Boost Productivity
Boost ProductivityImproved editing tools on the desktop. DeskPack boostX is a collection ofplug-ins for Adobe® Illustrator® CS to improve packaging design productivity.
It is a portfolio of dedicated tools to accelerate frequently used selection and alignmentoperations, and to add new ways to handle spot colors and special inks beyond Adobe®Illustrator's® powerful capabilities.
Proven tools to enhance artwork, while making designers more productive:
- Area select: A faster and more efficient way to select objects, especially in a complex design.
- Select small objects: an easy way to clean a scan.
- Cross-hair: Quickly and accurately place and arrange objects. Position and rotate the cross-hair manually or numerically, and align objects to it.
- Trim Box and Media Box: More flexible method to define the output area of an Adobe® Illustrator¨ document.
Other boostX tools help redraw artwork and build ink palettes for package designs:
- Gradient tool: Change the directional vector of the gradient without having to completely redraw it.
- Ink list: An overview of all inks used in the job. You can quickly select all objects that contain a specific ink. Convert spot colors to CMYK or to a different spot color. The ink conversion is automatically applied to all objects containing that ink, without selecting any object.
- Ink mix: Assign more than one spot color to one object.
- Replace contour: Easily clean up designs and scanned artwork by replacing parts of objects with a newly drawn section. This simple and straightforward 2-click operation removes the tedious process of accurate "cutting", "abutting" and "joining".
- Ink merge/Ink split: Merge a stack of objects into one single object, inserting a mixed color setting, if required, from the ink mix tool. Split objects with multiple inks into a stack of overprinting objects - each with a single process color or spot color.