Swift Publisher Reviews

5.5.6

5.5.6

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The new update version 5.5 contains mostly CD labels, envelopes and business cards. Anybody knows if it's possible install only business cards, without all other stuff ?

Very interesting app, excellent value for money, I have been using it for a long time (from version 2) I have never had problems the developers are very helpful, I recommend it.

GUI is nice, way to much functions. but if you see on small things, this software has only a very limited use. For example take look on DYMPO Label - non of them works out of the box -> All the labels have switched the width and height in the roll. I have informed the vendor about that - before many month ago and I have ask them 20 times about the progress - alway the same response: Thanks for your feedback - We're still working on this issue... better pay more for professional developer

v5.5.2 is out. I like it. Release notes: • Swift Publisher can now open documents created in Business Card Composer. • Support for label printers added: DYMO, Zebra, Brother, Seiko, Primera.

This app needs to SPEED UP. I'm waiting for the spinning wheel to stop for nearly a minute every time I choose something. Why is it taking sooooooo long to do anything? And, although I've used this app on several occasions in the past and assumed I would be familiar with it, I'm finding it extremely difficult to use now. It's not a user-friendly app at all. I'm so confused most of the time why things aren't happening. It's gotta go .... very sorry!

The new update version 5.5 contains mostly CD labels, envelopes and business cards. Anybody knows if it's possible install only business cards, without all other stuff ?

Super awsome software . Do what exactly say and more , if you are looking for a professional prepared designs templets for almost anything then this is the number one app you have to give a shoot . Intuitive, simple UI with edit drag and drop content , every thing is tottaly customizable and under your control. It helped me a lot to improve my designs layout at college and work . Very brilliant app and very convenient and awsome company . Also check out their other apps for mac they have a lot of super great softwares.

Brilliant! Does exactly what it should be doing without any problems. Still new to Swift Publisher but so far i'm satisfied. Works really well on my Mac OS X El Caption, which I saw another reviewer also state, guess that helps prove how good this app is! Cheers Swift Publisher!

This is The Best, and this is brilliant. Since I discovered it 5 years ago, I've never not only opened Apple pages, but never bothered to update it. All I can say.

Really a question: Will Swift Publishing convert old InDesighn CS3 files? We're using Mac OS10.12.6. This version of InDesign is no longer is available and we need to access and update our work 3-4 times a year. We don't want to support the new InDesign cloud "subscription" option they are offering. What a rip off.

works great for what I need.

Jeden z najlepszych programów do "małego DTP" dla systemu macOS

It's not InDesign, but it does most of what I need and the cost is affordable for almost anyone (especially with the 50% off sale). It's kind of quirky if you are used to InDesign, there are a lot features missing and the text styling works sometimes and not others. I'm on an older MacPro (2008) on MacOS 10.11.6. I don't see any recent reviews, so I just wanted to suggest you give it a try if you need something more desktop-publishing oriented than Word or Pages. I'm still holding out for Affinity Publisher, but every time I look at their website, the release of the beta is pushed further into the future.

Works well on my Mac OS X El Caption. It is easy to use and helps me a lot for designing my own newsletter.

I have an "old" Mac OS x 10.7.5 Am I able to download a previous version of Swift Publisher? I know I cannot download the most recent version.

Good at a bare bones level, but increasingly frustrating any time I want to use any real features. For example, the text Styles feature is virtually useless. I can't update a Style at all. You can click all you want and the Style simply won't update. IT renders the Styles function WORSE than useless, as you expect it to do something, and may not notice that the change didn't stick.

Desktop publishing for the rest of us. Give it a try!

I'm not a professional. So I don't need Adobe. Swift Publisher is a great app with tons of really nice features and still more than I need.

Now that Apple has put a bullet to the head of Pages '09 and brought out the cardboard cutout version of Pages 5, there should be an excellent opening for Swift Publisher to step in. I would like for SP to export to a few more formats, such as .docx, rtf and .txt for compatibility backups.

MacUpdate Desktop cannot install updates to this app properly, even though the dmg has a simple drag install. This problem has persisted through every update since I purchased the app in the December 2012 MU bundle. Trashing the app and doing a clean reinstall of it does not affect this. What could possibly cause MUD to be unable to install this?

Swift 3 is an excellent replacement for MS Publisher for those of you who come from a Windows background. Having used Swift 2, I am convinced that any upgrade from this developer would only enhance the program to give stunning designs as your creativity allows without cracking your head to figure out where all the controls & fixes are. It actually makes me look forward to each assignment! Thank you for letting me create newsletters that stun people each time!

