PagePlus X6 (PC)

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 14.2 x 2.3 x 19.8 cm
• Delivery Destinations: Visit the Delivery Destinations Help page to see where this item can be delivered.
• ASIN: B005Z0HAKS
• Release Date: 29 Dec 2011
  

By : Serif
Price : £50.55

Product Description

Manufacturer's Description
Professional Desktop Publishing Made Easy
PagePlus X6 is the 1-ranked desktop publishing software that provides all you need for business-class digital publishing and print design – with no experience required. Create stylish promotional materials and stationery, fully edit PDFs, publish eBooks for iPad® and Kindle™, and make interactive multimedia brochures like no other office software!
^{Desktop Publishing Software That Helps You:}
? Promote your business or club with posters, brochures, flyers and newsletters
? Create documents and stationery from scratch or using agency-quality templates
? Open, fully edit, and save PDFs optimised/optimized for printing, sharing, or uploading to the web
? Publish eBooks for Kindle™, iPad® or other readers, tablets and smartphones
? Design professional logos and edit photos in dedicated studios
? Print right-first-time yourself or professionally, with print press compatibility
? Create business forms for printing or share as PDF to receive responses by email
Desktop Publishing and Design Made Easy
PagePlus X6 offers quality designs without the need for design experience so you can your business can look its best – fast. Templates, artwork, automated assistants, and on-screen guides all help make it quick and easy.
Templates Bring Results Without Design Fees
Use one of the many fully-customisable/customizable templates to kick start your next project, or use stylish Theme Layouts as the basis of a custom design. Simply add your own images and text for the fastest way to create amazing documents – ideal if you're new to desktop publishing or in a hurry. PagePlus X6’s power and usability give you the quickest way to create responsive marketing materials and more without compromising on quality.
Colourschemes give documents a consistent look with just one click, or use your own branding colours. PagePlus X6 also offers drag and drop graphics, images, signs, flashes and more, with a powerful graphics organiser/organizer and manager so you can find what you want when you need it.


All-in-One Design for Print and Digital Output
Outshine other office software with drag and drop designing and total freedom of layout, while automated design assistants help keep you looking neat. Mix text, pictures, logos, shapes and more, adding eye-catching graphical styles using one-click presets and intuitive tools.
Photo editing and logo creation tools are included with built in, dedicated design studios, so you can complete entire projects in this one package. And that includes electronic publications too! eBooks, eForms, plus eBrochures and eMagazines with clickable interactivity and streamed videos are all at your fingertips. Engage with customers in exciting new ways, whether they use PCs, Macs, tablets like the iPad®, eBook readers like the Kindle™, or smartphones.


Great Support if You Need it
We’ve made PagePlus as easy to use as it’s ever been with drag and drop technologies and smart assistants, but if you find yourself needing a helping hand there are plenty of ways to make sure your projects don’t take longer than they should. Interactive 'How To' guides give step-by-step instructions without interrupting your workflow, a status bar at the bottom of the screen provides useful tool tips, and the Help menu links to masses of information and video tutorials.
You can ask any question (even if it’s not about PagePlus) in our friendly online customer forums, or quickly search our extensive knowledge base to find the answer you need. Of course, we provide direct support too, so when you want advice there are lots of helping hands available.

Professional Publishing You Can Rely On
You can count on PagePlus X6 to help you produce high-quality designs that can be printed yourself or sent to a professional print shop for accurate results. Also publish digitally for sharing documents efficiently online, by email, or distributing via eBook stores.

Full PDF Editing and Broad Compatibility
Fully edit PDFs from anywhere, with more flexibility than any other desktop publishing software – ideal for updating and refreshing existing documents or correcting errors in PDFs before they are distributed or printed. Full PDF editing power lets you move, resize, recolour/recolor, replace anything in the design, add new text and images, include bookmarks and notes, merge multiple PDFs, manage pages, and add security. It’s like editing a normal PagePlus file – there is nothing you can't do!
Import Microsoft® Word and OpenOffice.org® files, ideal for enhancing and repurposing existing documents. Use popular and professional image types including JPG, PNG, TIFF, and Adobe® Photoshop® files, and even edit images to make them look their best.

