gX News http://www.gxo.com/index.php News from the computer graphics and new media industries. en-us Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:12:47 GMT Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:12:47 GMT gX News http://www.gxo.com/index.php Free Photoshop plug-in adjusts white balance and recovers highlights http://www.gxo.com//index.php?id=P1056 Toronto's Colormancer has released a free Photoshop plug-in that allows users to quickly set white balance and recover highlight detail. Mac font catalogue software release http://www.gxo.com//index.php?id=P1055 Veenix Software has announced the release of TypeBook Creator 1.0, professional font cataloging and specimen sheet printing software for Macintosh. Quark snaps up XML developer http://www.gxo.com//index.php?id=P1054 Quark has announced that it has acquired In.vision Research Corporation, a Florida-based software company that develops the add-in to Microsoft Word for XML authoring. Adobe Labs offers new Pixer Bender toolkit http://www.gxo.com//index.php?id=P1053 Adobe has released a new developer kit for graphics technologies to be used with video processing. Daz 3D beefs up Victoria with new morphs and textures http://www.gxo.com//index.php?id=P1051 3D software developer Daz 3D has released a new series of add-on morphs and textures for Victoria, its female figure used by digital artists. Updated pdfToolbox now available http://www.gxo.com//index.php?id=P1049 callas software has announced a new version of pdfToolbox 4, its all-in-one print production tool set. Font Bureau unveils new sans serif typeface http://www.gxo.com//index.php?id=P1048 Font Bureau has released Scout, a new typeface family first designed for U.S. magazine Entertainment Weekly. Canadian book publishing revenue slides in 2006 http://www.gxo.com//index.php?id=P1047 According to a Statistics Canada report, 2006 operating revenue for the book publishing industry in Canada dropped to $2.1 billion, down 1.2% from 2005. Website matches writers with publishers http://www.gxo.com//index.php?id=P1052 Creative Byline, a website dedicated to connecting writers and publishers, has added two more publishing houses to its list. New Nik plug-in produces multitude of black and white images http://www.gxo.com//index.php?id=P1050 Nik Software has announced the new Silver Efex Pro photographic plug-in for creating black-and-white images from scanned or digital color photographs. Free PDF magazine aims at higher consciousness http://www.gxo.com//index.php?id=P1046 The debut issue of Elevated Existence, a brand new digital magazine, is now available for download. Software lets users save Flash videos and MP3s http://www.gxo.com//index.php?id=P1040 A German software developer has released a new web application that lets Windows users download and save videos or MP3s. CopyFit plug-in now available for InDesign http://www.gxo.com//index.php?id=P1044 XChange International has released its CopyFit Desktop plug-in for InDesign CS2 and CS3, an add-on which is designed to detect and remedy overset (or underset) text conditions in an InDesign document. Workopolis partners with Rogers Publishing on B2B job sites http://www.gxo.com//index.php?id=P1043 Workopolis and Rogers Publishing have announced the launch of the first phase of dedicated online B2B job sites, along with plans for 28 additional sites in the near future. Finally: ISO approves PDF as document standard http://www.gxo.com//index.php?id=P1041 The International Standardization Organization (ISO) has at last announced that PDF (Portable Document Format) has been officially ratified as an international standard for digital documents.