Print Designer Gold 9.5

Print Designer Gold 9.5 brings you an all in one product for all your printing needs which enables you to create great looking business cards, address and shipping labels, CD and DVD labels and inserts, envelopes, post cards, name badges, signs and other media labels for audio tapes, diskettes, Zip disks, and file folders.

With the same proven user interface from the designer series products, Print designer gold is easy to use for beginners, yet powerful.

Major Features:

1. Get Going Fast: Use the Design Wizard to create a great looking custom business card or label from hundreds of included business card templates and label templates in literally seconds.
2. Save Money: Why pay a printer to print your business cards each time you run out or change your contact information.  For less then the cost of one order of business cards you can design and print all the business cards you will ever need, making as many changes as you want.
3. Support for Any database: Link your business cards or labels to one of the built in personal databases, Text, CSV, Excel, Access, DBase, Paradox database or any external database through ADO or ODBC.
   
4. Support for Any Card or Label Stock: Design US size, metric size or custom size business cards, post cards, labels, envelopes, badges, signs and more.
   
5. Thousands of pre-defined backgrounds, textures and clipart images: In addition, all common image formats are supported so you can use your own pictures, logos and clipart to design the perfect custom business card for you.
   
6. Support for all Styles of Business Cards:  Standard Wide, Tall, Double Sided, Photo Quality, Folded and CD-R Business Cards.  You name it and this business card software can handle it.
   
7. Linked Pictures: Use the Linked Picture tool to add a graphic that is different on each card or label you print.  Pull the file names from a database or specify a list.  Perfect for Photo ID cards or Badges.
   
8. Print it Yourself or Have it Printed Professionally: You can print your business card on your computer's printer and achieve excellent results or you can save your business card as an image and take it to your local print shop to have your custom business card printed professionally.
   
9. Custom Printing Options: With business card software you can print any number of business cards starting at any position on the sheet on any Windows compatible printer using our business card printing software.
   
10. Rich Text: Mix fonts, styles and colors of text within a single rich text object.
    
11. Graphic Effects: Crop, mirror, flip, rotate, negative, noise, gamma, etc. Even give a graphic a transparent background with business card software. 
    
12. Useful Shape Tools: Draw lines, rectangles, triangles, ellipses, diamonds and more. Use blending to make the background semi-transparent, blending into whatever is behind the shape.
13. Text Effects: the business card software lets you draw spiral, radial, arc and variable size text.  Change the font, size, color, style, shadow rotation and blending.  You can even display text as a barcode, an auto-increment counter or the current date and/or time.
    
14. Gradient and Texture Fills with Alpha Blending: Use a gradient or select a texture or image to fill text and shape objects to create outstanding custom business cards.  Alpha Blending allows you to blend the gradient or texture into whatever is behind it.
    
15. Store Business Card Information for Multiple Employees: The built-in Personal Database to store information for multiple cards so printing cards for employees is a breeze.

• Rich Text Objects
• Improved Property Editor
• Blending for images, fills and text
• Rotation (in degrees) for all objects
• Added thumbnails for backgrounds to reduce the Pick Picture screen load time
• Code 2 of 5 Interleaved barcode support
• Mirror printout option
• Preview text in Property Editor's object list
• Ability to insert database fields, counters and date/time macros directly into text objects
• Maintain aspect of linked pictures and remember last folder used
• Additional Improvements
• • Option to cycle variable text on Print Options screen
  • Added Button in Design Wizard to open PDB
  • Focus and select text when inserting new text object
  • Added Ctrl+Shift click on text object to focus and select text
  • Improved preview drawing of layout on Layouts screen
  • Improved accuracy on Arc text drawing
• Bug Fixes:
• • CD inner hole and stagger offset incorrect if zoom not 100%
  • Choose rotation for text, then switch to Max Fill or Auto Reduce - Incorrect display
  • Line width could be changed after rendering picture object
  • Selecting over 10 or so linked pictures at one time failed
  • Disable OK button on Build Field screen if no constructed field present
  • Some Code 128 barcodes did not display

Requirements:

• Microsoft Windows Vista/XP/2003/2000 or later
• 500 Mhz processor or faster
• 256 MB RAM or more
• 50 MB free disk space (depending on installation options)
• Printer Optional.