COMPANY: BeLight Software | URL: www.belightsoft.com | TYPE: Standalone | PLATFORM: Mac | PRICE: $44.95
Swift Publisher is an easy page layout application for the Mac. Designing and printing colorful flyers, newsletters, brochures, letterheads, booklets, etc. becomes quite effortless. Included is a great choice of templates to inspire your creativity and a variety of editing tools to let you quickly apply modifications.

Publishing software should have a wide choice of professionally made designs and advanced editing capabilities. Swift Publisher not only provides you with all this, but also makes page layout process pleasant and easy. Moreover, the Universal Binary version allows it run natively on both PowerPC and Intel-based Macintosh computers.

Suggested projects to create in Swift Publisher:

•Weekly newsletters to brighten up your MUG or any other society activities
•Fantastic flyers for handout
•Brochures, which are a great source of promoting your service at the Expo
•Colorful catalogs to describe your products and services

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If you also want to create and print business cards, CD/DVD art, address or shipping labels and such, Swift Publisher is available in the Printfolio suite.)

Key Features:

Thousands of images and designs
23,000 high quality images, 100 unique masks and about 130 professionally designed templates (flyers, brochures, booklets, letterheads,  newsletters, catalogs, etc.) is what you need for creating high-impact documents. Insert images in many supported formats—TIFF, JPEG, GIF, PDF, EPS from your computer, network or apply your iPhoto pictures using iPhoto integration.

Advanced page layout
Flow text from column to column or to another page entirely. Adjustable layout guides are convenient for precise object placement. Text Wrap feature will be helpful if you need to combine graphics and text on a page. Take advantage of rotating each page of your multipage document on the fly. Switching between Background and Foreground layers enables you to create and edit complicated designs.

Simple to use
Swift Publisher makes desktop publishing fun, easy and intuitive. Choose one of the ready-made templates, use a set of editing tools to control transparency, tiling, apply masks and fills, crop images, and enjoy the result. Want to share your stunning documents? Using Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) capabilities, you can make adjustable export to PDF as well as TIFF and JPG.

Graphics
•About 130 professionally designed templates (about 90 in the download edition) for different types of documents (flyers, letterheads, brochures, newsletters, catalogs, etc)
•23,000+ impressive images (about 1100 in the download edition)
•More than 100 unique masks, as well as the ability to use custom image as a mask
•Smart shapes with controllable behavior
•iPhoto integration
•Export your work to TIFF, JPEG and PDF (shadows remain if sent to a print shop)
•Loading graphics from your computer or network
•Adjustable export to PDF using of Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) capabilities
•Apply Mac OS X Tiger Core Image filters to your images

Powerful Publishing Tools
•Flow text from column to column or to another page entirely
•Take advantage of wrapping the text around the object in real time
•Support for multipage documents with the ability to rotate each page on the fly
•Page thumbnails panel allows you to manage pages
•Master pages option allows you to create common background for several pages (for page numbering, heading, background picture, etc.)
•Take control over line and character spacing and paragraph indention
•Create a text list with a variety of bullets
•Text to curve feature let you transform the document into vector image, this will help to avoid problems with font absence when you send a document to a printshop
•Background and Foreground layers help to create and edit advanced designs
•Adjustable layout guides are used for precise object placement.
•Imposition option in print dialog, to arrange brochure pages automatically

Easy Graphics and Text Editing
•Art Text integration to create high quality textual graphics, headings, logos, icons, web banners and buttons
•Control transparency, rotate and fill text blocks with colors
•Flexible control over text block to change spacing and size
•Apply unique styles to text and paragraphs
•Insert images in many supported formats (TIFF, JPEG, GIF, PDF, EPS and more)
•Tint, tile, control transparency and rotate images
•Image cropping allows you to crop images to remove the parts you don't like
•Make use of adjustable shadows
•Selecting objects with the opportunity to resize and rotate them as a single item
•An option to fill Smart Shapes with pictures and make creative frames for your photos
•Tables support (cells can contain text and graphics)
•Smart guides help to align objects in respect to each other
•Use Pan tool to scroll document interactively
•Use Check Spelling to avoid misprints
•Spotlight support