FEATURE COMPARISON
Serif PagePlus 7 vs Microsoft Publisher 2000


Feature	PagePlus 7	Publisher 2000

Ease of Use

HintLine	YES	NO
Headers & Footers Wizard	YES	NO
Startup Wizard	YES	NO
Document Selection Wizard	YES	YES
Index Wizard	YES	NO
Table of Contents Wizard	YES	NO
Gallery of image masks	YES	NO
On Screen Studio - Fonts	YES	NO
On Screen Studio - Colors	YES	NO
On Screen Studio - Color Schemes	YES	NO
On Screen Studio - Line Attributes	YES	NO
On Screen Studio - Gallery	YES	NO
On Screen Studio - Portfolios	YES	NO
On Screen Studio - Fills	YES	NO
On Screen Studio - Transparencies	YES	NO

Text Handling

Real time text re flow	YES	NO
Shaped text frames	YES	NO
Table of Contents Wizard	YES	NO
Auto sizing of text to fill frame	YES	YES
Text frame shapes customizable (QuickShapes)	YES	NO
Thesaurus	YES	NO
Grammar Checker	YES	NO
Integrated Word Processor	YES	NO
Draft or Layout view of text in Word Processor	YES	N/A
Style Bar in Word Processor	YES	N/A
Use text formatting in AutoCorrect	YES	NO
Inherited text styles	YES	NO
Crop text	YES	NO
Advanced hyphenation controls	YES	NO
Number of text wrap presets	22	2

Graphics

Intelligent QuickShapes	YES	NO
Photo Optimizer	YES	NO
Picture export	YES	NO
Cropping, Rotating and Flipping images	YES	YES
Support for object transparency (custom & presets)	YES	NO
RGB transparency for images	YES	NO
Support for 32-bit images with graduated transparency	YES	NO
Editable Graduated Fills	YES	NO
Interactive Graduated Fill Tool	YES	NO
Freehand line drawing	YES	NO
Auto smoothing of freehand lines	YES	NO
PolyLines (adjoining straight lines)	YES	NO
Import PNG graphics	YES	NO
Crop drawn objects	YES	NO
Other additional import formats not in Publisher?	13 OTHERS	N/A
Number of colors in graduated fills	NO LIMIT	2

Other technology

On screen smoothing of text and drawn objects	YES	NO
Switch layout snapping on and off	YES	NO
Customizable snap grid	YES	NO
CMYK and Spot Color Separation	YES	YES
Print preview	YES	NO
Imposition print overview	YES	NO
Create mini spreadsheets	YES	NO
Distribute objects with customizable, even gaps	YES	NO
Color Mapper	YES	NO
Multiple Undo and Redo	YES	NO
Rulers snapping to objects	YES	NO
Maximum zoom	5000% (more under NT4/2000)	400%
Preset document types	90	11
Multiple document support	Yes Multiple Top-Level Interface	No Single Document Interface

Web Publishing

Scrolling Text	YES	NO
Java Applet Support	YES	NO
Sound Support (other than background sound)	YES	Only by OLE
Video Support	YES	Only by OLE

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Telephone : (UK) 0870 766 3699 (World) 00 44 870 766 3699

Email : sales@bmsoftware.com

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FEATURE COMPARISONSerif PagePlus 7 vs Microsoft Publisher 2000

FEATURE COMPARISON
Serif PagePlus 7 vs Microsoft Publisher 2000