The iStudio Blog

Many thanks to iStudio Publisher user Daniel who contacted us recently about Font Squirrel, a great place to get high-quality, commercial-use fonts, most of which are free :)

We've added this to a growing list of links on our Downloads page, which will take you to some excellent page layout related resources. It's worth a quick look every now and again!

Printing iStudio Publisher documents on your home or office printer may be just what you need, but for larger numbers, larger paper sizes or better print quality you may want to send your iStudio Publisher exported PDF files to a printing service. The question is which one?

Printaholic.com is a great resource to help you to choose. We first became aware of Printaholic.com when they contacted us recently with news that our babysitting service template design has been included in their selection of 15 Cool Babysitting Flyers.

Printaholic.com also invited us to write an article How To: Make a Flyer in iStudio Publisher.

Our thanks to Printaholic.com!

Thanks to our friends at MacPhun for collaborating in a cross-promotion. We sent out a newsletter promoting a free copy of their excellent Snapheal photo editing app and they distributed an iStudio Publisher newsletter to their community.

This is a win-win situation for users of both products. The iStudio community benefits from MacPhun's generous offer and their users are introduced to iStudio Publisher.

Collaborations work best when there's synergy. Photo editing apps are certainly vital to the document design workflow for many iStudio Publisher users. We'll be careful to only participate in future cross-promos that we judge to be relevant and attractive to the majority of our community.

Please note that we take user privacy very seriously and never ever pass user information to third parties, including cross-promotion collaborators.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

We'd like to take this opportunity to say a huge "Thank You" to all of our users for their invaluable contributions and suggestions over the past year.

We'll continue to provide our regular support service throughout the holiday period, although responses may be a little less prompt than usual.

Here's looking forward to the exciting features and improvements we have planned for 2013.

Our very best wishes to you all!
Andy, Chris and Ian.

Today we've released the Website Download Edition of iStudio Publisher 1.1.9.

Existing users can get this by simply launching iStudio Publisher and accepting the invitation to update, which should appear automatically.

Users of the App Store Edition will have to wait until Apple have completed their review process and released it on the App Store.

This is our first update since taking over, and is comprised of housekeeping items and stability improvements. It's great to get things moving again - expect more updates soon.

Here's the small print:

New:  App Sandbox implemented (App Store Edition).
New:  Developer ID implemented (Website Download Edition).
Improved:  Auto Save behavior.
Improved:  If no documents are open, clicking Dock icon now shows Task Chooser.
Improved:  Stack dumps resymbolized to enable Crash Reporter.
Improved:  Licensing menu availability (Website Download Edition).
Fixed:  Gradient color fill a grouped shape.
Fixed:  Drag in PDF content.
Fixed:  Resume behavior.
Fixed:  Device color issue.
Fixed:  Custom page size name field.
Fixed:  Stroke or fill rendering of a shadowed shape.
Fixed:  License copying by Migration Assistant (Website Download Edition).

For some time iStudio Publisher's web presence has been split across multiple sites. We have just finished streamlining this and combining all of the functionality into one site - this one!

So, this site is now the place to go on the web for all things relating to iStudio Publisher, such as videos, templates, purchasing directly from us, and support. And of course, you can purchase the app from the Mac App Store if you prefer.

This is just the first step, and there are a lot more things to come.

We hope you like it.
Chris, Ian and Andy

We're very excited to announce that we've recently taken over the development of iStudio Publisher in its entirety. As the original designers, developers and support team for the app, we've been intimately involved with iStudio Publisher from the outset.

We're now set to move iStudio Publisher forwards with a series of updates starting very soon.

Chris, Ian and Andy.