TrueType fonts and OpenType Fonts into PostScript Type 1 with Stone Design's free TrueBlue 2.0
  • Automatically installs into PStill - Stone Design's low cost PDF distillery
  • Handles Panther .dfont's better
  • Now handles PS flavored OpenType fonts as well
  • Free, as in liberty, but also in $

  February 9 2004

• Stone Studio™ February 9 2004
  • Latest for Jaguar and Panther Ready
  • Runs on 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and 10.3 (Panther)
    
  • Contains:
    • Create® 11.3.2
    • PStill™ 3.3.1
    • PhotoToWeb® 2.0
    • TimeEqualsMoney™ 2.4.2
    • SliceAndDice™ 2.7.3
    • PackUpAndGo™ 2.4
    • GIFfun™ 3.8
    • Not part of Stone Studio but here for your convenience:
      • Global Warmth™ 1.1
      • StampInStone™ 2.5
      • FontSight™ 1.3.2
  
  
• Global Warmth™ 1.1
  • Brand new application to monitor weather around the globe in 5 different ways!
  • Short and near term forecasts now work properly for US locations
  
  
• Create® 11.3.2
  Features:
  • Text copied from Safari now has the links left it! (Panther)
  • Smart Paste (cascading pastes) can be established with arrow keys as well as with moving
  
  
• PStill™ 3.3.1
  • Embedded Mac OS X created PDF fonts can be replaced by installed version of font
    Discussion: Turn on in PDF pane in Preferences, 'Prefer installed fonts over document fonts'
    
    
  • Full support for using transparency from input PDF
    Discussion: previously, graphics and text containing alpha did not properly transcode from PDF - now you have an option to allow this feature. It's a good idea for web PDF - but probably should not be used for print output. If you have overprinting turned on, then this is ignored. See Options-> "Use transparency from input PDF" switch (also one in Preferences).
    
    
  • Watched [hot] folders: Job options file in the folder is now consulted
  • Watched [hot] folders are working properly now in all cases
  • Added ability to use other encodings for PDF Transcoding - set these in the Text Extraction module, and then turn on this secret preference:
    defaults write com.stone.PStill AlwaysUseEncodingConfigFile YES
    discussion: turning this on means transcoded PDF will use these encodings on the first pass back to PS - you can set up other languages than the one provided by using these defaults and setting up the files correctly:
    defaults write com.stone.PStill TextEncodingsPath defaults write com.stone.PStill TextOutputConfigFile


  • Your default page size is used if "Take From Job" is selected but no page size found in the input.
  
  
• TimeEqualsMoney™ 2.4.2
  • Fixed the occasional startup crasher on Panther
  • TimeEqualsMoney Home

January 6 2004

• Brand new application to monitor weather around the globe in 5 different ways!
• Fixes in version 1.0.1:
  • Your favorites are now remembered correctly if you have a license (this was broken if you didn't have the Command Center loading).
  • Panther: you can get reports just by passing your mouse over the Command Center even while in another app
  • Double-clicking a new station will open that station (sometimes it opened the station listed below!)
  • Drawer doesn't get and stay too skinny anymore
  • Thermometer is much easier to read the temperature numbers
  • Single digit degrees no longer have duplicate degree symbol
  • Help works without the annoying 'cannot find resource panel'

January 5 2004

• Latest for Jaguar and Panther Ready
• Runs on 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and 10.3 (Panther)
  
• Contains:
  • Create® 11.3.1
  • PStill™ 3.3
  • PhotoToWeb® 2.0
  • TimeEqualsMoney™ 2.4.1
  • SliceAndDice™ 2.7.3
  • PackUpAndGo™ 2.4
  • GIFfun™ 3.8
  • Not part of Stone Studio but here for your convenience:
    • Global Warmth™ 1.0
    • StampInStone™ 2.5
    • FontSight™ 1.3.2

• Brand new application to monitor weather around the globe in 5 different ways!

Features:
• HTML Text uses CSS Style instead of Font tags
  Discussion: Your text will be rendered to the 1/10 of point of its font size. For old behavior, simply set this hidden default:
  
  defaults write com.stone.Create OldStyleFontTags YES
  
  
• Arrow keys move by progressively smaller amounts as you zoom in
  Discussion: Normally, the arrow keys move by 1 point. At 200%, it's .5, at 400% it's .25, at 800% it's .125, and so on. Should you not want this behavior because you demand integral origins, simply set this hidden default:
  
  defaults write com.stone.Create IntegerKeyMovementOnly YES
  
  
• Duplicate Page now continues any text chains from previous page - great for extending pages
• All the anchors in the document appear in the Anchors popup for instant selection
  Discussion: You can select an anchor without knowing what page it's on - the destination popup stays enabled if there are anchors in the document, so it's much easier to find anchors in a document.
  
  
• Panther Only Features:
  • Just drop in .doc (MS WORD file) to create a chainable text area
  • Ability to outline and shadow plain text and other new styles
  • Before and After paragraph spacing
  • Text completion while typing choices with command-ESCAPE
  • You can toggle the writing direction to Right to Left and back.

Fixes:
• Duplicate Layer doesn't crash (in v 11.3 it might)
• Compatibility and performance enhancements
• On Panther, Control-Arrow-Left [or Right] also moves objects by the grid amount (or small amount if grid is on) since Shift-Left & Shift-Right stopped working
• Totally Hip fix when you output a multipage document to web, interdocument links work now
• Output HTML of Anchors does not change the anchor color
• You can add web resources with spaces in the names now
• Underline and StrikeThrough can be applied to the cursor as well as the selection
  Discussion: you can toggle it on and off as you type now, just like Italic and Bold
  

• Memory and speed fixes - works properly on Panther now in all cases
• Full support for using transparency from input PDF
  Discussion: previously, graphics and text containing alpha did not properly transcode from PDF - now you have an option to allow this feature. It's a good idea for web PDF - but probably should not be used for print output. If you have overprinting turned on, then this is ignored. See Options-> "Use transparency from input PDF" switch (also one in Preferences).
  
  
• Your default page size is used if "Take From Job" is selected but no page size found in the input.
• PStill can correctly handle huge sized EPS now
• More standard page names: Arch A-E, 11x17, A0, A1 and A2
• Text Extraction module enhanced:
  • You can set the style of line ends - mac, dos or unix
  • You can set the encoding of the output text - see Conversion -> Extract Text:
    UTF-8, Latin1, Latin2, ASCII7, cyrillic, hebrew, arabic, greek, turkish
  • HTML is now correct
  • Your preferences are remembered between sessions
  • For experts only:
    • If need to configure some other languages other than the provide, you can set these:

      defaults write com.stone.PStill TextEncodingsPath PATH_TO_FOLDER_CONTAINING_LANGUAGES
      	
      defaults write com.stone.PStill TextOutputConfigFile PATH_TO_CONFIG_FILE
      

• New Instant Job Options selection popup on main convertor window
    This lets you quickly choose "To web" or "To Prepress" or "Standard" or any of your custom job option "pPrefs" files from one handy popup button. If you select a set of options, those will be applied to the next file dragged onto the interface as well as the currently loaded job, if any.
• You are alerted if you try to tile a PDF to a smaller size than the image itself
• Latest PStill Engine V 1.72 with performance and stability improvements
  • PStill Engine Home
  • Major enhancements for re-purposing PDF
  • Major enhancements for alternate output to PS/EPS

• Text from Story, Title and Caption uses CSS Style instead of Font tags
  Discussion: Your text will be rendered to the 1/10 of point of its font size. For old behavior, simply set this hidden default:
  
  defaults write com.stone.Create OldStyleFontTags YES
  
  
• Here are the default font sizes for various pieces of the output HTML - and you can set them to your own custom sizes via the hidden defaults if you want to alter their sizes:
  

  defaults write com.stone.PhotoToWeb HeadlineFontSize 18.0
  defaults write com.stone.PhotoToWeb PhotoTitleFontSize 16.0
  defaults write com.stone.PhotoToWeb NavBarFontSize 13.0
  defaults write com.stone.PhotoToWeb CaptionFontSize 12.0
  defaults write com.stone.PhotoToWeb ThumbTitleFontSize 10.0
  

November 24 2003

• Latest for Jaguar and Panther Ready
• Runs on 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and 10.3 (Panther)
  
• Contains:
  • Create® 11.2.2
  • PStill™ 3.2
  • PhotoToWeb® 1.6.3
  • TimeEqualsMoney™ 2.4.1
  • SliceAndDice™ 2.7.3
  • PackUpAndGo™ 2.4
  • GIFfun™ 3.8
  • StampInStone™ 2.5
  • FontSight™ 1.3.2

Features:
• Master Layers can appear above the pages's graphics now
    On Info Panel, "View" pane, check "Layer appears above Page's graphics"
    Discussion: By default, layers appear below the page's graphics - but you can also overlay master graphics now
• You can now display Grid above or below graphics
• Display Guides and Web Preview above or below graphics
    Discussion: For precise layout, it's sometimes easier to have the grid and guides layed out above the graphics. However, it can get visually cluttered! To access both these features use the new popups on ToolBar/Rulers (COMMAND-r) or click Lozenge button in upper right corner of window.
• Add, delete, and use multiple Web Resources - just click and drag selection
• Sort Web Resources by clicking on the column title - for example "Name" column
    Discussion: On big websites, you might have hundreds of resources, and now you can quickly sort on name, input path or the output directory, which can help you organize or find resources quickly.
• Double-click Images, sounds, videos, and other file types to open those files in the application which you have chosen for editing that type of resource.
• To turn OFF double-click editing of images, use this hidden preference:
    defaults write com.stone.Create DontEditImages YES
    Discussion: It's a nice shortcut but I personally like to bring up the Info when I double-click an image.
• Panther Only Features:
  • Just drop in .doc (MS WORD file) to create a chainable text area
  • Ability to outline and shadow plain text and other new styles
  • Before and After paragraph spacing
  • Text completion while typing choices with command-ESCAPE
  • You can toggle the writing direction to Right to Left and back.

Fixes:
• Compatibility and performance enhancements
• Styles can be added to parts of any wrapped text now
• Styles show fractional point sizes, if it has one (eg 10.5 points)
• Panther: creating Web Pages once again creates a new folder containing the site
• Japanese is once again localized correctly
• Graphics once again get correctly added to the selected Page layer unless it's invisible or locked.
• Page Layers deal with editing text correctly now
• Library Resources' "New..." button always works now

• New Instant Job Options selection popup on main convertor window
    This lets you quickly choose "To web" or "To Prepress" or "Standard" or any of your custom job option "pPrefs" files from one handy popup button. If you select a set of options, those will be applied to the next file dragged onto the interface as well as the currently loaded job, if any.
• New Expert watched folder feature: run other styles of conversion like Normalization or Tile
  • Discussion: Because you can configure many watched (hot) folders on your network to provide distillation service for any number of users, you might also want to configure certain folders to perform a task other than PDF conversion. First, you must save a set of Preferences (the "pPref" job options) to the watched folder if you haven't already. Then, using a text editor, add the key-value pair to the file to perform the task you desire:

       JobType = NormalizeJob;
        /* valid options for the key "JobType":
        ConversionJob	// default
        NormalizeJob	// Normalize PS
        NormalizeJobEPS	// Normalize EPS
        PosterizeJob	// to make tiled poster
        */
    

• Create "Secure" PDFs (See Conversion -> Security... )
• Security UI reflects that you need at least a user password for the other options to be available
• Transcode encrypted PDF if you have the password
• Type 4 fonts now supported
• Ability to normalize for prepress any file to PS or EPS
• You can set the version to PDF spec 1.5 (Acrobat 6) as well as earlier versions
• Fixed Factory Preference Sets to work better
• Changing Preference Sets also updates the current job's options now
• Fixed white lines on downsampled images
• Combining many EPS's will use the established page size or largest if "Take from Job" is selected
• Hidden feature to allow low resolution printing that works only when 128 'strong' Encryption level is set:
  defaults write com.stone.PStill AllowLowResPrinting YES
• Handles both kinds of non-breaking space characters
• Latest PStill Engine V 1.71 with performance and stability improvements
  • PStill Engine Home

• Works on Panther now
• Better handling of DFONTs
• Automatic check for updates works correctly now
  To turn this off, type into a terminal:
  • defaults write com.stone.TrueBlue NoCheckForUpdates YES
• Still Free!

