The new features InDesign CS6 boasts are intended to make life easier for busy layout production work and also for anyone making page designs for more than one final format.

iBooks Author's aim is to revolutionise modern textbooks by bringing interactivity to the learning experience.

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Serif WebPlus X5 aims to beat the blog services

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Adobe Acrobat X Pro is the latest in PDF creation

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Serif PagePlus X5 proves an excellent tool for beginners and veterans alike

No overblown extras you don't understand, just solid tools for both print and digital publishing

Well-featured, good-value DTP software with lots of potential

PopChar 4 sits discreetly – even invisibly, if you like – in the menu bar, but when you click that little icon a floating window pops up showing you the full range of characters available.

Without fonts a designer is nothing.With too many fonts a designer can be paralysed.So how do you keep a decent collection of typefaces under control? FontAgent Pro 4 claims to be the answer, providing you with fast and efficient ways to keep your fonts organised, helping you browse, search and find the right ones fast, turn individual fonts and whole sets on and off, and more besides.

Digital authoring is less of a niche pastime these days. People are happy to spend their free time putting together their own Web sites, DVDs menus and multimedia discs.

Acrobat is by no means a sexy product. It's an important one for anyone involved in the print or creative industries, but it doesn't carry the pizzazz of the Creative Suite products in Adobe's arsenal.

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Updated Desktop publishing allows you to create everything from a leaflet, a poster or even a brochure. The first thing to know about this latest package from Serif is that it has launched each product independently, but this is a cost-effective way of picking up three distinct tools: PagePlus 11, DrawPlus 8 and ImpactPlus 5 for a mere £50 (inc. VAT).

You may have come across Serif's PagePlus if you've ever needed to create a poster, flyer, calendar or small booklet on your laptop. It's one of the oldest and most widely used home-based DTP (desktop publishing) packages

From its birth 20 years ago as a Pagemaker lookalike, Serif 's PagePlus has gone on to be a major player in the home and small-business DTP market, selling rather more copies than its progenitor