Friday, August 28, 2009

Krasbit Layouter

Krasbit Layouter box


Krasbit Layouter is a pack of VBA macros which help with working with shapes and bitmaps, supports the process of making layout and prepress for advanced multipaged publications. It is written in Visual Basic for Applications and intended to run in VBA environment for CorelDRAW® application of Corel® corporation.


The author of Krasbit Layouter is: Jarosław Kraska


Krasbit Layouter in current state is freeware. That means that you can use it legally and without any charge under the provisions of this license.


The minimum requirements:



  • CorelDRAW®, version: X3 (SP2), with installed VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) environment;


    CorelDRAW® X4 users should download and install the latest Service Pack (SP2 - 14.0.0.701) for CorelDRAW, due to some of VBA instability (mainly storing custom data in objects) issues in CorelDRAW X4 (v. 14.0.0.567) which affects working of some of Krasbit Layouter macros.

  • Microsoft Windows® based operating system;

  • Microsoft Internet Explorer® web browser installed, version 7.0 or newer. (Krasbit Layouter VBA includes reference to "Microsoft Internet Controls" component)


icons of macros


The chosen features:



  • Project content optimization / prepress;

  • Quick export all project pages to JPG files with just one click;

  • Objects swapping based on chosen selection or range of pages;

  • Copying and pasting the chosen set of properties (eg. width, positionY, fill, effects...) from some objects to the others in a chosen selection or page range;

  • Tools for automatically finding and optionally grouping objects of the specified type;

  • Advanced import functions;

  • Tools for resolving and restoring links of bitmaps at any time;

  • Advanced bitmap & links manager;

  • Fixing of all broken links by specifying a new prefix;

  • Working with text - automatic line breaking before specified chars;

  • Functions for smart grouping, ungrouping, copying and pasting;

  • Working with pages and templates;

  • ESO ( Export Slice Objects) - to export only the chosen and marked objects from the project;


Read more about program features.


Download


You can download latest version of Krasbit Layouter from here.


Documentation


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