Following its commitment to constantly adapt its offering to the ever-evolving needs of the market, Stone Design (http://www.stone.com) has introduced innovative changes to its two main solutions: Create, the company's Mac OS X native drawing suite and PhotoToWeb, its Web tool for online photo album creation. The update initiative has made possible the addition of multiple new capabilities to the solutions that are now known under the versions: Create 12.2.1 and PhotoToWeb 2.2.
What users can expect from the latest version of Stone Design's Create software, is a wide range of new features such as: Image Well's TIFF for graphics conversion to grayscale, copy/paste operations to other applications; the opportunity Page Numbers to begin on a logical page instead of actual page; Changing Image Quality in Preferences, which can really speed up PDF display if Quality is set to low; Named graphics that display their name in the selection status field; hidden default to allow long HTML and IMAGE names, and many more.
Create 12.2.1 also incorporates a great deal of fixes, including Found and removed memory leaks; the now functioning French tool palette; enhanced
Italian localization; preferences now mostly localized to each of the 8 languages; no duplication for Images dragged in from Omniweb, etc. Combining the newly added features with newly-introduced fixes, the latest version of Create can now be purchased for the exclusive price of US$149, as registered users are provided with a zero cost update. At http://www.stone.com/Create/Create.html interested users and prospects can find more details regarding the solution.
The newly-enhanced PhotoToWeb, in turn, also abounds in a great deal of new features. The solution's version 2.2 now offers new refurbished look with Customizable Tool Bars; Greatly simplified Web Options/Preferences with additional options; numerous complementary options, such as: default font family setting for user's albums, Font sizes for Caption, Title, Headlines, Nav Bar, and Thumbnails, Control relative size of rich Story text, Scratch folder for temporary files, Check for updates daily, weekly or monthly, Use of up to 64 characters in photo names, Author Tag and many more.
The solution is fully detailed at: http://www.stone.com/PhotoToWeb/PhotoToWeb.html. Its availability has been priced at US$69, as existing users of the solution can take advantage of a free update.
