PagePlus

What do you like best?

There is more than enough online templates (and media files in general) already incorporated, user interface is excellent, options are (in most of the cases) immediately visible, there is plenty of design features and precise controls. Styles in styles gallery and schemes in schemes gallery are nice and fast solutions for simple and not so simple designs. Layering is done perfectly. Importing and work with PDF files is excellent. Integrations with other SERIF software is also perfect. Price is also a good reason to recommend this software.

In general use, this software can do almost everything that some other, more expensive and more known software solutions can do.

What do you dislike?

User interface is excellent but can't be customized, Importing sometimes is very slow and is not working always as expected (imported material needs some minor adjustments). Page manager can be done better. Importing fonts (on first use) can be tedious process. Tutorial support should have more on line material.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

This software is not so well known around and that is a shame as it can be used for, at least, 90 % of cases that are seen in SOHO environments. Experience is even better when used with some other software products from same company. Price is also a good selling point of this software.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

We achieved higher levels of designing our brochures and catalogues with less time spent doing that. Without any problems we can drastically change complete design of our brochure and have annual (design) change done in few hours. Using PDF files in this process now has drastically improved working experience.