October 27 2003

• Stone Studio™ October 27 2003
  • Latest for Jaguar and Panther Ready
  • Runs on 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, and 10.3 (Panther)
    
  • Contains:
    • Create® 11.2.1
    • PStill™ 3.1
    • PhotoToWeb® 1.6.3
    • TimeEqualsMoney™ 2.4.1
    • SliceAndDice™ 2.7.3
    • PackUpAndGo™ 2.4
    • GIFfun™ 3.8
    • StampInStone™ 2.5
    • FontSight™ 1.3.2
  
  
• Create® 11.2.1
  Features:
  • Double-click Images, sounds, videos, and other file types to open those files in the application which you have chosen for editing that type of resource.
  • Panther Only Features:
    • Just drop in .doc (MS WORD file) to create a chainable text area
    • Ability to outline and shadow plain text and other new styles
    • Before and After paragraph spacing
    • Text completion while typing choices with command-ESCAPE
    • You can toggle the writing direction to Right to Left and back.
  Fixes:
  • Compatibility and performance enhancements
  • Graphics once again get correctly added to the selected Page layer unless it's invisible or locked.
  • Page Layers deal with editing text correctly now
  • Library Resources' "New..." button always works now
  
  
• PhotoToWeb® 1.6.3
  Features:
  • When you crop a picture, the cropped portions are slightly opaqued to better show you the resulting photo
  • In addition to bulk scaling all photos to a certain maximum size, you can now also choose if you want to scale the images to a certain width - or a certain height, which is useful when you have mixed vertical and horizontal photos to get a more uniform look to the site - These are remembered as a preference for you between sessions
  • Table of Contents and Web Thumbnails now observe vertical alignment depending on where the title goes:
    • if it's on top, the thumbnails are aligned to the top
    • if it's on the bottom, the thumbnails are aligned to the bottom
    • if there is no title, the thumbnails are aligned by the center
  • Should this not suit you (it's what looks best, ie to have the text aligned), you can set this hidden default:
    
    defaults write com.stone.PhotoToWeb ThumbnailVerticalAlignment ALIGN_TAG
    
    where ALIGN_TAG is one of: "top", "bottom", or "center"
    
    
  • TOC and Web Thumbnails's photo font is smaller which looks much better and is less distracting and less likely to cause alignment problems
  
  
  Fixes:
  • Initial empty document is more Aqua-like
  • Help tip for Drag Picture well
  • Web Thumbnails now obey your choice of where (or even whether) to show the title above or below.
  • Narrow pictures with a story have a wider area for text and no longer just limit the width to the size of the photo - this prevents long narrow columns of a story under a photo.
  • Tabbing between fields in Scale window won't change how you scale - use <RETURN> to get automatic selection of absolute scaling or scale to a certain percent.
  • Panther Compatibility Fixes
  • PhotoToWeb Home
  
  
• TimeEqualsMoney™ 2.4.1
  • When a time is running, the Application Dock image shows a STOP sign now to indicate that time is running. To quickly stop all activity on all cards, simply click and hold down on the Dock Icon to pop up a Dock Menu. Select "Stop All"
  • The Pause/Resume button is wider so that "Resume" shows fully
  • Mailing invoices works better
  • User Interface improvements
    • Check Boxes are Aqua
    • Fields have Aqua rounded look
  • If you have no description lists, you can't popup the combo box
  • TimeEqualsMoney Home
  
  
• PStill™ 3.1
  • New Instant Job Options selection popup on main convertor window
      This lets you quickly choose "To web" or "To Prepress" or "Standard" or any of your custom job option "pPrefs" files from one handy popup button. If you select a set of options, those will be applied to the next file dragged onto the interface as well as the currently loaded job, if any.
  • Create "Secure" PDFs (See Conversion -> Security... )
  • Security UI reflects that you need at least a user password for the other options to be available
  • Transcode encrypted PDF if you have the password
  • Type 4 fonts now supported
  • Ability to normalize for prepress any file to PS or EPS
  • You can set the version to PDF spec 1.5 (Acrobat 6) as well as earlier versions
  • Fixed Factory Preference Sets to work better
  • Changing Preference Sets also updates the current job's options now
  • Fixed white lines on downsampled images
  • Combining many EPS's will use the established page size or largest if "Take from Job" is selected
  • Hidden feature to allow low resolution printing that works only when 128 'strong' Encryption level is set:
    defaults write com.stone.PStill AllowLowResPrinting YES
  • Handles both kinds of non-breaking space characters
  • Latest PStill Engine V 1.71 with performance and stability improvements
    • PStill Engine Home

• StampInStone™ 2.5
  • Text and Images can be overlaid at any transparency! Real-time viewing in Panther, use Acrobat on Jaguar to see this new feature
  • This version fixes a problem stamping PDFs from Keynote and other Mac 10.2.8 apps that produced not-quite conforming PDF.
  
  

September 25 2003

• Stone Studio™ September 25 2003
  • Latest for Jaguar and Panther Ready
  • Runs on 10.0, 10.1 and 10.2 Jaguar and ??
    
  • Contains:
    • Create® 11.2
    • PStill™ 3.0
    • PhotoToWeb® 1.6.1
    • TimeEqualsMoney™ 2.3.5
    • SliceAndDice™ 2.7.3
    • PackUpAndGo™ 2.4
    • GIFfun™ 3.8
    • StampInStone™ 2.4.1
    • FontSight™ 1.3.2
  
  
• Create® 11.2
  Features:
  • Panther Only Features:
    • Just drop in .doc (MS WORD file) to create a chainable text area
    • Ability to outline plain text and other new styles
    • Text completion while typing choices with command-ESCAPE
    • You can toggle the writing direction to Right to Left and back.
  Fixes:
  • Compatibility and performance enhancements
  • Paste won't make too narrow a text block anymore
  • Paste from other apps into live text block would double text sometimes
  • Copy/paste or drag & drop of RTF from WORD wraps correctly even if odd MS ruler applied
  • Printing of Master Layer's background color and image now respected on page with that layer
  • Grouping objects from different page layers adds the to the selected page layer
  • Replace all tells you correctly how many got changed
  • Replace all now redraws correctly
  • Italian translation shows fill, pattern and shadow inspectors again

• Create "Secure" PDFs (See Conversion -> Security... )
  • user and authoring passwords
  • 40 or 128 bit encryption (128 requires Reader 5.0 or greater.)
  • protect printing, copying, modifying and annotating independently
• Transcode encrypted PDF if you have the password
• Type 4 fonts now supported
• Ability to normalize for prepress any file to PS or EPS
• You can set the version to PDF spec 1.5 (Acrobat 6) as well as earlier versions
• Transcoded PDF with Alpha images now works better
• Latest PStill Engine V 1.71 with performance and stability improvements
  • PStill Engine Home

• Fixed a crasher when converting folders of large jpegs
• GIFfun™ Home

• Panther Ready and Preferences work again!
• You can disable FontSight in Preferences... now
• Turn back on in FontSight Installer's Preferences
• Shareware - only $19
• FontSight™ Home

August 26 2003

• Stone Studio™ August 26 2003
  • Latest for Jaguar and Panther Ready
  • Runs on 10.0, 10.1 and 10.2 Jaguar and ??
    
  • Contains:
    • Create® 11.1.4
    • PStill™ 2.8.1
    • PhotoToWeb® 1.6.1
    • TimeEqualsMoney™ 2.3.5
    • SliceAndDice™ 2.7.3
    • PackUpAndGo™ 2.4
    • GIFfun™ 3.7
    • StampInStone™ 2.4.1
    • FontSight™ 1.3.1
• Create® 11.1.4
  Features:
  • Panther Ready
  • Command-click Image Well to save current selection as that type to any name file any location
  • Tools -> Save Export As... runs a save panel for the currently set export file type
  • More cool art by Robert Curtis! See Tools -> Library Resources... "Art" pane at the top...
  • "mailto's" are scrambled in the HTML so that web robots can't easily steal your email for spamming!
    
    • If you don't want this - you can turn off this feature through a hidden default:
      defaults write com.stone.Create DoNotScrambleMailto YES
      
      
  • Hidden Feature: If you don't want a new document created when you reactivate Create with no windows open:
    
    • defaults write com.stone.Create DoNotOpenNewOnReactivate YES
    
    
  Fixes:
  • German, French and Japanese translations fixed.
  • There was a problem with link update when the link pointed to non-existent pages - if you had trouble adding pages, this version fixes that problem.
  • High DPI TIFF images are saved at integral boundaries (no extra borders)
  • Copy Style works on just the cursor's style even if there is no selection
• FontSight™ v 1.3.1
  • Panther Ready
  • You can disable FontSight in Preferences... now
  • Turn back on in FontSight Installer's Preferences
  • Shareware - only $19
  • FontSight™ Home
• PhotoToWeb® 1.6.1
  • Panther Ready
  • Fixed Language Files
  • PhotoToWeb Home
• SliceAndDice™ 2.7.3
  • HTML is now all uniformly lowercase
  • Better readability of HTML
  • Panther Ready
  • SliceAndDice Home
• StampInStone™ 2.4.1
  • Panther Ready
  • Full Feature List
• TimeEqualsMoney™ 2.3.5
  • Panther Ready
  • TimeEqualsMoney Home
• GIFfun™ 3.7
  • Panther Ready
  • GIFfun Home
• PStill™ 2.8.1
  • Panther Ready
  • Language Files fixed
  • Transcoded PDF with Alpha images now works better
  • Removed limit for path size - PDFs open in Acrobat better
  • Latest PStill Engine V 1.7 with performance and stability improvements
    • PStill Engine Home
  • Overprinting can be "pre-flighted" with new overprint transparency switch
    • See "overprint transparent" switch in both Options and Preferences, "Output Options" tab
    • Discussion: Overprint transparent causes overprinting areas to be drawn in the PDF result with a transparency factor. This is a kind of overprinting effect simulation, so a designer can check if overprinting works out ok. (Overprinting controls the 'knock out' of color areas on print plates and is usually invisible on color devices UNTIL the graphics gets printed to a separating printing system (e.g. press, CTP), then it shows and often badly!)
  • RGB images can be force converted to CMYK as a new option
    • See "RGB images to CMYK" switch in both Options and Preferences, "Output Options" tab
    • Discussion: Normally PStill writes only graphics and text as CMYK (if RGB is not selected!) but includes color images in their native colorspace. Check this option to convert RGB images to CMYK so the output PDF becomes 'pure' CMYK. Can be useful if the result should be color separated later.
  • You can now set the frequency of checking the Watched (Hot) Folders
    • See "Check Every ____ Seconds" field in Preferences, "Watched Folders" tab
    • Discussion: If PStill is 'jumping the gun' on converting a file before it is fully 'printed' to the watched folder, you might want to increase this to check every minute instead of every 8 seconds. This could happen on a large network - or with carbon apps that during Print, Save start to write a file without actually writing data to the file
  • There is a new hidden preference - or add it as a key to any Preference Set file (.pPref) to convert mono channel "bitlevel" images to grayscale:
    • To convert mono images to gray with 4X reduction in size:
      defaults write com.stone.PStill ReduceMonoImagesToGray 1
    • To convert mono images to gray with 8X reduction in size:
      defaults write com.stone.PStill ReduceMonoImagesToGray 2
    • Discussion: Useful when input contains large scanned bitlevel images and you want web sized results (read: small file size). This option only makes sense if the input images are high density - larger than e.g. 288 dpi for 1 and 600 dpi for 2, otherwise quality loss may be too high. As usual, use hidden defaults carefully!
  • PDF/X:1a and PDF/X:3 support, including custom conditions & ICC profiles
    • See Preferences -> PDF tab, lower portion
    • Discussion: If you don't know what this is, don't worry. But if your workflow demands PDF that conforms to either PDF/X:1a or PDF/X:3, then PStill can do the job! You can set the ICC profile as well as set any conditions.

