In preparation for Christmas, the Cerilica web site has received some useful updates aimed at both existing and potential customers. Some new resources have been uploaded for Vantage users including a native file copy of the new great looking Cerilica pamphlet.
Cerilica is also due to attend the last RISC OS [4] show of the year held in the Midlands. Thanks go, once more, to the ARM Club for organising this event.
As this is likely to be the last news letter before Christmas and the New Year (although individual product announcements are likely), may we wish you all the very best for the festive season and we hope the coming year will be a successful one for you all!
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Cerilica to attend the Midlands Show
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Cerilica will be attending the forthcoming RISC OS [5] Midlands Show organised by the ARM Club held on Saturday, 1st December 2001. This friendly event will be held in the National Motorcycle Museum as per previous years, being an ideal location next to the NEC with connections via road, rail, bus and air.
Cerilica will naturally be exhibiting Cerilica Vantage, RiScript 4, the Cerilica Publishing Pack, Batch EPS and the forthcoming Cerilica Insignia which is already causing a large amount of interest. We shall also be carrying a small stock of the EFF Professional Font CD 2s which are available to Cerilica Vantage customers at the specially reduced price of 98.50ukp (inclusive).
Cerilica will have full credit card facilities at the show along with a good batch of products ready for customers to take back with them!
Avoid paying package and postage by buying the latest Cerilica RISC OS software product at the event.
Please visit the show web page for full details...
Midlands Show Site [6]
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Introducing Cerilica Insignia
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This new product for Cerilica's extending line-up branches out further into the world of web design whilst remaining useful to traditional designers and publishers.
Creating banner and title graphics can be a relatively lengthy and time consuming process when all you want is a stylish and swish graphic. Cerilica Insignia is designed to make this task painless and easy for all users from those who do not have the time to learn complex graphics packages to those who just want an effect quickly and simply. With a click of a few buttons, it is possible to create high quality titles that can be placed directly into any web page or used in print.
Standard effects provided include texturing, highlights, text profiles, realistic drop shadows, variable text effects (print halftones, blurs, ripples, etc.) and AfterEffects (such as lens flares). All resultant graphics may be output as PNGs, Sprites (both with deep alpha channel option) and JPEGs.
Cerilica Insignia is set to be available December 2001 (following some useful user interface and speed improvements) and will be competitively priced at 39.00ukp (inclusive) and available from Cerilica direct or its overseas dealers.
For a sneak preview of what Insignia is capable of, please click on
the following link...
Insignia Samples [7]
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TRUISM 2 full documentation uploaded
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Cerilica is rightfully proud of its key technology - TRUISM 2 - which offers unrivalled realtime arbitrary ink simulation at an astonishingly low price.
Now this cutting-edge mature development has got the full web page section is rightfully deserves on the Cerilica website. To learn more about the system which is already deeply embedded into Cerilica Vantage, follow this link...
Truism Details [8]
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Get the latest Cerilica pamphlet on-line
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The latest Cerilica product and developments pamphlet is a testament to both Cerilica Vantage and the TRUISM 2 technology at the heart of it. Being fully designed and published using Cerilica Vantage with the help of RiScript and a development version of Insignia, the impressive A3 format result shows just what RISC OS is still very much capable of.
For those potential customers who have missed the pamphlet (which has just been included in the latest Archive and is due to be sent out in the immediate issues of Acorn Publisher, RISC World and Foundation RISC User), it is possible to view the pamphlet on-line, download the Vantage Drawfile or request a copy to be sent in the post.
Click on the following link to visit the pamphlet web page...
Flyer [9]
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New example Vantage images
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The latest 'Striding Man' example Vantage image as featured in the latest Cerilica material is now available for downloading from the examples web page at...
Example Vantage Images [10]
This example document will be the feature of the next on-line Vantage tutorial revealing the methods of creating many of the significant components. This tutorial will coincide with the article due to be publishing in the forthcoming Acorn Publisher (vol.8 iss.2) which discussing the publishing aspect of taking this image and incorporating it into the pamphlet.
A second recently uploaded example image is by Andrew Green, professional designer and proprietor of Article Seven. The style is quite different to previous images and shows the range of capabilities to be found in Vantage.
