New features

Gradient and Bitmap Fills and Transparency on Outlines
Get even more creative with your object outlines! Apply linear, elliptical, conical, and bitmap fills and transparency around shapes and text frames for eye-catching design.

Color Scheme Designer
Create your own schemes from color spreads based on accepted color theory (Monochromatic, Complementary, Triadic, and more). You can add suggested colors automatically, or mix your own colors to create the new scheme.

Enhanced Layers
Objects and groups now display under their layers in the new-look Layers tab. Great for selecting, reordering, naming, and managing text, graphics, and other objects in more complex layered designs.

Lasso Selection
The Lasso Tool selects specific objects in complicated designs more easily. Simply drag around the “target” object to include in selection. Use Alt-drag with the Pointer tool for the same effect.
Hover-based indication of Selection
For use in more complex multi-object page designs, objects “glow” on hover over to indicate selectability.
Easy Object Rotation
Once selected, objects can now be rotated using a “lollipop” rotation handle, preventing accidental rotation.
More powerful Master Page control
Assign multiple master pages to your page for even more flexible page design. For more design freedom, promote master page objects to your page, making them detached and available for independent editing.

Interactive Print Preview with print-time imposition
Try out the exciting new Print Preview, packed with both preview and imposition options—create books, booklets, thumbnails, and tiled print output all without prior page setup. Step&Repeat and N-up options are also available.
Easier than ever Printing!
Try PagePlus’s Print dialog for the options you need, when you need them! With a focus on everyday printing options, including scaling of your print output, the printing process becomes more intuitive and logical.
PDF Publishing
Scale your PDF output up or down to a percentage value. Non-printable or hidden layers can be included in your artwork when publishing to PDF.

Cross-references
Insert cross-references throughout your publication which reference headings, or anchored text, tables, pictures, or diagrams which update automatically. Insert your cross-reference as a page number, heading/anchor name, numbered list number, and more. Add Continued From/To cross-references to text frames.
User-defined Variables
Set up your own variables to automatically update common terms that repeat throughout your publication. Great for updating product names, product versions, and language variants all at the same time.

Professional-level OpenType Font Features
For advanced typography, PagePlus fully utilizes all your OpenType font features—ligatures, stylistic sets/alternates, small/petite caps, case-sensitive forms, fractions, ordinals, and many more are now available to both characters and text styles. You can now insert characters as glyphs, rather than Unicode characters!

Mixed Page Number Formats
Use different number formats (Arabic, Roman, or alphabetic) for your publication’s front page, intro pages, table of contents, or index.

Mixed Page Orientations
Add landscape pages to your portrait-oriented publication, and vice versa. Useful for presenting your wide tables and charts on landscape pages.
Improved Color Management
Manage color for multiple images with different embedded ICC profiles—allow or ignore image color conversion to the document’s working space. RGB and CMYK images display correctly to screen and print. For PDF printing, choose different PDF/X1-a output intents for PDF color management in professional PDF publishing. Create accurate PDF output of grayscale images to grayscale color space.

Import Scalable Vector Graphics
Add SVG files (including compressed) to your publication—great for inclusion in your web pages.
Import Microsoft Word 2010 documents
Just as for Word 2007 documents you can no
w import Word 2010 documents directly into text frames!
Import Custom User Settings on Upgrade
Upgrading from PagePlus X4? Now preserve your custom Gallery content, object styles, preferences, user dictionaries, keyboard shortcuts, PDF profiles, and much more—all from within PagePlus X5.

Auto-Correct‘s Correction list now has even more common misspelling and mistyping entries to allow text replacement. Auto-Correct now creates a 1st line indent by using the Tab key at the start of a paragraph.
Previously in WritePlus only, Word count lets you count specific or all words in your current story, all stories, or selected text.
Use small caps and all caps on the same text; capitals become small caps too.
PhotoLab’s Images tab lets you filter images based on minimum/maximum size and supported color.
For drawing and graphic design, detach an object’s line, creating a new object.
Two new additions are added to the QuickShape flyout: Quick Cylinder and Quick Cube.
Text now wraps more closely around the transparent outline of transparent images.
To improve selection, transparent images can now only be selected by clicking their non-transparent areas.
For greater image loading performance, save subsampled proxy images (e.g., PNG and TIFF) or adjusted PhotoLab images in your PagePlus project.
In web publishing mode, image backgrounds in color schemes now have page scrolling, repeating, and positioning controls.

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