Recorded 13th October 2019 This week Catalina went public – kind of by night with no announcements or anything and surprisingly has bugs and
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Tag: desktop publishing
Printworks 2 -Review
Printworks 2 BeLight Software $29.99 U.S. Printworks 2 is a desktop publishing app for Mac OS. It includes templates that will create brochures,
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Publisher Plus – Review
Publisher Plus is a Desktop Publishing (DTP) package similar to Pages, Swift Publisher, PageMeUp or iStudio Publisher. It is designed for producing posters, flyers, newsletters, menus, and anything else you might want to print. It is priced at $39.90 on the developers site but only $19.99 on the Mac App Store (the developer tells me this is a time limited App Store offer but it isn’t made clear anywhere.) There is also a Publisher Lite that is free. I recommend you try out the app before you make a decision to purchase.
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PageMeUp – Review
PageMeUp describes itself as designed for print documents and websites. At the price it is pitched against applications like Pages, SwiftPublisher, and iStudio Publisher rather than the big guns like Adobe InDesign and QuarkXpress.
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Adobe CS 5.5 InDesign – Review Part 1
I begin this review with a caveat. Adobe loves the word ‘professional.’ I mean really! Their CS Suites are for professionals, and I can tell you right now, those people will leave me in the dust with their skills. But I am here to say that we ordinary people will love CS InDesign 5.5. This review is in two parts. The first will cover basic publications, PDFs, booklets, and the useful controls and workspaces that pertain to the print world. The second part will zero in on interactive publications, including the very lucrative and expanding field of ePub.
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