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Andrew's Vector Plug-ins Collection
The Plug-ins Collection includes all of the plug-ins from graphicxtras.com in a single collection for Illustrator 10, CS, CS2, CS3, and CS4, including zigzag, multitoolbox, gradient, mesh, pattern, contour, lattice, orbital, and vector wand plug-ins and more.
Andrew's Vector Plug-ins Volume 1 Creation
Creation contains duplication, round, and abstract plug-ins for Illustrator 10, CS, CS2, CS3, and CS4.
Andrew's Vector Plug-ins — Volume 2 ColorPath
The ColorPath plug-in set includes grid, spiral, frame/edge, color effects, and line effects plug-ins for Illustrator 10, CS, CS2, CS3, and CS4.
Andrew's Vector Plug-ins—Volume 3 Gradients
Gradients contains two powerful plug-ins for manipulating gradients and creating gradient textures, patterns, designs, and styles. It also includes aspect ratio and transparency with Illustrator CS4.
Andrew's Vector Plug-ins Volume 4 MultiToolbox
The Multitoolbox plug-in lets you manipulate paths, images, and symbols in hundreds of ways. It also includes a points manipulation toolbox plug-in and comes with circular features, paint features, a spiral option, duplication and grids, a drag paths feature, and more.
Andrew's Vector Plug-ins Volume 5 Zigzag
The Zigzag plug-in for borders and zigzag designs includes hundreds of designs for stunning effects and illustrations.
Andrew's Vector Plug-ins Volume 6 PerspectiveGrid
Use this perspective grid plug-in for 3D designs, grids, alignment, and 1pt and 2pt perspective.
Andrew's Vector Plug-ins Volume 7 VectorWand
With VectorWand, paint on effects such as scaling, color, rotation, translation, gradients, tints, swatches, opacity, points manipulation, and more via the toolbox; manipulate a single path, multiple paths, symbols, symbols text, or gradients; and more.
Andrew's Vector Plug-ins Volume 8 SymbolPaint
SymbolPaint is a painting plug-in toolbox that uses dabs, bristles, and more to paint symbols (images, text, pages of text, selected paths, meshes).
Andrew's Vector Plug-ins Volume 9 SymbolTexture
SymbolsTexture is a texture generation/pattern design plug-in using symbols that offers many different options for layers, animations, randomization, and distribution.
Andrew's Vector Plug-ins — Volume 10 SymbolsToolbox
The SymbolsToolbox manipulation plug-in includes spiral, grid, zoom, randomized, circular, and more designs.
Andrew's Vector Plug-ins — Volume 11 SymbolHeadline
This banner/headline plug-in offers many different options to create stunning designs from symbols in the symbols palette.
Andrew’s Vector Plug-ins Volume 12 Shape FX1 and warping
The ShapeFX1 plug-in set includes a shape creation plug-in for many shape designs plus a warping plug-in for extreme and basic warping of selected paths. Now the shape plug-in comes with additional path creation features in Illustrator CS4 for unusual and extreme path creation and designs.
Andrew's Vector Plug-ins Volume 13 Spiral
Create many different spiral designs, backgrounds, sketch effects, and more for Illustrator 10, CS, CS2, CS3, and CS4.
Andrew's Vector Plug-ins Volume 14 Star Cauldron
This star creation plug-in can be used to create thousands of different star and shape designs. The Illustrator CS4 version now comes with many different layout features for even more dramatic star effects.
Andrew's Vector Plug-ins Volume 15 Heart
Create thousands of unique heart designs for Valentine’s Day and romance. The Illustrator CS4 version comes with even more layout features.
Andrew's Vector Plug-ins — Volume 16 GradientMesh
Apply basic to extreme warping and color effects to a mesh as well as modify a warp mesh.
Andrew's Vector Plug-ins—Volume 17 PatternPrint
Manipulate pattern swatches and combine them to create graphic styles for use in fashions, tiling, and more.
