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DESCRIPTION
Crossword Forge is an easy to use classroom style crossword and word search puzzle maker. It quickly generates puzzles from your words for the web, print, and PDF.

Features:

  • Generate high quality Flash web, print and PDF puzzles, puzzle images, and puzzle text
  • Type puzzled data directly, or import it from many different text formats
  • Generate high quality web, print and PDF puzzles, puzzle images, and puzzle text
  • Built-in multi-lingual spell checker
  • Unlimited undo and redo
  • Support for restricted word lists in word search mode (i.e. helps eliminate accidental "naughty words" in your word search puzzles)
  • Bonus Clues for Crossword and Word Search
  • Multiple puzzle titles
  • Font, Style, Size and Justification controls
  • Unlimited clue and answer length
  • Color and Picture backdrops
  • Customizable Across and Down text
  • Supports puzzle grids of any size
  • Puzzle clues can span multiple pages
  • Customizable grid block size
  • Allows for manual puzzle repositioning within backdrop
  • Crossword Options
    • Toggle Clue and Word Bank Visibility
    • Word Bank Scramble
  • Word Search Options
    • Show Clues or Word Bank
    • Word Bank Scramble
    • Toggle Backwards and Diagonal Words
  • Built-in Support for making foreign language crossword puzzles.
    • Built-in Language Sets Include: English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Greek etc.
    • Support for characters with accents, umlauts and other diacritical marks (great for Spanish, French and German puzzles).
    • Support for Right to Left scripts like Arabic and Hebrew
    • supports scripts and alphabets with combining ligatures like Punjabi
    • Full Unicode support.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 5.3.3:
  • Printed crossword puzzles now have decimal aligned clue numbers.
  • Crossword Forge Live puzzles are now better at honoring color, font and size of their print counterparts.
  • Fixed issues where for large font sizes the word bank could overlap the puzzle grid.
  • Various other improvements.
Version 5.3.2:
  • Works better with Mac OS X Leopard.
  • Minor fixes to the open recent item menu.
  • Improved error reporting.
Version 5.3.1:
  • Various minor cosmetic improvements.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.1 or later, Mac OS X 10.2.4 or later recommended.


SCREENSHOT

Developer:Sol Robots
Downloads:35,992
  - Version d/l:273
Education:Teaching Tools
License:Shareware
Date:01 Jul 2008
Platform:PPC/Intel
Price:$49.95
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    Crossword Forge X User Reviews (16 posts)Write A Review
    Feb 25 2008

    NIGHTHAWK090  Downloaded to try out, but version listed with new features as 5.3, site download and linked macupdate download still says 5.2.8........  (Version 5.3)

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    May 24 2007
    ****.

    FRANCO  The application works well and does what it is said to do. However, as an Italian user, I feel the lack of an important feature, which is very common in latin languages countries which use many, many polisyllabic words, as at least in mine: the capability to "block" the "black" cells in the desired positions prior to start building the puzzle, so obliging its construction around them. Many puzzles in my country are developed with a symmetrical placement of black cells which are in quantity much less than the open (letters) ones. If the developer is interested, I could e-mail them pictures of some of those typical puzzles.

    I hope this can be implemented in some future version. Because of that I've dropped down one star.  (Version 5.1.7)

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    Jan 25 2007
    *****

    SATYRICA  Awesome app! True Mac style: easy to use, lots of great features!   (Version 5.1)

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    May 7 2005
    ****½

    JANUS  Pros: Easy to use for both crossword and crossnumber puzzles. Responsive developer and frequent updates.

    Cons: No undo; no genuine page preview; setting page margins is not intuitive; no dynamic links among clues.  (Version 3.9)

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