So Many Great New Features at a Low Upgrade Price
Based on requests from Creator users, the developers have incorporated numerous new
features over the past few years, which have further enhanced Creator Professional's
unparalleled feature set. If you are considering an upgrade, browse through the list
of feature to see what you are missing out on. Then download the demo and try it out risk free.
| Text Formatting | Creator Pro v8 |
Creator 2 |
Creator 4 |
| Character and Paragraph model tags into workflow | • | • | • |
| Copy Fit | • | • | • |
| Drop Caps | • | • |  |
| Edit White Text as percentage of gray | • | • | |
| First Baseline Factor | • | |
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| Fit Text Block | • | • | • |
| Paragraph Styles | • | • | • |
| Style Models | • | • | • |
| Superior and Inferior Text Styles | • | • | • |
| Improved Text Attributes Interface | • | ||
| Title Case and Small Caps Text Styles | • | • | |
| Make Fraction | • | • | |
| Two Types of Underline Options | • | ||
| Type Styles | • | • | • |
| Vertical Text Alignment | • | ||
| Word Space | • | |
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| Sort | • |
| Hyphenation and Justification | |||
| Specify how justification is distributed | • | ||
| Set text to contract to fit for justification | • | ||
| Suggest Hyphenation for individual words | • | • | |
| Save Hyphenation exceptions | • | • | • |
| Control the Hyphenation of capitalized words | • | • | • |
| Control the minimum number of characters before and after a hyphen | • | • | • |
| Specify the minimum word size to hyphenate | • | • | • |
| Specify the maximum number of consecutive hyphens | • | • | • |
| Hyphenate 11 different languages | • | • | |
| Multiple user Dictionaries | • | • |
| Element Features | |||
| Apply a fill, frame, shadow or gradient to any element | • | • | • |
| Arrow Heads | • | • | • |
| AutoMasking | • | • | • |
| Automatic Drop Shadows | • | • | • |
| Containment Tool | • | • | |
| Cubic Beziers | • | ||
| Element Styles | • | • | |
| Independent Rectangle Corners | • | • | |
| Mask Graphic with Shape | • | • | • |
| Magic Wand (Mask) Tool | • | ||
| Multiple Color Gradients | • | • | |
| Multiple Operations for Combining Paths | • | ||
| Apply Textures for Lines and Frames | • | • | |
| Apply Gradients to Lines and Frames | • | ||
| Colorize Grayscale Graphics | • | • | |
| Text and Element Features | |||
| Text On a Path | • | |
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| Text On a Path to Path Element | • | ||
| Multi-Line Text to Path Element | • | • | |
| Arrange Elements in Stacking Order | • | • | • |
| Embed Elements in Text | • | • | |
| Independent Text and Element Shadows | • | • | |
| Make Matrix | • | • | • |
| Scale Text and Graphics Proportionally | • | • | • |
| Skew Elements and Text | • | • | |
| Text Wrapping | • | • | • |
| Align Objects by centers or by same edge | • | • | • |
| Multi-Column Text | • | ||
| 0° Text Editing | • | • |
| Color Management | |||
| Trapping | • | • | • |
| Pantone | • | • | • |
| CMYK | • | • | • |
| RGB | • | • | • |
| Focoltone | • | • | • |
| NAA Color | • | • | • |
| Color Sync | • | • | |
| Web Safe Color | • | • | • |
| Auto Convert EPS Spot Colors to Process | • | • | • |
| Auto convert RGB to CMYK in PDF and EPS export | • |
| Font Management | |||
| Add Any Font Size | • | • | • |
| Instant Font Activation | • | • | • |
| Save Reference to Missing Fonts | • | • | |
| Miscellaneous | |||
| Quick Open Menu | • | |
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| Brandable | |||
| Creator Border Editor | • | • | • |
| Over Three Hundred Borders Included | • | • |
| Support Features | |||
| Multiples Levels of Undo Redo | • | • | |
| Cross Platform | • | ||
| Open Creator Files across Platform | • | |
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| OS X Support | • | ||
| Place Native Documents | • | • | • |
| Full Drag and Drop Support (Document to Document) | • | • | • |
| Import Style Models from Creator Documents | • | • | • |
| Adobe Photoshop Clipping Path Support | • | • | • |
| Recover Broken Links | • | • | • |
| Backwards Compatibility to 3.6 | • | • | • |
| Check for text overflow on Opening | • | • | • |
| Check for text overflow on Printing | • | • | • |
| Check for text overflow on Saving Ad | • | • | • |
