Maul Publisher 2.28 is a Desktop Publishing product from manglais.com, get 5 Stars SoftSea Rating, Maul Publisher is aimed at anyone needing to quickly create pleasing and sophisticated publications, without the high cost of one of the industry leading packages. It is aimed at anyone wanting to quickly create printed presentations, club magazines, business cards, cd inlays, or posters.
Many cheaper desktop publishers offer little more than can be achieved with a modern word processor, whereas Maul is quite simply one of the most strong DTP applications available today.
Group frames together to create instant scalable company logo's. Ease the workflow by using master pages and style sheets for consistent quality. Directly create colour separations to ensure perfect results. Maul has one of the most sophisticated freeform text formatters of the industry, able to kern text and inline images along even a wildly curved path.
Maul is a modular product, with a freely available programmers toolkit describing how to create modules and import/export filters for Maul, as well as a full description of the file format used. This means your precious data will never be locked away in some impenetrable proprietary file format.
Features:
* Page management providing automated page numbering, even for folded sheet booklets, managed double sided printing on single sided printers, imposition, gutter and gutter centre management, page to printsheet recentering, user defined page forms to create publications at any scale, automatic reversing grids and margins between pages, grids defined on a per page basis if required, user defined alignment markers, snap to selected markers and grids, automated page folding margin compensation. Multiple master pages, and automatic frame chaining between master pages.
* Viewport management provides views of facing pages, of print pages, of pages within print pages, of pages scaled to fill the screen, of printer scale. Zoom from 16x to 0.13x in 15 steps.
* Colour management with direct colour separation from rgb images and metafiles, loadable and saveable plain text colour tables, named colours, spot colours, colour shading with brightness compensation and colour transition management, and overall tonal compensation.
* The full powered freeform text formatter enables text to be placed in any shape of frame, at any angle, and can flow around any shape of overlapping frame too! Text can be placed along any shape of line, curve, or border, and will directly cut & paste from the inside of frames to a frame border, without losing any of the text styles and sizes. You can place drop capitals at the start of any paragraph, and this still works even if the frame is not rectangular. Add inlined images to text, and as the text is altered the inline image remains in the right place. Images and metafiles are subject to the same freeform rules and can be placed in any shape of frame at any angle.
* Professional hyphenation and spellchecking tools combine with features such as user dictionaries and speculative hyphenation to create perfectly formed text areas.
* Bitmap image tools provide all the tools required to manage both bitmaps and icons. Create maskmaps from bitmap images, and format text around the mask. Bitmaps can be directly scanned using a twain compatible interface.
* Full undo and redo for every alteration made. Paint enables allow parts of the publication to be temporarily turned off to ease the redraw overhead in complex publications. Keyboard shortcuts are editable for maximum user comfort. Global style settings allow customisation of button styles, startup views, and tracking handle sizes. Integrated stylesheet management allows stylesheets to be created for text, text titles, bitmaps, metafiles, borders, backgrounds, and frames.
* Computer assisted contents and index extraction provide a fast way to complete one of the most time consuming aspects of desktop publishing.
* Maul is totally modular, with a publically available user interface. This enables anyone to add functionality to Maul Publisher if they desire. The license of this design software is Free Trial Software, the price is $87, you can free download and get a free trial before you buy. If you want to get a full or nolimited version of Maul Publisher, you can buy this design software.