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4 steps : create, select, setup and cut

Step 1 : Create

Both versions offer a large panel of Adobe Illustrator™ most recent versions offer a large panel of dreamfull features to signmakers, screenprinters and professionnals of the visual communication.

NCS MagiSign extends those features by offering to control sign cutting plotters directly from Adobe Illustrator 8.0 until Adobe Illustrator 10 on Mac OS 9 and from Adobe Illustrator 10 to Adobe Illustrator CS on Mac OS 10.2 and 10.3.

Sure, without NCS MagiSign, you could reproduce your designs using a sign cutting plotter through a bridge software or by importing .ai or .eps files in a dedicated sign software. This supposes copy/paste or export/import processes and thus results in loss of time, multiplications of the files and frequent loss of informations as of quality.

Thanks to Adobe Illustrator™ open architecture, NCS MagiSign does not suffer of those limits. It appears to you as a palette at the heart of your graphic software, just as any Adobe original features. Using NCS MagiSign, the creation of signs will than no more differs of what you would do for any common job using Adobe Illustrator. All the features of this major design software are at your fingertip at any time.

NCS MagiSign doesn't require you to learn any other software than Adobe Illustrator™. And thanks again to Adobe philosophy, learn one of their software and you will be able to learn any other of the range of Adobe products effortless. At less cost than a common dedicated sign software. For more features than you
could ever dream.

Step 2 : Select

NCS MagiSign appears in Adobe Illustrator as a common palette of this software. You can show it or hide it from the window menu, tab it within any other palette group (for example, with the Navigator), reduce its size or expand it by doubble-clic on its title bar, etc

One click on the small arrows on the left of subtitles let you discover informations about the selection and the workable area of your plotter. Select any path or group of path of your choice, edit the selected items, NCS MagiSign adaptes its values on the fly.

Need to work with a multiple color project ? Select one item of a specific color and apply "Edit->Select->Same Fill Color". All the items using the same color will be selected and thus considered as the current project by NCS MagiSign. Deselect one path : it will be placed outside the project. Powerful, isn't it ?

Step 3 : Setup

NCS MagiSign divides plotting jobs in 6 process :

- The Project manager

- The Tile manager

- The Job manager

- The Session manager

- The Plotter manager

Each one purposes default values and is customizable. The two first are enabled at any time during the creation process. The 3 others appears whenyou click on the "Send" button.

To keep display space, any manager can be reduced to a single or expand to its common size by one click on the green arrow on the left of its title.

 

Step 4 : Cut

When the values of your choice are defined in each manager, you just have to click on the "Plot" button to see your plotter moving and producing your signs.

As far as the job is done, you will be back in Adobe Illustrator, in the same window as you was previously, ready to prepare an other job : all has been done by NCS MagiSign in the Adobe environment and memory ! No export or export was done to a third application, no other rules to learn to manage the files : you are inside the Adobe world from the first to the latest moment. And you will save you file in Adobe Illustrator, not elsewhere in a third party format.

Want to keep time by plotting in background or from a remote computer ? Take a look at NCS MagiSign Server. Just export the Plot files from NCS MagiSign to the dedicated Hot folder and you will be able to use an olde computer as slave to drive one or more plotters on the same network.

NCS MagiSign is not a new sign software, but the second generation of a collection of plug-ins for Adobe Illustrator dedicated to signmaking. It is currently the unique and best solution for all of us who want to produce signs and commonly create our projects within Adobe Illustrator.

Interested to go further ? Download at your convenience our demo version. This demo allows you to reproduce 15 paths on your sign cutting plotter.

We keep at your disposal for any further information about our products. You are welcome to contact us. And sure, don't hesitate and order without delay your personal licence of NCS MagiSign from our nearest dealer or distributor.