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Swift Publisher – Easy page layout on your MacNo doubt that staying in touch with your customers and group members is important for you. With Swift Publisher, publishing good looking and informative documents for business, social and home activities becomes easy. Swift Publisher is an excellent Macintosh page layout application for designing and printing colorful flyers, newsletters, brochures, letterheads, booklets, etc. A great selection of templates inspires your creativity and a variety of editing tools lets you quickly apply it.
1,100 high quality images, 100 unique masks and about 90 professionally designed templates (flyers, brochures, booklets, letterheads, newsletters, catalogs, etc.) are what you need for creating high-impact documents. Insert images in many supported formats — TIFF, JPEG, GIF, PDF, EPS from your computer, network or apply your iPhoto pictures using iPhoto integration. Flow text from column to column or to another page entirely. Adjustable layout guides are convenient for precise object placement. Text Wrap feature will be helpful if you need to combine graphics and text on a page. Take advantage of rotating each page of your multipage document on a fly. Switching between Background and Foreground layers enables you to create and edit complicated designs. Swift Publisher makes desktop publishing fun, easy and intuitive. Choose one of the ready-made templates, use a set of editing tools to control transparency, tiling, apply masks and fills, crop images, and enjoy the result. Want to share your stunning documents? Use adjustable PDF, TIFF, JPG and EPS export capabilities. About Version 2The release of Swift Publisher revealed a great interest in medium level page layout software for Mac. Users often asked us to add a bit more advanced publishing capabilities, while keeping the program intuitive as it is. We hope this balance is met in version 2. Particular attention during development of Swift Publisher 2 was payed to publishing functionalities, such as Imposition and Master page options. Of course, we have not forgotten about those of you who asked us for more designs. We believe 20 new designs will help your creativity fly.
Swift Publisher version 2 is FREE for all users who purchased version 1.x. System Requirements: Mac OSX 10.3 or later. Available in: English, German. Click to Belight’s Site for A LOT of great information about Swift Publisher. |
January 12th, 2009 at 11:13 pm
I just used SP to make a brochure. It is SUPER easy to use and very intuitive. Highly recommended!
January 13th, 2009 at 12:33 am
Every time I see a BeLight product promo I want to buy it, yet each time I don’t. The reason is simple; they typically offer the Standard edition.
Why not offer the Retail edition on a promo? (I know I can upgrade for $10)
If/when I see a good deal on Printfolio Retail edition I’ll probably buy it. For now I’ll pass. Swift Publisher is very attractive, but maybe I’ll end up with iStudio Publisher or an iStudio product instead.
January 13th, 2009 at 3:51 am
I agree with Eddie. Last time I saw Swift Publisher in a promo, I wanted to buy it. But then I saw that if I wanted to upgrade to the retail version (which has more templates and images), I’d have to pay and extra $10. That made it much less of a deal for me — such that I’d rather just wait until I have a project that needs it instead of buying it now. Imagine all the sales and money BeLight could have in their pocket today if they were discounting the Retail version. It’s a shame they aren’t.
January 13th, 2009 at 6:46 am
is this the standard or retail edition?
description mentions 24.000 images, that would be the retail edition…
January 13th, 2009 at 9:32 am
@Eddie
if you go to the web site and check the comparison table, you will find the only difference in the editions is
1100 vs 24000 clipart
90 vs 130 templates
If you re-read the info posted here, you will see that this has to be the retail version.
January 13th, 2009 at 9:44 am
@Mary Keene
It still not clear. Although the description matches the retail version, the price doesn’t. The price listed here is for the standard version. MacZOT or developper needs to clarify this situation.
January 13th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
I am sorry for the mess-up. Well, we offer Standard version now. Usually it’s priced at $44.95, today you can buy it only for $22.50. If you’ll upgrade to the Retail edition via download, the full price will be $22.50+$10=$32.50, which normally costs $49.95.
You can decide yourself which edition suits you better:
http://www.belightsoft.com/products/swiftpublisher/comparison.php
January 13th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
I tried to download and install the trial to see if I could if I could determine if this was Retail or Standard. The install & readme state that 1.8 Gig would be required for a “full clipart install.” However, when I proceed with the install, it states that 82.2 Megs are required for this install. And there is no option available to install more than the default amount of clipart.
Another reason pointing to this being the standard version. I think that the 24,000 figure made it into this MacZOT by oversight.
January 13th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
This is the Standard version. I beg your pardon for this oversight with the 24,000 instead 1100!
January 13th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
We use this at home. It’s very versatile and easy to work with. (e.g., last year, our second-grader published her ten-page, typewritten booklet with illustrations for a Young Authors school project using Swift Publisher. She needed assistance only with setting up the pages and cover for booklet printing.)
In my opinion, the standard or retail version pricing through this promo are both good values. There is no functional difference between the two versions of the software itself. The clipart collection in our retail version is massive, but we here at home typically end up using our own images anyway, since the images one chooses are likely to be artistically better-matched to one’s work than clipart might be. The additional templates might be nice to have, but certainly aren’t essential to using the software.
Thumbs up for this Zot!
January 13th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
I downloaded the trial earlier today, and after trying it out I went ahead and purchased it. Very nice app, similar setup to Pages in iWork.
January 13th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
I see only mention of the 1100 images and 90 templates. That’s the regular version. Did the text change since this morning? I don’t know, but I really like this application. I did buy the extra clip art and I’m glad I did. Some of it is great, some not so great, but there is a lot of it and you don’t always use the whole image. You might just want a portion of it, or you alter it with Image Tricks, which is built in. If you own Art Text, which is also a great Belight program, you can work between the two easily, and like GaryD says, it is so easy to work with. I don’t think I’ve ever looked at the help manual. I use it sometimes just for creating and editing graphics. It’s a helluva deal for $22.50. If you think the extra $10 for the clip art is not a good deal, then don’t buy it. Maybe you won’t feel like you need it. But, you can always upgrade at any time.
January 13th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
Just wanted to chime in and echo what Robin said. I have both Swift Publisher and Art Text and they are both great programs! I’ve been using Art Text to improve some of the buttons and icons in SonicMood and I’m amazed at how easy it is to make nice looking graphics. Wish I’d tried it sooner! ;-)
January 13th, 2009 at 7:34 pm
@Mary Keene,
Sorry for the late reply. As you can see, it is now clear that it is the Standard edition. This has always been the case in the various BeLight promos as far as I can remember. I’ve noticed since I do like their software and have wanted to buy it. :)
Thanks to Helen for the clarification.
January 13th, 2009 at 8:38 pm
Bummer. Bought this recently at MU for $29.95! Could have saved $7.45 if I waited a week. Grr…