The goal of FitPlot is simple:
- place various PDFs (or other common graphic formats files such as JPG, TIF, GIF, EPS, PSD, image in the pasteboard) on a virtual plotter sheet;
- Arrange all objects in a WYSIWYG environment moving and rotating them;
- Print the so arranged plotter sheet and eventually save it for later printings.
I know this can be done with blazoned vectorial applications, but here we have a small program that can just do it--nothing less, nothing more.
If your needs are very simple, and only need to import single-page files for layout, you may want to try FitPlot Lite.
Version 6.1.0:
New:
- New packing / nesting option based on the floor / ceiling bin packing algorithm [inspired to the work "Algorithms for Two-Dimensional Bin Packing and Assignment Problems" by Andrea Lodi].
- The floor / ceiling algorithm could be less efficient in saving space, but it has the advantage to re-arrange the objects aligned on floor / ceiling lines, suitable for image cutting.
Interface Improved:
- Automatic guides: when this option is activated and you're moving an object around, you should see / snap temporary guides connecting the moving object to the one(s) it is approaching to, allowing an easy alignment to sides / centers points.
- A new option allows to snap object to the border of the page and to the margin sides.
- Guides can now snap to objects on the page, even if the objects are not selected.
- New object display mode called shape: only the shape and the average color (with a light transparency) of an image are shown on the screen. This allows a quicker video refresh and an easier use of the new automatic guides option. There are now three display modes: low resolution, high resolution and shape only, you can toggle the three from the toolbar or via menu.
- Optimized refresh: the program is more responsive.
Bug Fixing:
- The 6 version has required a rewrite of large parts of the code. This has caused the emerging of unwanted errors in some of the program's functions, errors which, unfortunately, passed the control before release.
- With version 6.0.2 I remedied to the most serious ones.
- Finally, with this version (6.1.0), I hope that there are no remaining errors.
- Crash with Business Cards imposition fixed
- Occasional crash with multiple selections fixed
- Minor problem discovered and fixed
- OS X 10.7.3 or later
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