ART EXPLOSION PUBLISHER PRO -
SUMMARY OF FEATURES

Easy Text Handling

• Text in Columns, plus text in custom drawn shapes
• Object runaround lets you specify how text wraps around a graphic.
• Auto-Hyphenation
• Improved! Tables that calculate and auto-fill like mini-spreadsheets
• Bullets & Numbering
• New! Unicode Support for non-Roman characters
• New! Highlight Text: Apply marker-style highlighting in any color

Document Processing

• Master Pages, plus Headers and Footers
• Improved! Style Sheets with character and paragraph attributes
• New! Footnotes and Endnotes
• Improved! Long Document Features: Table of contents and indexes
• New! BookPlus: Link multiple files together with automatic page renumbering.

Text Tools

• Improved! Mail Merge: Import from your address book, Excel or database files.
• Thesaurus
• Improved! As-You-Type Spell Checker
• Proof Reader Wizard
• Drop Caps to add flair to text
• Kerning and Vertical Alignment

Text Attributes & Effects

• Basic Text Attributes: Font, size, style, color, leading, kerning and justification
• Drop Shadows
• Inner & Outer Glows with control over color, opacity, blur and more
• Bevel & Emboss
• 3D Type Effects for visual impact
• Insert Pictures into Text, plus materials like stones, woods and marbles
• Text on Curves
• Warp Text into any shape.

Drawing Tools

• Basic Shapes, plus adjustable QuickShapes
• Improved! Straight Lines, Curved Lines and Freehand Shapes: Use vector drawing tools to fine-tune contours.
• Arrowheads and Custom Borders
• Gradients: Linear, radial and conical. Plus, fill graphics with bitmap images.
• Group, Lock and Align Objects
• Improved! Object Style Sheets
• New! Select Similar Command

3D & Filter Effects

• Bevels: Round, Flat, Chiseled and more
• Drop Shadows & Inner Shadows
• Glows and Embossing
• 2D & 3D Bump & Pattern Maps
• Materials Library: Marbles, Woods, Clouds, Fire, Water, Stones, and more!

Photo Tools

• Brightness & Contrast Correction
• Transparency Controls with separate values for red, green and blue
• New! Universal Gradient Editing
• Crop, Flip & Rotate
• Picture Frames with customizable corners

Publisher Pro Image Editor

• RGB, CMYK and Grayscale Modes
• Easy Color Correction & Retouching
• Improved! Red-Eye Correction
• Improved! Powerful Selection Tools: Rectangle, Ellipse, Freehand and Polygon, plus a Magnetic selection tool that selects along visible edges
• Clone Tools
• Web Graphics: Optimization, image maps — even animation
• New! Creative Filter Effects: Blur, Sharpen, Soften and much more

Complete Color Support

• CMYK Color Mixing and Separations
• Spot Color Output
• RGB & HSL color models
• Improved! Intelligent Color Schemes for applying complementary color themes to your projects

PANTONE® Color Matching System

• PANTONE Color Picker
• Solid Colors: Coated, Uncoated and Matte
• Process Colors: Coated and Uncoated
• Pastel Colors: Coated and Uncoated
• Metallic Colors

Long Document Tools

• Index Generation: Includes headings, subheadings and page references
• Tables of Contents
• Style Sheets for both text and graphics

PDF File Creation & Editing

• New! Open & Edit PDF Files
• Font Embedding
• Improved! Hyperlinks, PageHints & Bookmarks
• New! Automatic PDF Bookmarks
• Password Protection
• Support for PDF/X-1 and PDF/X-1a
• New! Interactive PDF Forms

Complete Web Page Publishing

• Web-Specific Content: Add animated GIFs, marquee effects, sound, video, Java code and more
• Rollover Graphics & Buttons
• Improved! HTML Code: Add headers, as well as body code
• Layout Checker helps you fine-tune your pages