July 21 2003

• Latest for Jaguar 10.2.6
• Runs on 10.0, 10.1 and 10.2 Jaguar
  
• Contains:
  • Create® 11.1.3
  • PStill™ 2.7.3
  • PhotoToWeb® 1.6
  • TimeEqualsMoney™ 2.3.4
  • SliceAndDice™ 2.7.2
  • PackUpAndGo™ 2.3.8
  • GIFfun™ 3.6
  • PackUpAndGo™ 2.3.7
  • StampInStone™ 2.4
  • FontSight™ 1.3

Features:
• HTML automatically adds charset description
• HTML validates correctly as per spec:
  • New content/type meta tag so HTML apps can edit html
  • Images without "ALT" tags have stub ALT tag as per spec
  • (r) in meta tag is now unicode version of ®
• You can zoom out to 1/1000 the page size - useful on large canvases
• Dropped in images are now named using the filename

Fixes:
• Undo paste works again

• You can disable FontSight in Preferences... now
• Turn back on in FontSight Installer's Preferences
• Shareware - only $19
• FontSight™ Home

• HTML automatically adds charset description
• HTML validates correctly as per spec:
  • New content/type meta tag so HTML apps can edit html
  • (r) in meta tag is now unicode version of ®

• Email invoices now works even when Description contains '"'

June 5 2003

• Latest for Jaguar 10.2.4
• Runs on 10.0, 10.1 and 10.2 Jaguar
  
• Contains:
  • Create® 11.1.2
  • PStill™ 2.7.3
  • PhotoToWeb® 1.5.8
  • TimeEqualsMoney™ 2.3.3
  • SliceAndDice™ 2.7.2
  • PackUpAndGo™ 2.3.8
  • GIFfun™ 3.6
  • PackUpAndGo™ 2.3.7
  • StampInStone™ 2.4
  • FontSight™ 1.2

Features:
• File -> Pages -> Remove Pages... allows quick bulk page deletion: Option-Shift-X
• File -> Pages -> Remove Current has command key: Command-Option-Shift-X
• You can group multipage PDFs on layers now
• Now with excellent Italian translation, as well as English, German, French, Spanish, Swedish, Danish and Japanese!

Fixes:
• Fuzzy shadows in scaled groups works now
• Converting curves to lines occasionally clipped the new shape
• Centered dates respect their former size when you change font
• Paste cascade is now synched with the new default grid of 1/4 inch

• Displays your Favorite fonts in a submenu now
• Displays your collections of fonts in submenus now
• Shareware - only $19
• FontSight™ Home

• By default, special font processing is performed. In case this does not work for you, you can turn it off via a hidden default:
  defaults write com.stone.PStill FixMacOSXFonts NO
• autorepair of bad TeX fonts - both included and in font pool
• better support for non-standard ligatures in fonts like Zaphino and Hoeffler
• better image handling when scaling
• processing is a bit faster
• Mac OS X produced PDF redistillation bug fixed
• Occasional 'boxes' that show only in Acrobat fixed
• Combine Many panel now correctly sorts folders of files
• Combine Many panel no longer accepts non-convertible files
• DVIps font substitution correctly prints in Acrobat
• Embedded EPS's in WORD docs correctly work now

May 1 2003

• Latest for Jaguar 10.2.4
• Runs on 10.0, 10.1 and 10.2 Jaguar
  
• Contains:
  • Create® 11.1.1
  • PStill™ 2.7.1
  • PhotoToWeb® 1.5.8
  • TimeEqualsMoney™ 2.3.3
  • SliceAndDice™ 2.7.2
  • PackUpAndGo™ 2.3.8
  • GIFfun™ 3.6
  • PackUpAndGo™ 2.3.7
  • StampInStone™ 2.4
  • FontSight™ 1.1

Features:
• More features with Stone Design's new FontSight™ plug-in
• Newsletter sample and template (Tools -> Library Resources... "Pages")
• New "Bulk Labels" script to make addresses from Address Book groups
• New options to reuse, replace or uniquely name duplicate images and resources
• Tool palette help tips now show the HOT KEY for that tool
• Hidden Preference to set the initial grid size:
    defaults write com.stone.Create GridSize 72.0
• Italian localization by a real Italian ;-)

Fixes:
• Option-Drag created a spurious graphic besides the normal paste
• Right-aligned Dates keep the same size when date changes
• Styles work better

• Stone-style icon
• Preview Fonts are neatly formatted into two columns now
• You can have it not install in any set of apps:
  defaults write NSGlobalDomain StoneFontSightIgnoreList "( 'Project Builder', Console )"
• Works in German and can be localized to other languages now
• "Too Wide" bug due to Type Embellishment font fixed
• Package name is shorter so it will automount on download
• Adds a visual font menu to all Cocoa Apps with Font/Format menu
• Set Font size
• Set As One List or As Families
• Set whether it appears in Format/Font menu or at top level menu
• Preview and Print all fonts at any point size
• Shareware - only $19
• FontSight™ Home

• Most efficient and reliable engine ever!
• Full support for creating PDF/X, including:
  • XPDF/3 compliant
  • XPDF/1a option as well
  • Create custom conditions as well as use standard ones
  • You can include a custom ICC profile
• Better Script to set trimbox, bleedbox and cropbox
• Eskoscan compatibility
• You can instantly install Script files with .sl ending - just drop onto PStill dock tile
• Fixed Italian localization

• New cool Vertical Nav bar sample

• Printing multiple page documents works correctly now
• Full Feature List

April 1 2003

• Latest for Jaguar 10.2.4
• Runs on 10.0, 10.1 and 10.2 Jaguar
  
• Contains:
  • Create® 11.1
  • PStill™ 2.7
  • PhotoToWeb® 1.5.8
  • TimeEqualsMoney™ 2.3.3
  • SliceAndDice™ 2.7.1
  • PackUpAndGo™ 2.3.8
  • GIFfun™ 3.6
  • PackUpAndGo™ 2.3.7
  • StampInStone™ 2.3

Features:
• Updated Online Help and Downloadable PDF
• More Page Templates and Patterns
• Bezier and Multilines now allow multiple handle selection - making it easy to reshape objects en masse:
  • shift-click to add a handle to the selected handles
  • shift-drag to add unselected handles or deselect already selected handles
  • Use arrow keys or just drag to move the selected set of handles
• Document Wide Search and Replace
  • Bring up the find panel with nothing selected
  • The new "Document" scope option will be selected
  • or you can select it
  • Find Next and Find Previous will wrap around the document
• Document Wide Spell Checking
  • Bring up the Spell Checker with nothing selected
  • Spell checking will wrap around the document
  • Documents maintain list of words to ignore when spell checking
• Hot Keys for instant tool selection now all left hand:
  • Pointer - v
  • Scale - x (was s)
  • Shear - d
  • Rotate - r
  • Text - t
  • Rectangle - e
  • Line - s (was l)
  • Multi Line - w (was m)
  • Circle - c
  • Rounded Rectangle - q
  • Arc - a
  • Star - z
  • Freehand - f
  • Curved Spline - b
  • Embed - h
  • Box Graphic - g
• Paragraph Spacing now has a field for partial points
• Context menu (control-click) added to MultiLine
• Master Layers has new "Go to" button for pages
• Automatic Addresses now add the company/organization name
• .vcf "VCARDS" can be dropped in as addresses now
• TextClippings can be dropped in as blocks or into the currently editing text
• Select, rotate, shear & scale cursors are better and are visible with dark backgrounds
• Drag in images directly from Safari
• Web production Save panel starts from the location of the document
• Editing application embedded scripts creates an editable copy in your scripts folder

• Diacriticals can be typed in again
• De-Underlining text caused a reopen error
• Cleaned up Multiple and Shadow Inspector
• COMMAND-click to add points more accurate
• COMMAND-Shift-Y tightens kerning (it had no command key before)
• You can apply text styles to text with links and not lose the underlining
• Adding pages with similar text styles won't duplicate the styles now
• Autoscrolling of the selection works much smoother
• Zoom panel works in Japanese version again
• Command-drag an effect affects entire selection again
• Option-zoom is cleaner
• Table groups work with Web resource image drags better
• Shadows print at right size regardless of TIFF DPI

• Most efficient and reliable engine ever!
• Full support for creating PDF/X, including:
  • XPDF/3 compliant
  • Create custom conditions as well as use standard ones
  • You can include a custom ICC profile
  • New Script to set trimbox, bleedbox and cropbox
  • New commands in the script engine:
    • setTrimBox(a,b,c,d); parameters in pts, as floats!
    • setBleedBox(a,b,c,d); parameters in pts, as floats!
    • setCropBox(a,b,c,d); parameters in pts, as floats!
    • setInfoTitle("bla"); allows to setup the default title of the PDF
    • setInfoSubject("bla"); allows to setup the default subject of the PDF
    • setInfoCreator("bla"); allows to setup the default creator of the PDF
    • setInfoAuthor("bla"); allows to setup the default author of the PDF
    • setInfoKeywords("bla"); allows to setup the default keywords of the PDF
• Automatic preview of PDF files - see Preferences -> Misc
• Set the desired PDF output level
    note: if your conversion uses a higher level of PDF, then version will reflect this
• PStill can be accessed from every application's print panel!
  • You'll be asked if you want to turn on PDF Workflow
  • You'll see the Repurpose with PStill option when you print from any app
  • Add watched folders or their aliases into ~/Library/PDF Services to create additional redistillation targets (eg Publish to Web, Prepress, etc.)
• By default JPEG compression is 75 since 50 was a bit lossy
• Fixed some edge cases involving arcs
• New style .ai and InDesign files are correctly processed
• New hidden defaults to set Author, Creator and Producer:
  • defaults write com.stone.PStill PDFAuthor "Joe Doe"
  • defaults write com.stone.PStill PDFCreator "My cool workflow"
  • defaults write com.stone.PStill PDFProducer "Some Distiller"
 note - this last one is useful when workflow tools are expecting to see "Distiller" in the output.
 note - Be careful - do not use umlauts or parenthesis in these!
• huge PDFs can be posterized without causing Finder drag bug
• Watched folders are NOT overwritten when Preference Sets applied - instead, they are aggregated
• Choose "Factory Settings" Preference Set to reset these (or remove in the UI)

March 25 2003

• Better handling of DFONTs
• Crashes less!
• Automatic check for updates works correctly now
  To turn this off, type into a terminal:
  • defaults write com.stone.TrueBlue NoCheckForUpdates YES
• Still Free!

