HomePrint Publisher

HomePrint Publisher is a package to create professional-looking publications quickly and with little expertise.

Pros: This application lets its users to create professional looking publications quite easily. There are some12 different types of templates that give you ready to use layouts. Use one of these templates to create your document, add text, and images to the template layout, and print it. While these can help creating things in a hurry one could start from scratch and use creativity to the fullest. Add you text directly into text boxes, cut and paste, import text from files. Position images and objects, rotate and otherwise manipulate them to get stunning effects. It is easy to arrange text around the images and graphic elements to create as creative a layout as possible. Linking of text boxes extends this versatility even more. Advanced text handling capabilities like tabs, indents, rulers, base line shift, line spacing, character spacing control and so on help create nice text blocks. Create custom headlines with the Power Text Tool for high impact with various text effects that includes font shape, filling, and background as well as outline color, pattern, and shade and gradient. Bezier & Bezier Text Tool lets the users create Bezier curves and arrange text along such curves for effect or to create curved objects. Use the Bezier Tool to add Bezier curved objects to your documents. The Bezier Text tool allows you to add text and change some text attributes, such as font, font size, color, and shade. Speech balloons are another set of tools that can be used effectively. Master pages that can be used as templates and style sheets are further aids to text management. All this is rounded up by the spell checker & thesaurus facilities. Auto save reminders make sure no changes are lost while working. Whole set of object manipulation tools help arranging graphic elements quite easy.

Cons: One glaring problem is lack of tools to create PDF documents out of the material created. Today’s day and age this is a necessity.

Overall it’s a feature rich application, fairly easy to use. This certainly is at least of 3 star value.

• Automatic timed save reminder (which you can turn off)
• Use Spell Checker and Thesaurus to your convenience.
• Master Pages support adds simplicity and power. Create several master pages, and use them as templates for your document pages throughout your publication.
• Advanced text handling capabilities like tabs idents, rulers, base line shift, line spacing, character spacing control, and more!
• Style Sheets allow you to make formatting text a fun. Create several style sheets you are going to use in your publication, and format in in just a few clicks!
• Add various shapes to your application like styled lines, arcs, ovals rectangles and more!
• Speech Balloons: Create speech balloons of 12 shapes, add line width, color, style, and insert your desired text!
• Power Text: Create custom headlines with the Power Text Tool with various text effects that includes font shape, filling, background and outline color, pattern, and shade and gradient.
• Bezier & Bezier Text Tool: Use the Bezier Tool to add Bezier curved objects to your documents! The Bezier Text tool allows you to add text and change some text attributes, such as font, font size, color, and shade.