Year: 2007

Nisus releases the Nisus Writer Pro public beta

Nisus Software today announced the public beta release of Nisus Writer Pro, the latest member of the Nisus Software family. Building on the core of the highly successful Nisus Writer Express, Nisus Writer Pro brings new features such as Table of Contents, Cross References, Bookmarks, Text Wrap Around Images, Widow and Orphan Control, and Line Numbering. Classic Nisus Writer users will appreciate the addition of attribute sensitive Find and Replace, Glossaries and an upgraded Nisus Macro Language.

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MEI offers online demos for PAGE Co-op members

Managing Editor yesterday hosted a Webinar for members of the Publishers Associated to Gain Economy (PAGE) Cooperative. The program, titled “K4 Publishing System: Optimizing InDesign and InCopy for Cross-Media Workflows,” was designed to provide members of the PAGE Co-op with an online demonstration of SoftCare K4, the powerful and flexible editorial database workflow system that integrates Adobe InDesign and InCopy.

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Deals: BackTrack for 34% off today only

Today’s featured promo on MacUpdate offers BackTrack 3.6 for US$9.95 (34% off, retail $15). “BackTrack brings Mac users a new level of safety by logging all text (except passwords) that is typed onto all windows in all applications. The main advantage BackTrack has over other logging applications is BackTracks ability to log the window name that is in front while you are typing. BackTrack saves all its data to a SQLite database file.

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Compress Files for Mac OS X released

Apimac today released Compress Files 1.0, an easy-to-use tool for compress, archive, encrypt files and omit Mac-specific invisible files. The utility can create Zip compressed archives; TAR archives; Gzip compressed archives; Bzip2 compressed archives; compressed and encrypted disk images. In addition, Compress Files lets you specify if you want to omit Finder specific information (such as the .DS_Store files) and Mac specific file attributes (such as a resource fork) when creating Zip archives.

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