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“EPSViewer Pro – Postscript and PDF Converter” is updated to version 4.0.6

-Review notes-

Add notes, sticky notes, callouts and freehand marks straight onto the artwork
Notes resize themselves to fit what you type, or drag a corner to size them yourself
Everything is saved automatically and is still there when you reopen the file — your original is never modified
Export with Include notes: in a PDF they stay live, so whoever receives it can read and reply in Preview or Acrobat

-Compare revisions-

Open two versions of a job and see what changed
Side by side, overlay, or changes only
Also compares fonts, spot colours, page count and declared size — the changes a pixel comparison cannot show

-See what a file is made of-

A new Objects tab in the inspector lists every mark on the page — fills, strokes, text, images and gradients — in the order they were drawn, with size and ink
Select an object to outline it on the page, or click the page to find it in the list
Hide any object, or isolate one to see what sits underneath. The page is genuinely redrawn without it, not covered over
Export with hidden objects left out — a PDF export stays vector

-Copy artwork out-

Select any objects and copy them straight to the clipboard, cropped to what you picked
Pastes into Illustrator, Affinity or InDesign as editable vector, and into Mail or Keynote as an image
No more opening a design application just to pull one logo out of an EPS

-Better colour and measurement-

The eyedropper now also reports what an object declares, alongside what it renders — so a black that was built in RGB is obvious
Measuring snaps to object corners and edges. Hold Option for a free position

-New check: stray geometry-

Flags artwork extending far beyond the page — a stray point or a clip region left at its default size. It never shows on screen, but it distorts the bounding box every layout application reads

-Tidier-

Tools and Prepress menus, instead of one long View menu
Eyedropper and Open buttons in the toolbar

-Also-

Pages and Notes are now tabs in one sidebar
Tools act on the front tab only

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“EPSViewer Pro – Postscript and PDF Converter” is updated to version 4.0.5

Color separations

• See the plates your job will actually print on. Every process and spot separation, rendered the way a RIP separates them, with per-plate ink coverage
• Spot colors appear as their own plates under their own names — a Pantone, an HKS or a varnish is shown as the extra plate it really is, not folded into CMYK
• Toggle plates on and off, isolate any single plate, and view in colour or greyscale
• Spot inks are shown in their measured colour rather than a generic swatch

Colour eyedropper

• Sample any point for CMYK, RGB and hex, with a colour swatch
• Values are read from a true CMYK rendering, so the ink percentages are the ones that will print — not a guess reverse-engineered from screen pixels
• Point, 3 × 3 or 5 × 5 averaging
• Click to lock a reading and ⌘C to copy the values

Font and image audit

• Fonts are checked against what the file actually carries, not what a conversion produced. A file naming a font it doesn’t embed is now caught, where previously the conversion’s own substitute made it look correct
• Embedded, subset, standard or missing status for every font
• Effective image resolution — a 300 dpi photo placed at 200% is a 150 dpi photo, and that’s the number reported

More checks

• PDF/X advisory checks — output intent, printing condition, ICC profile, colour spaces and transparency
• Rich black detection — flags artwork whose blacks separate onto all four plates, which usually means it was built in RGB
• Spot colors declared but not measured are now cross-checked and reported

Now works for PDF and Illustrator files too

• Ink coverage, total ink coverage, artwork checks and document information now apply to PDF and AI, not just PostScript
• PDF artwork is checked against its trim box, and artwork extending past trim is correctly reported as bleed rather than as clipping
• Every check is made per page, so pages of differing size are each judged on their own terms

Faster

Tools now act on the front tab only, instead of every open document

Documents open substantially faster. Analysis now runs for the page you’re looking at instead of every page at once — on a long document that’s a fraction of the previous work

Artwork checking can be switched off entirely in Settings for very heavy files

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“EPSViewer Pro – Postscript and PDF Converter” is updated to version 4.0.4

Prepress tools

Rulers — millimetres, centimetres, inches or points, with a live cursor position. Click the corner box to switch units, or press ⌘R to show and hide them
Measure tool — drag anywhere on the page for distance, width × height, and angle. Hold Shift to constrain to horizontal, vertical or 45°
Bleed and trim overlay — PDF files show the trim and bleed boxes they declare; EPS and PostScript show where your chosen bleed would fall, clearly labelled so the two are never confused

Finder integration

Thumbnails for EPS and PostScript throughout macOS — Finder, Quick Look, Spotlight and Open dialogs. macOS ships no EPS thumbnailer, so these files have always shown a blank icon until now

Page browsing

Rebuilt page sidebar — pages keep their true proportions instead of being squeezed into a fixed box, each labelled with its paper size
Per-page ink indicators — see at a glance which printing plates each page uses, and which pages exceed the ink limit
Pages render as you scroll rather than all at once, so long documents open immediately

Settings

New Settings window (⌘,) for ruler defaults, bleed amount, the total ink limit, and whether documents open in tabs or separate windows
Documents now open in tabs by default

Fixes

Files opened from Finder by double-click or “Open With” no longer hang on a spinner
Multi-page PostScript files are now measured across every page rather than only the first

Update Page: EPSViewer Pro.

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