Year: 2009

XChange International (http://www.xchangeuk.com) has announced
Enfocus PDF?Standardizer 1.0. PDF Standardizer is an all-in-one PDF
and color preflight and standardization tool designed for graphic
professionals who want control of their PDF files.

PDF Standardizer offers a way to create PDFs that comply to PDF
standards such as ISO 15930-1 PDF/X1-a and Ghent PDF Workgroup (GWG)
specifications, as well as to color standards such as ISO 12647.

Corel Corp. has introduced Corel Painter 11, the newest edition of
the painting and illustration software that’s compatible with Mac OS
X 10.4 and higher. The upgrade sports more than 40 new and enhanced
features.

There are new pressure-sensitive brushes, enhanced drawing tools and
customizable media. Painter 11 offers artists the ability to enhance
their creativity through the freedom to create and customize brushes
and media variants to their precise specifications, according to Rob
MacDonald, product manager for Corel Painter.

SanDisk Corp. (http://www.sandisk.com) has shipped the latest
editions of its SanDisk ImageMate memory card readers, which are
faster, smaller and sleeker than their predecessors, and featurw
upgraded software applications.

Navicat for MySQL (http://www.navicat.com), a graphical tool for
managing, monitoring, and developing your MySQL database, has been
updated to version 8, which includes some new features such
as exporting from MySQL to Excel file, supporting of ODBC Import,
Code Completion in all SQL Editor, Partitioning feature of MySQL 5.1
and more.

Navicat for MySQL can synchronize databases, import/export and back
up data.

Speck (http://www.speckproducts.com) has released new colors for its
expanding line of SeeThru hard shell cases for the MacBook line:
bright “hazard orange,” along with purple, aqua and green. The new
colors, available today for the 13-inch and 15-inch aluminum unibody
MacBook and MacBook Pro, join the already available pink, red and
clear offerings from Speck.

Specifically designed for the new line of MacBooks, the translucent
SeeThru hard shell case snuggly fits the unibody aluminum notebooks.