March 3 2003

• Check for updates happens in background for faster launches
• Latest for Jaguar 10.2.4
• Runs on 10.0, 10.1 and 10.2 Jaguar
  
• Contains:
  • Create® 11.0
  • PStill™ 2.6
  • PhotoToWeb® 1.5.8
  • TimeEqualsMoney™ 2.3.3
  • SliceAndDice™ 2.7.1
  • PackUpAndGo™ 2.3.8
  • GIFfun™ 3.6
  • PackUpAndGo™ 2.3.7
  • StampInStone™ 2.3

Features:
• Any graphic, image or text can have fuzzy shadows of any depth or darkness
  • Example: select something, choose Object->Quickies->Drop Shadow
  • Info->Effect, "Multiple" to set offset, blur and darkness of shadow
  • Learn how: Drop Shadows tutorials
• You can now strikethrough text: Fonts -> Strikethrough
• Underline and Strikethrough by word: Fonts -> By Word
• Even combine underlines and strikethroughs!
• More cool effects and Zen Tricks tutorial
  

Fixes:
• Animator works with multiple animations now - see page 4 of Animator help
• Bringing up Font panel won't change fonts if multiple blocks selected
• Multipage PDFs on regular page open to same page now
• Landscape orientation PDFs dropped on tile setup correctly
• Bigger/Smaller Font command keys changed to not interfere with Assistive Technologies:
  • Bigger Font: <COMMAND> - = (equal sign)
  • Smaller Font: <COMMAND> - _ (underscore)
• Centimeters are now accurate to a billioneth of a point
• Fills have antialias on by default since it looks crisper
• Pasting text with links into view preserves links
• Renaming pages with Master Layer's panel works better
• Fixed a bug involving ungrouping text with styles

• Most efficient and reliable engine ever!
• PStill can be accessed from every application's print panel!
  • You'll be asked if you want to turn on PDF Workflow
  • You'll see the Repurpose with PStill option when you print from any app
  • Add watched folders or their aliases into ~/Library/PDF Services to create additional redistillation targets (eg Publish to Web, Prepress, etc.)
• Drag a job to the Trash Can to remove the output file
• Drag any job from the Jobs panel to remove that file
• Preferences can be saved in sets:
  • See pull down menu at bottom of "PStill -> Preferences"
  • Factory, Prepress, Text As Outlines and Publish To Web sets are now standard choices in pull down menu
  • Choosing a set affects both Preferences and current job
  • Double-click a .pPref file to auto load into Preferences
• Watched Folders can have a preference file in them to have distillation settings on a per folder basis
  • Just save a Preference Set to that watched folder
  • Running a watched folder doesn't affect current Preferences
• Check for updates happens in background for faster launches
• More Scripts for special processing!
• Runs on 10.1 and 10.0 as well as Jaguar 10.2 (2.5.3 didn't)
• Turn any 1 page PDF into tiled Poster
  • Choose "Conversion -> Tile Poster"
  • Scales PDF to any size
  • Choose any paper size to tile poster for printing
  • You can set the overlap and bleed
  • Here's a Poster Tutorial!
  • Crop marks and numbering automatically added
  • Enter negative overlap to inhibit marks on outer pages
• More Level 3 commands handled
• Before upgrading, choose "Tools -> Cache Fonts"
    this allows instant reinstall on launch of new version

• Check for updates happens in background for faster launches

• Check for updates happens in background for faster launches

• Check for updates happens in background for faster launches

• Check for updates happens in background for faster launches

• Check for updates happens in background for faster launches
• Full Feature List

• Check for updates happens in background for faster launches

February 3 2003

• Check for updates happens in background for faster launches
• Check for updates has link to Preferences to turn it off
• Latest for Jaguar 10.2.4
• Runs on 10.0, 10.1 and 10.2 Jaguar
  
• Contains:
  • Create® 10.7.9
  • PhotoToWeb® 1.5.7
  • PStill™ 2.5.5
  • TimeEqualsMoney™ 2.3.2
  • PackUpAndGo™ 2.3.7
  • GIFfun™ 3.5
  • PackUpAndGo™ 2.3.7
  • StampInStone™ 2.2

• More cool art and patterns
  Fixes:
• Multi-page PDFs show pages in thumbnails now
• Check for updates happens in background for faster launches
• Check for updates has link to Preferences to turn it off
• Pages with names that don't differ in first 30 characters go to web correctly now
• Align panel updates correctly in conjunction with Page Layers selections
• You can remove graphic's names once set now.
• Drag in from iPhoto 2 without changing photo library
• Navigation bars work again (broken in 10.7.8)

• Even smaller PDF output!
• Preferences can be saved in sets:
  • Your custom sets are instantly available in a pull down menu
  • Choosing a set affects both Preferences and current job
  • See pull down menu at bottom of "PStill -> Preferences"
• Watched Folders can have a preference file in them to have distillation settings on a per folder basis
  • Just save a Preference Set to that watched folder
• Check for updates happens in background for faster launches
• Check for updates has link to Preferences to turn it off
• Added Hide Menu Bar option to Acrobat display options
• Two-up script works for letter size
• Runs on 10.1 and 10.0 as well as Jaguar 10.2 (2.5.3 didn't)
• Now you can define HUGE pages without slowing down
• Turn any 1 page PDF into tiled Poster
  • Choose "Conversion -> Tile Poster"
  • Scales PDF to any size
  • Choose any paper size to tile poster for printing
  • Here's a Poster Tutorial!
  • Crop marks and numbering automatically added
• Engine improvements
• 2 up works better
• reworked pattern colorspaces
• More Level 3 commands handled
• Before upgrading, choose "Tools -> Cache Fonts"
    this allows instant reinstall on launch of new version

• Cool new metal skin
• Window can become smaller if desired
• Check for updates happens in background for faster launches
• Check for updates has link to Preferences to turn it off

• Check for updates happens in background for faster launches
• Check for updates has link to Preferences to turn it off
• Drag and drop of background image works again
• Custom Icons can be changed now

• Check for updates happens in background for faster launches

• Check for updates happens in background for faster launches
• Check for updates has link to Preferences to turn it off

• Check for updates happens in background for faster launches
• Check for updates has link to Preferences to turn it off

• Check for updates happens in background for faster launches
• Check for updates has link to Preferences to turn it off
• Full Feature List

• Check for updates happens in background for faster launches
• Check for updates has link to Preferences to turn it off

January 22 2003

• Latest for Jaguar 10.2.3
• Runs on 10.0, 10.1 and 10.2 Jaguar
  
• Contains:
  • Create® 10.7.7
  • PhotoToWeb® 1.5.6
  • PStill™ 2.5.3
  • TimeEqualsMoney™ 2.3.1
  • GIFfun™ 3.4
  • PackUpAndGo™ 2.3.6
  • StampInStone™ 2.1

• Drag and drop of background image works again
• Custom Icons can be changed now

• Popup Description Lists work better

• Added Zaph as font choice
• Even more robust with windows & ghostscript PDF
• Can do multiple lines of text
• Can be image, text or both
• Can watermark first page only
• Handles badly formed PDF much better
• Engine improvements
• New Help
• Full Feature List

January 16 2003

• Latest for Jaguar 10.2.3
• Runs on 10.0, 10.1 and 10.2 Jaguar
  
• Contains:
  • Create® 10.7.7
  • PhotoToWeb® 1.5.4
  • PStill™ 2.5.2
  • TimeEqualsMoney™ 2.3
  • GIFfun™ 3.4
  • PackUpAndGo™ 2.3.6
  • StampInStone™ 2.0

• You can predefine lists of expenses and jobs, and their cost:
  • The Description field now has a popup that:
    • Sets the description to the chosen text
    • If cost defined, rate/amount is set
  • Choose TimeEqualsMoney->Preferences..., "Lists" to create entries and optionally costs

Features:
• Option-drag a selection for:
  • instant paste inside Create
  • paste to other apps as PDF or TIFF'
  • drop on trash to delete
  • drop on Finder window for a clipping
  
  
• To constrain move along an axis:
  • begin move of items along x or y axis
  • hold down the Shift key to lock to that axis
  • release key after you mouseup
  
  
• Escape Key ends editing in a text block
  • You can turn this feature off with:
    defaults write com.stone.Create IgnoreEscapeKey
  
  
• Text Along Path can now have blends and patterns
  
  
• If you have "Panels Float Above" checked in Preferences, then Menu item toggles between Hide Info and Show Info. Otherwise, it always brings the panel to front, which is what you want if its buried below items.

Fixes:
• Moving small items in large zooms works great now
• Your document can rest against left edge of screen
• Tools as palette hide and show correctly now
• If you name your first page "Index", web output works correctly
• If you output all pages to one web page, the title prefix is honored

• Can do multiple lines of text
• Can be image, text or both
• Can watermark first page only
• Handles badly formed PDF much better
• Engine improvements
• New Help
• Full Feature List

• Uses powerful new PStill engine 1.606:
  • Speed and performance enhancements galore
• PDF/X TrimBox and CropBox are generated
  
  • (for one page PS jobs only)
• Size is now extracted from HiResBoundingBox if needed
  
  • (for one page PS jobs only)
• Easy 2, 4 and 8-up printing, including a 4 page on 1 booklet
• PDF can take over overprint settings
• PDF can process spot colors as spots or CMYK/RGB
• New Tools -> Cache Fonts and Restore Fonts for fast version update
• Watched Folders work even if you are printing to PS into them directly
• InDesign2 spotcolor stuff now fully supported
• Declaring PS compatibility Level 2 subversion 2012 -
• More pages sizes are now supported by the interpreter (b5, b4, 10x14)
• New support for PUT pdfmarks
  • (allows to e.g. place Javascript into PDF e.g. to let Acrobat Reader perform certain actions like 'print' automatically upon opening a specific page)
• New Hidden Preferences which can be set from the command line
  
  
  • To set the path of the cached fonts to other than /Library/Application Support/Stone/PStill/PSFonts:
    defaults write com.stone.PStill FontCache FOLDER
    
    
  • To not output TTF fonts into the PDF stream:
    defaults write com.stone.PStill NoTTFInPDF YES
    
    
  • To not get automatic conversion of dvips bitmap fonts to type 1 fonts:
    defaults write com.stone.PStill NoDVIPSAutoConvertBitmapFonts YES
    
    
  • To not get automatic rewriting of OS X cups fonts:
    defaults write com.stone.PStill DoNotRewriteOSXFonts YES
    
    
• New Online and PDF Help

December 19 2002

• Latest for Jaguar!
• Automatic check for updates on launch in all apps
• Runs on 10.0, 10.1 and 10.2 Jaguar
  
• Contains:
  • Create® 10.7.6
  • PhotoToWeb® 1.5.4
  • PStill™ 2.4.3
  • TimeEqualsMoney™ 2.2.3
  • GIFfun™ 3.4
  • PackUpAndGo™ 2.3.6
  • StampInStone™ 2.0

Features:
• Automatic check for updates on launch
  To change, see Preferences -> Tools, Check for Updates switch
• Home, End, Page Up and Page Down keys now move through document
• Hot Keys for instant tool selection with a single key press:
  • Pointer - v
  • Scale - s
  • Shear - d
  • Rotate - r
  • Text - t
  • Rectangle - e
  • Line - l
  • Multi Line - m
  • Circle - c
  • Rounded Rectangle - q
  • Arc - a
  • Star - z
  • Freehand - f
  • Curved Spline - b
  • Embed - h
• Tools -> Page Thumbnails... [aka File -> Pages -> Thumbnails...] shows pages any way you want
  
  • along top, side or any matrix of pages as desired
  • just resize Thumbnails window
  • great for Story Boards and easy page reordering
  • New documents take last layout and save their own layout
  
  
• Zoom in instantly with COMMAND-OPTION click & drag out a zooming rectangle
• Zoom out instantly with COMMAND-OPTION-SHIFT click
• New ""Broom" on Custom Zoom panel to reset list to factory presets (they can build up with new zoom feature!)

Fixes:
• A very crisp creation cross
• Size creep in headline text fixed
• The inspector is smarter about changes - even without typing
• Pasting RTF from various apps works again in 10.2.3

December 3 2002

• Latest for Jaguar!
• Runs on 10.0, 10.1 and 10.2 Jaguar
  
• Contains:
  • Create® 10.7.4
  • PhotoToWeb® 1.5.3
  • PStill™ 2.4.2
  • SliceAndDice™ 2.5.8
  • TimeEqualsMoney™ 2.2.2
  • GIFfun™ 3.3
  • PackUpAndGo™ 2.3.5
  • StampInStone™ 1.1

Features:
• Align Panel now has option to align objects to the page
• Guides work in all nested Table views now

Fixes:
• Save as PDF on custom page sizes works as expected (Jaguar 10.2.3)
• Paste & clippings from MS Word and other legacy Carbon apps work as expected now
• Trial Licenses work again

• Handles badly formed PDF much better
• Engine improvements
• Trial Licenses work again!

• Trial Licenses work again!

• Trial Licenses work again!

• Trial Licenses work again!

November 21 2002

• Latest for Jaguar!
• Runs on 10.0, 10.1 and 10.2 Jaguar
  
• Contains:
  • Create® 10.7.3
  • PhotoToWeb® 1.5.2
  • PStill™ 2.4.1
  • SliceAndDice™ 2.5.7
  • TimeEqualsMoney™ 2.2.1
  • GIFfun™ 3.3
  • PackUpAndGo™ 2.3.5
  • StampInStone™ 1.1

Features:
• Added a "Resources" button to the Save Panel for instant access to your preferred save directory
• Address Chooser now has an "All" group
• Address Chooser updates in real time when another app modifies database

Fixes:
• Clipboard in Finder shows correct size clipping
• Deleted layers redraw correctly

• Drag Well also accepts drags & drops
• Embedded EPS works even if its Level 3
• Many more documents will convert correctly
• Brand new textured window Aqua look
• DVIPS font substitution really works now!
• Free Type 1 fonts here:
  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/cm/ps-type1/bakoma/
  Copy the .pfb files to /Library/Fonts, or just drop the pfb folder onto the Font Manager window.

