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Totallypic plugins available in English (free download)

The plugins

Graffix is pleased to be chosen as the only authorized distributor for English versions of two free plugins from Totallypic. Requires Adobe Illustrator 2025 for Mac or Windows.

Fit Selection

Similar to the built-in Fit Artboard in Window command, you can use it via the menu View > Fit Selection to quickly fit the selected objects to the window size. Pairing it with a keyboard shortcut can significantly enhance your workflow efficiency.

Perceptual Gradient

This uses the OKLab algorithm to convert standard linear gradients into perceptual interpolation. The results are similar to the gradient effects offered by Adobe Photoshop. You can find it under Effects > Totallypic > Perceptual Gradient, or apply it via the f(x) option in the Appearance panel.

The back story

Jeen Hung and I have for years exchanged ideas about Adobe Illustrator and how plugins add to its capabilities. Several of the features added to my plugins were suggested by Jeen. He’s done some amazing illustrations and later studied writing his own AI plugins. Jeen provided the code for Select Menu that finds more recently-added art objects such as intertwined objects and mirrored repeats. He has continued to develop plugins for use at his business, Totallypic, and has made them available at his website. Recently, he has generously created English versions for me to distribute here.

Totallypic logo

About Totallypic

Totallypic is a design team from Taiwan specializing in vector illustration and design. Over the past decade, we have focused on creating and licensing royalty-free graphics, achieving over 10 million downloads globally. Recently, we have also expanded into Illustrator online tutorials and plugin development, although these services are currently only available in Taiwan.

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Fastener libraries for AxoTools

One of the new features in AxoTools is adding fastener libraries in the form of specially-formatted symbol libraries. AxoTools comes with a fastener library, and you can add others. Industrial Artworks has already created a library of nearly a hundred high-quality fastener symbols, which is available for purchase.

industrial artworks library

To install AxoTools’ symbol library, open the AxoTools Fasteners panel. In its flyout menu, select the item to Update “AxoTools Fasteners.ai” file.

menu to update fasteners doc

A dialog will ask you to confirm whether you really want to install it. Click the OK button, or press Escape to cancel..

dialog for fastener symbols on desktop

You will probably get a message that the file and folder cannot be created in the Symbols folder. Click the Yes button to create it on your desktop.

dialog to confirm updating your symbols file

You should now see a folder named “AxoTools Symbols” on your desktop. Navigate to your Symbols folder, located in your Adobe Illustrator application folder in Presets > [Language] > Symbols, and copy the “AxoTools Symbols” folder here. Your operating system will ask you for permission to copy the file. If you look in this folder, you’ll see one Illustrator file named “AxoTools Symbols.ai” which you can open to see the available symbols and read instructions on how to create your own fastener symbols. If you purchase an additional symbol library or create your own, this is where the file should be placed.

Restart Illustrator. On launch, AxoTools will look for this folder to load fastener symbols into their corresponding menus in the Fasteners panel. If you also install the Industrial Artworks symbol library, your Screw variations menu should look like this:

fastener symbol menu

The divider separates generated symbols drawn for any projection from the symbol-based fasteners, which are typically drawn in isometric. The two slotted hex screws and two drywall screws come with AxoTools. The items identified with “IA” are from Industrial Artworks.

Please let me know how your experience goes with installing, using, and perhaps creating fastener symbol libraries.

Rick

New FontSafe plugin now available

FontSafe icon

FontSafe is a plugin for Adobe Illustrator that can store a document’s font files embedded inside of the document itself. When the Illustrator document is opened again at some other time or place, the needed fonts can be extracted, so they will always be available. Most users will first think of this as a prepress utility to package the fonts prior to delivering the document to a printer for output, but it can be equally useful for preparing a file for archiving. When reopened for repurposing years later, fonts may no longer be installed on the computer the document was created on, and specialty fonts may no longer be available anywhere!

Unlike Adobe Illustrator’s native Package function, it even works with most Asian fonts!

Fonts can be embedded automatically every time you save your document, or manually added as needed.

