Personalisation Software Increases Design Freedom

Positive Focus is now delivering the latest versions of XMPie's Personaleffect personalisation software suite.

Positive Focus is now delivering the latest versions of XMPie's Personaleffect personalisation software suite.

Version 3 of the software, which includes improvements announced at Ipex and On Demand, is immediately available to new users, whilst upgrades for existing users will follow shortly.

The desktop, print-only product range, Udirect, is also upgraded to version 3 and it includes automation of the X-Dot technology that allows semi-transparent objects in InDesign to print correctly in a VI print stream.

Previously the foreground object with the shadow needed to be grouped with a background object, a process that is now completely automated, so that shadows and other transparency features behave in print as they do on screen said Positive Focus.

Uimage, the add-in image personalisation tool, is upgraded to version 2 and now works with Illustrator templates, as well as the original Photoshop ones.

With multiple layer capability in a single template, the opportunity to use both graphics and text items, and automated actions to individualise the rendering on each layer, more freedom is handed to designers, added the company.

That is said to allow them to create highly personalised images with subtlety, using familiar tools in standard desktop software packages.

The web-to-print and cross-media capabilities of the XMPie products, including Ustore (which also moves to version 2) have been enhanced.

Ustore, a web-to-print portal ready configured for implementation, now has a plug-in architecture, which initially provides links to product pricing and specification and list provider systems.

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