PagePlus X4 offers even more graphics power, greater compatibility, smarter DTP layout features, and enhanced productivity. It’s never been easier to achieve the highest quality printed and electronic publications, using a design package that is more rounded than ever.
Produce photos at their best, in high quality, with the all new PhotoLab. Offering over 70 adjustments, corrections, filters, and effects, your photos can be picture-perfect every time. Plus with some incredible instant artistic styles, your images can really stand out from the page. And you’ll save time and effort by not having to fire up a dedicated photo editor for every fix.
Quickly fix common image faults, repair scratches, blemishes & more.
Give photos a colour tone makeover, or apply special blurs and distortions.
Transform photos into works of art in famous styles with a single click!
Be even more productive and creative with PagePlus X4 by spending less time switching to a fully-fledged drawing program! Now PagePlus can add and subtract shapes from each other, making new shapes where they overlap, giving you freedom to craft more sophisticated logos, backgrounds, graphic design elements, plus unique photo and text frames. Now also choose whether a shape’s outline is centred, inside, or outside of the shape’s original geometry.
Give photos the frame they deserve with PagePlus X4. Drag and drop frames for all sorts of occasions from our gallery, add your own, and customise repeating or stretching areas.
Now it’s even easier to create beautiful documents in minutes with a collection of attractive new Themed Layouts, each with a choice of design variants or pages.
PagePlus X4 is easy enough to use that you can start creating fantastic results straight away, and yet the deeper you dig into PagePlus’s rich feature set, the more publishing power you’ll find. When you need to know how to put that power to good use, or achieve a publishing task new to you, you’ll really appreciate the new Learning Zone, accessible from the redesigned Startup Wizard.
As always with a new version of PagePlus, our developers listen to your suggestions on ways to making working smoother through interface improvements. In PagePlus X4 you can edit multiple documents more efficiently with a tabbed interface like modern internet browsers, and it’s easier to open files by dragging and dropping into PagePlus X4 from Windows Explorer. Also, the active Studio tab is easier to identify with inactive tabs a darker shade.
A new wizard makes personalising the Gallery’s logos even easier.
The duplex printing wizard is enhanced and has moved to the Print tab.
Save customised tables and calendars as new, reusable style presets.
Overhauled to improve your productivity – especially useful when working with professional or long documents – the new Resource Manager now sports more information and more interactivity with your document and media. See image previews, image resolutions and colour formats, replace and export images from the within manager, convert images to a different format or colour depth, and optionally hide duplicate items.
While you have total freedom to move any elements anywhere on your pages, you’ll often want headlines, frame text, pictures, flashes, tables, or callouts to be neatly aligned. This is easier than ever with PagePlus X4’s dynamic magnetic snapping – objects can automatically align with each others’ centres or edges as you move them around. And there’s an expanded set of snapping options with a new adjustment for snapping sensitivity, so you can choose just how helpful PagePlus X4 is with your layouts.
PagePlus X4 can keep associated text and pictures together even when editing forces some text onto a different page. Graphics used to be either totally free floating or inline, tethered within a text frame – now you can maintain a picture or drawing’s position relative to specific text, a column, frame, margin or page, inside or outside the text frame, and it remains fully editable. So once you’ve achieved the perfect layout and then need to change or move some text, you don’t need to redesign your whole page.
Improvement to Word Processing make PagePlus even better when creating and editing text, with more flexibility than your typical word processor. PagePlus X4 can automatically flow long text articles into new frames as you create them, show you special characters like tabs, returns and spaces in the main PagePlus view, and let you automatically create initial caps like we’ve used in this paragraph. And that’s not all – text wrap settings can now be stored as a default, and drop cap settings are more easily managed.
Being able to open designs sourced from almost anywhere thanks to incredible PDF editing power is a real asset for PagePlus users, and that PDF power just got better. There is now more import accuracy, and better text and font handling, so you can edit PDF files better than ever – better than any other DTP program, at any price.
PagePlus X4 now imports Word and other word processed files better than ever – including Word 2007 and OpenOffice.org Writer documents, so you can source text in the most popular formats. When you import Word and other similar files, you now get text and pictures together, saving a great deal of time and effort, and there’s no need to have Word installed for this fantastic level of compatibility.
Share your work and collaborate with both PagePlus X4 and PagePlus X3 users. Thanks to some forward-looking developments in the previous version, PagePlus X4 publications can be opened and edited using PagePlus X3 – and of course PagePlus X3 and earlier files can be opened and edited in PagePlus X4.