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BeLight Software Birthday

BeLight Software, developer of Business Card Composer, Mail Factory, Swift Publisher and Image Tricks celebrated its 3rd birthday last week. The 40 million iPod user army has grown by 14 new members, as all BeLight Software team got iPod Nanos, as a birthday gift! See, how Ukrainian guys have fun in spite of all these boring “gas problems.”

Note:Did he say “gas problems”?

Poll results reveal what Mac users see as the big Mac news of 2005

BeLight Software and MacMinute announced the results of their poll on the most significant Mac-related event of the year 2005. According to the survey, 66% of Mac users consider Apple’s switch to Intel as the major event in Macintosh world. Although the opinions varied from complete denial of that move to trust and admiration, most voters have admitted that it was a paradigm shift in Apple’s strategy. The total number of votes casted by Macintosh-based users was 747.

The survey results are as follows:

  • Apple goes Intel – 66.8%

  • Ipod innovations – 14%
  • Tiger release – 6.4%
  • MacMini launch – 5.6%
  • XBox presentation with G5 Mac- 1.4%
  • Mighty Mouse presentation- 0.93%
  • Boston Expo Cancelation- 0.8%
  • Other event – 3.8%

Complete survey results and participants’ feedbacks are available here.

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Swift Publisher Updated to v1.1

BeLight Software has released Swift Publisher 1.1, an update to this slick OS X page layout application for designing and printing flyers, newsletters, brochures, etc. The version improves multipage document handling (for brochures and catalogs) and adds group selection. Swift Publisher 1.1 contains many enhancement and is available to current users for free.
“When Swift Publisher was developed, we thought it would be aimed at small and simple documents. Later we discovered that our users lack a tool to create multipage documents, so we’ve altered document storage technique,” says Stanislav Sedashov, BeLight Software CEO.

Option to select objects with the opportunity to resize and rotate them as a single item was added.

Adjustable export to PDF using Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) capabilities.

The structure of documents storage was changed, now images are kept in their original format. Therefore:
- work with multipage documents improved;
- problem with opening large documents solved.

Interface option to load large content (clipart, designs) from your computer or network was added. Now the program can be used within small networks without wasting disk space on duplicating files. Full list of changes
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