iStudio Publisher is a desktop publishing (DTP) system for producing a wide range of document types; including newsletters, brochures, adverts, flyers, invitations, menus, reports, posters, greetings cards, and yearbooks. It provides comprehensive and precise control over the page layout of text, images and shapes, and enables you to combine and blend these elements together with flexibility and flair to produce documents of high quality.
The flexibility comes, in part, from an ability to use any geometric shape as a text container. Any shape can hold column text and/or have text flowing around a path defined by its outline. Any shape can also be given a runaround, which causes text to wrap around it, rather than over or under it.
iStudio Publisher includes a Shape Library containing a selection of commonly used shapes. You can edit shapes from the Shape Library or produce your own new shapes from scratch using the drawing tools in the Toolkit. Shapes aren't just used for text containment; they also provide the non-image based graphical content of a page design, from simple ruled lines and colored panels to shapes of much greater complexity. You can also add an image to any shape.
Use the Inspectors to change the appearance of a shape by editing its corner style, line stroke, color fill, shadow, image and opacity. Inspectors are also provided for document management and for adjusting paragraph and character settings.
High quality typesetting is of great importance in achieving professional results. Set a range of paragraph attributes to optimize text layout and produce balanced text flows. Hyphenation and justification algorithms are provided. Set a range of character attributes to alter the text styling, and have the choice of applying these settings to whole paragraphs or to individual characters.
iStudio Publisher can print to a PDF file or direct to a printer.
iStudio Publisher has been created using modern software techniques and technologies. It supports Unicode character encoding and has a file format based on XML. Designed to be simple and intuitive to use, iStudio Publisher can provide professional quality results and includes professional publishing features, such as CMYK color.