Overview / Features- Model: PPX3USREVMBRT. Manufacturer: Serif.
- 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.
Product descriptionWith 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!. PagePlus X3 is Serif's award-winning, affordable, Vista certified, desktop publishing powerhouse.
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Just awesome for the money |  | | 39 of 40 find this helpful | Oct 04, 2008 | 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. |
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NOT for full-length books! |  | | 27 of 27 find this helpful | May 28, 2009 | 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. |
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Lack of information is costly | | | 12 of 14 find this helpful | Aug 14, 2009 | I puchased this product because it had excellent reviews as an easy to use and inexpensive desktop publishing system.
Unfortunately, it lacked the one template I need most - a two-sided trifold brochure, so I returned it. This is a British company, and it did not seem to me that it had templates for the kinds and formats of publications that are commonly in use here. At least, not the sorts of things that small non-profits like ours prints.
When I returned the product to Amazon, I was informed that I would be charged the shipping fee for the return, since there was nothing wrong with the product and nothing wrong with the service Amazon provided, which is entirely reasonable.
However, when I received notice of the entire return transaction, there was also a restocking fee that was approximately half the price of the product. I do not recall seeing anything about a restocking fee, or what the amount would be, in the information about how to return this product. If I had, and had any idea of how much it would be, I probably would have kept it.
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