![]() ![]() Photo-realistic sunlight (from location and date/time) for stills and animations.Photo-realistic environment maps for stills and animations.Accelerated Phong and Gouraud shading options for render to file.Accelerated Phong and Gouraud shading options for fly-by and walk-through animations.Independent control of reflections and refractions.Advanced control of anti-aliasing for objects, edges, shadows and reflections.Direct support for imprinting profile sketches onto surfaces and solids to create surface subdivisions.Real-time display in 3D of imported scanned hand sketches or other images.Real-time zebra, normal, curvature & draft check in edit window (SP1). ![]() Real-time environment maps in edit window.Non-photo-realistic “sketch” rendering for stills and animations (SP1).Enhanced support for OpenDWG Alliance-based translators.Enhanced copying and pasting between documents.Direct, multi-sheet PDF creation with optional imbedded DXF export.Support for File names over 32 characters long.Universal Binary support for the Intel Mac.Organic Workflow™ Competitive Comparison.Both features are reportedly on Vellum’s eventual roadmap, but for now, the program remains medialess. This is also likely why you can’t currently embed images or video. To both render previews and export proper files, Vellum needs HTML/CSS-compliant code for each platform, and the easiest way to ensure this is to eliminate user input (at least for version 1.0). The app even offers live preview options for every major ereading device, which is a huge improvement over the “export and guess what it will look like” game most of us in the ebook-publishing industry play nowadays. ![]() Vellum is one of the few ebook exporters that lets you create ebooks for iOS devices, the Kindle, and the Nook with one click-no changes necessary. One reason for this is the app’s excellent cross-platform preview and export engine. That’s not to say there aren’t options for tweaking your book-the app provides an array of beautifully rendered customization options for your book style, headings, the first paragraph of a chapter, block quotes, ornamental breaks, and the paragraph after a break-but you’re currently limited to the styles Vellum offers. The ebook enthusiast who wants to customize everything from link colors to page borders will be sorely disappointed. On the other hand, like the iLife suite, Vellum isn’t designed for customization junkies. Vellum’s controls are both expertly designed and easy to learn, capturing the feel of one of Apple’s iLife apps: There are a bunch of options, hidden away, if you need to apply them to your manuscript, but you can ignore most of those extras in favor of quickly building your book. ![]()
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