Electronic Ink - Creators of Xtras for Adobe Director

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Electronic Ink is a software studio devoted to creating finely crafted small software products. The company is among the foremost developers of Xtras for Adobe Director, and has been a part of the Director development community as creators of XObjects, Xtras, and complete CD-ROM productions since 1990.

You can view our list of Xtras for download and purchase on our products page:

PrintOMatic 1.8 Beta 5 for Mac and Windows
Posted June 2, 2008

The latest builds of PrintOMatic and PrintOMatic Lite include a complete UTF16 Unicode text engine on both Mac and Windows. This should enable the Xtras to print characters from any language, including Asian scripts, with a minimum of fuss.

Earlier betas of the Mac version were still based on MBCS, and had issues with non-Roman scripts, which should all be resolved now. As a bonus, Unicode support on Mac has resulted in a much better looking print preview, with more faithful, accurate, and anti-aliased text rendering.

We hope this will be the last beta release before we call the 1.8 builds "final" and package the complete release bundles, as well as creating Shockwave packages. Because of this, please report any bugs you find promptly.

Like the other version 1.8 betas, you will need an upgraded serial number or a newly purchased serial number to work with this release.

Download PrintOMatic MX 1.8b5 for Windows
Download PrintOMatic MX 1.8b5 for Mac OS X

Download PrintOMatic Lite MX 1.8b5 for Windows
Download PrintOMatic Lite MX 1.8b5 for Mac OS X

Categories

Adobe Director (9)
Beta (3)
Director 11 (4)
Mac OS X (5)
Printing (3)
PrintOMatic (7)
PrintOMatic Lite (4)
Upgrade (2)
Windows (3)
Xtras (7)

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LS wrote:

10/13/2009 12:19 PM

Cross Platform Mac/PC Projector with Director 11.5 and 11

Since I don't think I'm alone, I thought I'd share.

I'm finally successful at creating cross platform complies with printomatic in 11.5 and 11.

On the mac (to get a pc version) you have to add the printomatic file as a dependent file.

On the pc (to get a mac version) you need to manually create the Xtras folder with printomatic inside the projector (actually a folder).

Neither of these are necessary to create a projector on the native platform (e.g. pc on pc).

husam saoudi wrote:

5/13/2009 11:47 AM

The upgrade page does not take my 1.7 serial. Could you explain what is your cut off date or version to qualify for an upgrade. If it's time based then I won't buy a new serial until I really need the xtra to save up on time for the next upgrade.

Aougu wrote:

4/23/2009 12:09 AM

Can printomatic mx 1.8b5 support Director 11.5

amith wrote:

4/21/2009 7:35 PM

Does PrintOMatic 1.8 can support Direcot 11.5?

Web Site: http://www.aougu.com

Juan C. wrote:

3/10/2009 12:55 PM

I can not upgrade my printomatic because your upgrade page does not work. Please give me a solution, if I need to buy again the licence please let me know.

uno wrote:

3/10/2009 11:37 AM

I can't upgrade my printomatic

Veronique wrote:

3/9/2009 3:12 PM

Hello,

I am trying to do the upgrade to Printomatic lite 1.8 but when I enter my printomatic lite version 1.7.5, to generate the upgraded license key, it gives me an error message. It is rgent and important for me to solve this problem. Please help.

Thank you,
Veronique

Asif wrote:

2/2/2009 8:42 PM

Any progress on 1.8? when the final will be released?

ks32 wrote:

1/27/2009 1:18 AM

any release date for final PrintoMatic 1.8 for Director 11?

Prothero wrote:

1/15/2009 10:08 AM

I don't see a way to use the POM beta in a shockwave package. Is there a package that I can try?

Lon Koenig wrote:

9/11/2008 12:21 PM

Any chance that the shockwave packages are going to be soon? June was a long time ago.

If you're accepting money for the upgrade, you really can't call it beta. I got into a bad situation today, where I got a D11 conversion all finished. Went to test the Shockwave versions and no printing...