Ideal for Professional Printing
Send your designs to professional print shops with confidence that they’ll be able to open and accurately print your job. PagePlus X6 produces PDF/X compliant files favoured by the print industry (international standard ISO 15930-1), containing all design elements, ink colours and other important print information in one neat package.
If you have specific needs to colour-match existing branding or marketing, or even if you have your heart set on a specific colour from a chart, you can get exact results using Pantone® PMS, Goe™ and PLUS colour systems. There's even built-in colour management so all your graphics and images will look as intended with a workflow optimised/optimized for calibrated screens.

The Latest Digital Publishing
Become a published author! Produce eBooks in standard EPUB® and .Mobi formats for readers like the Kindle™, tablets like the iPad, smartphones, and for publishing to online book stores. Text and images flow together neatly and adapt to suit different fonts and screen sizes, with your publication’s pictures optimised/optimized for efficiency. A publishing wizard guides you to polished end results, helping you add author, copyright, ISBN and more.
Create engaging interactive eBrochures, eMagazines and other electronic documents with graphical buttons, hyperlinks, streamed video, audio and almost unlimited actions, making your information brighter and more memorable; simply ingenious! Improve form responses by creating eForms for completing on-screen, with answers sent to you by email – for free.

Summary

PagePlus X6 is the 1-ranked desktop publishing and design software that empowers businesses, clubs, organisations/ organizations and individuals to create professional-looking documents with no design experience required.
Outshine communications made using other office software with greater freedom of layout, a rich graphic design toolset, built-in photo editing and – uniquely for a desktop publisher – fully-fledged PDF editing so you can open documents from almost anywhere. Take your designs to a high level using stylish templates, drag and drop graphics, or your choice of custom design elements and colours, perfectly suited to desktop printing or professional output with fantastic print shop compatibility.
Share your documents digitally for widespread audiences and consumption on the latest gadgets. Create impressive interactive eMagazines and eBrochures, optimised/optimized PDFs, eForms, HTML web pages, or eBooks compatible with the latest handheld devices, ready to upload to online book stores.

PagePlus X6 is the 1 desktop publishing software that provides all you need for business-class digital publishing and print design - with no experience required. Create stylish promotional materials and stationery, fully edit PDFs, publish eBooks for iPad and Kindle, and make interactive multimedia brochures like no other office software! Whether you're running a startup business, an established company, or involved in a club, organisation or charity, you'll appreciate the power and features of this profes...

 

PagePlus X6 (PC)

 