To be fair to Andrew: this is listed as Shareware, not Demo. Shareware is try before you buy (unrestricted) and if you like it then pay for it. Demo has more or less severe limitations (time-limited demo, save disabled demo, watermarked demo, etc). So anyone slamming Andrew (who should have left a comment, not a one star review) should also slam the company for mislabeling the product.

I wouldn't normally write a review of Swift Publisher as we don't use it that much (we do mainly online and some of my designers are used to InDesign and cross-training them and have them complain about it for weeks is not the kind of project I need right now), but I have used Swift Publisher myself for some very nice work. Andrew K. who demands thirty free days for his demo (and not demo marks on output) and has one starred BeLight's powerful and lightweight software is the reason for this immediate review.

Has always allowed me to be creative and productive without complexity. I love this program.

With the long-awaited addition of grouping plus several other new or improved features, an already great programme becomes superb. This must now be the page layout programme of choice.

Is there an upgrade fee from version 2 to 3? I haven't found it yet! Thanks.

better than pages for many things. Try it. It can handle more complex situations and runs faster.

Back in July (re: comment below) I received an email from the developers regarding the long awaited 'grouping' ability. "...The program is in active development and we prepare v.3 for release. The structure of Swift Publisher was re-built and there was no sense to concentrate on adding grouping feature before completing these changes. An update should appear on August - September this year." It's now October 10 and still nothing. And this from the developer's own forum: "When will Swift Publisher 3 be out? Any info on upgrading?" and the response: "Hi, I expect the release of the third version in the middle or end of 2010. Nick" To the developer: don't insult your customers by constantly making promises you have no intention of keeping. I for one am sick of waiting and am going to buy another product. More than likely iStudio Publisher, a few dollars more than Swift Publisher but has more features.

Swift Publisher used with Art Text 2 is really a great combo. I've had a couple of questions and te developer is probably the most responsive I've ever encountered. Their service alone encouraged me to buy several of their other apps.

I find Swift Publisher 2 to be a superb DTP programme. I have used it for various tasks including production of posters and of greetings cards and it is a joy to use. Its integration with ArtText is an excellent feature. And for me the programme has been rock solid. Highly recommended!

I'M JUST USING THE TRIAL VERSION, AND FIND THAT EXPORTING TO A PDF FILE CAN RESULT IN A MASSIVE INCREASE IN THE SIZE OF THE FILE. (FROM

Quite a nice simple DTP program with some surprising features (and some omissions). I turned to Swift because of frustrations with Pages' inability to produce spot colors and bought the clipart as well. The ClipArt is pretty cheesy and looks just like the wmf stuff you get with PCs. I don't think I would have bothered if I'd known. The templates are fairly ordinary as well, but some like that. It is built around Cocoa so appears familiar to most modern Mac users, but it is not as refined in design and polish as iWorks. Still the price is about right for what it does.