Andrew's Vector Plug-ins—Volume 18 Contour
Use this contour/zoom/inset plug-in on selected paths and images and symbols for Illustrator 10, CS, CS2, CS3, and CS4.
Andrew's Vector Plug-ins — Volume 19 PointsEffects
The PointEffects plug-in set combines four plug-ins to manipulate path points including distortion and warping of paths and points, splitting of paths and sketch, points manipulation, and pie slicing for stunning zoom and manga effects.
Andrew's Vector Plug-ins—Volume 20 RandomTouch
The RandomTouch plug-in set for random particle effects in Illustrator combines five plug-ins including a background plug-in (using selected paths or symbols and more complex designs); a particle plug-in; a plug-in for random clutter of designs such as stars, circles, and ovals; and more.
Andrew's Vector Plug-ins — Volume 21 Layers
Use Layer plug-ins (transformations spread over multiple layers) for animations and more for Illustrator 10, CS, CS2, CS3, and CS4.
Andrew's Vector Plug-ins Volume 22 Starburst
Create starbursts, 3D stars, emboss stars, flower designs, and more for Illustrator 10, CS, CS2, CS3, and CS4. The Illustrator CS4 version comes with more layout features plus additional shape designs for stars.
Andrew's Vector Plug-ins — Volume 23 ZoomLines
Zoomlines lets you create zoom lines, focus line designs, and dramatic zoom effects in Illustrator — great for manga comics designs, illustrations, and more.
Andrew's Vector Plug-ins Volume 24 LatticeConnect
GXLatticeConnect is a lattice and grid designs plug-in that is packed with many stunning grid designs. Use on its own or with Illustrator 10, CS, CS2, CS3, or CS4.
Andrew's Vector Plug-ins Volume 25 GXRain
Create rain, orbit designs, particles, frame designs, and more using selected paths, images or symbols, or prebuilt designs.
ApliCraft — CADgate
Import industry-standard IGES files and export DXF, DWG, and Adobe Illustrator files. Specify the scale when importing data, allowing for the most appropriate placing possible and convert a spline curves into a Bézier curves.
Artlandia Collection
The Artlandia Collection is ideal for creating surface patterns, textile designs, endpapers, web page backgrounds, illustrations, and all other projects where repeated patterns are needed.
SymmetryWork
Instantly create live, interactive patterns, designs, and ornaments in seconds. you can create replicas of selected elements. This simple feature is really the workhorse of the new version and it will change the way you design your patterns.
Phantasm CS
Phantasm CS adds a full range of professional color adjustments and print/publishing controls tightly integrated within Adobe Illustrator (Macintosh and Windows®). Familiar controls for brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, levels, curves, and more are available as filters and live effects.
MAPublisher
MAPublisher is a powerful suite of plug-ins for Illustrator that bridges the gap between Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and high-end graphic design for the high-quality creation, high-resolution printing, and electronic publishing of maps.
BPT-Pro2
Turn Illustrator into a highly functional 2D CAD tool with the BPT-Pro2 plug-in. Easily display the dimensions of objects with free curved lines, and measure everything from a segment of an object, to the object itself, and even groups of objects.
CAD Compo
Plug-in bundle or 2D CAD drawing and DXF export combines BPT-Pro2 and EXDXF-Pro-2.
EXDXF-Pro2
Use the EXDXF-Pro2 plug-in to convert standard CAD DXF files to Illustrator files or to convert Illustrator files to DXF files for exporting.
DB Palette
Image database plug in. Share image files created in DB Palette within the network. Bundle images, including linked files, for printing.
Symbols for Illustrator
Code Zebra Symbols for Illustrator provides thousands of technical symbols in architecture, building services, landscaping, electrical, mechanical, fasteners, and general (people, vehicles, network, and so on.) categories. These meticulously crafted symbols conform to all applicable industry standards, and many libraries contain detailed isometric views of fasteners, mechanical and structural components, electrical connectors, and more.
