Jan Tielens, SharePoint MVP, SharePoint Platform guru and member of our Belgiam on- and off-line community, is
on the OfficeZealot.com pod cast. During this 1 hour
pod cast Chris Kunicki and Jan discuss SharePoint technologies,
the SmartPart for SharePoint,
SharePoint code access security,
Workflow Lite for SharePoint, the
CAML Builder and some other must-have SharePoint developer tools.
The August 2005 CTP of Acrylic is now available for download.
"Acrylic" (code name) is the professional design program that brings together the richness of pixel-based painting and the performance of editable vector graphics for a more fluid and flexible creative workflow. Create sophisticated designs and graphic elements for your on-screen, web, and print projects.
Besides a lot of bug fixes, performance and stability improvements the The August 2005 CTP has a number of great new features like:
- Support for Alpha Transparency in Clipboard: when copying and pasting either vector or pixel images to the clipboard, Acrylic now includes an alpha channel that can be correctly pasted into Microsoft® Office products, greatly simplifying the insertion of semi-transparent elements into PowerPoint and other Microsoft Office applications.
- XAML export: both vector and raster elements can now be exported to the XAML mark-up language used by Windows Vistatm's underlying Windows Presentation Foundation.
- Pixel Painting Performance: many optimizations to the pixel painting toolset greatly improve performance when working on pixel based images.
- Document specifications for new documents: when creating documents a new dialog allows document settings to be defined, including selecting the default layer as either a vector or pixel layer.
- Document Resizing: document settings can now be changed for existing documents, including dimensions and DPI resolution.
- New Content: A variety of new strokes, bushes, gradients, patterns, and image fills have been added.
- Style List presets: the Style List now includes presets for creating effects, color correction, and graphical treatments.
- Improved UI layout: numerous changes have been made to the palette layout mechanism to correct various usability issues reported by users.
- View Info Display: A new display provides dimension, pixel co-ordinate, and color setting feedback while working directly on the document canvas.
- Vertical ToolBox: a preference has been added to select a vertical orientation of the toolbox, in addition to the default horizontal layout.
Find below some good resources on Acrylic: