Admirers of Fine Typography

Pagesmith wants you to create beautiful typography and gives you the tools to do so. First, it categorizes your fonts by kind, allowing you to quickly choose a font that is both appropriate for your application and beautiful. Looking for a font for headings? Just peruse the “Headline” category. Want a legible font for the main body of your text? You can start with the “Traditional” group. Pagesmith offers other font categories based on appearance to help you find the right font for your needs.

Second, Pagesmith gives you fine grained controls for kerning, ligatures, ornaments, and any special typographic features that a font supports. You can set the baseline, kerning, and use of ligatures for paragraphs, lines, or even single characters. Pagesmith scours your Mac for all the ornaments available and displays them in one easy to access place. You can add ornaments in as little as two clicks of the mouse. If you’re looking for advanced typographical features, Pagesmith’s Font palette will show you all that a given font has, and allow you to pick the ones you want.

You’ll also want to check out the “Producing Beautiful Documents” section in Pagesmith’s built in help. There you’ll learn about the proper use of characters, how to choose a font, a summary of the fonts you’ll find on your Mac, and all about spacing. Download the free trial and learn something new.

 

Advocates of Uncluttered Design

 

Pagesmith brings innovation and elegance to the UI design of word processors. It’s been designed from the ground up to keep floating palettes and dialogs off of your text. Instead, Pagesmith makes use of an innovative sidebar and a unique toolbar design, preferring text labels over icons. With Pagesmith, you’ll never have to choose from a bewildering array of small icons.

All of the tools for formatting characters and paragraphs can be found in the easily accessible sidebar. The sidebar stays attached to the left hand side of your document, and is organized into palettes which can be expanded or collapsed. Other panels, such as find and replace and the spell checker, will appear here, and not over your document.

Pagesmiths toolbar is contextual, in order to reduce complexity and not take up space that is better used for your document. For example, if you click in a table row, a toolbar for editing table row options will appear. The toolbar stays focused on what you’re working on, not on the hundreds of things you’re not. Returning to the main toolbar is as easy as clicking in the main part of your document.

Much, Much More

One of the first things you’ll notice about Pagesmith is the speed. It starts up quick. It never balks or stares blankly back at you for a few seconds when you ask it to do something. It’s not overburdened with unneeded features or bulk, but is lean and fast, allowing you to get to the fun of creating beautiful documents.

Pagesmith uses the PDF file format as its native format. No longer do you have to worry if your colleagues have the correct version of Word, but you can rest assured they can view the document as you intended it to be seen. Pagesmith isn’t a PDF editor; they won’t be able to edit the document without Pagesmith, but they can view it in high fidelity.

System Requirements

  • Mac OS 10.6 or later
  • Intel based Macintosh

Unique Features

  • A document format (PDF) that everyone can read
  • Automatic grouping of your fonts into categories
  • Support for Apple font collections
  • Print guides
  • In-app feedback (and we do read our feedback)
  • Choice of tabbed or untabbed windows
  • Ruler shading to indicate how indents affect paragraph shape
  • An editor for your Apple spelling dictionary
  • An editor for the document-level spelling dictionary
  • Smart Quotes can be turned on or off at the character level or in a style
  • Direct menu support for over 60 special characters
  • A viewer for ornament characters found on your Mac
  • An editor for creating typographically correct fractions
  • An efficient user interface that avoids reliance on icons
  • A superbly easy-to-use Styles editor
  • A handy button to set the default font for a document
  • Adjustment of character weight, width, and obliqueness
  • Help pages that include tips on using your Leopard fonts

Standard Features

  • Columns and Margins
  • Tables
  • Sections
  • Page numbers, in various formats
  • Updating date field
  • Spell checking
  • Templates (we call them Document Styles)
  • Headers and footers
  • Document properties (author, subject, etc., plus custom properties)
  • Word count
  • Automatic updating with new versions
  • Autosave
  • Automatic text replacement
  • Styles
  • Find and Replace
  • Smart Quotes
  • Smart Insert and Delete
  • Speech support
  • Page and column breaks
  • Adjustable hyphenation
  • Layout guides
  • Show Invisibles
  • Magnification (or scaling, zoom in and out)
  • View one or two pages at a time
  • Scale to full page
  • Scale to page width
  • Split view, horizontal or vertical
  • Adjust color of text, background, underline, and strikethrough
  • Small caps
  • Ligatures
  • Superscript and subscript, full size or small
  • Text shadow
  • US or metric measurements
  • Adjustable baseline and kerning
  • Adjust paragraph space before, space after, leading, line height
  • Widow and orphan support (we call it Prevent Stragglers)
  • Keep Together and Keep With Next
  • Tab leaders
  • Bullets and numbering
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