It's Magiq day. First announced and demoed at Macworld Expo in January, and eagerly awaited by doodlers everywhere: Plasq's new evolution in the Comic Life product line, Comic Life Magiq, is shipping now. Magiq is not an upgrade to Comic Life, which is still sold separately -- it's a whole new tool, including an embedded image editor and pro-level layout and masking components. A slew of new templates and a Core Animation-driven UI complete the package.
As you might surmise, CLM is a Leopard-only Universal Binary release (it actually calls for 10.5.2 as a minimum OS version). A full license is $45 and cross-grades from Comic Life (including the bundled version that shipped with some Macs) are $30; however, for a limited time you can get a license for $40 and a crossgrade for $20. A 30-day unlimited demo can be downloaded from plasq.com now.
We're looking forward to some hands-on Magiq time and posting some screenshots later today.
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5-08-2008 @ 10:49AM
Tim Dorr said...
Wowzers, that looks pretty damn awesome!
I'm actually curious about the automatic spacing rulers, since they seem to be the same as OmniGraffle. Maybe some code licensing went on? No problem with it, just wondering :)
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5-08-2008 @ 11:48AM
Unregistered said...
Just watched the video that page, quite Jobs-que :)
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5-08-2008 @ 12:36PM
wasabi said...
That reminds me, what DID happen to Comic Life in Mac OS? My wife had it when she got her MBP, (which was running Tiger at the time), but when I got mine running Leopard they didn't include it.
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5-08-2008 @ 1:45PM
Jere Krischel said...
Bummer. Doesn't open up old Comic Life files.
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5-09-2008 @ 7:38PM
andgar said...
I bought it as soon as I read this. Not sure if its just my mac (ppc 1.42; 1gig ram mac mini) but it still seems to be very buggy and slow.
Its slow when you start it and some there's still some bugs throughout the app. But even those are minor and one its open, it runs smoothly. The rendering is very fast even on my baby.
Mos def worth the purchase, I can't wait for the next version.
If the developers read this, Skitch integration would be awesome.
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