Easy desktop publishing

PagePlus

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The outstanding, Microsoft Windows Vista certified desktop publishing and PDF editing software, that brings the power of a professional design studio to your home, business, school or club.

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Features

Help and Ease of use

• User Interface
  Choose pre-defined Workspace layouts from the Startup Wizard and get designing fast. Dynamic Studio Tabs seamlessly slide in and away again when not in use for an uncluttered workspace, or they can be fixed in-place with a single mouse click. Tabs can also be docked anywhere on-screen for complete control over your preferred workspace.
• Templates
  Select from a stunning range of pre-designed document Templates and quickly achieve outstanding results. Fully-customisable Templates for everything from photo albums and calendars to business stationery and newsletters makes it easy to create professional-looking documents. Whatever you're looking to design, you'll find the perfect Template in PagePlus' comprehensive collection.
• Projects & Design Labs
  Make the most of PagePlus with graphical Projects that give you step-by-step instructions on how to use a variety of PagePlus' tools and features. Once you've mastered the basics you can progress on to the Design Lab, which offers guidance on desktop publishing practices and techniques, including how to create eye-catching layouts and choose colour schemes.
• How To Tab
  Learn a multitude of desktop publishing tasks with this graphically-rich and concise guide to PagePlus. The How To Tab can be docked or floated anywhere on your desktop and remains constantly active and searchable, making it unbelievably quick and easy to follow the step-by-step instructions without interrupting your workflow.
• Media Bar
  Easily search, organise and add graphics to your documents or to PagePlus Templates. Add multiple files, simply by holding down the Ctrl key, or entire folders to the Media Bar in one go. Keyword searching is easy too and supports EXIF and XMP metadata. With your project images quickly to hand, you'll work more efficiently than ever.
• Live Calendars
  Look ahead to the coming year with a stylish PagePlus calendar - use one of the stunning templates or easily design your own. Personalise your calendar by adding birthdays and important dates into the Calendar Event Manager and PagePlus automatically enters them against the correct dates. Change the year and your calendar will automatically update too.

Layout

• Layers and Master Pages
  Place repeating design elements onto multiple Master Pages and easily assign them to particular pages in your document, saving you time and ensuring complete consistency throughout. Enjoy even more control over your document designs by placing various elements onto multiple Layers; Master Pages support layers too for complete design flexibility.
• Picture Frames
  Visualise how your finished document will look with place holding picture frames, before you add the final images. Simply drag and drop your images into each frame and control exactly how they appear with the flexible alignment options. PagePlus X2's range of 15 shaped picture frames are perfect for designing photo albums and digital scrapbooks.
• BookPlus
  Combine multiple PagePlus publications into a single coordinated document! Assign common attributes (such as text styles and colour palettes) across publications, automatically generate an Index or Table of Contents, add page numbering and output your final long document to both print and PDF. Easily create newsletters, magazines and reports, or even your first novel.
• Sticky Guides
  Move a guide and any objects snapped to it will automatically move as well. Simply click on the small red arrows that appear when you hover the mouse cursor over snapped objects to stop them moving with the guide - enjoy complete control over placing and aligning objects in PagePlus.
• Pages Tab
  Add and remove pages in just a few clicks of your mouse in the visual Pages Tab. Even drag and drop pages within the Tab to instantly change their sequence. Use this amazing functionality to manage your Master Pages too, making it simple to quickly assign Master Pages to several document pages at once.
• Mail & Photo Merge
  Merge images and data into your documents from many sources, including Microsoft Excel, Access and even contacts from Outlook. Mail & Photo Merge makes it so simple to automatically create everything from address labels and letters to photo albums and catalogues, both for print and the web.
• Table Tool
  Present your information in a stylish table direct within PagePlus. The simple Table Toolbar makes it easy to import and sort data, apply calculations, auto fill cells and format cells. Design powerful tables without any need for a separate utility and make your data more stylishly presented, understandable and accessible than ever.

Graphics

• Drawing Tools
  Design stunning graphics with flexible drawing tools - perfect for creating logos, diagrams and artwork directly within PagePlus. The array of fully-customisable QuickShapes let you quickly create outlines for your designs, while Convert to Curves, Crop to Shape, Curve drawing and Warp tools offer complete flexibility for creating any shape imaginable.
• Fills
  Enhance shapes and artistic text with fantastic professional Fills. Choose colours from handy preset palettes of complementary colours, select various Gradient Fills or add textured bitmap fills - even create stunning bitmap fills from your own images. What's more, every colour used is added to the Publication Palette so that you can easily re-use it again and again.
• Transparency
  Add transparency effects to your backgrounds, shapes and text to achieve a truly professional look. As with colour fills, you can apply solid, gradient and bitmap transparencies - even create bitmap transparencies from your own image collection. Creating stunning backgrounds and attention-grabbing text and logos has never been so simple.
• Filter Effects
  Apply amazing Filter Effects to make your images and text really stand out. Easily add shadows, glows, bevels, colour fills, feathering, embossing or 3D effects and alter the flexible settings for exactly the right look - your original object remains intact and editable if you change your mind. Save your favourite settings as Object Styles for future single-click use.
• Image Adjustments & Effects
  Fix your images with PagePlus' built-in image correction tools, including Colour Balance, Levels and Brightness & Contrast. Alternately, enhance your images with stunning creative effects, including Shadows & Highlights, Motion Blur, Dust & Scratch Remover and many others, to create truly stunning imagery for your documents.
• Import Adobe Photoshop Files
  Save time again and again by importing your Photoshop files directly into your PagePlus publications. As well as supporting all of the commonly-used standard file formats, you can also import your Adobe Photoshop files (PSDs) directly into PagePlus documents and still apply image adjustments and enhancements to them too.
• Instant 3D
  Transform your artistic text and shapes into impressive 3D objects. Intuitive tools let you edit your amazing 3D objects directly in the document and you can quickly change the attributes of your selected tool in the context sensitive toolbar. Your 3D objects remain editable throughout should you wish to alter them again later - it's as easy as 1, 2, 3D.
• Connector Tools
  Easily design organisational charts, family trees and other diagrams. Quickly create a relationship between two objects with left, right and centrally aligned nodes that appear on the destination object, or you can even create your own connection nodes. Connecting lines auto-adjust when objects are moved and maintain optimum layout for stylish diagrams every time.

