Since last week’s releases a number of customers have encountered the issue of persistent “About” windows appearing for some Astute Graphics plugin when attempting to use the tools. The following reliable cure is recommended: quit Illustrator and reset your Illustrator preferences. Details of this may be found here: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/illustrator/cs/using/WS714a382cdf7d304e7e07d0100196cbc5f-630ca.html We would recommend that you do [...]

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Get faster and smarter with Rasterino — “the ultimate embedded image solution for Adobe Illustrator” Yes, it’s only been just over three months since we brought you WidthScribe and just two months since our ColliderScribe launch, but here we are again with yet another cool tool! Ever get frustrated with embedded images in Illustrator? Do [...]

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Due to popular demand, the advanced pre-press functions previously the reserve of Phantasm CS Publisher v2 can now be found in InkQuest — a new plugin for Adobe Illustrator. As part of our product changes, InkQuest now brings essential professional functions such as Swap Channels, Ink Coverage Preview and Full Separations to a wider audience [...]

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Astute Graphics’ longest-established plugin has just been updated to version 3.0 and renamed from Phantasm CS to simply Phantasm. You can read about our announcement of the product line-up changes here but what changes are to be found in Phantasm v3? Phantasm now concentrates purely on the color adjustment tools including Brightness/Contrast, Curves, Hue/Saturation and [...]

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What’s happening? As you’ll have noticed the number of products we’re bringing out to you is rapidly increasing. We’re fully committed to continually developing innovative tools that are intuitive to use and that streamline your workflow. Did you know there are now over 100 functions in our products? All designed to help you work faster [...]

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With the announcement of the product line-up changes at Astute Graphics, the following information is to help existing VectorScribe Designer / Studio customers with licenses up to Illustrator CS6 with their future upgrade options. When you are ready to upgrade, click here to start the process. You may also request a reminder of your existing [...]

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With the announcement of the product line-up changes at Astute Graphics, the following information is to help existing VectorScribe Designer / Studio customers with licenses up to Illustrator CS5 with their future upgrade options. When you are ready to upgrade, click here to start the process. You may also request a reminder of your existing [...]

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With the announcement of the product line-up changes at Astute Graphics, the following information is to help existing Phantasm CS Designer / Studio / Publisher customers with licenses up to Illustrator CS6 with their future upgrade options. When you are ready to upgrade, click here to start the process. You may also request a reminder [...]

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With the announcement of the product line-up changes at Astute Graphics, the following information is to help existing Phantasm CS Designer / Studio / Publisher customers with licenses up to Illustrator CS5 with their future upgrade options. When you are ready to upgrade, click here to start the process. You may also request a reminder [...]

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DrawScribe has been separated into two individual plug-ins: DynamicSketch: sketch naturally in vector InkScribe: draw precisely and accurately in vector These plug-ins have been separated to enable customers to acquire specific tools tailored to their needs at a more affordable cost. What about my DrawScribe license? Both the DynamicSketch and InkScribe plug-ins are available to [...]

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