Art Explosion Publisher Pro

Rating:
Summary: Excellent Choice!
Review: I purchased this software because it had the formats required by the professional printers I use. I have been even more pleased with how easy it is to use this program. It is much like the program by Microsoft I was accustom to working. Within one hour of starting this program I had a professional design laid out for my client ready to go to the printer. It is much more user-friendly than Corel Draw 12 or Adobe products. I am very pleased with my purchase. I would definitely recomment this product.

Rating:
Summary: Great Value!
Review: Nova is a company that buys software from other companies and then they jazz it up with templates, other software, graphics, etc. For the end user this can mean a great deal. You may not get the latest version but you will get solid software with lots of extras. I usually can figure out what software the product really is, not so with this one. What I can tell you is that it is pretty high end as it offers tons of features not found in lesser packages including the ability to create PDF files and Postscript (with color separations) for professional publishing. It also has high end features like the ability to create a table on contents. Add to all of this a quality photo editor. The photo editor sort of looks like an older version of PhotoPaint. It doesn't have wizards (like automatic color balance)...it is strickly manual. With that said, it does has higher end controls like "levels and curves." Remember that your getting this program for FREE. Add to all of this TONS of professionally designed ready made templates and (they say, I have not counted!) 100,000 clip art images. Some of the images are really fun like those BW ad people from the 1950s. Nova has a $30 competative rebate going on too making Publisher Pro super cheap. For years I have used MS Publisher 2000 for most of my publishing needs (including producing a company newsletter). I think this product offers a lot more than Microsoft Publisher. A definate buy.