There are times when you'll need to design an invitation, a company or group newsletter or even want to print address labels for your post. Either way, you could turn to a word processor, but as these tools are not page layout applications, you won't be able to get precise control over how elements are positioned on your page. It's far easier to use a desktop publishing tool where you simply drop in a box for an image, import the image and then move it to any location on the page.

With Computeractive magazine issue 278, on-sale now, you can get the full commercial version of Serif Page Plus 9, which is Vista compatible and worth £69. With this DTP tool you can quickly layout a page and even publish it as a commercial quality PDF document for printing.

Computeractive 278 link.

23 Oct 2008