• Library Site title is now used throughout website
• Top Library Site page adds link to "Home" if it's been set in "Web -> Web Options...", Home Page URL
• Library Sites are more robust

• Combine timecards instantly - great for invoices where several people work for the same client:
  
  • Choose "Save As..." on one of the documents
  • From Finder, drag the other timecards onto this new document
  • The entries in the other timecards are added to this one
• Address Chooser now has an "All" group
• Address Chooser updates in real time when another app modifies database

November 12 2002

• Latest for Jaguar!
• Runs on 10.0, 10.1 and 10.2 Jaguar
  
• Contains:
  • Create® 10.7.2
  • PhotoToWeb® 1.5.1
  • PStill™ 2.3.7
  • SliceAndDice™ 2.5.7
  • TimeEqualsMoney™ 2.2
  • GIFfun™ 3.3
  • PackUpAndGo™ 2.3.5
  • StampInStone™ 1.1

Features:
• New menu item Object -> New Objects -> Address... for instant insertion of an address from system AddressBook
     * you can also use Command-OPTION-A to bring this up...
• You can drag in a VCARD or from Address Book for an instant address as well.

Fixes:
• Copy/pasting of text with links/styles in Create preserves links/styles on pasted text
• Save problem on networks resolved!
• Tiny Document on open resolved!

• Speed and performance enhancements
• Handles files with diacriticals
• Automatic font substitution of ugly bitmap Type 3 fonts with Type 1 equivalents in dvips produced PostScript
  
  • Type 3 (bitmap) fonts look terrible
  • Substitution allows great looking files that are much smaller
  • You just need to install the equivalent Type 1 fonts, such as the files in pfb folder here:
    http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/cm/ps-type1/bakoma/
    Copy the .pfb files to /Library/Fonts, or just drop the pfb folder onto the Font Manager window.

• Drag on VCARDs to fill out client information
• New File menu item: "New From Addresses..." provides access to all your Address Book entries [Jaguar]
• Speed enhancements

October 31 2002

• Latest for Jaguar!
• Runs on 10.0, 10.1 and 10.2 Jaguar
  
• Contains:
  • Create® 10.7
  • PhotoToWeb® 1.5.1
  • PStill™ 2.3.6
  • SliceAndDice™ 2.5.7
  • TimeEqualsMoney™ 2.1.1
  • GIFfun™ 3.3
  • PackUpAndGo™ 2.3.5
  • StampInStone™ 1.1

Features:
• New Scripts menu for instant script running from within Create
  • Add your own to any of these "Scripts" folders:
    • ~/Library/Create/Scripts
    • ~/Library/Application Support/Stone/Create/Scripts
    • /Library/Create/Scripts
    • /Library/Application Support/Stone/Create/Scripts
    • /Network/Library/Create/Scripts
    • /Network/Library/Application Support/Stone/Create/Scripts
  • You can have nested subfolders of scripts as deep as you like!
  • Hold option key down while clicking on a menu item to load script into Script Editor
  • Change your default Script Editor with this hidden default:
         defaults write com.stone.Create ScriptEditor "Super Editor"
• Applescript Enhancement: guides are output when you Save Applescript...
• Added Info button on Text Ruler
• New Aqua look for Guide Line Well

Fixes:
• Text outside of shape works in Jaguar again
• You can remove background images from tables
• Page Numbers work inside Table Groups now

October 15 2002

• Latest for Jaguar!
• Runs on 10.0, 10.1 and 10.2 Jaguar
  
• Contains:
  • Create® 10.6.5
  • PhotoToWeb® 1.5.1
  • PStill™ 2.3.6
  • SliceAndDice™ 2.5.7
  • TimeEqualsMoney™ 2.1.1
  • GIFfun™ 3.3
  • PackUpAndGo™ 2.3.5
  • StampInStone™ 1.1

• Command-Shift-H to "Create -> Hide Other Applications"
• Command-Option-H to "Object -> Flip Horizontally"
• You can choose custom Nav Bar Images again
• Table Groups with background images zoom correctly

• Custom Navigation Images panel works again
• COMMAND-Shift-H now "Hides Other Applications..."

October 2 2002

• Best for Jaguar yet!
• Runs on 10.0, 10.1 and 10.2 Jaguar
  
• Contains:
  • Create® 10.6.4
  • PhotoToWeb® 1.5
  • PStill™ 2.3.6
  • SliceAndDice™ 2.5.7
  • TimeEqualsMoney™ 2.1.1
  • GIFfun™ 3.3
  • PackUpAndGo™ 2.3.5
  • StampInStone™ 1.1

• New Text Feature: Control paragraph spacing (on Jaguar)
    - bring up ruler (lozenge button or COMMAND-R)
    - double-click to select a block of text
    - click up arrow on new ¶ stepper to increase spacing
  
    Note:Styles now support paragraph spacing too!
  
  
• New Preference: Speed versus Quality in Image handling
    see Create-> Preferences-> Image Tab "Quality - Speed" radio buttons

September 26 2002

• Super Optimized for Jaguar!
• Runs on 10.0, 10.1 and 10.2 Jaguar
  
• Contains:
  • Create® 10.6.3
  • PhotoToWeb® 1.5
  • PStill™ 2.3.6
  • SliceAndDice™ 2.5.7
  • TimeEqualsMoney™ 2.1.1
  • GIFfun™ 3.3
  • PackUpAndGo™ 2.3.5
  • StampInStone™ 1.1

• Speeded up large image handling without sacrificing print quality
• Added command keys for align top and bottom and centers
• Combining text and shapes now takes effects in this order:
  - if the text has effects, use those and apply effects to text
  - Otherwise, use shape's effects, adding a simple stroke if none
• Extra HTML gets placed above JavaScript, if any exists
• You can now remove the background image of a layer
• You can add resources at any point in the Library Scroll View
• Adding to Library shows correct copy cursor now
• Text wrap and chained text now works with new typesetter
• HTML is now typed in a way that Mac OS 9 can handle better
• You can change individual stroke colors again - for continuous change, activate the colorwell, otherwise just drop color onto well in Info
• We're using the new typesetter - to reset it to the old one: defaults write com.stone.Create TypesetterBehavior 0 To restore to Create's default: defaults remove com.stone.Create TypesetterBehavior
• Text in shapes works again!
• HTML is Typed as 'TEXT" which opens better on Mac OS 9
• Pages and Art dragged from Image well now embed images for portability
• Menu items Copy Styles is now Copy All Styles, same for Paste All Styles

• New Aqua look for UI!
• Can now distill Mac OS X 10.2 PostScript
• Handles Mac OS X 10.2 PDF redistillation
• Fixes crasher on Jaguar - get this one!

• You can size all photos quickly - even by absolute widths subsequent times.
• You can rotate all photos quickly
• You can scale all photos by fractional amounts
• You can web scale slider in drawer fast now
• Fixes limit on number of photos that can be bulk scaled/rotated
• Splitview less obnoxious and rotate matrices sized correctly
• HTML is now typed as 'TEXT' which works better on Macos 9

• Unpaid amounts now update correctly in Summaries and Reports

September 4 2002 Release

• Stone Studio™ September 4 2002
  • Optimized for Jaguar with speed enhancements!
  • Runs on 10.0, 10.1 and 10.2 Jaguar
    
  • Contains:
    • Create® 10.6.1
    • PhotoToWeb® 1.4.8
    • PStill™ 2.3.3
    • SliceAndDice™ 2.5.7
    • TimeEqualsMoney™ 2.1
    • GIFfun™ 3.3
    • PackUpAndGo™ 2.3.5
    • StampInStone™ 1.1
  
  
• Create® 10.6.1
  • For Jaguar, you must have this version!
  • Custom Page sizes work even better (Jaguar)
  • High resolution images print at high resolution again
  • Table group background images work again
  • AppleScript Custom Page sizes work again
  
  
• PStill™ 2.3.3
  • Optimized for Jaguar but also runs on 10.1
  • Speeded up engine in some cases by 500%!
  • Uses 10-20% less memory
  • You can now stamp with 'StampInStone' PDF's made from single images

August 22 2002 Release

• Stone Studio™ August 22 2002
  • Built for Jaguar!
  • Speed enhancements!
  • New Crayon colors!
  • Runs on 10.0, 10.1 and 10.2 Jaguar
    
  • Contains:
    • Create® 10.6
    • PhotoToWeb® 1.4.8
    • PStill™ 2.3.2
    • SliceAndDice™ 2.5.7
    • TimeEqualsMoney™ 2.1
    • GIFfun™ 3.3
    • PackUpAndGo™ 2.3.5
    • StampInStone™ 1.1
  
  
• Create® 10.6
  • For Jaguar, you must have this version!
  • On Jaguar, support for right, decimal and centered tabs
  • AuthorTag hidden pref:
        defaults write com.stone.Create AuthorTag "Your Name"
  • Custom Page sizes work again (Jaguar)
  • Fancy Text works again (Jaguar)
  • Removed empty alt=" " from graphics without alternate text
  • Table Group naming works again
  
  
• PStill™ 2.3.2
  • For Jaguar, you must have this version!
  • Runs on all releases of Mac OS X
  • Better font handling for redistilled PDF
  
  
• TimeEqualsMoney™ 2.1
  • Emailing invoices via Mail works on both 10.1 and 10.2
  
  
• All the other apps have been built on Jaguar for increased speed and performance as well as new features

July 13 2002 Release

• Stone Studio™ July 13 2002
  • All apps have new aquafied application icons
  • Includes these updated apps:
    • Create® 10.5.7
    • PhotoToWeb® 1.4.7
    • PStill™ 2.3
    • SliceAndDice™ 2.5.6
    • TimeEqualsMoney™ 2.0
    • GIFfun™ 3.2
    • PackUpAndGo™ 2.3.4
    • StampInStone™ 1.1
  • Also updated:
    • TrueBlue™ 1.2.2
    • DOCtor™ 1.1.1
  
  
• Create® 10.5.7
  • New Application and Document icons
  • More applescript: access to page layers and ungroup
  • Duplicate pages' page layers work
  • Services uses the top document now, not the first created
  • Revert to saved updates pages correctly
  
  
• PStill™ 2.3
  • Redistill PDF for 40-70% size savings
  • Chain PDFs and PSs to form one PDF
  • Optionally add Acrobat Reader transition effects
  • Optionally use differential font encodings
  • Optionally prefer installed fonts over document fonts
  • Optionally ignore EPS bounding box info
  • New Application and Document icons
  
  
• TimeEqualsMoney® 2.0
  • Free upgrade from V 1.x
  • Add expense items and optionally tax them
  • New Export panel to control which fields are exported
  • Pause time entries
  • Automatic sequential invoice numbering
  • Optionally pause other entries on card or all open documents
  • New Project Name field - great for sub summaries for each client
  • Clone Client menu item under File to quickly make new project for existing client
  • All open time cards when you quit are reopened when you start again
  • Export all open documents into one collected report
  • Set Font for reports and invoices
  • Fully control static text used in invoices and reports
  • Generate reports on all open documents
  • Summarize all open documents
  • Sort up or down on any field by clicking title of column
  • Hide/show the static information at the top of card with lozenge button in window's title bar
  • Menu items for new time entry and new expense entry with command key shortcuts
  • New column Amount to show earnings per time entry or amount of expense
  • Rearrange the table columns as desired
  • Revised online help and new printable PDF manual
  • New Application and Document icons
  • Email to your preferred Mail application
  • Work in any currency with quick popup for $,€,£, & ¥
  • Tax off by a penny and negative time problems fixed
  
  
• PhotoToWeb® 1.4.7
  • New Application and Document icons
  
  
• PackUpAndGo™ 2.3.4
  • New Application and Document icons
  
  
• SliceAndDice™ 2.5.6
  • New Application and Document icons
  
  
• GIFfun™ 3.2
  • New Application and Document icons
  
  
• StampInStone™ 1.1
  • New Application and Document icons
  
  
• TrueBlue™ 1.2.2
  • New Application and Document icons
  
  
• DOCtor™ 1.1.1
  • New Application and Document icons

May 20 2002 Release

• Stone Studio™ May 20 2002
  • Trial License actually works now!
  • Includes these updated apps:
    • Create® 10.5.6
    • PhotoToWeb® 1.4.6
    • PStill™ 2.2.3
    • SliceAndDice™ 2.5.5
    • TimeEqualsMoney™ 1.4.5
    • GIFfun™ 3.1.9
    • PackUpAndGo™ 2.3.3
  • StampInStone™ has also been updated.

