


The controls for fitting an image to its container are obvious and include an option for tiling a smaller image to fill the container-an interesting design variation.Īn optional Mouse X-Hair (crosshair) displays a horizontal and vertical line at your mouse location, which is useful when creating new objects. This feature takes the guesswork out of sizing images and removes a common source of mistakes made by nonprofessionals. If you choose 300 dpi, for example, your image may immediately shrink or grow in size on the page-but whatever happens, it’s guaranteed to print properly on a press. For example, its image palette first lets you choose a resolution, and then resizes the image to match it. You can horizontally and vertically scale text, and adjust its letterspacing (tracking).ĭespite this being its first release cycle, iStudio Publisher has some clever features that Adobe and Quark would benefit from adopting. IStudio Publisher provides helpful tools for fitting an image to its container (iStudio’s name for a picture box), running text around an object, and applying a drop shadow to any object. You can fill an object with a custom color gradient and even adjust the opacity (transparency) of any object. Its Freeform Scribble tool and Bezier Curve tool let you draw any conceivable shape, and even run text along the resulting path.
