It was ported to Windows when the original Atari version ran into competition with its Windows NT successor. Calamus was one of the early starters in desktop publishing.Ĭalamus SL was first true color version of Calamus and was launched in 1991. It supported black & white only in those days, but users created high professional documents on a computer with only 1MB of RAM and and an 8MHz processor. When other systems did not even know about vector fonts or print resolutions of 2.540 ppp, Calamus had it all already. MacGeneration: Could you explain exactly what is Calamus SL ?ĭunkel: Calamus has been a very famous publisher for the Atari ST/TT series since 1987. Users should feel comfortable with iCalamus at first glance - and they do.

We want to offer the iCalamus users as much freedom as possible to publish their ideas. But we aren't too excited about their ready-to-go layout philosophy. Apple themselves placed Pages while we were still busy with our app. We at invers Software wanted to place the first native publisher on Mac OS X which was written entirely in Objective-C using Cocoa. We're at the very beginning of a very interesting story now. If someone uses ID, it's much more possible that he/she would try iCalamus (at no risk for 99 EUR). Most of those who have used XPress for more than 10 years haven't switched to ID, why would they now? Users start comparing iCalamus with InDesign and XPress, but I really wonder if ID and XPress users would switch. MacGeneration: Are you worried about the competition? It seems there are more and more small DTP software products.ĭunkel: Of course there are, and there have been many competitors before. We started work in November 2003 and were done with version 1.0 now on September 29, 2006, after almost three years. iCalamus 'trusts' Mac OS X completely and avoids using its own routines for this and that. Calamus SL did everything on its own, not 'trusting' any operating system. We named it iCalamus, as it should invert the philosophy of Calamus. When we saw the very powerful Cocoa function library which is offered by Mac OS X (as well as the professional development tools), we then decided to start right from the ground up with a new publisher for Mac OS X.

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Or import your photo books and calendars from iPhoto or Aperture. Want to order printed photo books and calendars online? Not a problem - create them first in iCalamus. Print output supports all printers, and iCalamus can optionally output documents in various PDF formats (e.g.

Images from digital cameras, scanners or iPhoto libraries can be imported, as well as complete web pages. Easily grab text content from large PDF documents for further text processing. ICalamus can import all image and text formats which are supported by macOS. Users may build virtual copies for multiple document elements and change them afterwards with just a few mouse clicks. Out of the box, iCalamus offers flexible masking options with many predefined, dynamically changeable frame shapes. Working with precise measurement units is a breeze. iCalamus is the multi-lingual, frame-oriented desktop publishing solution for macOS.

ICalamus offers an easy approach to DTP, and is an excellent choice for creating simple posters to complex magazines, scientific works and for book publishing.

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