FoldUP! 3D 1.1
Add prototyping features to Illustrator for modeling package designs and other dimensional projects with this third-party plug-in.
CFS HyperGraph
CFS HyperGraph is a print media graphing automation solution. CFS HyperGraph automatically lays out print-ready graphs for newspapers and magazines. CFS HyperGraph automatically captures current financial market data from sources such as AP, Bloomberg, and others; outputs ready-for-print graphs as EPS, PDF, or Illustrator documents; and places them into InDesign or CCI layouts.
FILTERiT
This third-party plug-in offers more than 82 stunning vector effects applied in real time at high speeds.
Xtream Path
Drag anywhere on a path and edit only the exact location you want with this third-party plug-in.
JPEG Publisher v6.0 for Illustrator
JPEG Publisher creates JPEG files each time an Illustrator file is saved in a target location. JPEG files are created, according to individual settings, for the entire file, layer or layer/sublayer combination. Then when the Illustrator file is edited in the target location, the JPEG files are also automatically updated.
EskoArtwork — DeskPack
DeskPack turns Illustrator into a full-fledged packaging application. Using EskoArtwork's pre-production knowledge, you can now boost productivity and reduce errors while working in your favorite design application. DeskPack consists of a set of modules that fits any prepress environment. From importing structural design files (CAD data) to creating repetitions of print-ready production files, DeskPack offers the best solution to get the job done.
EskoArtwork — Dynamic Barcodes
Generate dynamic barcodes with assured printability. Dynamic Barcodes contains a wide range of industry- standard barcodes with advanced features such as automatic box generation, bar width reduction, and output resolution –dependent scaling.
EskoArtwork — Preflight
Check your incoming files as early as possible to minimize the cost of errors or to validate your designs before you send them off to the printer. With Preflight for Illustrator, your file is verified against a personal profile and a validation report is generated. This interactive report guides your through the violations found against image types and resolutions, line widths, color spaces, minimum percent, font rules, and more.
EskoArtwork — BoostX
Boost X is a portfolio of dedicated tools to accelerates frequently used selection and alignment operations, and to add new ways to handle spot colors and special inks beyond the powerful capabilities of Illustrator.
EskoArtwork — Image Extractor
Embedded images in Illustrator files cannot be edited, making last-minute revisions impossible. With Image Extractor, you can convert embedded images into externally linked images, allowing you to edit them in Adobe Photoshop®.
EskoArtwork — Channel Mapping
Remap channels of embedded or linked images into any used ink in the document. Channel Mapping remaps the inks of all commonly used image formats (TIFF, JPEG, PSD, Photoshop DCS, Photoshop EPS, PNG, GIF).
EskoArtwork — Viewer
A correct visualization of your packaging design is crucial in a professional environment. With Viewer, you can work with predefined press settings to detect first printable dots, simulate dot gain and registration errors, and calculate the total area coverage in your file.
EskoArtwork — Instant Trapper
Instant Trapper is by far the easiest interactive trapping solution on the market. Trapping becomes a matter of clicking the two elements you want to trap. All traps are placed on a separate layer, and centerlines are automatically calculated.
EskoArtwork — PowerTrapper
Using EskoArtwork's automatic trapping engine, PowerTrapper traps your file in a matter of seconds. You can make presets full of rules and exceptions to trap the file according to your specifications. On-the-fly modifications are made easy in the very intuitive user interface. PowerTrapper exists as a standalone module or as a client-server–based solution.
EskoArtwork — Seamless Repeat
Gravure and flexo cylinders often need to print continuously, without a visible seam. Based on the input graphics and cylinder size, Seamless Repeat for Illustrator calculates the correct spacing and repeat numbers to properly wrap any design around the particular cylinder. Typical use cases are wallpaper, laminates, upholstery, vinyl flooring, and more.
