New version of PitStop launched today at Ipex in London

[abc]

New PitStop version released today. PitStop 12 update 2. It's a free upgrade for anybody using version 12 or version 12.1.
More information on the link. What's new in PitStop 12 update 2?

 

[abc]

Movie of the new features on the following link for anyone interested.

New features in PitStop 12 update 2 - YouTube

 

[mattbeals]

Yay! Big like! But we all know that I'm a long time fan.

 

[Glenn McDowall]

Used the Flatten form data to content Action list today, worked perfectly.

Went to try and set custom quick key commands but only A-Z available, any reason I can't use 1-9? was hoping to set hide selection and show all same as Illy

 

[abc]

Will check with the team tomorrow Glenn, my understanding is we basically get told which range of shortcuts we can use, but I will clarify.

 

[Stephen Marsh]

Andrew, I am thinking that adding Kerning to the font/text editing would be a major benefit when performing text replacement.

Looking forward to seeing this in a future version of PitStop.


Stephen Marsh

 

[abc]

Thanks Stephen I will add it to the list. I think that's a new one, not sure anyone has requested that before.

 

[Stephen Marsh]

Thanks Stephen I will add it to the list. I think that's a new one, not sure anyone has requested that before.

It may not be a big ticket item, obviously you are not being inundated with this feature request! Typography is a lost art these days, however when one has to edit text using PitStop, it is nice to have features as found in authoring software. This is really obvious when adjust say a phone number with say 1X etc, the space between the 1 and the X digit can be really open. InDesign offers two kerning/letter pair spacing engines, optical and thousands of an em. Often optical will help, however sometimes one just has to get in there and manually tighten or loosen the space.

I may as well go the whole hog and ask for tracking, kerning, horizontal and vertical scaling and baseline shift as well!

I’ll do you a favour and hold off until advanced text features are added, before I ask for character and paragraph styles…


Stephen Marsh

 

[abc]

Hi Stephan, I started life as a typesetter/compositor. I used to hand set type at College. I understand.

 

[Stephen Marsh]

Hi Andrew, ah another comp! I used to have to explain that I could not write music. It is amazing how many people I have run into over the years who have said the magic phrase “I used to be a compositor” :]


Stephen Marsh