This year, ArtPro celebrates its 20th anniversary. Originally designed as an easy to use Mac-based software tool for cleaning up documents, ArtPro evolved over the years into a full-featured packaging preproduction solution. Today, ArtPro’s popularity is embodied by more than 15,000 loyal professionals that use ArtPro for their day to day tasks in prepress departments all over the world.
New in ArtPro 12
1. Thin Parts Detection and Fix Tool
Allows to search in a selection for areas where objects are thinner than a given minimum width. It works on all objects in the file (including live text) but traps will not be considered as thin parts.
|
2. White Underprint & Rich Black generation
|
3. Studio Multipart & Collada support
Support for multiple parts and 3D scenes in Studio
3D Guides
|
4. CombiPress support
Hybrid press is a printing process that combines two or more inline printing methods
|
5. Improved CAD integration
Import all layers from an MFG file, including
![]() |
6. Viewer Compare
View Modes:
![]() |
7. Link to Shapes
Online Shape Shop is incorporated
|
8. PantoneLIVE access
The project is a partnership of Pantone-xrite, Esko and Sun Chemical to deliver a digital color database in the cloud that is integrated with tools for designers, brand owners, prepress and printers.
|