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I was running the El Capitan Public Beta OS, so I suspect this is not the fault of the Application but an issue that arose from the Beta! I filed a bug report with Apple and I also contacted Pearl Mountain directly to inform them. This warning message was rather disconcerting, although hitting Continue always let me carry on regardless. I did have one problem which was that whenever I hit Delete/Backspace or Return while editing text I got one of these: Scary error message Nothing that I found struck me as odd or â€œwhy did it do that?â€ It supports all the features I would expect and does it all very intuitively. If you have ever used any DTP then you willÂ be at home almost immediately, and if you are new to it everything seemsÂ easy to discover and understand. Similarly its selection of pre-made picture frames is limited, but they too are functional and a welcome addition. I was impressed that it has a selection of pre-made image masks it is not huge, but it is enough for the target audience and a very nice touch. However producing any document with more than about eight pages utilising such elements would definitely become tiresome. I think this is a failing for a DTP product, but considering the market sector it is aimed at perhaps I am being overly critical. On the down side it doesnâ€™t currently have any Master Page functionality, so things like running headers and footers, page numbering, or other standing page features have to be managed by hand. I didnâ€™t experience any weird behaviours using this, which is always a plus. I was also glad to see it had good text wrapping for making text run around objects. This always makes building consistent documents a lot less work. I was pleased that it supports Text and Object Styles. It has all the rotations, shadows, gradients, reflection effects, backgrounds and patterns that Appleâ€™s Core technologies allow.

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On the plus side it does mean the Help can be updated or expanded by the developers as and when they feel its necessaryÂ and should always therefore be up to date and 100% relevantĪs you can see from the screen shots Publisher Plus supports the usual features. If I wanted to nit-pick I would say it might be nice if the Help didnâ€™t require Internet access, but for most of us that isnâ€™t really much of a problem these days.

I checked out the rather basic set of preferences and the very presentable online Help. Regardless of what I think, the current trend for consumers to be working on small screen laptops and tablets seems to indicate that this style of application layout is likely to become ever more prevalent in non professional software. That said, the layout and presentation within each of the Inspectors is clear and easy to get to grips with.

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It works well enough on my 13â€ MacBook Pro screen, but there is no way that I can use that style of application efficiently on my iMac with a secondary 24â€ monitor. It makes everything feel like it was made for an iPad.

I will say upfront that I am not a great lover of the one window frame style of application setup. Wide selection of stock images is included However, I think that Pearl Mountain might be better off keeping the lower price (more closely matching their competitors) and actually selling some of the stock imagery and templates as In App Purchases.

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This is a nice touch and certainly goes some way towards supporting the full asking price. Both of which can be hidden.Īs well as your own pictures there is a very large selection of stock images provided. The work area with Assets to the left and Inspectors on the right. Publisher Plus presents a fairly typical DTP interface with the Inspectors on the right hand sidebar and the photo assets on the left.

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Publisher Plus opens up to a large selection of very nice pre-designed templates and several more sets are available (currently for free as In App Purchases). Newsletter front page with boxes, shadows, rotations, blends and text wrapping. For this review I built this simple newsletter front page.

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In order to review desktop publishing software I like to build a simple little document to get a feel for how the package operates. I recommend you try out the app before you make a decision to purchase. It is designed for producing posters, flyers, newsletters, menus, and anything else you might want to print.Â It is priced at $39.90 on the developerâ€™s site but only $19.99 on the Mac App Store (the developer tells me this is a â€œtime limited App Store offerâ€ but it isnâ€™t made clear anywhere.) There is also a Publisher Lite that is free. Publisher Plus is a Desktop Publishing (DTP) package similar to Pages, Swift Publisher, PageMeUp or iStudio Publisher. Publisher Plus Desktop Publishing Applicationĭirect from developerâ€™s website $39.90 US / Â£33.54 UK