GLUON® Inc., a leading provider of productivity enhancement for the graphic arts and publishing industries, has released StudioPack ID for Adobe® InDesign® CS4, a set of mission-critical utilities for professional designers and studios.
StudioPack ID previously contained three of GLUON’s flagship products, Slugger ID, Cropster ID and ProScale ID and they have added Greeker ID.
Greeker was first invented by GLUON as a QuarkXPress XTension in the early 1990s for ad agencies to temporarily obscure live copy so designs could be shown to clients without them focusing on the textual content. Greeker ID provides some important advantages over the more traditional “Lorem Ipsum” text that is used for this purpose. For one, because live copy is used, it spares designers the need to create separate designs to show clients so that the editorial process and the design process are on track together. Also, Greeker preserves all capitals and exact word and paragraph lengths of the live copy so the design fidelity with the finished product is higher.
Newer, improved versions of Slugger, ProScale and Cropster round out this comprehensive set of tools, which save the user 40% over individual purchase. Slugger has been the industry standard for automatic updating slugs. GLUON also includes a Universal Slug Designer so users can share slug settings between applications. Cropster makes the creation of complex mechanical layouts as easy as possible, including folds, dimension arrows and more. Finally, when it comes time to resize a design, no tool has been used more than ProScale. in the nineties, GLUON pioneered “IntelliScale” technology which allows single or multi-page documents to be resized non-proportionally without distorting text or graphics, often saving many hours of work.
“StudioPack ID represents some of our best ideas and certainly offers one of our best values for the price. ” says Peter McClard, founder of GLUON. “The criteria for a plug-in to get included in StudioPack is that it must be used day in and day out as an integral part of the workflow. There is no fluff in there. That’s why we call them mission-critical utilities because ‘plug-ins’ don’t do them justice,” Mr. McClard says.
This article was last modified on January 3, 2022
This article was first published on February 4, 2009
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