iCalamus, the new publisher for Mac OS X, has been available since end of September 2006. The DTP program can be used lightly as a feather and offers newbies and pros in Desktop Publishing all kinds of freedom to publish their ideas. iCalamus has been welcomed enthusiastically as both users and press confirm.
Download iCalamus 1.01 now.Since today, the first update for iCalamus is available for download. iCalamus 1.01 brings some important bugfixes and new features like OpenType support as well as enhanced image, PDF and text handling.
Here you find a detailed list of changes.
iCalamus is a modular program which will grow in future by external modules, even from third-party developers. Therefore invers Software will create an Open Development Area (ODA) and publish the plug-in interface. iCalamus has been developed in Objective C with intensive usage of Apple's Cocoa library.
You can import all image and text formats which are supported by Mac OS X into iCalamus documents. Images from digital cameras, scanners or iPhoto libraries can be imported, as well as whole web page content and PDF documents. Grab text content from large PDF documents easily for further text processing. Elaborated masking options and many predefined, partly dynamically changeable, frame shapes offer freedom for creativity. Working in precise measurement units is the other side of the iCalamus world. Use virtual copies for multiple document elements and change them afterwards with a few mouse clicks.
Print output uses all printers which are supported by Mac OS X. Optionally output documents in various PDF formats (e.g. PDF-X, encrypted PDF, PDF Fax).
Technical
iCalamus 1.01 requires at least Tiger 10.4.5 and is shipped as a Universal Binary in single language versions or as a complete bundle with the languages English, German, French, Danish, Dutch and Czech on CD or via download. The rich online help can be read also at http://man.icalamus.net/.
iCalamus 1.01 costs 99 EUR only, school and student licenses are available.