Text

• Text Frames
  Easily position text by selecting a standard text frame or one of the preset shaped frames and simply dragging the shape to the correct size and position on your document. Even transform your freehand drawn shapes into text containers! Designing your pages is easy with realistic placeholder text that helps you visualise pages before content is added.
• Text Control
  Edit text efficiently with transparent highlighting to easily see changes as you make them; a Text Styles tab for allocating text attributes to various document sections; recognition of embedded fonts on imported PDFs; flexible bullet, numbering and indenting buttons; and much more.
• Fonts Tab
  Easily choose fonts from the sliding Font Tab, which can also be fixed in position for quick selection. Hovering your cursor over a font automatically applies that style to any selected text in your document, so you can quickly see how it will appear. Previewing and selecting the right Font styles is quick and easy in PagePlus.
• Artistic Text
  Instantly create outstanding designer text with stunning transparency effects, bitmap fills, graduated colours, bevels, 3D effects and more. Perfect for high impact headlines and powerful design elements - easily resize, recolour and add photo fills to your artistic text. Even make it follow a path you've drawn - the design possibilities are endless.
• Multilingual Support
  Publish your documents in multiple languages with PagePlus' superb multilingual support. Quickly and easily spell-check your work in 11 different languages from a choice of 14 dictionaries. PagePlus is ideal for international publishing so you can get your message across to wider audiences.
• Find & Replace
  Find not only words and phrases but also text attributes, particular fonts, colours, text alignments, words at specific positions in sentences and much more with PagePlus' powerful Find & Replace feature. Whatever you need to locate in your document and replace with something else, PagePlus will help you find it with unbelievable speed and efficiency.
• Table of Contents and Index
  Easily create automated Tables of Contents and Indexes for complex documents. PagePlus refers to the named styles you've allocated to headings, subheadings and titles to automatically create your Table of Contents, with up to six levels. Indexing documents is simple too, use the intuitive tools to select important terms and let PagePlus do the rest.

Publishing

• PDF Import & Export
  Import PDFs and PagePlus allows you to edit and adjust any element of the page, just as you would edit other PagePlus documents! Insert PDFs into your existing publications - place them before, after, or even on the current page. Easily export your documents to PDF, with powerful options to publish your PDFs for professional printing and the web.
• PDF Forms
  Create your own electronic PDF forms in PagePlus, requesting information and feedback from club members and customers or replies to party invites. Your recipients can type in their responses, then save, print or submit their form electronically. Serif will email you completed forms, or you can set up your own Web submission service.
• PDF Slideshows
  For professional-looking presentations or dynamic family photo albums, create attention-grabbing PDF slideshows with stylish page and layer transitions - even add sound and video clips. It's unbelievably easy to export your multimedia slideshows for sharing with business associates, friends, and family too.
• ICC Colour Profiling
  Easily set up ICC (International Color Consortium) profiles for your monitor, printer and scanner, and be confident that your printed colours will closely match their appearance on-screen. Avoid wasting time, paper and ink. PagePlus' comprehensive ICC Colour Profiling support helps you achieve accurate results every time.
• Printing
  Print your documents exactly as you want them to appear; PagePlus has all the flexible options you need to print documents professionally or on your home printer. Even print several pages on one sheet, or for large format printing, a single page across multiple sheets.
• Email Publications
  Send your PagePlus documents as graphically-rich HTML emails, complete with text, images and active hyperlinks visible in the body of the email. Grab the attention of your friends, family, colleagues and customers with attractive-looking emails created in PagePlus. There are even stunning, pre-designed email templates to get you started, including invitations, newsletters and more.
• Publish To Web
  Design your own website directly in PagePlus or publish pages originally created for print to the web as well. There's no need to be an experienced web designer with PagePlus' intuitive web publishing mode, which creates all the background HTML code for you and guides you seamlessly through publishing your documents and websites online.
• Trimmed Preview
  See your publications exactly as they'll appear in print with an accurate on-screen preview, removing the need to print test pages for a true impression of the end result. Even continue editing pages in Trimmed Preview mode to achieve exactly the look you need.

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