Integrated
Page Wizard Technology for "Smart Documents"
With the Design CD, just pick the type of publication you want
to produce and answer a few simple questions. PagePlus does the
rest! Revisit your color scheme and text selections at any time
as you continue to work with a publication. Basic user details
are stored for automatic reuse.
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Versatile
Setup with Auto-Imposition
Just click to specify layouts for greeting cards, business cards,
folded brochures, and more. You see your publications the right
way up on screen and let PagePlus take care of orienting and ordering
the printed output for correctly assembled masters!
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Intelligent
Color Schemes
Choose from dozens of preset color schemes to change the overall
appearance of your Page Wizard publications with a single click.
You can customize the scheme colors, create brand new schemes,
and apply any scheme to a "from-scratch" publication.
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Web
Publishing Mode
Create your own Web site with professionally designed Web Page
Wizards (using the Design CD). Or convert an existing PagePlus
publication to a Web site! The Layout Checker helps you fine tune
your design. Add animated GIFs, marquee effects, sound, video,
even Java and HTML code to spice up your pages! Preview your site
in a Web browser and publish it to a local folder or a remote server
using HTML 4.0.
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On-screen
Studio Combines Convenience with Functionality
The Studio's tabs provide rapid drag and drop access to commonly
used controls such as fonts, line settings, and the color table.
Use the Portfolio to store your favorite designs for use in any
publication...and tap the Gallery, with built-in mastheads, logos,
and lots of other page elements you can customize to suit your
needs!
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Professional
Layout Tools
Intelligent text fitting. Movable rulers and guides. Precision
placement, rotation, and text wrap. Flip, crop, watermark, and
recolor graphics. Text formatting with bullets, lists, kerning,
hyphenation, drop caps, smart quotes, and named styles. Master
pages, facing pages display, and much more!
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Text
Composition Tools
PagePlus includes word count, search and replace, spell checking,
thesaurus, and proof reader. Break out of the boring box with shaped
text frames variable molds to add impact to your text. And you
get over 400 TrueType fonts that let you express yourself with
flair!
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QuickShapes
Long an exclusive feature of other Serif solutions, QuickShapes
work like intelligent clipart... or the most powerful set of
drawing tools you can imagine. Just choose a template shape,
drag on the page... then adjust handles to customize each angle
and dimension.
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Powerful
Drawing Options
An arsenal of new drawing tools are at your command... Sketch freehand
lines and curves. Extend existing lines with ease. Apply line styles
to all kinds of shapes even add line endings like arrowheads and
diamonds. Automatic anti aliasing of lines, text, and polygons
results in superb visuals, both on screen and on the printed page.
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Gradient
Fills
For sophisticated illustrations and impressive typographic effects,
select from a wide variety of Linear, Radial, and Conical fills.
Use the interactive fill tool for drag and drop updating of fill
nodes and colors.
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Transparency
Effects
Both solid and variable transparency let you add new depth to your
print and Web creations. Apply transparency directly from the Studio,
then edit nodes and opacity with the interactive tool.
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Versatile
Text Shape and Flow
You can rotate or reshape text frames and still edit their text.
Enhanced text wrap options and separate crop and wrap outlines
mean you have greater control over where text flows and how it
appears.
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Photo
Optimizer
If your publication includes color or grayscale photographs, use
the Photo Optimizer to get the best results for each photo on your
particular printer. Pick the best result from the thumbnail sheet
and PagePlus remembers the optimum settings for that image!
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Index,
Table of Contents, and Calendar Wizards
Compile a professional index complete with headings, subheadings
and page references... especially useful for longer publications.
Automatically collect newsletter headlines (or any styled text
you specify) into a table of contents list. Choose from a wide
variety of sizes and design options, then just click and drag to
fit your calendar to a column or a whole page.
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Versatile
Printing and Mail Merge
Impressive results on your dot-matrix, ink-jet, or laser printer
in black and white or full color. Print your current publication
multiple times, merging data from any character-delimited address
list file.
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Professional
Output
Use the high-end features of PagePlus to achieve the highest possible
quality. Features the PANTONE® color library, color mapping
of vector images, and full spot and process color separation with
savable printer schemes.
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Total
Ease-of-use
Hideable toolbars for extra workspace area. Right-click menus.
Employ AutoCorrect and AutoSpell proofing options. Select multiple
Undo and Redo actions from a handy list. Tool Hints, HintLine,
Wizards, and context-sensitive cursors make PagePlus a user friendly
application!
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