May 16 2002 Release

• Stone Studio™ May 16 2002
  • "Check for Updates" notifies you if you are offline
  • 30 day free license
  • Latest versions of all 7 apps
  • Licenses more neatly stored in Application Support/Stone/
  • New TrueBlue and StampInStone - separate downloads
  
  
• Create® 10.5.5 May 16 2002
  Features:
  • Help has been updated and expanded - new PDF version
    
    
  • Export TIFFs at any DPI resolution
          see Preferences -> Images -> Export TIFF DPI field
    
    
  • New Menu Item: Format -> Text -> Copy as HTML - The selected text block places it's equivalent HTML code onto the pasteboard. Great for pasting into HTML-savvy web forms and web logs! If you are editing the text, then just the current selection is translated to HTML on the pasteboard.
    
    
  • New Service - "Replace Text with HTML" - converts selected rich text in any conforming OS X application to it's HTML equivalent.
    
    
  • Licenses are saved more neatly in the Application Support/Stone folder
    
    
  • You can save your HTML as .html, .shtml, .htm, or .php:
           Web -> HTML Preferences..., Misc
          Web -> Document Options..., Misc
  • You can save your HTML as any file ending via a special hidden default:
           defaults write com.stone.Create HTMLFileExtension "myEnding"
    
    
  • Applescript - you can set page size now - use the current units, example:
           tell the front document
           set units to 0
           set pageheight to 17
           set pagewidth to 11
       Choose File -> Save Other -> Applescript... to see an example
    
    
  
  Improvements:
  
  • Check for Updates now alerts you when you are not connected to network
  • TIFF and PDF via Export... weren't including layers (but were incorrectly including hidden and non-printable graphics)
  • Export as TIFF - now exports the whole page at user DPI with current background color - use the well if you just want the selection and/or alpha channel
  • Text styles: add/remove from entire text block, just through object selection
  • Text style names are alphabetically sorted now
  • You can drag & drop in all pages better now
  • If you start with rulers, the document will expose as much as possible given screen size
  • Rare text select bug crasher fixed

• Large outputted photos work again
• Licenses stored in Application Support/Stone/PhotoToWeb
• "Check for Updates" works better

• Emailed invoices no longer overwrite existing compose messages
• "Check for Updates" works better
• Licenses stored in Application Support/Stone/TimeEqualsMoney

• Licenses stored in Application Support/Stone/PStill
• "Check for Updates" works better

• "Check for Updates" works better
• UI tweaks in German and Danish

• "Check for Updates" works better
• Licenses stored in Application Support/Stone/SliceAndDice

• "Check for Updates" works better

• Symbol font gets correct mapping now
• "Check for Updates" works better

• "Check for Updates" works better
• Licenses stored in Application Support/Stone/StampInStone

April 29 2002 Release

• Stone Studio™ April 29 2002
  • All applications have the "Check for Updates" feature
  • 30 day free license
  • Latest versions of all 7 apps
  • Applications are now in Danish as well as English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish and Japanese.
  
  
• Create® 10.5.4 April 29 2002
  Features:
  • Create -> Check for Updates to see if there is a new version
  • Automatic Hyphenation is now stored on a per document basis. See:
          Format -> Allow Hyphenation
  • Text Styles - you can save, drag & drop styles onto text! A style is a named collection of attributes including font, point size, line leading, text color, alignment, tab and indent settings. By applying a style to text, you can later edit the style and have all the text that refers to that style instantly updated to the new style. See:
          Format -> Styles -> Styles... to bring up panel and editor
          Format -> Styles -> Copy/Paste Style - transfers styles among text
          Format -> Styles -> Copy/Paste Styles - transfers sets of styles between documents
    
    HINT: You can prepare sets of styles for instant addition to a document - In the Art pane of Tools->Library Resources..., drag AA Styles into a document, and bring up the Styles panel.
    
  • Runs in Danish as well as English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish and Japanese.
  
  Fixes:
  
  • Tuned autoscroll on large objects
  • Web Resources stays up when you deactivate app for easy dragging in of files
  • Vertical lines and rectangles draw correctly at 100% now
  • Undo of auto chained pages works now

• PhotoToWeb -> Check for Updates to see if there is a new version
• Library -> Create Web Pages... works on huge libraries now
• Runs in Danish and Dutch as well as English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish and Japanese.

• PStill -> Check for Updates to see if there is a new version
• More robust handling of malformed EPS (there's a lot out there!)
• Runs in Danish and Dutch as well as English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish and Japanese.

• GIFfun -> Check for Updates to see if there is a new version
• Runs in Danish and Dutch as well as English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish and Japanese.

• You can now zoom image for more precise slicing
• Hold Control key down while selecting to see dividers in Yellow instead of Red - good for when you have a redish image
• Runs in Danish and Dutch as well as English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish and Japanese.

• TimeEqualsMoney -> Check for Updates to see if there is a new version
• Runs in Danish and Dutch as well as English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish and Japanese.

• PackUpAndGo -> Check for Updates to see if there is a new version
• Runs in Danish and Dutch as well as English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish and Japanese.

March 27 2002 Release

• Stone Studio™ March 27 2002
  • 30 day free license
  • Latest versions of all 7 apps
  
  
• Create® 10.5.3 March 27 2002
  Features:
  • Added automatic text block chaining for instant layout of books, etc:
         1. Drag in RTF or paste text, and size the text block as desired for the layout (If you want multiple columns per page, continue the text into subsequent columns)
         2. Click Text Continuation Arrow on last block on page (the only one if single column)
         3. Click "Add" from Page pop up or File->Pages->Add
         4. Click "OK" to the alert panel asking if you want as many pages as needed to fit text
    
    
  • Better AppleScript support for layers and locked graphics
  • Hidden defaults to reduce space between Navigation bars and content
         defaults write com.stone.Create VeryCloseNavs YES
              (no <BR>'s)
         defaults write com.stone.Create CloseNavs YES
              (just one <BR> instead of default two)
    
  
  Fixes:
  • The last block of chained text now rids itself of the red continuation cross if all text fits
  • Autoscrolling during moves improved
  • Grid of 0 no longer causes trouble
  • Rectangles made into images no longer have extra pixel on left and top

• Library -> Create Web Pages... works great now
• Better instructions in new document

• Convert any image into PDF: PStill is an image still now!
• Improved support for non-conforming fonts
• Take From Job works in other languages now

• Preferences work as expected

February 20 2002 Release

• Stone Studio™ February 20 2002
  • 30 day free license
  • Latest versions of all 7 apps
  • Dutch joins English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese and Swedish in all applications but Create, which is coming soon!
  
  
• Create® 10.5.2 February 20 2002
  Features:
  • Added Speech menu items
  • Added Bigger Font and Smaller Font menu items with comand keys
  • Added Character Shape -> Traditional Form menu item to Font menu
  • Shift key now snaps multi line segments into 5 degree increments
  • Control grid, rulers and zoom via AppleScript, example:
    
    tell application "Create"
         tell the front document
              set snapgrid to true
              set showgrid to true
              set gridcolor to "0.321569 0.580392 1.000000"
              set units to 1
              set gridspacing to 4
              set showrulers to true
              set zoom to 2.0
         end tell
    end tell
    
    
  
  Fixes:
  • Unfilled objects are only selected if clicked on their stroke
  • Arcs also have much better hit testing
  • AppleScript collisions were removed - you may have to recompile some scripts

• Dutch joins English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese and Swedish

• Diacriticals and composed characters show up properly in Titles and TOCs
• Fixed AppleScript collisions - you may have to recompile compiled scripts

• Improvements in font handling
• You can drag on files anywhere including highlit textfield
• More random random function
• Dutch joins English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese and Swedish

• Dutch joins English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese and Swedish

• Dutch joins English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese and Swedish

• Dutch joins English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese and Swedish
• Invoice and Report dates don't have an extra "A," if you have Day.Month.Year format selected in Preferences

• Dutch joins English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese and Swedish

January 29 2002 Release

• Stone Studio™ January 29 2002
  • 30 day free license
  • Latest versions of all 7 apps
  • Applications run better when not connected to Internet
  
  
• Create® 10.5.1 January 29 2002
  Features:
  • Automatic 30 day free license
  • Cool new Aqua Art, Effects and Blends
  • Support for Superscript and Subscript in HTML text.
  • New Tutorial on adding Web Forms
  • Reads EPSF pasteboard from Mathematica and Carbon Apps
  
  Fixes:
  • Autotrace works again
  • Fixed trailing "." bug in Create Web Pages...
  • Create Document Upgrader works better
  • Drag & Drop images in patterns are portable now
  • Distribute was incorrectly rounding placements - now it's exact
  • Groups containing matrices work better
  • Graphics moved to non-printing layers update correctly now
  • Changing fonts in multiple chained text blocks updates correctly now

• 30 Day Free license

• Foreign characters show up properly in Titles and TOCs
• Cleaned up DIV code

• 30 Day free license
• Stability and Font handling fixes
• Licensing works better

• No annoying message when you quit

• 30 Day free license
• Licensing works better

• 30 Day free license
• Licensing works better

January 1 2002 Release

• Stone Studio™ January 1 2002
  • Has the latest of the 7 applications - Y2K2 compliant
  • Added Japanese to English, German, French, Spanish, Italian and Swedish
  • Reduced size of downloads by 10% (requires Mac OS X 10.1)
  • Printable Help Manuals available in PDF
  
  
• Create® 10.4.3 January 1 2002
  Features:
  • Online help has been expanded - new printable pdf available online
  • You can set custom Navigation Bar images - choose "Custom..." from Nav Bar Icon popup
  • DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional
    
  • Support for CSS classes:
    • Text: to create a new class for any text, set the Name of the text in Object inspector
    • Any Page:
      • menu (textual menu bars)
      • credits (the bottom line if No Logo is unchecked)
    • Table Of Contents:
      • toctitle (the title of the Table of Contents block)
      • toctext (on text only TOC's - the page names text block)
      • tocimagetext (on image TOC's - the page image and text)
      • tocpages (the page numbers on a TOC page)
  • Hidden default to change "Table of Contents"
    defaults write com.stone.Create TOC "Index"
  • Missing Resource - Find it dialog now offers a "Remove All" option instead of repeated alert panels
  • Text Link Inspector Script field offers new window script from popup
  • Pastes PDF from other applications which provide PDF
  
  Fixes:
  • Swedish drawing window is correct now
  • Other language improvements for Italian, French and German
  • Empty Embed draws selection correctly now
  • </b> & </i> now correctly matched when link is at end

• Online help has been expanded - new printable pdf available online
• You can set custom Navigation Bar images - choose "Custom..." from Nav Bar Icon popup
• Applescript for instant web pages and slide shows now included in release
• Libraries can be saved as Styles now
• Styles can be drag and dropped onto existing Albums and Trees
• You can drag in RTF files into the story field now
• Fields take text clippings when key
• Copyrights can be multiple lines now
• DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional
  Classes for style sheets
  • toctitle
  • toctext
  • thumbtitle
  • thumbtable
  • menu
  • picturetable
  • maintable
  • caption
  • phototitle
  • story
  • p2wcredit
• Lost Photos can be easily found
• Experts: Hidden default to change "Table of Contents"
  defaults write com.stone.PhotoToWeb TOC "Index"

