Intaglio

Softpress are pleased to offer Purgatory Software’s excellent drawing application Intaglio as a companion product for Freeway. Normally priced at $89, registered Pro and Express users can get Intaglio for just $75.

This excellent artworking package utilizes the full capabilities of Quartz and CoreImage to produce some stunning effects, and Intaglio will even convert old drawings from ClarisDraw and MacDraw II/Pro to Quartz graphics so you can continue to use your old work. View the Intaglio Gallery, showing some examples of imagery created with this great application.

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Intaglio is traditional Mac drawing with the power of Mac OS X. Patterned after the original Macintosh drawing applications, Intaglio is intuitive to beginners and familiar to traditional Macintosh users. Intaglio builds on the 2D graphics, text, color, and scripting capabilities of Mac OS X to provide unprecedented power and flexibility in an inexpensive drawing program that is an ideal tool for beginners and experts alike.

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Because Intaglio is designed to work exclusively with Mac OS X, it’s able to take full advantage of the native graphics features that aren’t used by the large multi-platform graphics franchises. Intaglio is fast and lightweight because it builds on the foundation provided by the world’s best OS for graphics. Despite the low price, power users will find the standard tools necessary to create complex graphics plus a few surprises as well.

CoreImage Filters

Intaglio provides an exceptional interface to Apple’s CoreImage technology to easily produce resolution independent special effects that can be time consuming to create by more traditional methods. See our gallery for some examples.

Convert PDF, EPS, SVG, and PICT Files Into Editable Quartz Graphics

Intaglio will convert most files created by other applications into graphics you can edit.

Scale Drawings and Dimension Tool

Draw objects to scale and add dimension lines with arrows and automatic annotation.

Full AppleScript Support

All graphic operations within Intaglio are fully scriptable and recordable. You can easily perform repetitive tasks and integrate Intaglio into complex workflows.

Sophisticated Text Manipulation

Text can be included in any graphics operation provided by Quartz (e.g., outlines and masks). For more complex operations, text can be converted to a graphic path to allow any drawing manipulation.

Professional Quality Pen Tool

Edit bezier curves like a pro. Many other inexpensive illustration tools lack a refined tool for editing curves. For less experienced users, Intaglio also includes a basic curve/polygon tool.

Compound Paths and Path Combination Operations

Create compound paths with separate subpaths and combine paths with Unite, Intersect, Subtract and Exclude operations.

Calligraphy Style Stroke Brushes

Paths and text can be stroked with a variety of flat or round brush shapes.

Automatic and Manual Guides

You can add your own guides and grid or use the automatic “smart” guides to snap to existing objects.

Intaglio offers rich support for Mac OS X technologies.

AppleScript & Automator

If a particular function doesn’t do exactly what you need, you may be able create a custom function tailored to your exact requirements. Because Intaglio can record a script of anything you do, you don’t have to be an expert to create a script.

Apple Type Services

Intaglio supports the full capabilities of Apple Type Services to create dramatic text effects and get the most from your fonts. Intaglio is fully compliant with the international text standard unicode, allows direct input of characters from complex Asian alphabets, and supports vertical and right to left writing directions.

ColorSync

Intaglio uses ColorSync to calibrate all colors in graphics and maintains the color profiles embedded in bitmap graphic image files. Every drawing has a default color space and maintains ColorSync profiles for each color space used.

CoreImage

Special effects can be created using any combination of Intaglio graphics and CoreImage filters. Because Intaglio uses vector graphics, the elements used for effects continue to be editable after the effects are created.

Quartz

Intaglio provides access to virtually every function in the Quartz 2D graphics environment. This allows Intaglio to provide traditional drawing features plus many advanced features previously found only in expensive high-end graphics tools. Advanced graphics features include arbitrary 2D transformations like scaling and rotation, clipping, antialiasing, opacity, pattern and gradient fills, EPS and PDF import/export.

QuickDraw

Intaglio bridges the gap between Mac OS 9 and X by providing the ability to convert classic QuickDraw based pictures (i.e., vector PICT graphics) into modern Quartz based graphics. This means you can continue to use files created by traditional Macintosh drawing programs that don’t run natively on Mac OS X.

QuickTime & ImageIO

Intaglio uses QuickTime and ImageIO for importing and exporting bitmap images. This means Intaglio can import and/or export over a dozen image formats and will automatically support new formats as Mac OS X is updated.

Spotlight

Intaglio allows metadata to be added to individual documents and includes a Spotlight importer module to index this metadata as well as all text used in drawings.

Intaglio requires Mac OS X 10.2 (i.e., Jaguar) or later. Some features require 10.3 or 10.4.