Haddon Software is pleased to announce the release of version 2.0 of Empire Express, the easy-to-use model railroad design software for the Macintosh. Empire Express 2.0 has many improvements including:
- New Inspector window for examining and changing the information, colors, and geometry for track and graphical objects
- Now a Universal application - built for both PowerPC and Intel based Macs
- Now uses Mac OS color picker - millions of colors, multiple ways to pick colors, can duplicate any on-screen color and save your own favorite colors
- Improved text - allows more than one font, style, alignment, and color in a single text box; preview fonts with the Font panel; check spelling and even use text rulers to set tab stops, etc. within text
- Improved undo - the number of undos is now essentially unlimited and saving documents no longer clears the available undos
- Improved feedback and appearance while drawing and manipulating objects
- Smoother drawing of flex track
- Smoother printing
- Improved appearance of all windows including larger, easier-to-read fonts
- Searchable help
- Improved parts list window with resizable and sortable columns
- And more
For a complete list of what's new in version 2.0 see the release notes.
You can see the new features in action by downloading Empire Express 2.0 and running it in demo mode.
Empire Express 2.0 is still just $34.95. Registered owners of versions 1.0 through 1.6.1 can purchase an upgrade to version 2.0 for $19.98. Buy now.