Publisher has some surprisingly polished features. More glaringly, we struggled to drag shapes from one page to another, although we were able to copy and paste them. 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. You also adjust document settings such as page margins here, and add shadows and opacity to page elements through easy-to-use sliders. 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. The Inspector palette houses the program's real power. You can even add text around the same shape's border. 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. To add text inside a shape, you select the Text tool and click inside the shape. Rather than create text or image boxes to hold relevant content, Publisher uses its shapes - created either from the Shape Library or using the Toolkit's Line, Bézier Curve or Freeform Scribble tools - as containers to hold any type of content. ![]() If you have experience of QuarkXPress or InDesign, iStudio Publisher's approach to layout will take getting used to, but its approach is often better. Given the plethora of palettes, accompanied by chunky icons, it's a relief that you can hide different areas of the layout through a panel at the bottom of the screen. ![]() Below this, a Shape Library includes an array of polygons, curves, arrows and callouts that can be quickly added to a document, while fine control over page elements is offered through an Inspector palette. Its toolbar is dominated by layout options and object rotation tools, while a Toolkit on the left houses text, image and drawing tools. The program looks like a clumsy hybrid of word processing and illustration programs. IStudio Publisher 1.0.4 received a generally favourable review by Macworld on Mar 9, 2009.The market for budget Mac page layout applications has been forlorn for years, but iStudio Publisher is joining Apple's Pages and clutch of other rivals in what has suddenly become a highly competitive arena.Īnd this newcomer has enough innovative features to ensure it's taken seriously in its new surroundings. Video tutorials and a Rapid Start Guide are also available. The official user guide " Introduction to iStudio Publisher" has been produced using iStudio Publisher and can be downloaded from the developer's website in PDF format. Arabic, Hebrew, Indic and East_Asian ( CJK) writing systems. Using right-to-left languages, such as Arabic, Persian and Hebrew can be achieved by using RTL Fixer ( ). iStudio Publisher has an XML based file format and supports Unicode character encoding. It can also export to booklet PDF, EPUB or RTF file. IStudio Publisher can export colour managed PDF files suitable for use in a prepress workflow for professional print jobs. Inspectors are provided to examine and adjust style and format settings of shapes, text and images. Users can select and draw standard shapes from the Shape Library, construct shapes using the drawing tools provided, or create default shapes automatically when pasting, dragging in or inserting new content. All shapes act as content containers and can contain any combination of text in columns, text around their outline path, an image, a corner style, a line style, a fill style, a drop shadow and a text runaround ("wraparound"). Users are required to understand one main principle - each element of document content is held by a shape. IStudio Publisher has been designed to simplify desktop publishing and enable users to get started quickly. IStudio Publisher can be used for the page layout and word processing of brochures, newsletters, booklets, magazines, posters, adverts, reports, essays, greeting cards and many other document types, of any page size, and with the option of spread editing facing pages. iStudio Publisher 1.1.10 is available to run on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, and 10.4 Tiger. iStudio Publisher 1.2.1 is available to run on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. iStudio Publisher 1.4.1 is available to run on Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, and 10.7 Lion. iStudio Publisher 1.5.2 is available to run on macOS 10.12 Sierra, and Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan, 10.10 Yosemite, and 10.9 Mavericks. The present version, iStudio Publisher 1.5.4, runs on macOS 11 Big Sur, 10.15 Catalina, 10.14 Mojave, and 10.13 High Sierra. IStudio Publisher 1.0 was released on 6 January 2009 at the Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco. IStudio Publisher is a page layout and desktop publishing (DTP) application developed by iStudio Software.
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