Product

Brisque™ 4.0

Platform

• E30—Victory
• 43P–140—Tiger1
• 43P–150—Tiger2
• F50—Wildcat (2 and 4 CPUs)
• 44P–170—Hammerhead
• 6F1—Condor (2,4 and 6 CPUs)

Operating system

• Brisque: IBM^® AIX 4.2.1 or IBM AIX 4.3.3
• Macintosh^®: Mac OS^® 9 or Mac OS X

We are pleased to announce the release of Creo Flattener software version 1.0, which we plan to ship to customers around the middle of March 2003.

Creo Flattener is a Macintosh software application that flattens transparencies in PDF files for use with Brisque version 4.0. The software runs in both Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X and is supplied with a hardware dongle.

How can customers obtain Creo Flattener software?

• Creo Flattener software ships as part of the Brisque version 4.0 kit.
  Note:
  Order Brisque v4.0 kits (015-00114B) for your customers by coordinating with your relevant CSC PSMs.
• Customers with full-service contracts are entitled to receive the software free of charge.
• T & M customers will receive the software when they purchase the Brisque 4.0 upgrade package or when they upgrade their hardware with our trade-up program.
• Customers who purchased Brisque version 4.0 upgrades before the release of the Creo Flattener software application will receive Brisque version 4.0 full production kits.

For a detailed description of the software, refer to the Creo Flattener version 1.0 Application Note.

Transparencies in PDF files:

The following points provide you with information about transparencies in PDF files.

• Transparencies may be contained in PDF version 1.4 files that are saved by DTP applications.
• Transparencies are not created in PDF version 1.4 files when using the Normalizer or Distiller^® options.
• Transparencies are removed from files when they saved in PDF version 1.3 because the save action flattens the transparencies.
• Transparencies are removed from EPSF files when they are saved by Adobe Illustrator^® 9.0 or higher, because the save action flattens the transparencies.
• Transparencies are removed from PostScript^® files when the files are exported or printed by DTP applications. This action occurs because the transparency information contained in the file is flattened when the export or print commands are used.

See also

Creo Flattener version 1.0 Application Note

Technical contact(s)

Victor Bar-on

Submitted by

Eliza Leung

Date submitted

17 Feb 2003