Mr. Softie is an application for typographic manipulation that provides writers, graphic designers, animators and typographers a greater control over textual objects. It is based on the NextText framework, which facilitates the implementation of an interface that specifically targets the authoring of textual content.
The glyphs are managed in vectorial form which makes it possible to create graphics from small to large scale. It allows exporting of typographic compositions to common image formats (e.g., TIFF) as well as vector formats (e.g., PDF) to combine the creative process with other applications.
Mr. Softie includes a set of SoftType which allow spaciotemporal transformation of textual objects. SoftTypes are used as ’sculpting’ tools to create static composition with a kinetic feel, and also, to generate animation that the application export to file sequences.
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The latest release of Mr. Softie includes a new feature that allows to export your document to a multi-page PDF. The export creates one page for each passage present in the document, and a final page for the background. This feature was implemented to improve how Mr. Softie integrates with Adobe Illustrator. However, Illustrator can’t easily load a multi-page PDF file into a single document, so the MultipagePDF script was born.
Download it. Place it in the plugin folder of your Illustrator installation. Run it and it will ask you to select a PDF file, which it will open as a single document with a layer for each page. MultipagePDF works with any PDF files, not only Mr. Softie, but it needs some thorough testing.
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Currently available on request as a Windows installer package. There is no Mac or Linux version for the moment. We suggest working under the Parallels environment.
You will need to install QuickTime to export animations directly to video.