EskoArtwork — Dynamic Panels
Dynamic Panels allows you to make dynamic artwork information panels. These panels will automatically synchronize and display the ink, document, and/or job information of the host document or job. Define your own information panels and reuse them in all your jobs. The information fields, ink patches, and so on will be updated automatically.
EskoArtwork — White Underprint
Add a white underprinting ink to your file in a few clicks. Choose an ink name and a choke distance, and automatically the correct object will be created in a separate layer based on the selected artwork. This tool can also be used to quickly create finishing layers (varnishes, embossings).
CoCut
Sign making plug-ins that add powerful vinyl cutting features programs so you can cut directly out of Illustrator. CoCut plots all your designs with the push of a button. Control your plotter speed, resolution and knife-pressure, on-the-fly.
Suitcase Fusion
Suitcase Fusion, a professional-level font manager for the Mac desktop, eliminates font problems that creative professionals face every day. It combines the best of Suitcase and Font Reserve to provide reliable, hassle-free font management.
Suitcase for Windows
This professional font management suitcase for Windows® eliminates font problems that creative professionals face every day. It provides industrial-strength font management for desktop and workgroup users running Windows.
Portfolio 8.5
Portfolio Server 8.5 serves as the powerful hub of your creative asset management system, providing the core set of capabilities you need to keep your rich media on the move — for routing to other departments, for final delivery to clients and partners, or for more secure archiving.
Portfolio 8.5 (Standalone version)
Want your digital assets at your fingertips, with thousands of graphics, photos, and other digital files efficiently organized? Whip your assets into shape with Portfolio 8.5, an intuitive, powerful, and expandable system.
Suitcase Server X1
A hassle-free solution to managing fonts for your workgroup, Suitcase Server X1 ensures consistent use of fonts, eliminates duplicate font issues, and provides license control.
Tile Tools
Fantastic Machines Tile Tools is a set of 21 Photoshop compatible plug-in graphic filters that can be used to create amazing tileable images and textures. Try the demo with seven of the filters fully enabled.
GenoPal 2.1
GenoPal is an easy-to-use color combination and matching tool. It lets users pick a color from an existing palette or any window or picture on their computer. GenoPal will move around in over 16 million different colors to find the ones that match yours. It generates exciting palettes that you can save for later use, read in HEX, or export directly to Adobe Photoshop® or Illustrator.
Generation Digital — Vector Repeat Pro
Vector Repeat Pro automates repeat functions inside Adobe Illustrator, including straight repeats, drops, and shifts, and is used throughout the industry by fashion, textile and surface designers to drastically speed up the design process.
Generation Digital — Vector Weave Pro
Vector Weave Pro is a dobby weaving program for plaids and stripes, which gives designers a much faster and more efficient way to develop woven designs within Adobe Illustrator. Vector Weave Pro can use texture to generate heathers and more.
Generation Digital — Colorist Pro
Colorist Pro allows designers to recolor artwork within repeats, wovens and graphics using Adobe Illustrator. Colorist Pro offers the ability to flip color positions, change existing colors and randomize colors within the artwork. Colorist Pro also creates all the technical data of a print or woven, generating the color chips and the names of each color on the bottom of the artwork.
Slugger AI CS
Slugger AI CS is a basic automated slug for Illustrator CS that updates important information on printouts.
Embroidery i2
Embroidery i2 provides the ability to draw objects with Adobe® Illustrator® and convert the objects to stitches within the same window. Since it's a plug-in, Embroidery i2 works on both Intel based Mac's and PC.
CADtools
Draw in any scale, dimension artwork with a mouse click, and numerically control size and location of objects or points. Just click-drag with CADtools to make design work easy and elegant — right inside Adobe Illustrator.
MultiPage
Produce and publish in one environment! Create multiple pages in Adobe Illustrator and export or print multiple pages with ease. Version 4 supports PDF, JPEG and EPS export of multiple pages for enhanced web and print design.
Perspective
Work with isometric, oblique, and perspective drawing tools right inside Adobe Illustrator. Draw lines, planes, cubes and cylinders over an adjustable background grid for high impact presentations.