FontSafe panelFonts are extracted as a zip archive in the same directory as your Illustrator document. You can optionally require a password to extract the font archive.

This is an update to FontSafe from Worker72a, now available for Windows and Apple M-series processors. Evaluate the full version with 500 free trial uses, or use it in extract-only mode for free. Licenses start at $20 and is on sale for half price through May 2023.

Download it here for Mac or Windows, Illustrator CC 2019 through 2023. For more information, see the FontSafe documentation.

Tag72a plugin from Worker723a now available

Tag72a automates the process of reporting information about your files by automatically creating and updating text objects that remain part of the file itself. Each of these properties have options allowing you to customize it to best serve the needs of your workflow.
Each time a document is saved or printed, the selected items will be automatically created or updated.
Reported properties of the document include:
  • User name
  • Document name
  • Document file path
  • Date saved
  • Date printed
  • Spot colors used
  • Fonts used

You can download and try Tag72a for free from the Worker72a product page. For detailed information, please see the Tag72a online documentation.

This is the same Tag72a plugin you’ve known from Worker72a, updated for Windows and Apple M1. Evaluate with 500 free trial uses.

Worker72a Locked or Hidden detector now available

Locked or HiddenThe Locked or Hidden Detector (LorH) is now available in the Worker72a collection. This plugin for Adobe Illustrator scans your documents for art objects that are locked or hidden. You can run it with a menu selection or set it to automatically scan every document you open.

This update now runs under Windows and on Apple’s new M1-series processors. You can download it and evaluate it with 500 free trial uses.

Worker72a Text Overflow Alert now available

wopdThe second Worker72a plugin is now available here. When Text Overflow Alert is installed, it automatically scans all  documents when opened for text frames or text paths with overflowed text, and selects it for you to inspect and edit as needed. You can read more about it on its product page or follow upcoming Worker 72a plugins on the Worker72a download page.

The plugin is on sale through August 2022, with prices as low as $3.00 for an individual license.

Look for more Worker72a plugins in the near future.

Worker72a plugins now part of Graffix

Worker 72a

Worker72a is now part of the Graffix family of Adobe Illustrator plugins

Doug Habben has been writing Adobe Illustrator plugins for a couple of decades, and in 2006 began offering them to the public under the banner of Worker72a. Doug and I have been in touch for many years, trading tips as fellow part-time plugin developers. After several years of retirement from his day job, Doug decided to retire from his own business, as well, and contacted me about handling and maintaining his plugins going forward. We obviously reached an agreement and for the first time, Worker72a plugins will be available for Windows, and also run natively on the new Apple M1 processors.

wopdThe first of Doug’s plugins to migrate over is White Overprint Detector. When installed, it automatically scans all opened documents for text or path art with white overprinting strokes or fills, and selects it for you to inspect and edit as needed. You can read more about it on its product page or follow upcoming Worker 72a plugins on the Worker72a download page.

The plugin is on sale through August 2022, with prices as low as $3.00 for an individual license.

Best wishes to Doug in his “other” retirement!

AxoTools adds Auxiliary Projection panel

Wrangling those oddball oblique angles just got a lot easier!

If you do technical illustrations or just work in isometric, you’ve probably struggled with surfaces that don’t lie on any of the isometric planes. AxoTools’ Transformations panel helps coerce orthographic art into any series of known rotations, but now you have a tool to help place your flat art onto surfaces at oddball angles. Tame those angled walls and tilted panels!

Steaming Cup Cafe

The new Auxiliary Projection panel helps you determine the projection of a path that’s been twisted into something resembling a parallelogram at any angle. With it, you can flatten the oblique art back to an orthographic view, project orthographic art to fit the oblique projection, extrude and move art along the projection’s axes, and draw new matching art following the auxiliary projection’s axis angles.

AxoTools comes with a thousand free trial uses that you can use at your leisure to download and try it out.

For current users, this is a free update. Through May 2022, regular licenses are 1/3 off and annual licenses 1/2 off, starting at only $5.00!

Available for Adobe Illustrator CC 2019 through 2022, Mac or Windows.

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Auxiliary Projection panel

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