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London, UK – XChange International, the source for extended technology worldwide are pleased to announce a limited time promotion offering FlightCheck Professional 6 for Macintosh (a £428.00 or $612.00 value) FREE with the purchase of Q2ID for Adobe InDesign, or ID2Q for QuarkXPress. The offer is valid 2nd March until 17th April 2009 only.

“Our customers are always inquiring into ways they can save time and money in this economy,” said Tami Stodghill, Press Relations Manager with XChange International. “They are seeking products to automate and streamline their workflows and desire an immediate return on their investment. The award-winning FlightCheck Professional, as well as the ID2Q and Q2ID conversion tools, fit that bill and they can rest assured their investments will produce savings from the first use. XChange International and Markzware are committed to offering users the most for their money during these difficult financial times.”

FlightCheck(R) Professional 6 is the prepress application used to manage quality control for printing. This solution provides both native file and PDF preflight checking and is backed by a United States patent. It was created for printers, service bureaus, advertising agencies, graphic studios and publishers as a complete prepress and design quality assurance tool. Easy-to-use, affordable and detailed in it’s reporting, FlightCheck is for just about anyone who works with digital arts files for print.

FlightCheck helps create excellent PDF files for brochures, advertisements, manuals, and virtually any printed document. It provides complete quality control saving printers and publishers time and money by avoiding re-printing jobs. FlightCheck addresses the top-ten prepress problems: missing fonts, incorrect traps, incorrectly specified colours, scans made in the wrong mode, improper page settings, unlinked graphics, inadequate bleeds, lack of a laser proof, missing graphics and image resolution. Using a simple drag-and-drop interface, FlightCheck Professional scans a wide variety of file types, including InDesign, QuarkXPress, Portable Document Formats (PDF), PageMaker, Illustrator, Photoshop, FreeHand, CorelDRAW and many more.

FlightCheck inspects a document using hundreds of available checks. It warns the operator about any potential problems that may reside in a digital file, including font and graphic incompatibilities. This application verifies critical file elements, such as colour space and resolution, assuring validity. After verification, FlightCheck Professional generates a detailed report, indicating whether the file has passed or failed the preflight tests and spells out specific problems that must be addressed to ensure that the file will travel onto the next stage of production without error or delay.

Q2ID (QuarkXPress to Adobe(R) InDesign) is a plug-in for converting documents from QuarkXPress(R) to InDesign(R) format. The plug-in is designed for use by Service Bureaus, Translation Services, Data Conversion Specialists, and other users migrating to the Adobe InDesign platform. The product can convert Quark documents created with either the Microsoft(R) Windows(R) or Apple(R) Macintosh(R) versions of QuarkXPress into Adobe InDesign for Macintosh format. The repurposed legacy content from Quark files preserves the content, pages, layers, look and feel of the original document.

Intricate details of the content within the QuarkXPress document are instantly re-created within InDesign. Items converted from Quark format include: page positioning, colour models, fonts and styles, images, and text attributes as well as tables, layers, blends, runarounds, linked text boxes and anchored boxes, PANTONE(R) colours and other colour models. The Q2ID document conversion technology saves countless hours of scanning, re-keying and formatting. This product will convert and transform files created from QuarkXPress on either the Microsoft Windows or Apple Macintosh OS, into an Adobe InDesign file which then can be opened on both platforms.

ID2Q (InDesign to QuarkXPress) offers a quick and easy way to convert InDesign files into QuarkXPress documents. All elements of the InDesign document, including object positions, colours, text, text attributes, images, etc. are converted in a single operation. ID2Q7 allows you to select several conversion options and convert your files in a few easy steps. ID2Q7 also converts cross-platform files, converting Windows InDesign files to Macintosh QuarkXPress documents.

After installing ID2Q7, users simply select the Convert InDesign Files item from the Utility menu to open an InDesign document. Once open, users are presented with a dialogue that includes several options for controlling the document’s conversion. For text, users can choose to import InDesign style sheets, convert styled text to plain text, or remove all text. For pictures/graphics, users can convert with/without previews, or can choose to exclude the pictures and convert only the picture boxes. Hidden layers and objects that are on the pasteboard may be optionally converted as well.

ID2Q or Q2ID with a FREE FlightCheck Professional 6 for Macintosh are available now through XChange International via electronic delivery worldwide. To order, or for more information, users can visit the website, or call on +44(0)20 7490 4455 during UK business hours.

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XChange are a leading supplier of desktop graphic and publishing applications, QuarkXTension(R) technology; Adobe InDesign(R), Acrobat(R) and Photoshop(R) Plug-ins(R) and other design and publishing utilities. XChange offer extended technology products from across the world specific to the graphic design, print and publishing industries and make them available to an extensive user base via their printed catalogue or online at their web site. The company are headquartered in Central London and also offer specialist training on many of the solutions they sell.

Seminole, Florida – Blue Room Software today announces the release of BurnToDisc 2, an upgrade to their Aperture Export Plug-In for CD and DVD burning. BurnToDisc gives photographers greater flexibility and control over disc naming and population. Disc names are generated from user-defined and project-specific metadata, such as disc number, image number, export date and project name.