CAD Patterns
Add 134 vector-based swatch patterns for design documents. Patterns tile seamlessly and include stipples, crosshatches, bricks, wood grains, stone, tile, building materials and much more.
FontAgent Pro Server 3
FontAgent Pro Server brings scalability, speed, security, stability, and simplicity to the creative community and business world. This third-party plug-in repairs, optimizes, and manages licenses for all your fonts, so you spend less time managing font collections, and your users spend more time getting work done.
FontAgent Pro 4
FontAgent Pro 4 delivers a huge set of font management features to the Mac. You can still repair, optimize, and organize your fonts, and then build font libraries and cascading sets that you can activate, manage, secure, print, and preview.
FontAgent Pro 4 for Windows
FontAgent Pro 4 brings powerful font management to Windows. Many Windows users think they are immune to font problems, but by storing all their fonts in the Fonts Control Panel, they waste system resources, bloat font menus, slow system performance, and risk random crashes.
TypeTrax
TypeTrax adds the missing link to your digital design projects. Just drag a document into Canto Cumulus and TypeTrax automatically detects and displays the project’s fonts in WYSIWYG mode, so you always have the right fonts.
Smasher
Overview: Smasher, the performance partner to Mac OS X font manager, gives you the power to look deep inside fonts and suitcases to solve problems fast. Fix font display and printing problems, check basic font integrity, clean up font folder and suitcase nightmares, eliminate application crashes and performance problems, find missing fonts, and move fonts between Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X.
Kelso Cartography
Cartography-focused site that includes links to specialized plug-ins of interest to cartographers.
Plug-in and scripting software development
Mapsoft develops plug-ins for Adobe Acrobat®, Illustrator, InCopy®, InDesign®, PageMaker®, Photoshop, and Reader® as well as for its Mapsoft PDF Workflow Server, which contains the Adobe PDF library.
QwikMarx
QwikMarx is your solution for building more accurate layouts, making it easier for everyone involved to see the dimension marks onscreen or in a printout. With QwikMarx, these marks are displayed for you on the document itself. This means as an ad moves through the stages of publication, each person working on the ad has a precise understanding of what the trim, live, and bleed dimensions are, as well as what the fold dimensions are.
CopyFlow Gold for Adobe Illustrator
Because of its strength in roundtripping text, the CopyFlow Gold XTension for Adobe Illustrator is a favorite of translation houses. CopyFlow Gold is most often used to batch export formatted text out of Illustrator documents to a computerized translation system, and then batch import the translated text back into its original page location — all while preserving the typographic formatting. CopyFlow Gold works on entire folders of AI documents, cuts production time, and saves time and money.
BetterHandles
BetterHandles combines a tool and palette to make working with Bezier curve handles easier and more powerful. With it, you can select multiple handles and collectively move, extend, rotate, or retract them; extend or retract handles without changing their angles; edit points numerically (anchor, in handle, out handle); convert multiple points between corner and smooth; and much more.
EZConstrain
EZConstrain 1.0 is a free plug-in for Adobe Illustrator. It creates a floating palette through which you can easily view, change, and reset the constrain angle without having to go through the general preferences dialog.
SnapMeasure
SnapMeasure utilizes Smart Guides for clear, easy snaps. Even without Smart Guides, it can snap to points, handles and paths with a red highlighting ring, making it even easier to be sure you're getting the right value on the first try.
SmartApps - Sign&Banner
SmartApps Sign&Banner simplifies and accelerates the set-up of wide-format signs and banners. Features include: a tool for fast grommet and eyelet placement; automatic print bleed tool for mirror, duplicate and color bleeds at any size; banner finishing marks for folds, and design-to-scale functionality. With this plug-in, anyone designing or producing signs and banners can dramatically reduce their preparation time and eliminate remakes due to mistakes.
