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. You can even add text around the same shape's border.
The Inspector palette houses the program's real power. 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. You also adjust document settings such as page margins here, and add shadows and opacity to page elements through easy-to-use sliders. We were impressed by the way Publisher will happily cope with native Photoshop files, yet disappointed that you can't drag and drop images or PDFs from the Finder. More glaringly, we struggled to drag shapes from one page to another, although we were able to copy and paste them. Publisher has some surprisingly polished features. One example is the way keyboard shortcuts can be assigned to many commands another is the way you can zoom documents up to a pixel-precise 5000%. We also like the way you can specify in the Inspector the resolution at which to output any selected image, from 72dpi to 600dpi or retaining the image's own dpi settings.Įxport functions are adequate. Documents are saved in Publisher's native file format, but you can export to PDF, albeit with no built-in control over file quality or resolution.įor every fresh idea introduced though, there's a matching hole. In particular, we found it lacking when dealing with text. The essentials such as tracking and leading (Publisher calls it line spacing) are present, but missing are a spell checker, Find and Replace and support for paragraph or character styles. You can't create drop caps, nor is there a baseline grid.
Master page support is basic: you can only apply a single master page per document. Elsewhere, we missed layout guides when arranging elements, although the grid view, combined with the option to turn the cursor into a mouse crosshair, do help.
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