iCalamus

iCalamus is a desktop publishing solution that allows you to create documents with text, photos, and other visual elements. Some demonstration videos are available.

The unregistered version of iCalamus already offers a cool feature: You can create professional photo books and calendars like in the full version and order high-quality prints at the Photographerbook company. The Photographerbook document service in iCalamus even supports iPhoto calendars (and iPhoto books coming soon) which can be printed at Photographerbook at a lower price.

iCalamus has been developed completely new for Apple's operating system. iCalamus is an excellent choice for all layout purposes from simple posters and business letters over complex layouted magazines up to books and scientific works. Complete Unicode support and the smart PDF import offer easy access to creating and layout work. The reasoned user interface with its low learning curve guarantees for fast success. iCalamus doesn't limit your layout freedom by offering prepared layouts. Its practical tools offer all options for your own creative and productive layout work.

iCalamus is a modular program which will grow in future by external modules, even from third-party developers. Therefore invers Software will create an Open Development Area (ODA) and publish the plug-in interface. iCalamus has been developed in Objective C with intensive usage of Apple's Cocoa library.

You can import all image and text formats which are supported by Mac OS X into iCalamus documents. Images from digital cameras scanners or iPhoto libraries can be imported as well as whole Web page content and PDF documents. Grab text content from large PDF documents easily for further text processing. Elaborated masking options and many predefined, partly dynamically changeable frame shapes offer freedom for creativity. Working in precise measurement units is the other side of the iCalamus world. Use virtual copies for multiple document elements and change them afterwards with a few mouse clicks.

Print output uses all printers which are supported by OS X. Optionally output documents in various PDF formats (e.g., PDF-X, encrypted PDF, PDF Fax).

Note: This is the last version which supports OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.

Color Inspector

• New: Context menu for color list.
• Fix: [767]: The Gradients dialog didn't show all GUI elements in the Gradient bar when opened for the first time.
• Fix: Fixed emphasis marker editing of gradients.

Content Inspector

• New: Basic image filtering support (Exposure, Saturation, Enhance).

Text Ruler Inspector

• New: [227], [328]: Text Rulers support keyboard shortcuts.
• New: Context menu for text ruler list.

Text Style Inspector

• New: [227], [328]: Text Styles support keyboard shortcuts.
• New: Context menu for text style list.
• Fix: The function Create and Apply Text Styles from Text no longer hangs on imported RTF texts.

GUI

• New: [701]: The Navigation bar shows total number of pages in document, too.
• New: Editing image masks has become more handy. Discover the new function Edit Mask.
• New: Update Preferences: New checkbox Check for beta versions, too.
• (Not available in the Mac App Store version.)
• New: iCalamus informs about free update versions, beta versions (optional) and paid upgrade versions.
• (Not available in the Mac App Store version.)
• New: Document Inspector: Context menu for master page list.
• New: Numbering Inspector: Context menu for numbering styles list.
• New: Document Information has been changed from a modal dialog into an independent window.
• Fix: [524]: Deleting pages no longer lets pages disappear in the document window and Page inspector view.
• Fix: [754]: New added tabulators in text rulers are recognized again.
• Fix: [765]: PhotoGrapherBook documents store a proper preview thumbnail of the cover page again.
• Fix: [766]: Inspector windows sizes are reset to useful sizes when opened.
• Fix: Text Ruler elements in active text frames can be grabbed correctly again with the mouse pointer.
• Due to missing localization support we have removed the Polish localization temporarily.
• Tiny adjustments.

Manual

• The chapter Objects menu has a new subchapter Edit Mask.
• The chapter Enter Full Screen has been enhanced for new Yosemite full screen handling.
• The chapter Save gives more information about the Autosave options by OS X.

Other Bugfixes

• Fix: [528]: Text content flows around stroked outlines and lines.
• Fix: [665]: Fixed a crash when grouping/ungrouping text frames that are part of a text pipe.
• Fix: [705]: Inspector windows placed outside of an iCalamus document window no longer disappear when e.g. the Text inspector pane receives a mouse-click.
• Fix: [745]: Text frame shadows have been corrected.
• Fix: [750]: Duplicating guides no longer causes frozen documents.
• Other bugs fixed.