New to this release are a number of customer-requested features:
* Images can be exported in multiple formats in the same export session
* Images can be scaled to multiple sizes in the same export session
* Image file names can be taken from the Aperture Library, or augmented from export session metadata
* The placement of images on disc can be in any user-defined folder hierarchy
* Folder names can be static or constructed from metadata
* To allow for varying workflow scenarios, any number of named export configurations can be saved, and then later recalled for use

Minimum System Requirements:
* MacOS X 10.4 Tiger or later
* PowerPC G4, G5 or Intel Macintosh
* Aperture 1.5 or later

Recommended System:
* MacOS X 10.5 Leopard
* Aperture 2.0 or later

Pricing and Availability:
BurnToDisc 2 is available for purchase for $49.95 (USD). Existing BurnToDisc 1.x customers can upgrade to version 2.0 for only $19.98 by using the coupon code B2D2UPGRADE at the Blue Room Software Store. A free, fully-functional 15 day trial is available for download.

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Blue Room Software is a privately held software company based in Seminole, Florida, founded in 2008 by Clarence Locke. Blue Room Software current product line consists of tools for both amateur and professional photographers using Apple iPhoto and Aperture photo management software. Copyright 2008-2009 Blue Room Software. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, Aperture and iPhoto are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Montreal, Canada – Indev Software releases Mail Act-On 2.0.3 and introduces delayed read flagging. Mail Act-On 2.0.3 is a maintenance release that resolves numerous issues, including several stability and reliability issues with outbox rules, compatibility with Safari 4 beta, and responsiveness when invoking Act-On Rules and accessing menus.

Mail Act-On 2.0.3 also introduces three new issues to make management of email even more efficient. Delay read flagging lets you preview a message for a time period before the message is marked as read. The spacebar in Act-On 2.0.3 becomes more powerful, allowing you to mark a message as read immediately and allowing you to advance to the next unread message (rather than the default next message). Mail Act-On 2.0.3 also introduces compatibility with Olive Toast’s software, MiniMail. MiniMail minimizes the message viewer to a small window that focuses on new messages. This version of Act-On lets you apply rules and other Act-On features on the current message being displayed in the MiniMail window.

Complete List of Changes to Mail Act-On 2.0.3

New feature: Delay of Mark as Read and Spacebar message selection.
* Added preference setting to mark message as read after a delay.
* Added preference setting to mark message as read immediately with space bar
* Added preference setting to use spacebar to advance to next unread message (rather than next message)

New feature: Support for Olive Toast Software’s MiniMail
* Act-on rules and menus can be invoked when the message window is a MiniMail window.

Resolved issues:
* Fixed possible crash at startup.
* Fixed possible crash when applying a outbox rule containing a reply or forward action.
* Fixed issue where undo of act-on may have resulted in lost message.
* Fixed issues of outbox rules not applying or applying incorrectly when mail is offline.
* Fixed compability issue with Safari Beta 4 where Act-On keys would not register if keyboard focus -was preview or single message viewer.
* Act-on menu items now work with displayed in a single message viewer.
* Fixed issue were modifier keys were not allowed for use with trigger keys in menu preferences.
* MailTags Panel will now update immediately after applying Act-On rule that results in tag changes.
* Fixed appearance of To Inbox/To Outbox buttons in Rule Preferences.
* Fixed issue of menu being moved to a second (no longer attached) screen.
* Optimized construction of Mailbox menus.
* Fixed issue with entering extended trial keys.

Availability:
Mail Act-On 2.0.3 is free for all registered Mail Act-On 2 users.

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Indev Software is the leading developer of enhancements for Apple’s Mail Application. It’s two flagship products have revolutionized how people organize their email on their Macs. Copyright 2009 Indev Software. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, and Apple “Mail” are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Corby, UK – Today Mac Bundle Box announced their fourth bundle promotion containing 13 incredible applications that Mac users will love. With a total value of nearly $350 for only $49, Mac Bundle Box promises to be one of the most amazing software events this year. Running for 11 days starting the 1st of March this incredible deal containing 13 applications includes:

Relationship (39.00) – Manage your contacts and information with ease and style.

Code Collector (25.00) – Collects snippets of code in one location, like iTunes for code.

DrawIt (40.00) – Vector image editing and drawing application.

Espionage (24.95) – One click file and folder protection for your Mac.

Cover Stream (20.00) – Browse, Search, See. Your music in a simple intuitive window.

DEVONnote (24.95) – Keeps your thoughts in one safe location and helps you organize them.

QuickScale (20.00) – Scale, edit, send and convert pictures.

Project Calculator (19.99) – Time tracking and project management in a single application.

Transcriva (29.99) – Transcribing made easy, with audio playback and much more.

Magnet (39.99) – The easiest way to customize your movies and share them with your friends.

Involer (20.00) – Super simple digital invoicing for you and your Mac.

Stuf (20.00) – Collect pictures and snippets in this little app, for use later.

Blog Assist (9.95) – Add often used code to your blog post with a single click.

This time, we’re giving something back, and thats why 5% of every sale will be donated to the charity, ‘Charity: Water’. Charity: Water aims to bring clean, fresh drinking water to the 1.1 billion people on earth that don’t have it.

Pricing and Availability:
The Mac Bundle Box is available to purchase today for $49 (USD). For $49 (USD) you will get all 13 applications and we will donate $2.50 (USD) to Charity: Water.

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Mac Bundle Box was founded by Christian Owens in early 2008. Mac Bundle Box aims to provide the best Mac applications on the market at the lowest possible prices. Christian Owens has much experience in the web and application industries, working with popular social networks and other web professionals such as Chris Pirillo.