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Press-ready PDF files
Now PagePlus’s PDF output is 100% press-ready! Compliant with the new PDF/X1a standard, PagePlus’s PDF output is now compatible with print presses the world over, there’s no barrier to perfect professional printing! With support for Spot colours and composite CMYK colour, the single PDF file can now contain all the correct and accurate colour information to ensure that your publications look just the way you want them to.
More Efficient and Better Looking PDF files
Font embedding has been improved, including support for embedding subset fonts—embed just those characters that have been used in the publication in order to reduce the PDF’s file size. There’s now also support for faux fonts—bold and italic styles in your document that have been “faked” because there is no specific font file for the style... where a bold or italic (or bold italic) style is used and a font file does not exist, PagePlus can still reproduce the style in the PDF, as the font is converted to curves.
PDF Security
Security features are introduced with document protection and encryption. Now PagePlus’s PDFs can be protected against copying, changing, printing, and being added to. Additional security allows for password protection against opening the PDF, and an additional management password control allows changes to the levels of protection after publication!
Instant 3D
Transform any text and any shapes into impressive 3D objects with their own texture, lighting, bevels, extrusion and perspective controls. And the original object (text, shape, QuickShape etc) remains editable.
Object Styles
Transform your text and other objects with a single click! From A to B or C in just one click? You bet! With a gallery of ready-made styles, it’s a breeze to renovate your creations with stunning 3D filter effects, fills, transparency, line styles, border and even typeface. You can create your own styles, edit existing ones, and even choose which of the customisable style elements are stored and applied to your objects! Objects update as you improve the styles, so your whole document can update in a single operation!
New Range Of Filter Effects
Add more depth and texture to objects and text you create in PagePlus with stunning new Filter Effects. Computer-generated patterns and surface textures mean realistic-looking wood, water, skin, marble and much more. New lighting controls, patterns and textures open up a whole new creative world—and your objects, along with the effects themselves, remain editable. And of course your favourite settings can be saved as Object Styles for future single-click-use!
ICC Colour Profiling
Colour profiling will mean more accurate colours for profiled monitors and printers—your printed and PDF output can now more closely match on-screen colours.
Easier Curve Drawing with Smart Curves
There are plenty of occasions when drawing a curve is handy in PagePlus—custom shapes as text containers, logos and artwork, areas of subtle colour, special flashes and buttons—and drawing your own curved shapes has become far easier with the new Smart Curve type. Simply click on a few points and PagePlus will automatically produce curves between them, no need to practice with Beziers!
Warping - Deform using Envelopes
Warp any of your objects in PagePlus—text, shapes, imported pictures—using customisable envelopes. Add perspective, slant, bulges and more. Choose to deform just outlines or include the object’s fill, and see an optional mesh grid showing the geometry of your warp.
Table Tool Improved with Spreadsheet Functionality and More
Tables have already been improved in recent PagePlus versions thanks to the Table Tool, and now we’re taking things a step further. Tables now support cell formatting, spreadsheet calculations, database import, improved copy and paste, and drag and drop! Phew! And it’s all made easier thanks to a new Table Toolbar.
Convert Shapes to Text Frames or Crop Outlines
This simple and flexible conversion process allows for even more creative freedom. Now any drawn shape can become a container for flowing text, or a crop outline (or clipping path) for uniquely-shaped pictures or other objects. Stamping your own personality and creative input on text and images has never been easier!
Convert to Curves
Converting to curves will make it possible to tweak text (or other shape) outlines, also called paths, making all objects, including the already-flexible QuickShapes, infinitely customisable. Text converted to curves and exported as a vector file can be an effective way to create a headline suitable for use on other computers that do not have the same font installed.
Text Enhancements
Text on a Path, Envelopes, and Custom Shaped Text Frames are just some of the ways that working with text has been improved. We’re also introducing improved text Find and Replace functionality, customisable Text Slant for “italics” in either direction to your desired magnitude, and the ability to change Text Case for those times that you accidentally misuse the cAPS lOCK key!
Colour Schemes Support CMYK colours
Custom colour Schemes can now contain CMYK-value colours so that any documents containing schemes are suitable for professional printing either via separations or the creation of composite CMYK PDF files.
Maintain Web Sites
In addition to being able to upload your Web site straight to a FTP Server from within PagePlus, you can now also switch to Maintenance Mode to see your uploaded files, rename them, delete them, move them and more, enjoying familiar Explorer-style views and controls.