This a continued review. In my previous review, I covered some quirks and how SP was too slow on my eMac when dealing with large images. I've used SP on another project on my MacBook 2.2 GHz, 1 GB RAM, OS 10.5.1. SP is much more responsive on this machine. Typing with large images is responsive, causing me to wonder if the problem with my past machine was related to the configuration of the machine or actually was a problem with SP. SP still displays many of the same quirks mentioned in my earlier review, including the faulty text wrap which causes text to disappear out of the text box until the text box is resized overly large. The extended clip art collection is WORTH EVERY DOLLAR. The photos included are hi-res, and quite stunning. I used many clips from the clip art collection to come up with a very nice postcard for a direct mailing. Wife said it was the best looking postcard I'd done yet -- and it is largely due to the quality of the clip art. Alas, there are many things that are still annoying in the product. Text Styles does not behave as you would expect. I took the trouble to set up some styles for the texts I was using. When I decided to update the font within a style, two problems showed up: a) Using the font panel to edit a style did not always generate the expected results, seemingly especially when dealing with small font sizes. Multiple times, I tried to set a style to a font size of 3, and it instead changed from 4 pt (what it was set to previously) to 9 pt. (b) If that weren't annoying enough, when I did successfully update a style, none of the text on which that style had previously been applied actually updated to the new style! I had to go and manually reapply the style to the paragraphs to get them to reflect the new fonts. It seems that styles are merely a place to store font information which can be applied with a simple pull down menu, but the text remains independent of the style and does not update when the style is changed. Generating a PDF did not behave as expected. In my postcard, the printer asked for .125" bleed. I'd set up the page to the expected postcard size (5.6x4.25). Swift Pub has the ability to generate a PDF with the bleed showing. However, if I asked SP to generate a PDF with the extra bleed, more often than not, the resulting PDF was still 5.6x4.25, instead of 5.85x4.5. Even worse, the bleed showed up in the left and top sides of the page, and the bottom and right sides were clipped by the bleed amount. Here are the PDF generating methods that failed to produce a proper bleed: Print->Preview, Print->Print Panel->Preview, Export PDF + PDFX filter. The only way I could get a PDF with the proper bleed was to export the PDF with NO filters applied. UNDO sometimes did not immediately show up in what I was doing. When I was changing colors on some words in the text, I decided to undo the change. When nothing showed up, I instinctively did apple-Z several times. When I finally clicked outside the image area, I discovered that I'd done several undos. Undoing a font color change does not draw on the screen correctly until I clicked outside of any object. Some other things I liked: I like the master templates, and the foreground/background tabs for each page. To insure I was following the proper margins for my postcard, I downloaded a PNG from the postcard site and pasted into the background of a page. With the PNG resized appropriately, I could then set the opacity of the PNG to very light. This gave me a nice guide when I edited the postcard in the foreground. When I was ready to print (or generate a PDF), I went into the background and changed the opacity of the PNG to zero. This effectively hid the reference image yet left it there for me to reveal again if I needed it. SP never crashed on me - this is a GOOD sign. Frequently, shareware crashes on me while I experiment with it. Summary: I find Pages much easier to use and more intuitive. Pages does not seem to have some of the features of SP, like editable master templates. I really like the clip art you can get with SP. One thing that makes SP really shine is the Link Back feature, which allows me to edit material in the original app that generated the material. However, the quirkiness of the UI to SP is an obstacle to me wanting to use it all the time. I imagine that I will lean towards Pages for my general use of DTP.

Many folks have written about the nice aspects of this program. One under-reported feature I like is the support for LinkBack, which would allow me to use programs like Intaglio to edit the graphic objects that are embedded in SP docs. But, for this mini-review, I will focus on the problems that prevent me from using SP. VERY SLOW on an eMac G4 800MHz 512MB 10.4.11, even when all other apps have been quit. Incidentally, OS was reinstalled from scratch - erasing the whole disk - 4 days before, so the machine is fairly clean. After initially being impressed by its feature set in the trial version, decided to purchase and try to create a layout of a calendar page with 7 6MP photos on it. Images are all on a local hard disk. Loaded the 7 images onto a page. Clicking and dragging them had a very noticeable delay. If I moved the mouse immediately after clicking, the image would not be under the mouse cursor once the image started moving. Adding a text box and typing into it was painful. I counted 4 seconds between each letter rendering. During the typing, the CPU is pegged at 100%. There is also periodic reading from the disk (presumably paging in). Clearly SP is busy doing something for every letter I type. LAYOUT BUGGY. Telling an object to have text wrap around it would completely make the text disappear from its rectangle. I realized that if I resized the text box quite large, the text would show up at different places within the text box (say, at the bottom, or later at the top of the box), depending upon its size. I could find a sizing where the text would show up in the appropriate place, but then I was left with a text box 5 times larger than the text warranted. SAVING SLOW. Making a minor change in layout and then resaving the file meant having to wait close to a minute for the file to finish saving. Perhaps the program is completely resaving every time I click save, instead of saving only the layout change. QUIRKY INTERFACE. Features are nice, but I found the object rotation interface quite quirky and buggy. You can not grab a corner in any manner and rotate an object. You must use a slider, but the slider is so small that the resolution of a step is too many degrees (jumping from 0 degrees to 7 degrees). Using the up/down arrows didn't seem to update the rotation. A few times, the up/down arrow seemed to get stuck going up or down, even after I'd released the mouse button. As an aside, it strikes me that SP is not using standard OS X controls or event management, but rather attempting to read the status of the mouse/keyboard on the fly - a risky behavior in any program, particularly in older machines which may not respond as quickly as the faster, newer machines. A new mac is on order, so perhaps I will like SP on my new MacBook when it arrives. But for my eMac, I find SP too unusable.