Customer Reviews

PagePlus X6 is a DeskTop Publishing program for producing things like brochures and magazines/newsletters, posters and flyers, menus and invitation/business cards, and business stationary. Serif PagePlus X6 is geared up for both paper printing and producing PC file output for eBooks [Kindle/iPad], pdf, eMagazines/eBrochures, and HTML web-pages. It can also create pdf questionaire forms for collecting customer information or surveys.
The original version of UK based Serif's PagePlus was released in 1991, the first commercial DTP package for Windows selling for under £100. Now Serif have over 6 million customers and their software is popular with voluntary and low-income organisations, and only the lack of Apple Mac support is cited as preventing it gaining wider acceptance within professional circles. Main competitors for PagePlus X6 are QuarkXPress, Adobe Indesign, and Microsoft's Publisher 2010. Serif's key advantage over these is that it is almost as powerful as Indesign/QuarkExpress, while being far easier to use and 10 times cheaper to buy. Although Microsoft Publisher 2010 is as cheap (and recently much improved), Publisher lacks PagePlus's complete integrated package of a powerful photo-editor, graphics creation tools, PDF editor, and logo creator - and PagePlus is simply more serious about professional printing. To help get new users started, Serif offer on-line videos ; FAQ, pdf and optional printed manuals, in-program help and guided assistance, local UK customer support and on-line community forums.
The hundreds of supplied design templates and logos are really just to get you started though, so to produce excellent professional output you will also have to get to grips with many of PagePlus X6's tools. So there is a learning curve and you need some creative flair to get superb results - although for creativity you can get a lot of inspiration from the wealth of professional output already on the web. The key skill is to get used to working with multiple layers and using tools like the photo-editor to add effects, overlay cut-out graphics and photo objects, and the logo designer to create your brand identifying emblems. All this might be a bit of overkill for very infrequent users producing the likes of simple newsletters, particularly if they aren't that PC/photography techie, and they could stick to the simpler back-office Microsoft Publisher 2010.
For PagePlus X5 upgraders the new additions include the ability to produce eBooks in standard EPUB and Mobi formats for the likes of the Kindle, smartphones, iPad and other tablet eBook readers. Plus you can now `Asset manage' your resources into organised collections using the Asset Tab, and PagePlus has generally had a revamp with updated workspace and tools, like better dictionary autocorrect, improved `Index/Table-of-Contents' tools, and enhanced pdf output and template editing. Plus there are new graphics tools, a Preflight Checker to check all your settings like fonts/image resolution are OK, and there's the addition of more Pantone colours for accurate colour printing. Another factor convincing me to upgrading is the likely improved stability and speed with my new Windows 7 64-bit quad core workstation (although admittedly even PagePlus X4 runs fine for me on this PC).
All the old PagePlus tools are there as well, offering everything from master page layouts to transparency, and glass ; metal effects to get you from a template or pdf, through the design, effects ; editing studio and off to the printer or the web. There's automated design assistants to help `keep things neat', and there's a duplexing wizard to help you print booklets and brochures correctly in-house, or you can export the project to pdf and web or get it off to professional printers for top quality results. There's press-ready PDF output presets, PDF/X compliance for commercial presses and print houses, RGB, CMYK and Pantone® colour support and ICC colour management. The pdf editor is powerful and it's very useful if you don't have the original document that created the pdf. PagePlus X6 also has support for importing text from Word 2010 and OpenOffice, and it's powerful composition engine offers dynamic-guide alignment, with support for OpenType fonts such as swashes, ornaments and intelligent character pairs.
The install program comes in a tidy little thin DVD case, with all the PagePlus `resources' [templates, graphics etc] now installed with the main program rather than a separate CD. When required the software updates itself over the internet. System requirements are a minimal Pentium class processor, 512Mb system Ram, 1024x768 display [i.e. not for 1024x600 netbooks - although unlocking and sliding the Windows taskbar out of the way might help], 2.05 Gb hard drive space, and Windows 7/Vista [32/64-bit] or XP [32-bit only]. However the more powerful the PC, the more responsive the program is to use. The addition of a colour printer, twain compatible scanner/camera, internet access and possibly an A5 Wacom Pen input tablet would also be very useful. Some have found Serif's nag screen and telephone registration irksome, although you can opt out of subsequent telephone sales calls, plus you can register on-line, or keep clicking the nag screen and never register. But still another 4.5 for PagePlus X6, with the many updated tweaks and features, for me it's worth the upgrade price over X5 now that I have moved to Windows 7 64-bit. Plus usefully the Serif licences allow program installs on both your work PC and a laptop or home PC. Serif also produce their highly rated PhotoPlus, WebPlus, MoviePlus and DrawPlus creative design packages. Serif prices generally fall over the year, particularly when the arrival of the next version in imminent in the autumn, and often it's cheaper buying PagePlus from resellers such as Amazon rather than direct from Serif (but check on the day).

Have never used a publishing program before so this was a vertical learning curve. We're happy with the results and have made good progress. The only minus side for me is that the tutorial is on-line and since we keep the internet strictly apart from our business PC this was inconvenient, particularly since the tutorial was very useful and would have been even more useful if it had been part of the package. The borderless front page of the book took a number of attempts before we found that the page needed to be manual feed, but looks impressive now its done, and the Photolab part of the program is really very interesting and creative.

 

PagePlus X6 (PC)