Product Description

PagePlus X3 is Serif's award-winning, affordable, Vista certified, desktop publishing powerhouse. With impressive design tools, professionally-produced templates, flexible layout capabilities, intuitive ease-of-use, PDF-editing and high-end output options, PagePlus X3 is the ideal solution for creating eye-catching, quality designs for desktop and pro-printing or the Web! PagePlus X3 brings the power of a professional design studio to any home, business, school, or club, with an unrivalled range of design and layout features alongside friendly tutorials and on-screen guidance and a customizable interface. It's never been easier to produce attractive business stationery, brochures, greeting cards, newsletters, posters, flyers, calendars, labels and even full length books!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #592 in Software
• Brand: Serif
• Model: PPX3USREVMBRT
• Released on: 2008-05-05
• Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista
• Format: CD-ROM
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .85 pounds

Features

• PagePlus X3 is an award-winning, versatile and powerful page design and publishing product ideal for business design tasks at every level.
• The desktop publishing marvel consistently excels against its competitors, offering unrivalled power and flexibility while remaining easy to use--and affordable.
• PagePlus X3 is perfect for everything from simple flyers and posters to multi-chapter books.
• Unbeatable PDF import, edit, and export ability ensures reliable commercial output and near-universal sharing compatibility.
• The power of a professional design studio means you can have top-quality in-house graphic design--no external agencies required.

Amazon.com
PagePlus X3 Publisher Professional is Serif's award-winning Vista certified, desktop publishing powerhouse. With outstanding graphic design tools, professionally-produced business templates, flexible layout capabilities, full PDF-editing and high-end output options, PagePlus X3 is the ideal solution for creating eye-catching, quality designs for desktop and professional printing. PagePlus X3 brings the power of a professional design studio to any business, organization, or club, with an unrivalled range of design and layout features alongside user-friendly tutorials, on-screen guidance, and a customizable interface. It's never been easier to produce stunning professional business stationery, brochures, newsletters, posters, flyers, labels, marketing materials, and even books in-house. PagePlus X3 consistently excels against its competitors, offering unrivalled power and flexibility while remaining easy to use--and affordable. PagePlus X3 proves it is perfect for everything from simple flyers and posters to multi-chapter books.

The professional desktop publishing solution. Click to enlarge.

1. Select template--Use a professional template or open a PDF file. Click to enlarge.

2. Edit template--Easily customize and edit to suit your individual needs. Click to enlarge.

3. Print/email/PDF--Print or email your publication, even save as a PDF. Click to enlarge.

The Professional Desktop Publishing Solution

Perfect results within minutes
Get high quality results--fast--with over 2500 professional templates, logos, and gallery graphics. New Design Packs give your document range a full style makeover!

Unrivalled PDF editing
Beating other desktop publishers at all price points, you can open and fully edit PDFs from anywhere just as if they were regular PagePlus documents.

Powerful graphics
Correct and enhance your images, design outstanding graphics, add impact with galleries of effects, or use class-leading drawing tools.

In-house design studios
PagePlus's unique Image Cutout Studio and Logo Studio make it easy to make your publications stand out from the crowd.

Publishing power
Create almost anything with PagePlus's flexible document creation and output capabilities. Print publications of any size to any Windows printer.

Professional printing
Have your designs printed reliably at the highest quality thanks to PagePlus X3; its exceptional PDF exports include everything a commercial printer needs.

Get creative
Design and creativity with PagePlus X3 can also mean stunning websites, emails, even multimedia PDF slideshows and interactive PDF forms.

Customer Reviews

Terrificly easy to use
We recently used PagePlus X3 to make a newsletter about our upcoming event. We didn't want to spend alot so decided to try out PagePlus. It was incredibly easy to use and we spent very little time learning the software. The Cut Out Studio helped to optimize the stock images we purchased by eliminating the background. When we were done we converted to PDF and sent right off to the printer. We received several compliments on the newsletter as well as some stickers with the company logo we designed in the Logo Studio. Great product and worth a try!

Just awesome for the money
Ok, I have to admit it - I'm totally converted to Serif software when I hadn't even heard of them 6 months. I've used Microsoft Publisher for years and years, but after using both WebPlus and DrawPlus from Serif I thought I'd give their DTP product a go. THis is more powerful, has loads more features, is far easier to use AND is a lot less money than Microsoft.

I've just made a flyer for an upcoming event. The thing that surprises me most is the drawing and graphics tools which are in here - I didn't need to use DrawPlus, I just did it straight in PagePlus. Apart from saving a load of time, the cool thing is that if you need to adjust a graphic as you're laying it out on the page you can do all the adjustments in place, without having to keep tweaking it in another program, importing it in, realising it's still not quite right, editing it again in your drawing program, etc. etc.

Please, don't spend $160 on Microsoft Publisher - save yourself $60 and get this instead. You will not be dissapointed.

NOT for full-length books!
This product is being actively promoted in author/writer communities as a book layout and publishing application. The product description here even says, "perfect for . . . multi-chapter books." Not so.

For starters, it doesn't support different running headers for sections/chapters, nor does it support a different first page header for a section/chapter (even Word or WordPerfect can do those things). What's required is that you create a unique document/file for each chapter. If you want chapters to have a different first page design (like most normal books), you have to create two documents/files for each chapter. Then you use a separate "BookPlus" utility (included) to string them all together, number the pages, build a table of contents, etc. It's very awkward.

The book export options are standard PDF/X-1 and X-1a, with no apparent way to apply the custom settings or profiles that may be provided or recommended by a specific printer/press. If/how OpenType fonts and encapsulated PostScript are supported and handled is unclear. So all in all, several things that no one else may care about (but that really matter to self-publishers who prepare their own books for press) are either not provided or involve more work than they should.

Aside from that, this product seems to be everything it claims. It is superior to MS Publisher in almost every way, and provides a lot of the advanced text, graphic, and color management capabilities that you'd only find in something like Adobe CreativeSuite (yet this is much easier to learn and use -- and obviously more affordable). Actually, laying out the content on a given page is easy and the results are impressive.

I ordered this product because it was being pitched as a "perfect" layout tool for books, capable of producing "unrivaled" commercial output quality. It's not. Granted, for the price, it would have been really impressive if it WAS -- but it's not. So if you're an author or publisher who is considering it solely for that purpose, I think you'll be disappointed. For routine desktop publishing needs, however, I concur with the other four/five-star reviews posted here.