#Swift publisher reviews mac#

While you can create text boxes and select text using familiar Toolkit tools, the palette is where you tweak text elements and set how it wraps around an object, although we couldn't get a text wrap to follow a Photoshop clipping path. The Inspector palette houses the program's real power. You can even add text around the same shape's border. Flexibly, the same container can hold bitmap images, PDFs and EPS files at the same time just by turning on a checkbox in the Image Inspector palette and importing an image. To add text inside a shape, you select the Text tool and click inside the shape.

Rather than create text or image boxes to hold relevant content, Publisher uses its shapes - created either from the Shape Library or using the Toolkit's Line, Bézier Curve or Freeform Scribble tools - as containers to hold any type of content. If you have experience of QuarkXPress or InDesign, iStudio Publisher's approach to layout will take getting used to, but its approach is often better. Given the plethora of palettes, accompanied by chunky icons, it's a relief that you can hide different areas of the layout through a panel at the bottom of the screen. Below this, a Shape Library includes an array of polygons, curves, arrows and callouts that can be quickly added to a document, while fine control over page elements is offered through an Inspector palette. Its toolbar is dominated by layout options and object rotation tools, while a Toolkit on the left houses text, image and drawing tools.

The program looks like a clumsy hybrid of word processing and illustration programs.

#Swift publisher reviews mac#

The market for budget Mac page layout applications has been forlorn for years, but iStudio Publisher is joining Apple's Pages and clutch of other rivals in what has suddenly become a highly competitive arena.Īnd this newcomer has enough innovative features to ensure it's taken seriously in its new surroundings.