Work with a plotting assistant for Mac. Work with input files such as image pages from PG, TIF, GIF, EPS, PSD, etc. Process the imported visual content from the pasterboard. Arrange the objects according to your specifications and save the project for printing.
The goal of FitPlot is simple: place various PDFs (or other common graphic formats files such as JPG, TIF, GIF, EPS, PSD, image in the pasteboard) on a virtual plotter sheet; Arrange all objects in a WYSIWYG environment moving and rotating them; Print the so arranged plotter sheet and eventually save it for later printings.
I know this can be done with blazoned vectorial applications, but here we have a small program that can just do it--nothing less, nothing more.
If your needs are very simple, and only need to import single-page files for layout, you may want to try FitPlot Lite.
v4.2
- 64 bit architecture: The program is now 64 bit. This means that there is no more limit to the memory the program can use (as long as there is space available in RAM and in the hard disk). So there should be no more crashes or problems due to memory leak (when dealing with many images or big files). This prevent crashes but, of course, if you RAM is completely used and the program uses the disk space as virtual memory, you should note a slow down of the responsiveness because data access from hard disk is slower.
- Memory management improvement: Together with the 64 bit adoption, a lot of work have been done about memory consumption. You should note real speed up in multipage PDF's operations (such as imposition), images duplication etc..
- New packing / nesting algorithm: Based on the work "A Thousand Ways to Pack the Bin - A Practical Approach to Two-Dimensional Rectangle Bin Packing" by Jukka Jylaenki. This new algorithm combines the usual FitPlot simplicity with better results.
- Orientation menu tool: It now possible to rotate (selected) images in portrait, landscape or reset to original orientation. This may be useful, together with auto resize and packing, whenever you want to print a set of imported photos in a grid (2x2 or more images per page).
- UI improvements: The user experience should take advantage also in the adoption of determinate progress bars (whenever it has been possible) that makes long operations waiting no more uncertain.
- Sandbox ready:
- Bugs fixed: Fixed a bug when doing imposition with resized PDFs (other than 100%). Some minor bug fixed.
