Icalamus

iCalamus is a software of page layout or CAM for Mac OS X. It makes it possible to create all kinds of documents simply. Thanks to its intuitive user interface, the page layout of documents, including most complex, is a play of child.

Functions

Contents:

Chargement of all the formats of image dealt with by Mac OS X.
Chargement of all the formats text taken charges with it by Mac OS X.
direct Importation with images digitized starting from a scanner.
direct Importation of images starting from a numerical camera.
Dealt with of all the font faces usable under Mac OS X.
Loading of the contents of an address URL (URL or access path).
Screen printing of a page Internet in a block (in the form of image).
Block without type = the contents characterizes the type of block.
Block and object of vectorial form is identical (the blocks of forms can be published in the form of vectorial objects).
the shape of the blocks can be used to truncate.
All the contents (text, images, graphs) can be left with a level opacity given.

Exit:

Left printing
Left with format pdf
Exchange via the system the Clipboard
Dealt with Slipping/Depositing
Marks of impression in the zones of cutting: marks of cutting/realignment, parameter setting of the color and levels of gray, line of information.

Support:

Modular system
unlimited Number of cancellations and re-establishments
Zoom up to 10 000%
Unicode
Dealt with of the orthographical corrector integrated into Mac OS X
Grid of adjustable document
possible Definition of reference mark of page and columns
Seen multiple (in one or more windows, updates in real-time!)
Workspaces personnalisables (Inspectors, visibilities, positions, sizes) which can be safeguarded and reloaded
Of information specific to the document can be recorded for Spotlight.

Tools:

Outil of selection (selection of the blocks or the “nails of seizure”, displacement)
vectorial Outil of edition
Outil of rotation
Outil text (Text editor)
Outil image for a simplified importation of framework image
Outil of free vectorial layouts (draws vectorial forms)
Outil Tallies (creation of block without type)
Outil of form line
Outil Hand (displacements)
Outil Magnifying glass (zoom)

Pages:

Sélection of the page layout view doubles/Single-sided page.
Addition of pages (with optional taking into account of pages of existing page layouts).
Removal of pages.
Displacement of pages of page layouts (reorganization).
Assignment of main pages in the pages of page layout.
Managements of the main pages with indicators.

Copies:

unlimited Number of copies for the current documents and models.
the copies can be added, moved and removed.
the copies can be made visible/invisible.
the copies can be protected by locking.
Managements of the copies with indicators. The location of the elements is carried out with the color associated with the copy.

Blocks:

Various contours of block (being able to be nouveau riches by plug-ins).
Différentes forms from line
Différents types of end from line (being able to be put on the scale independently)
the corners can be in Miters/Arrondis/Biseautés.
the rotation of the objects can be defined
contour can be made visible/invisible.
the width of contour can be defined.
the contour of the forms can optionnellement be used to truncate the contents.
Of many vectorial forms can be adjusted (as for example the number of branches of a star)
Of the color gradations can be associated with the block or its contents individually.
the angle of the color gradation can be adjusted (for the form and the contents separately).
the shade can be defined with a transparency, a ray of clearness and a variation compared to the object.
the blocks can be named.

Management of the blocks:

Grouping of blocks and deblocking of groups of blocks.
the grouped blocks are subelements of the groups of blocks, as an image is under element of a block.
All the subelements of a block are accessible in “opening” the block (transparent edition).
the points of seizure of the blocks and the vectors can be selected at the same time (you can thus treat them simultaneously).
the selected reference marks can be moved with other selected blocks or points of seizure at the same time.
Activation of magnetism on various reference marks (guide of grid, guides page guides “normal” columns, reference marks).
the blocks can be moved forwards or the back in the hierarchy of the copies of the block.

Colors:

Dealt with of the colors modes: Gradation RVB/CMJN
colors with an unlimited number of colors.
of the colors.
Suppression of colors.

Styles of text:

the styles of text can be named and managed with indicators of colors.
adjustable Parameters: police forces, size of the police forces, spacing, fill color.
Other parameters: underlined, barred, contour, shade (with adjustable color for each one of them), exponent and index.

Rules of text:

the rules of text can be named and managed with indicators of colors.
adjustable Parameters: horizontal justification, withdrawal 1st line, line space, left and right withdrawal, spacing before and after the paragraphs, height of fixed line or variable.
Tabulation: left, right-hand side, centered, decimal.
Each rule can have a style of text (style of paragraph).

Inspectors:

contextual Inspecteur according to the contents of the blocks
Inspecteur of orientation taking charges with it dimensions X/Y/L/H, rotation, symmetry, the scaling, the cut and a protection of the orientation
Inspecteur of block making it possible to parameterize contours, the forms and the shades
Inspecteur of alignment (dealt with of the distribution and alignment)
Inspecteur of preparing of text
Inspecteur of colors for contours, the fillings, the shades and the text
Inspecteur of text for a creative work without style
Inspecteur of style of text
Inspecteur of rule of text
Inspector of page
Inspector of copy
Inspector of navigation (seen miniature of the current sight)
Inspector of classification (the format of the numbers of page is free)

See too

Adobe InDesign
Adobe PageMaker
Microsoft Publisher
Scribus, free software
QuarkXPress

External bond

Page in French of iCalamus

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