Concantenate
Concatenate is a plug-in filter for Adobe Illustrator that connects two or more paths into one continuous path. It's especially useful for cleaning up CAD drawings and EPS files that have been converted to Adobe Illustrator or, for example, connecting and filling state/country borders in vector map files.
Cutting Tools
Adds three tools: Hatchet, cuts through all paths at that point, not just the top path; Saber Saw, fence cuts through all paths that cross the one drawn; Vector Vac, either click on paths or drag through them to delete them.
Nudge Palette
Adjust the position of a patterned fill within an object or dash pattern along a path. Clicking the arrow buttons will move the dash or pattern by one point. Holding down combinations of modifier keys will make the distance moved longer or shorter.
SquareUp
Convert a selected path's anchor points to corner points, and adjust the path segments so that lines within 20 degrees of vertical and horizontal will be made square.
Track Plan Tools
Quickly draw railroad track plans. Use the dockable Trackplan palette to select turnout size, scale, curve radius, easements, and track centers. Trackwork is automatically joined and held tangent to the connecting track.
Soxy
There’s a common problem when there are multiple versions of applications like Illustrator or InDesign installed on the same computer. Double-clicking a file's icon will often cause the wrong application version to launch. As a result, you might unwittingly resave a document into a more recent file format, which could be a bad thing. Maybe it's a customer file, and the customer won't be able to open the updated file when you email it back. Soxy provides a workaround for this problem on Mac OS X and Windows.
Curvius
Curvius adds seven new filters to the Illustrator filter menu: Crenellate, Reverse Path Roughen Roulette Simplify Smooth and Straighten.
Kimbo
Kimbo adds 11 new tools in 2 tool groups to Illustrator's tool palette. These tools permit the creation of artwork that would otherwise be difficult or time-consuming to create.
Mesh Utils
Mesh Utils adds eight filters and one tool to create, color, and otherwise manipulate gradient meshes.
PointTweaker
This plug-in allows you to view and finely adjust the coordinates of path points. Path data is also shown.
Tessella
Tessella goes beyond Illustrator’s rectangular patterns and allows you to create not only rectangular patterns but also rhombic, hexagonal, triangular ones as well.
VTexture
Create natural-looking textures as Live Effects from gradient-filled art. The textures are created as paths. Play with the settings and the gradient to create an endless selection of beautiful effects.
Ubelix
The Ubelix plug-in for Illustrator is part of an integrated solution to manage the packaging lifecycle. The solution includes a centralized content management system for copy and graphics assets that enables distributed tracking, reuse, consistency, and certification of assets across projects. The Ubelix plug-in provides Illustrator users with direct real-time access to assets.
Vector Studio
Add stunning creative filters and "can't do without" workflow tools to simply design projects.. Eight plug-ins include powerful shape editing tools, elegant texturing facilities, intuitive and interactive color editing, and workspace management.
WhiteOP2KO
Scan path and text objects in an Illustrator document, including hidden and locked objects and layers, and to turn off the overprint setting for white objects.
Select Effects
Select art with Transparency, Effects, and Blend modes. Quickly identify objects that may cause problems when printing or flattening.
Zoom to Selection
This plug-in adds three new commands to the view menu: Zoom To, Zoom From, and Fit Selected.
QuickCarton
Build a complete RSC or HSC corrugated carton layout in less than a minute.
White OP Detector
White OP Detector automatically scans documents when they are opened for paths and text that have been filled or stroked with white overprints.
Point Control
Point Control provides many user-requested path- and point-editing functions in one easy-to-use floating palette.
Color Referee
Color Referee is a powerful tool for anyone processing Adobe Illustrator files for Print. This Plug-In automates the time-consuming process of identifying the attributes of color areas and objects in any complex Adobe Illustrator design.
ArtOptimizer
Reduce the size of images linked to Illustrator documents by eliminating excessive image data. Automatically reduce image resolution, scale images in Photoshop according to their dimensions in Illustrator and the target resolution specified, and re-import them to Illustrator at 100%.
