App Shopper: Swift Publisher 3 (Graphics & Design)

App Activity

May 15 '13	Version 3.2.1
Nov 26 '12	$14.99 -> $19.99
Nov 16 '12	$19.99 -> $14.99
Nov 08 '12	Version 3.2
Aug 17 '12	Version 3.1.1
Jun 12 '12	Version 3.1
Apr 13 '12	$29.99 -> $19.99
Apr 11 '12	$19.99 -> $29.99
Mar 20 '12	Version 3.0.1
Mar 03 '12	$29.99 -> $19.99
Mar 02 '12	New App: $29.99, v3.0

About AppShopper

For more information on Contacting Us, App Submissions, and Advertising, visit our About page

Swift Publisher 3

Mac OS

Limited time offer - 30% savings!
Enhanced for the MacBook Pro with Retina Display.

Swift Publisher is a page layout and desktop publishing app for designing and printing fliers, newsletters, brochures, calendars, letterheads, booklets, and much more.

Key Features

● Choose from over 180 pre-designed templates
● Use master pages to quickly create uniform pages for any project
● Set up a grid and place your own guides
● Achieve complex designs by designing on an unlimited number of layers
● Create columns with text that flows from one text box to another
● Configure text styles for a document and apply them with one click of the mouse
● Apply linear and radial gradients, draw freehand shapes, apply strokes, and more
● Choose pictures from a library of over 1,000 clipart images
● Import photos directly from iPhoto and Aperture for use in your design
● Edit photos and apply Core Image filters using the built-in image editor
● Apply one of over 100 image masks to any picture
● Add a calendar and edit both the appearance and format
● Save documents to iCloud and access them on your other Macs
● Set up bleeds and DPI
● Export to TIFF, JPEG, EPS, and PDF to send it to a print shop
● Print multi-page booklets at home while the app takes care of page order for you

Page Layout
● Customizable rulers that can be shown and hidden
● Generate a grid with just a few clicks of the mouse
● Place your own guides on the canvas to help with aligning objects
● Smart guides help when aligning design elements relative to one another
● Flow text from column to column using flowing text boxes
● Create multiple pages and navigate them all within the same document
● Design and print multi-page booklets right at home
● Design on multiple layers to achieve complex designs while keeping the canvas uncluttered

Text and Formatting
● Spread one text out over multiple columns with flowing text boxes
● Change the alignment, font, size, color, character and line spacing, and more
● Wrap text around pictures or other objects
● Insert a table into any document
● Set up text styles and apply them with just one click of the mouse
● Create vertical text
● Use the free Art Text plugin to design stylized titles for your document
● Apply shadows to text

Design Tools
● Draw rectangles, squares, and freehand shapes with the drawing tools
● Edit design elements together with the grouping feature
● Apply both linear and radial gradients
● Add a shadow and stroke to any design element
● Choose pictures from a library of over 1,000 clipart images
● Import photos directly from iPhoto and Aperture for use in your design
● Edit photos and apply Core Image filters using the built-in image editor
● Apply one of over 100 image masks to any picture
● Customize the included Smart Shapes and use them as frames for your images
● Insert images in TIFF, JPEG, GIF, PDF, EPS, and other formats
● Crop, rotate, and resize images
● Tint, tile, and control the transparency of pictures

Print and Export
● Print multi-page booklets at home while the app takes care of page order for you
● Export to TIFF, JPEG, EPS, and PDF and send it to a print shop
● Define bleeds and set up DPI
● Convert text to curves at export to avoid problems with missing fonts

What's new

- Improved compatibility with newer iPhoto libraries.
- Images dragged from Finder are now inserted with their center in the cursor position.
- Image files copied from Finder via Clipboard now paste into documents as images as opposed to file icons.
- Fixed an issue where text in table cells of relatively large documents would not display or print.
- The Share toolbar button now works correctly in the Full Screen mode.
- Fixed an issue where using certain colors could result in overly large document sizes.
- The Text Styles button now works correctly when placed onto a custom toolbar.
- Fixed a number of problems with the program freezing when printing.
- Fixed an issue that wouldn't allow the header color of a calendar to be changed if the font size had been changed prior to the color.
- Swapped the positions of the Zoom In and Zoom Out buttons for a more convenient experience.