Leslie Beaumont wrote:

6/13/2008 3:14 AM

Hi, I have go the new srial number but when I try and use printomatic I get the script error "set doc = new (xtra "PrintOMatic") This also happens with the demo movie. I don't get the alert "The PrintOMatic Xtra is not installed. Printing is disabled." Any ideas?

Web Site: http://leslie@bee2.com

The Only Printing Xtras for Director 11?
Posted May 21, 2008

Ok, sure, PrintOMatic and PrintOMatic Lite for Director 11 are still in beta form, not final releases yet. But the fact is, you can download, use, and even publish with them right now using Director 11.

So as far as we know, that makes PrintOMatic the only cross-platform printing solution that's currently available for -- and built for -- Director 11. Sure, that's going to change soon: other folks are working on updating their Xtras too.

But if you need to print from Director 11 right away, go ahead and download our betas and use them. From all reports we've heard the betas are pretty solid and reliable.

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Angry Customer wrote:

11/6/2009 1:32 PM

why does nobody answer or return phone calls or Emails reguarding upgrading printomatic..or if upgrading printomatic will fix problems with the NEW windows 7 system? we have a product that has relied on printomatic for years and now of course we are having printing problems with Winblows system 7, Saying not enough memory when I know 6gb of ram should not have any problem printing. we want to know if upgrading printomatic will fix this problem, we would love to pay you for the upgrade but no one SADLY will return our emails or phone calls.. Please get it together or at least tell your users that Printomatic is an unreliable product, but considering your lack of customer support....I guess that is exactly what you are telling your customers..

Donna wrote:

7/22/2009 10:10 AM

we have a number of interactives that were developed with Director MX2004 -- they successfully used the printomatic lite xtra for years -- but now these same programs are getting a FILE NOT FOUND error. The old url the legacy version been removed from your server? Had the location path changed?

For some reason,the printing function seems to still work for PC users, but the mac users get file not found after an unsuccessful download attempt. We really would like to fix this ...I understand why you don't want to release the 'new' version prematurely, but surely there's a way to not break the old, installed versions while we wait.

Should we remove printomatic and just assume you are no longer providing legacy support ? I'd hate to eliminate the PC print function just because the mac link is not working properly.

Is there a way to fix this ? Please advise...

Randy wrote:

5/19/2009 11:27 AM

Are you guys still around...I've been sending emails for a while, and nobody has responded yet?

Juan C. wrote:

3/10/2009 12:53 PM

I can not upgrade my printomatic because your upgrade page does not work. Please give me a solution, if I need to buy again the licence please let me know.

Electronic Ink Support wrote:

6/1/2008 1:58 PM

No auto-downloading Shockwave packages for the new version just yet. I don't want the general public unknowingly downloading and using beta versions until we've thoroughly tested them.

John B wrote:

5/31/2008 3:59 PM

When you say publish with them right now, does that mean the plug-in can be automatically downloaded when used in Shockwave? I understood this was not yet possible with the beta.

PrintOMatic 1.8 Beta 3 for Windows
Posted May 20, 2008

PrintOMatic and PrintOMatic Lite MX are now available in Unicode beta builds that are compatible with Director 11 for Windows. Unlike the old releases (which can only handle low-order ASCII text in D11), this version fully supports special and extended characters and international text, including Asian scripts (or at least the Chinese text we've tested).

Like the other version 1.8 betas, you will need an upgraded serial number or a newly purchased serial number to work with this release.

Download PrintOMatic MX 1.8b3 for Windows
Download PrintOMatic Lite MX 1.8b3 for Windows

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The Only Printing Xtras for Director 11?Posted May 21, 2008

PrintOMatic 1.8 Beta 3 for WindowsPosted May 20, 2008

PrintOMatic 1.8 Beta 5 for Mac and Windows
Posted June 2, 2008

The Only Printing Xtras for Director 11?
Posted May 21, 2008

PrintOMatic 1.8 Beta 3 for Windows
Posted May 20, 2008