• Fixed Library Crasher
• Library TOCS now have CSS, follow title location, Title setting (above/below thumbnail or not there at all) && Picture frame setting (color/width)
• Site Title is used on multi-level TOCs now
• Image Preview window no longer floats over the other windows
• Less annoying messages when outputting over an existing directory
• Album Styles's Description field "sticks" better now
• If no index, by default, Home button links to TOC.html
• Preview window controls no longer get drawn over by the photo
• Localized textual navigation bars
• Applescript takes paths that begin with "~" (ie your home folder)

• Latest PStill Engine 1.5.58
• Faster and leaner PDF - Expect up to 10% smaller PDF!
• Embedded TrueType fonts are autoconverted to Type 1 and included in the PDF
• Turn your TrueType fonts into Type 1 with Stone Design's free TrueBlue
• Hidden Secret Expert defaults - type these in Terminal App:
  • Automatically detects Landscape orientation - to turn this off:
      defaults write com.stone.PStill NoAutoDetectRotate YES
    
  • Automatically detects size from DSC (comments) - to turn this off:
      defaults write com.stone.PStill OmitDSCCheck YES
    
  • If you want only grayscale images:
      defaults write com.stone.PStill GrayScale YES
    
  • If you don't want Mac Types written to your pdf:
      defaults write com.stone.PStill UseMacTypes NO
    
  • if Acrobat can't concatenate your pdf's:
      defaults write com.stone.PStill AcrobatConcattable YES
    
• Improved stability
• Images handled more efficiently

• Doesn't leave detritus around when packing with pax

• Alternate text converts text to unicode
• Named groups now use their image name
• Javascript is minimized
• Groups of groups (and so on) work better now
• Images which start with numbers can now be used in rollovers

• Handles huge images better

December 3 2001 Release

• Stone Studio™ December 3 2001
  • Apps which make images and html now add the Mac Type
  • Has the latest versions of all the apps
  
  
• Create® 10.4.2 December 3 2001
  Features:
  • New Art in Tools -> Library Resources -> Art
  • Mac types are written for images and html
  • TIFFs are now LZW compressed
  • Applescript Enhancements:
    • set and get currentpage
    • pagecount is number of pages
    • the Page's selection is exposed:
      • the selection (the list of graphics selected)
      • set selected of graphic 1 to [true|false or 1, 0]
      • deselectall
      • selectall [of "text"|"image"|...]
    • You can export to PDF, EPS and full Image Slides via Applescript now:
      
      set destination to "/tmp/Demo/"

tell application "Create"
    tell the front document
        set thepages to pages
        set totalpages to pagecount
        repeat with i from 1 to totalpages
            if i < 10 then set filename to destination & "Slide_0" & i & ".jpg"
            if i > 9 then set filename to destination & "Slide_" & i & ".jpg"
            set currentpage to i
            tell page i
                export in filename
            end tell
        end repeat
    end tell
end tell

tell application "PhotoToWeb"
    make new album at before front album
    tell the front album
        ignoring application responses
            add photos in destination
            slide show
        end ignoring
    end tell
end tell

  
  
  
• PhotoToWeb® 1.3.6 December 3 2001
  Features:
  • Mac types are written for images and html
  • Progress panel shows name of album now
  • Title placement can be set as preference for new docs and for an entire Library Tree
  
  Fixes:
  • You can now set background image as a preference
  • Background image doesn't "show through" the frame now
  • Album styles are sorted alphabetically
  • Styles drag-on image now scales to fit
  • You can move albums to new folders in the Library Tree
  • Previewer shows you the size in your selected ruler (points, cm, inches, etc)
  • Previewer updates on scale and rotation changes now
  
  
• PStill™ 1.8.5 December 3 2001
  • Latest PStill Engine 1.5.57
  • Output PDF has Mac type set for easy recognition by legacy mac programs
  • New operations supported: setfileposition, fileposition, glyphshow
  • New decompression filter: Deflate (ZIP, PS Level 3)
  • Automatically detects Landscape orientation
    • ifyou want to turn this off:
      defaults write com.stone.PStill NoAutoDetectRotate YES
  
  
• SliceAndDice™ 2.4.6 December 3 2001
  • Html and images have Mac type set now
  • TIFF production works again
  
  
• GIFfun™ 3.1.4 November 29 2001
  • GIFs are now typed as Mac GIFs
  
  

November 14 2001 Release

• Stone Studio™ November 14 2001
  • Swedish joins English, German, French, Italian and Spanish localizations
  • Has the latest versions of all the apps
  • Optimized for Mac OS X 10.1 - works on 10.0 as well.
  
  
• Create® 10.4.1 November 14 2001
  Features:
  • GIFs can be extra smooth looking if you "backfill" them - see Preferences->Images
  • You can add Javascript to Text links now
  • Text Tool now edits existing text blocks on first click
  • Setting the font of a text object makes it size to fit the new font
  • added "New Folder" button to Set Scratch and Set Library Open panels in Preferences->Document
  • AppleScript: accepts Mac style paths like "Mac HD:my folder:neat.jpg" as well as "/my folder/neat.jpg"
  
  Fixes:
  • GIF writing works in all cases now (black had trouble before)
  • AppleScript fix: export in "someFile" now works!
  • Scratch folder field now updates when you reset your preferences to original settings
  • Default Thumbnail size moved from 120 to 118 to avoid ghosting in OmniWeb
  • Pasting within a text block was causing editing to end immediately
  • Spline and Text from ungrouped Text Along Path appear together now
  • Pasting text into a newly clicked text object will make a nice size text block now
  
  
• PhotoToWeb® 1.3.5 November 14 2001
  Features:
  • Libraries can output each album on a single page now
  • split pane on the imageview and file browser
  • command-click to open an album in a Library tree
  
  Fixes:
  • fixed bad HTML on a &nbsp; (was missing final ;)
  • Thumbnails shouldn't be "ad" size else Omni won't show them!
       Changed default thumb size to 118 from 120 to avoid Omni-auto-filtering
  
  
• PStill® 1.8.4 November 14 2001
  • Latest PStill Engine 1.5.56
  • Must have for upcoming apps from Stone!

October 22 2001 Release

• Stone Studio™ October 22 2001
  • Has the latest versions of all the apps
  • Optimized for Mac OS X 10.1 - works on 10.0 as well.
  
  
• Create® 10.4.0 October 10 2001
  Fixes:
  • PDF renders antialiased when sheared.
  • You can now build websites from a multi-page PDF shared across pages
  • EPS will correctly convert to PDF if PStill and PStill EPS to PDF filter installed.
  • Scale Steppers do not autowrap from 300 to 1!
  • Text Inspector now sets color and alignment of just selection, if text is being actively edited.
  • Create Document Upgrader works on 10.1 for old NEXTSTEP Create Documents again
  
  
• PhotoToWeb® 1.3.4 October 22 2001
  • Library Albums are added alphabetically now
  • Fixed a crop-and-drag crasher
  • Fixed the drag reordering problem
  
  
• PStill® 2.1.4 October 22 2001
  • Latest PStill Engine 1.5.56
  • Now loads more fonts
  
  
• PackUpAndGo® 2.1.4 October 4 2001
  • Updated international files
  
  
• GIFfun® 3.1.2 October 4 2001
  • Updated international files
  
  

September 21 2001 Release

• Stone Studio™ September 21 2001
  • Localized into Italian, French, German and Spanish.
  • Optimized for Mac OS X 10.1 - works on 10.0 as well.
  
  
• Create® 10.3.52 September 21 2001
  Features:
  • Context Menus - Control-click to instantly export selection, copy effects, etc.
  • Smart Quotes (enable in Preferences -> Misc -> Smart Quotes)
    • type ' to get ‘ and ’
    • type " to get “ and ”
    • select quote, type ' or " to toggle between open, closed, and plain
  • Set text selection's leading directly from leading field in the Ruler.
  • Text with fancy effects now draws quickly when moving
  
  Fixes:
  • Zoomed blocks of chained text now display correctly
  • Zoomed text does not rewrap differently while editing
  • Copy of large images is instantaneous now
  • AppleScript is entirely in English, per Apple's recommendation
  • Create no longer "Quits Unexpectedly" when you quit Create sometimes!
  • Even-odd fill now redrawn correctly on reopening document
  • Library and Web Resources hide on deactivate because Finder now allows dragging without activation
  
  
• PhotoToWeb® 1.3.32 September 17 2001
  • You can add frames of any thickness and color to your pictures
  • PhotoToWeb is completely Apple Scriptable!
  • Scale all photos to absolute width now limits maximum size of photo - therefore, vertical pictures will have the same aspect ratio as the more standard landscape (ie wider than taller) photos.
  
  
• PackUpAndGo® 2.1.4 September 17 2001
  • You MUST download this version for Mac OS X 10.1 due to a low level change that prevents earlier versions from working.
  
  

August 10 2001 Release

• Stone Studio™ August 10
  • Localized into Spanish (Español)
  
  
• Create® 10.3.5 August 10 2001
  • Create can now export the selection or page as EPS via the Image Well.
  • Opening a multi page PDF opens in a new document of that many pages automatically
  • Colorsync profiles are now preserved when exporting to various image types
  • Clicking on the first point when completing a spline or line now closes the path
  
  
• PhotoToWeb® 1.3.32 August 1 2001
  • Bulk resizing of high resolution photos now works correctly
  
  
• PStill® 1.8.1 August 7 2001
  • Uses the latest 1.5.55 PStill engine - better performance and some bug fixes
  
  

July 12 2001 Release

• Stone Studio™ July 12 2001
  • Localized into German (Deutsch)
• Create® July 12 2001
  • Localized into German (Deutsch)
  • Localized into Spanish (Español)
  • Localized into French (Français)

June 29 2001 Release

• Current Stone Studio™ CD
  • This is the current shipping CD in retail box with all latest versions, but not localized - grab online editions for Deutsch, Español, & Français.
  
  
• Create® 10.3.4 June 29 2001
  • Create documents can now be saved as XML rather than the current property list format. The XML files are about twice as big as property list files and are harder to read. However, because of issues with ASCII encoding with property lists, we recommend XML for Japanese and other international clients. See Preferences..., Document tab, "Use XML format" switch.
    
  • Localized versions of Create now produce localized versions of "Next", "Previous", "Home", and "Index" on web pages with text navigation bars.
    
  • Thumbnails are oversampled for better readability
  • PDF renders at full resolution when scaled or resized
  • Reverse Path now leaves the same handle selected
  • The scroll down arrow on the Release Notes window now works
  • Center and Font tags are correctly nested now
  • Grid is much more accurate - a rounding bug was fixed
  • Text that is output as a graphic now correctly updates its link when moving pages
  
  
• PhotoToWeb® 1.3.32 June 29 2001
  • Thumbnails are smoother and super sweet
  • Fixed subtle unmatched <font> tags
  • Fixed crasher from adding multiple folders to Albums Library
  
  
• PackUp&Go™ 2.1.2 June 21 2001
  • Packing and unpacking single files no longer removes the original, which conforms to a Mac user's expectations.
    
  • Following Macintosh expectations, single files are not removed when gzipped.
  • Added huge warnings about resource forks - use this product on files with forks at your own risk
  • Unpacking/packing won't fail if file already exists - it just makes a sequentially higher numbered file - eg: FILE.tar.gz -> FILE_2.tar.gz
    
  • Second unpack doens't add a period after the name
  
  
• PStill® 1.8.01 July 9 2001
  • Resources directory is writable so that the free GNU Fonts can be installed
  
  
• TimeEqualsMoney™ 1.3.8 June 25 2001
  • HelpViewer now opens correctly with help.
  