Centralise Web Pages
A new Web publishing option allows Web pages to be centralised in viewers’ Browsers, even though PagePlus promises pixel-accurate output!
Set a Fixed Text Size in Web Pages
PagePlus has always offered flexibility in Web design, and accurately reproduces your creations as Web pages, and now we can also offer fixed-size text so that when viewed in a Browser with non-standard font display settings, your Web site still looks exactly as you intended.
Studio Page Manager
A great new visual way to organize your multi-page publications, the new Studio Page Manager allows you to add, copy and delete pages or to assign a new underlying Master Page. You can even drag and drop the pages within your document to instantly change their sequence...
Multipage View
A massive usability improvement, Multipage View enables you to work with many pages in view at once, allowing you to type, draw and even drag and drop objects from one page to another, or from different sections of your document, in an instant.
Multiple Master Pages
Multiple Master Pages give you a choice of templates for all your longer documents allowing you to easily define different page styles for different sections of your projects. It's never been quicker or easier to create great looking standard and longer documents.
Graphics Inline With Text
A much requested enhancement, PagePlus 8 now allows you to set graphics to stay with their associated text. If the text changes position as more copy is added to the page, or flows from one page to the next, the graphics will automatically move with it.
Faster Text Engine
PagePlus 8's new Secondary Font Caching technology means that text resizing and reflowing is quicker than ever, with instant font and size changes making all your work more productive.
Drag and Drop
With PagePlus 8 it's simple to drag and drop elements from other applications - add images from Web browsers, text from your word processor and charts from spreadsheets, more quickly and easily than ever...
Replicate Tool
With the incredible new Replicate Tool, you can automatically create multiple copies of any object, spread out along a line or in a grid pattern. It's ideal for making perfectly aligned montages of your favorite pictures or objects.
Table Tool
The all new Table Tool allows you to design powerful tables directly within PagePlus, with no need for a separate utility. Plus, there's AutoSpell to correct common spelling errors, AutoFill for numbers and dates and stunning background fills to help you create your best looking tables, ever.
Picture Borders
Transform imported pictures with great looking borders. PagePlus 8's new Picture Borders allow you to easily select a repeating pattern to use as an artistic frame for your favorite photo and you can even customize corners to get great results every time.
Curved Wrap Outlines
PagePlus 8 allows you to easily create simple curves for wrap outlines with Bezier node editing for full control over your shapes. Flowing text around a curved shape is quicker, easier and smoother than ever!
Freehand Shapes
Draw any shape you can imagine with PagePlus 8's amazing new easy to use freehand drawing tools. PagePlus will straighten your lines, smooth your curves and even automatically create closed objects for you allowing you to create stunning filled designs with no need for a separate drawing package.
Stunning Fills
PagePlus 8's stunning range of fill types allows you to instantly create amazing, eye catching designs, with radial, conical, linear and new bitmap fills. Enhance your freehand shapes, QuickShapes and even Artistic Text with these great professional effects, now all your documents will really stand out...
Bitmap Transparencies
New bitmap transparency effects can be applied to any filled object, allowing you to further graphically enhance all your documents. Now you can create even more professional, high impact designs that will really make your graphic designer friends jealous!
Artistic Text
Now you can instantly create outstanding designer text, with stunning transparency effects, bitmap fills and graduated colours, perfect for high impact headlines and powerful design elements. Instantly resize, recolour, add fancy line styles and so much more the amazing design possibilities that Artistic Text opens up have to be seen to be believed!
Rollover Graphics Support
Design attractive Web sites with rollover graphics that change as a mouse cursor passes over them, with the option to specify up to four pictures to use as custom Rollovers when PagePlus creates your Web site and simple import of Rollover graphics from DrawPlus.
Shadows, Glows & Bevels
High-end graphical effects for all your objects! PagePlus 8 can automatically create transparent drop shadows, inner shadows, inner glows, outer glows, plus bevel and emboss effects. These stunning effects, usually restricted to photo editing applications can now be applied to any object, right within PagePlus!
Optimize Web Graphics
Now you can apply your choice of image compression directly within PagePlus to ensure that your Web sites will download even more quickly than before. Plus, new global settings allow you to easily change the default format for Web graphics created by PagePlus.
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