| Check for text overflow on exporting | • | • | • |
| Check for Missing Fonts when Printing | • | • | • |
| Check for Missing Fonts when Exporting | • | • | • |
| Check for Missing Fonts when Importing | • |
| User Interface | |||
| Arrange Palette | • | • | |
| Border Tool | • | • | • |
| Combined Text and Element Palette | • | • | |
| Custom Menus via Startup Scripts | • | • | |
| Contextual Menus via Applescript | • | |
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| Attached Applescripts | • | • | |
| Files Palette Sort | • | • | |
| Flip Tool on Tools Palette | • | • | |
| Hand Tool on Tools Palette | • | |
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| Keyboard Operated Tools Palette | • | ||
| Improved Regular Polygon Tools | • | |
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| File Utilities | • | • | • |
| Scale text with Keyboard | • | • | • |
| Set Guides Numerically | • | • | |
| Starburst Tool | • | • | • |
| Startup Script Folder | • | • | |
| Reshape Tool on Tools Palette | • | • | |
| Color Separations | • | • | |
| New Color Item in Color Popup Menus | • | |
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| Swatch View in Colors Palette | • | ||
| Place Files with Scaled Picture Box | • | • | |
| Skew Tool | • | • | |
| Trapping Palette | • | • | • |
| Improved Document Dialog | • | ||
| Zoom Tools on Files Palette | • | |
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| Baseline Grid | • | ||
| Customizable Work Space | • |
| Document Features | |||
| Open Recent Documents List | • | ||
| User defined auto save | • | • | • |
| Bleed Items On/Off | • | • | |
| Document Size Handle | • | |
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| Dual Save | • | • | • |
| Export EPS | • | • | • |
| Export GIF | • | • | • |
| Export JPEG | • | |
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| Export PDF | • | ||
| Export Text | • | • | • |
| Export TIFF | • | • | • |
| Export XML | • | |
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| Place PDF Files | • | ||
| Multiple Master Spreads | • | • | |
| Multiple Pages | • | • | |
| Multiple Windows of Same Document | • | • | |
| Over 80 predefined page sizes | • | • | • |
| Save a Copy As | • | • | |
| Embed Fonts in EPS | • | • | |
| User defined bleed in EPS export | • | ||
| Embed Fonts in PDF | • | |
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| User defined bleed in PDF export | • | ||
| International Smart Quotes | • | • | • |
| Custom Status Labels | • | • | • |
| Display status labes in Document window | • | • | |
| Document Info | • | • | • |
| Set New Text Default Font | • | • | • |
| Set New Text Default Alignment | • | • | • |
| Set New Text Default Hyphenate | • | • | • |
| Set New Text Default Size | • | • | • |
| Gather for output | • | ||
| SAU Sizes for 48, 50, 52 Inch Web Presses | • |
| Automation | |||
| ACES (Ad Control Event Suite) | • | • | • |
| Applescriptable, Attachable, and Recordable | • | • | |
| PC COM Support | • | |
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| Customizable menus via Applescript | • | • |
| Viewing and Navigating | |||
| Display Invisible Characters | • | • | • |
| Display or Hide Page Guides | • | • | • |
| Set Graphic Preview Resolution | • | • | • |
| Set True Preview for EPS | • | ||
| Show on Screen Ornaments | • | • | • |
| 800 Percent Zoom | • | • | • |
| View Invisibles | • | • | • |
| Color Guides | • | • | |
| Place Guides Numerically or by point and click | • | • | |
| Distribute Guides across a given space | • | • | • |
| Set a snap to distance for guides | • | • | • |
| Spellcheck as you type | • |
| Printing | |||
| Align document to paper or printable area | • | ||
| Print 300 DPI to Non Postscript Printer | • | |
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| Print to Non Postscript Printer | • | • | |
| Print Text Block Only | • | • | • |
| Print Registration Marks | • | • | • |
| Print Crop Marks | • | • | • |
| Print Color Bar | • | • | • |
| Print Selected Items Only | • | • | • |
| Print Document Description | • | • | • |
| Print Plate Information | • | • | • |
| Send OPI Comments for TIFF Files | • | • | • |
| Substitute OPI Comments for EPS Files | • | • | • |
| Omit Postscript for TIFF Files | • | • | • |
| Print EPS Spot Colors as Process | • | • | • |
| Print User Order or Press Order | • |
