Octavo for Mac v1.2 Professional Proofing and Composition Tool Activation Download

#### What can Octavo do?
Simply drag in PDFs or images to get a complete prepress workflow:
– **Create booklet**s: Automatically calculate the order for double-sided printing, add fold lines and staple positioning marks, output a printable imposition file.
– **Organize PDF originals**: Supports rotation, flip, straighten, perspective correction, and crop, all through a canvas visual editor.
– **Fine-tune margins**: Precisely position content to avoid cropping during binding, supports multiple zoom modes for page-by-page fine-tuning.

#### Imposition Styles
– **Perfect binding booklet**: Classic folded-and-stapled booklet style.
– **Multi-fold pamphlet**: Suitable for thick books, splitting pages into multiple foldlets, binding together.
– **Spiral/Tab binding**: Provides hole positioning, binding edges, and specific margin settings for spiral-bound documents.
– **Tri-fold brochure**: Supports C-fold and Z-fold layouts, suitable for brochures and manuals.
– **Single-sided output**: Single-sided or double-sided printing, supports full content positioning.
– **Business cards and labels**: Grid layout, customizable rows, columns, and spacing.
– **8-page mini magazine**: Single sheet folding into an 8-page booklet, ideal for fanzines or creative projects.
– **Accordion magazine**: Single sheet folding into accordion-style pages.

#### PDF Layout and Margins
– **Drag control points to set top, bottom, inner, and outer margins**.
– Supports page/global adaptive zoom, or manual setting of zoom ratios.
– Aligns content to page edges or corners for cross-page layouts.
– Supports independent page settings, allowing linking or unlinking pages for individual adjustments.
– Supports bleed settings for content beyond the margin.
– Supports preview modes for reading across pages or for full-size imposition sheets.

#### Markers and Page Numbers
– **Fold lines, staple positioning lines, crop marks, crop lines**.
– **Spiral binding hole positioning lines**.
– Customizable marker thickness, color, and style.
– **Page numbers**: Supports Arabic, Roman, or letter sequences, with custom fonts, colors, and background shapes.
– **Skip cover and blank pages**, or exclude specific pages.
– **Customize page numbers** to include or exclude prefixes and suffixes.

#### Media and Paper Management
– Create named media types, set paper sizes, weights, and paper types.
– Assign printers and paper trays to each media type.
– Specify media for single pages, such as thick cardstock for covers and thin paper for interiors.
– Automatically insert blank pages to ensure media alignment.

#### Printing and Exporting
– **Export PDFs**: Can output reading previews or complete imposition files.
– **Direct printing**: Supports selecting printers and paper trays for each job.
– **Automatic duplex printing**: Detects and enables duplex printing.
– **Manual duplex workflow**: Provides a manual duplex printing option for printers without automatic duplex.
– **Full support for printer-specific features**.

#### Built for Mac
– **Undo/redo support**: Complete support for local document saving, no cloud integration.
– **Drag-and-drop page reordering**, supports importing PDFs and images.
– **Dark mode compatibility**.
– **Liquid Glass display optimization**, for a refined and aesthetically pleasing interface.

Version 1.2 Updates:

### New Features
– **New “File -> Export PDF” command**.
– **New multi-fold pamphlet tagging feature**.
– **Supports opening Octavo templates in Finder**.

### Bug Fixes
– **Fixed template selector issues**, including double-clicking, silent opening failures, and missing crop marks.
– **Fixed printer issues**, such as ignoring paper sizes, paper types, print quality, black-and-white modes, print counts, and duplex settings.
– **Fixed issues with switching printers**.
– **Fixed issues with cover pages and imposition guides not applying to selected paper trays and media types**.
– **Fixed issues with the print panel**, including saving and restoring settings, and ensuring that changes are saved.
– **Fixed issues with manual duplex printing**.
– **Fixed issues with out-of-order printing and specific paper range printing**.
– **Fixed issues with missing crop boxes in exported PDFs**.
– **Fixed issues with staple marks, fold marks, and center marks misaligned in multi-fold or multi-region scenarios, and issues with multi-fold layouts not considering spine edges**.
– **Fixed issues with page numbers not updating correctly in preview**.
– **Fixed issues with page numbers not updating correctly in preview**.
– **Fixed issues with the “Skip Inner Cover” feature**.
– **Fixed issues with page number color printing discrepancies**.
– **Fixed issues with multi-fold and multi-page layouts not considering spine edges**.
– **Fixed issues with tri-fold back pages not mirrored correctly**.
– **Fixed issues with six-fold booklets in “First Fold, Then Cut” layout**.
– **Fixed issues with right-to-left reading of 8-page booklet pages**.
– **Fixed issues with horizontal business cards misaligned and incorrect crop handles**.
– **Fixed issues with imposition style changes**.
– **Fixed issues with content printing to hole areas in spiral-bound documents**.
– **Fixed issues with rotated pages not aligning correctly with crop marks**.
– **Fixed issues with low-resolution page exports**.
– **Fixed issues with high-resolution images, horizontal photos, and deformed scans**.
– **Fixed issues with internal coordinate origin anomalies**.
– **Fixed issues with rotation, straightening, and filter editing affecting only the selected page**.
– **Fixed issues with previewing crop marks on the back page and missing page numbers**.
– **Fixed issues with previewing page numbers not matching the actual print output**.
– **Fixed issues with the “First Fold, Then Cut” layout in six-fold booklets**.
– **Fixed issues with horizontal business cards misaligned and incorrect crop handles**.
– **Fixed issues with incorrect crop marks in multi-fold layouts**.
– **Fixed issues with the “First Fold, Then Cut” layout in six-fold booklets**.
– **Fixed issues with the “First Fold, Then Cut” layout in six-fold booklets**.
– **Fixed issues with the “First Fold, Then Cut” layout in six-fold booklets**.
– **Fixed issues with the “First Fold, Then Cut” layout in six-fold booklets**.
– **Fixed issues with the “First Fold, Then Cut” layout in six-fold booklets**.

#### Functionality Improvements and Optimizations
– **Optimized the print dialog box**, removing conflicting options for zoom and paper settings.
– **Optimized crop control points**, now supporting enlarging business cards and labels.
– **Adjusted noise reduction, sharpening, and adaptive threshold effects**, ensuring print and preview colors match.
– **Optimized filter processing for exported pages**, improving color accuracy.
– **Optimized warnings for inconsistent media configurations**.
– **Optimized preview smoothness when dragging margins and corners**.
– **Optimized logic for opening higher version documents**, improving security and stability.

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