| Title: PagePlus 5.0 | Vendor: Serif Corporation | Street Price Approximately $100. |
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| Date Published: May 1998 | Reviewer: Lillian Poletti, Member BPCA | |
PagePlus 5.0is a complete, award-winning desktop publishing package for your home, school, church or growing business. It is easy to use and extremely powerful. It can do it all for you with automated Wizards, from corporate- style marketing materials and elegant Web sites to fun stuff like party invitations, or let you do it all yourself with total control, professional- level features, and full spot and process color separation support. You can create ads, brochures, business stationery such as cards, letterheads and invoices, plus flyers, forms, newsletters, notices, posters, reports, announcements, invitations, greeting cards and much more. No experience necessary.
PagePlus 5.0 was built on earlier versions, adding a range of new power features, including Web Publishing in a full-fledged 32-bit application designed for Windows 95. It is packed full of easy to use features and Quick Tours.
When using Web Page Wizards to create a Web site, you can even add animated GIFs and marquee effects to spice up your pages. AutoFit scales story text precisely to fit the available frame area. Photo Optimizer will get the best results for each photo used on your particular printer and then will remember the optimum settings for that image. Index Wizard will compile a professional-style index with headings, subheadings and page references, and automatically collect any styled text you specify into a table of contents list.
You can create attention-grabbing headlines or even create your own logos. This program was very comfortable to work with, and for someone who has never had any experience with DTP, I achieved some pretty-amazing results.
Requirements: 486 IBM-compatible PC with CD-ROM drive. Microsoft Windows 95 or Windows NT operating system, 8MB (Windows 95) or 16 MB (Windows NT) RAM 25 MB (minimum install) free hard disk space VGA (256-color display monitor or higher. Optional: Windows 95-compatible printer, Twain-compatible scanner. Internet account and connection require for use with Web Publishing features.