
If you need those capabilities, you'll have to spring for X4 that, incidentally, is available The only real limitations, in my opinion, are that you can't embed hyperlinks or The only difference? The company disables some of its higher-end features such as LogoStudio and 3D effects.

The applications latest version, PagePlus X4, costs $99.99-but you can get PagePlus Starter Edition absolutely free.ĭon't let the "Starter Edition" suffix scare you away: this version looks and operates exactly like X4. That's why I'm a longtime fan of Serif PagePlus, a terrific desktop-publishing application that's ideal for designing both print and Web-based documents. Sure, you can still buy heavyweight applications such as Adobe PageMaker and QuarkXPress, but they cost a small fortune-$499 and $799, respectively-and they're overkill for most people. A decade ago, you had your pick of at least a dozen programs, but now the field is nearly empty.

It's odd that the need to create newsletters, fliers, brochures, and the like hasn't gone away, but desktop publishing software has.