  
• SliceAndDice™ 2.4.2 June 21 2001
  • Fixed close unsaved window crasher when you clicked on the menu

June 18 2001 Release

• TimeEqualsMoney™ June 18 2001
  • Tax was incorrectly added twice on Invoices - get this version!;
  
  
• GIFfun™ 3.1.0 June 25 2001
  • Updated MAN page in GIFfun's WhirlGif Help

June 8 2001 Release

• Stone Studio™ June 8 2001
  • Includes newest revisions of Create®,PhotoToWeb®, PackUp&Go™ and TimeEqualsMoney™
• Create® 10.3.3
  • FEATURE: The first handle of spline or multi line has a special color so you can tell path direction easily
  • FEATURE: More cool blends, patterns and art!
  • FEATURE: Printable manual online for download
  • Linked Text had an unarchiving bug involving groups which is fixed
  • Resizing a scalable group has much better fidelity, and doesn't jump when you release mouse button
• PhotoToWeb® 1.3.1
  • Resizing the window a certain way used to throw off the cropping rect
  • Sample now opens the drawer to show folks where all the options are hidden!
  • Document HTML can now be changed to contain nothing if Preferences had some HTML
  • Fixed subtle bug involving empty Copyrights and alternate image types
• TimeEqualsMoney™ 1.3.6
  • Report Any Period had a subtle off-by-a-few-hours bug that would leave off the last entry
• PackUp&Go™ 2.1.1
  • Download this! Fixes a bad bug if you changed the default directory.

May 23 2001 Release

• Stone Studio™ May 23 2001
  • Includes newest revisions of Create®,PhotoToWeb®, PackUp&Go™ and TimeEqualsMoney™
• Create® 10.3.0
  • FEATURE: You can set the DPI of any bitmap image
      Use Info -> Object, DPI field to set the dots per inch of the image.
  • Application really doesn't crash after quitting
  • Shift constrains scale equally when resizing scale groups
  • Copying is ten times faster (other types are delivered lazily)
• PhotoToWeb® 1.2.8
  • High Resolution Images are expanded fully to 72DPI
  • Slide show on Library Tree of albums now works
  • Fixed crashers involving closing and slide shows in Albums
  • Extra font tag in TOC no longer added
  • Opening a library of albums no longer makes the document "edited"
  • Story text works much better now, including undo
  • When you add a text link, it now correctly shows the document changed
• TimeEqualsMoney™ 1.3.5
  • Email uses Mail to send invoices

April 24 2001 Release

• CREATE 10.2.3
  • FEATURE: You can move all graphics on all pages simultaneously with Format -> Move -> [ Up | Down | Right | Left ]. The amount moved each time you choose the menu item is determined by the grid spacing in your document - (Tools -> Show Info, View tab, Spacing Slider ). This is excellent for placing white space around print versions of your documents that might use tight alignment for web output, and solves one of the problems involving good looking print and web versions.
  • Create no longer quits unexpectedly after quitting
  • Original NeXTSTEP Create 3.1 documents can now be opened
  • Selected items in layers no longer incorrectly show handles on page

April 6 2001 Release

• CREATE 10.2.1
  • PDF prints at independent resolution
  • multipage PDF can now display and print any selected page
  • Save to HTML remembers where you last outputted to
  • Export... now add .pdf or .tiff file endings when PDF or TIFF chosen.
  • Layer inspector crasher was fixed
  • Memory leak patched
• PStill 1.7.1
  • Latest conversion Engine: 1.544
  • FEATURE: set gamma correction [Preferences -> Misc] on images
  • Badly formed EPS's (no EPSF in first line) will now get correctly placed
  • ~/Library/Fonts now searched correctly
  • Full support for indexed colorspaces (graphics/images/text)
  • Subsetted fonts are now taken over (no more bad looking PDFs from input generated by Acrobat Reader)
  • a full load of little fixes and compatibility issues in the Level 2 area
  • Annotation processing is now better (honors the /Page keys for single annotations so they can be placed anywhere in the input PS file
  • fixed a nasty bug that caused kshow to leak stack space sometimes
  • Write all fonts as paths now really writes all fonts as paths (in the older releases only parts were dumped as paths)
  • Fixed a nasty bug that caused images corruption for CMYK or RGB images with separate data sources which were not the same size as a scan line.
• PhotoToWeb 1.2.6
  • long, similar photo names get correctly named uniquely now
  • added PCD to recognized photo types
  • Memory leak patched
• PackUpAndGo: 2.0.1
  • if a packed file gets moved, no drag icon is displayed which is less confusing than the question mark Icon.
• SliceAndDice: 2.3.6
  • Fixed Save As Create, click on red close button crasher
  • Memory leak patched
• TimeEqualsMoney: 1.3.4
  • Memory leak patched

Super Studio

• New low, low introductory pricing.
• New Aqua document and application icons
• Online, searchable Apple Help in each application
• You can install the applications anywhere
• Download individual applications one by one if desired
• Upgradable licenses work free until May 15, 2001

Create

• Help is here, which explains why downloads are bigger!
• See Help -> Release Notes for complete rundown of features and fixes
• Better library blends, effects, and clip art.
• Drag on big images onto Create dock tile to autosize document to fit
• Direct access to subscribe/unsubscribe Create Mail list
• Supports all image types including Mac types without file extensions
• Better ruler tool bar - with hide/show rulers button on window
• Video graphics now play and output to web
• Autotracer can trace any arbitrary grapics
• Pattern Editor has a new Size "To Fit" button for easy tiling
• PDF patterns now an option: They draw quick but don't print in PB
• Alternate-click a tool to make it sticky - otherwise reverts to pointer after creation
• Double-click a tool to bring up relevant inspector
• Double-click plain graphics to bring up inspector
• Unhandled double-click: opens View inspector
• Master Layers Panel layed out more intuitively
• Master Layer's images and colors can apply to page
• Add to Odd and Add to Even buttons in Master Layers
• Add Master Layer's guides to each page; editable only from master layer
• Zoom in now scrolls selection to the center of the document
• Safe Color Well will echo any color's hex string
• Page Numbers can be on layers now - for special ones, put one on that page.
• Text along a path, inside a path and around a path can have effects now!
• Text Inspector has an "Output as image" switch
• New direct access to any page via Page PopUp in the scrollbar
• Page PopUp has add/duplicate by quantity interface as last item.
• Copy/Paste page: now brings along resources when pasting between documents
• Page Thumbnails now draws page number correctly
• Page Thumbnails: if your zoom box is too "Big" it will zoom the document to 100%
• New gallery only presents folder name field to be less confusing.
• Tool window nests better against document window
• Dragging in images brings Create to the front now for easier interaction
• The Tutorial menu is plain English and localizable
• Text Along Path has better hit testing
• Mask Group was clipping its handles incorrectly
• Redundant "Background" menu removed since View inspector has buttons
• The dragging matrices (Thumbnails, etc) now draw correctly when reordering items
• Smaller Inspector and smaller windows where possible
• Guides are more visible now
• Text Along Path: was getting clipped when Rainbow
• Text Along Path: changing FONT didn't change characters interspacing
• APPLESCRIPT: correctly outputs text now
• Find is now working
• Command Key now overrides grid
• Even/Odd winding now gets remembered on copy/paste
• Removing a handle updates the previous point's handle to be tangential
• Rotation allows 1/5 degree increments even if you don't start with shift/alt keys down
• Number of Fill Steps Slider shows value in text field while dragging
• Page HTML Inspector is more intuitive and shows more options directly
• Redid HTML panels to be simpler
• Simplified Layer Inspector
• Fixed Services
• Added Service "Create Rich Text" for TimeEqualsMoney
• Made guide drag wells stand out better
• Web Help was missing
• International standards for "in","cm","pt" do not require the "period" afterwards
• Command keys for kern, loosen, sub, super, lower and raise baselines
• Create now allows localization of document window
• Tools at bottom of page look better.
• Page Up and Page Down keys now move between pages
• Arrow Keys move selected handle on splines and multiple lines
• Add a new point after selected point in spline/line by Control-clicking
• Delete point in spline/line by Control-clicking a point.
• Delete Key deletes selected handle if any, otherwise object
• Command-Key while clicking Select Next button selects next handle
• Command-Key while clicking Select Previous button selects previous handle
• Non-printable graphics are also not output to HTML.
• Command keys to bring up various tools
• Menus conform to OS X standard: Show All, Hide Others, etc
• Fixed some crashers
• AppleScript generates correct strings with fancy characters now
• Drag & Drop of URLs from OmniWeb and IE work great now
• You can drag resources into Background Image field and Web Inspector fields
• You can specify a template document for "New Web Size..."
• Control-click to add a point after selected handle
• Control-click on a handle to remove it
• Set the number of levels of Undo in Preferences
• Accessible HTML with correct Alt tags for spacers
• New Menu Items: Show All - Hide Others
• The Embed object allows you to drag in source files now
• Web pages have better automatic layout
• Create helps you find moved images that were linked in
• Reset Custom Zooms by holding Control Key and selecting "Set..."
• New Alignment and Distribution panel: Format->Alignment->Alignment Panel...
• Rectangles and Straight Lines draw without covering 2 pixels
• Autotrace places new lines into its own page layer for easy manipulation
• You can drag web links from Internet Explorer to add urls or create new links
• Those ghosted modal windows no longer appear
• Fixed several nasty crashers
• Here's a workaround for the 'still broken' Save As PDF:
  • In Create, choose 'Print...' to print the document
  • Choose 'Preview...' from the print panel
  • Preview opens and displays the PDF document
  • In Preview app, choose 'Save As...' to save your PDF file.

PhotoToWeb

• Added a web size slider to the Preview Web Image window
• Computer will not sleep or dim during slide show
• The number of photos in each album is now displayed in the UI
• Cleaned up the albums interface
• Added preference to display slides on second monitor
• Drag an image onto application tile to load it into album
• Accepts Mac OS 9 style images
• If an album only had one photo, its TOC.html was not produced (fixed)
• Open Link... now works correctly
• Cursor changes to resize cursor when over edge of cropping rectangle
• Slide Show starts at current photo
• Gray Scale output is known broken in Public Beta
• Web Preview window resizes correctly after very tall image is viewed
• When you quit a slide show, the current photo is the last one viewed
• New Web Preview panel to preview output photo at various qualities instantly
• Cursor changes to crop cursor over photo for intuitive hint
• Escape, Return, Delete, or Enter all exit the Slide Show for ease
• Control quality of Thumbnail with its own slider
• Echo the numeric value of quality as well as just the slider
• Arrow keys move between pictures (up, left = back; down, right = next)
• Preferences of HTML right to the correct place now
• New Menu Items: Show All - Hide Others
• Cleaner and simpler UI - all options are in the drawer
• Can now find your photos when you move albums on disk
• Rectangles and Straight Lines draw without covering 2 pixels
• You can drag web links from Internet Explorer to add urls to your story

TimeEqualsMoney (formerly known as TimeCard)

• Brand new name!
• Time entries can have a rate of $0 - for example, complementary work.
• Link field moved to the far right of tableview
• Viewing Invoice in Create now works correctly
• New Menu Items: Show All - Hide Others
• Support for any international currency and currency format
• Choose Format-> Currency... to change

PackUp&Go

• PackUp&Go can unpack tgz, tar.Z and tar.gz files now!
• Uses gnutar if you have it, otherwise uses compress.
• Clicking on output well reveals packed/unpacked file in Finder
• Dragging a file to another hard disk copies not links the file now
• Will not delete intermediate files if your preferences are set that way
• New Menu Items: Show All - Hide Others

PStill

• Click on output well to 'Reveal in Finder' the translated file
• Followed Aqua interface guidelines on all interfaces
• "PS" is not automatically converted to PDF by filter
• Added interface to "Combine Many" PS'es into one PDF file
• Better help on installing PostScript Fonts
• New Preferences:
  • Option to include or omit empty pages
  • Option to use binary compression
  • Option to use maximum compression
• Progress indicator is working
• Fixed low level memory crasher
• New Menu Items: Show All - Hide Others
• Can read Macintosh PS Fonts now
• Correctly rotates embedded ps
• Doesn't crash!

Slice And Dice

• Accepts images of all types dragged onto application tile.
• Inspector doesn't hang around when you deactivate application
• File names too long for Mac HFS is fixed
• The Main/Rollover popup button is fixed
• New Menu Items: Show All - Hide Others
• You can overwrite earlier versions of table output
• You can drag on web addresses from IE onto the table cells as well as OmniWeb

GIFfun

• Uses latest whirlgif conversion engine 3.04
• Accepts images of all types dragged onto application tile.
• Redid user interface for Aqua