iCalamus 2.13 - Desktop publishing solution.

iCalamus is a desktop publishing solution that allows you to create documents with text, photos, and other visual elements. Some demonstration videos are available.

The unregistered version of iCalamus already offers a cool feature: You can create professional photo books and calendars like in the full version and order high-quality prints at the Photographerbook company. The Photographerbook document service in iCalamus even supports iPhoto calendars (and iPhoto books coming soon) which can be printed at Photographerbook at a lower price.

iCalamus has been developed completely new for Apple's operating system. iCalamus is an excellent choice for all layout purposes from simple posters and business letters over complex layouted magazines up to books and scientific works. Complete Unicode support and the smart PDF import offer easy access to creating and layout work. The reasoned user interface with its low learning curve guarantees for fast success. iCalamus doesn't limit your layout freedom by offering prepared layouts. Its practical tools offer all options for your own creative and productive layout work.

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 OS X. Optionally output documents in various PDF formats (e.g., PDF-X, encrypted PDF, PDF Fax).

Note: Now requires OS X 10.9 or later

Kernel

• Fix: [857]: The function “Paste URI/URL in Place” no longer crashes when no frame was selected previously.
• Fix: [862]: Inspector panels sometimes could not be shown on OS X < 10.10.
• Fix: [864]: The “Document Setup” dialog shows updated document parameters when they have been changed in the Page Inspector's “Edit Global Page Parameters” dialog.
• Fix: [864]: Wrong colors of PDF content on screen.
• Fix: No more problems with accessing parameters of shadow effects of copied frames.
• Fix: PS Converter: Supports Sandboxing and PS files as well as EPS files.
• Fix: SVG Converter: Supports Sandboxing and has been updated.

Editing Text

• New: [431]: The “Attachment Image Size” dialog has been enhanced. Two new buttons allow to fit the image horizontally or vertically into the text frame. Using the percentage fields, you can change the image dimensions numerically.

Media Inspector

• New: The Reload alert can be suppressed by checking the “Do not show this message again” option.
• Fix: [858]: Context and Action menu entries use the same order as the action icons in the Action bar.

Page Inspector

• Fix: [865]: The dialog “Edit Page(s)” can no longer be used when no page view has been selected.
• Fix: [866]: The dialog “Edit Global Page Parameters” no longer shows a useless alert when it has been closed without changes to the pages layout.

Context Functions

• Fix: [791]: All relevant context menus offer a new entry “Paste in Place”.

GUI

• New: [769]: The “Welcome to iCalamus” dialog shows the whole file and paths names in Tooltips.
• New: [830]: The icons for locked/unlocked objects (e.g. frames, layers) have been enhanced.
• Fix: [856]: On El Capitan, the OS X file picker didn't show import options by default, but just an [Options] button. This made many users oversee the import options.

Manual

• New: The chapter “Feedback” has been enhanced.
• New: Various dialog screenshots have been updated.

Other Bugfixes

• Tiny bugs fixed.

• OS X 10.9 or later