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Two new formats –

XPS and OpenXPS open like any other document — paths, text, gradients, images and clipping, with the embedded fonts read directly. Everything else follows: separations, ink coverage, preflight, the object tree, RIP export

Object inspector –

Select anything on the page and see what it is: type, position, size in points and millimetres, declared ink, and the transform applied to it

For text, the actual typeface, its size, and whether it is embedded

Shift-click to select several; the inspector reports what they have in common

Continuous scrolling –

Pages now run on from one to the next, with the sidebar following as you scroll

One page at a time remains available in Settings ▸ General for examining a single page closely

Fixed –

Objects drawn under a transform were listed in the wrong place on the page, and some could not be selected at all. Embedded images were missing from the object list entirely

Text selections covered a word or two rather than the whole block

Comparison now follows the page you are viewing, zooms with the toolbar, and says why when a file cannot be read

Hiding objects works in PDF files, not only PostScript, and is instant regardless of document size

Update Page: EPSViewer Pro.

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RIP export

Rasterise a document the way a platesetter will image it — separated 1-bit plates, 8-bit greyscale, or composite CMYK, at up to 3600 dpi
Output size is estimated before you commit, so a 2400 dpi composite is a choice rather than a surprise

Halftone magnifier

Click anywhere on the page to see the actual dots at plate resolution
View all plates together or one at a time, with ink coverage for each
Needs no export first — the file on screen is enough

Imposition

Saddle-stitch booklets and n-up sheets, with the page pairing worked out for you
Add other files to the booklet — the open document stays first
A diagram shows how each sheet is laid out, where the fold falls, and which pages sit where

Export presets

Outlined PDF — every character becomes a path, so nothing can be substituted anywhere downstream
Press-ready, Proof, and PDF/X-1a with an embedded output intent

Printer’s marks

Crop marks, registration targets and an optional slug line
Previewed on the canvas before exporting, including the larger sheet they need

Review notes

Approved, Rejected, Revise and Seen stamps, and arrows you can re-point by dragging either end

Also

One tool active at a time — choosing a tool puts the last one away
Select is the default tool: click any object on the page to identify it
Tools and Prepress menus, and a toolbar grouped to match

Update Page: EPSViewer Pro.

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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

Update Page: EPSViewer Pro.

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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

Update Page: EPSViewer Pro.

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