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The server switch has now been completed, our thanks for your patience and also to MediaTemple for providing the new hosting platform. Along with the new hosting, a complete site rewrite has been rolled out, and although not much may have appeared to change visually behind the scenes lot’s of changes have taken place!

The editor which has been in beta for the last 6months is now fully released (0.172.08) This provides full support of the animation options and motion map in the editor. (Further information about the motion features can be read here Beta editor released - 0.171.27)

User url’s have been slightly modified so if you are linking to your projects or user’s page please update your links. The old linking will continue to work but we will be phasing this out in the months to come. The new style of linking is as follows,

To link to a User’s home page use (Replacing usersName):
http://www.formatpixel.com/user/usersName

Example:
http://www.formatpixel.com/user/Ubikeuropa

To link to a project use (replacing projectID with the number):
http://www.formatpixel.com/project/projectID

Example:
http://www.formatpixel.com/project/5332

On the user side, we have reached over 6400 users and part of the reason for changing the hosting was to handle the new load and provide enough expansion for the years to come.

By the end of March the ‘Export’ function will be back in place also with support for Mac projects! The Export Project function allow’s you to save a project onto your harddisk for buring to CDROM’s, USB sticks and playing them back off line.

Thanks for your patience in the server switch, if you find any bugs or have any comments then drop us a line!!
Happy Publishing

formatpixel has been featured in the “How we built…” section of .net magazine.
.net - issue 168 (October 07)

The new beta version of the formatpixel editor has been released. The new version now supports motion on objects allowing you to animated your pages.

Above: The new Motion Map panel and controls.

Registered users can log into their accounts and select the new beta editor from their projects list. Projects saved in the beta editor will play back in the existing formatpixel web player however any new features used will be ignored. To view your project correctly you can use the newly released beta version of the formatpixel player. This is listed under the projects name.

New features added in this beta version are:

- Apply motion to text and shape objects
- Apply motion control to image mask builds
- Motion map panel for animation overview
- New Outline filter to shape and text objects
- Control Outline filter colour
- Drop shadow support added to shape objects

As this is still a beta release please feedback with any bug’s or ideas.

You may have noticed a change in the way things are looking, a new formatpixel skin has now been rolled out across the site. We hope you enjoy this new look and as ever your feedback is welcomed.

Now live in the editor is the ability to change the paper size and style of your projects. Use the ‘Settings’ button in the editor to edit your projects settings.

Use the sliders to change the width and height, select either a folded page or single sheet.