Publisher Plus App Reviews

This application has great potential. It’s still missing some basic features like spell check and versions I would like to see put in place soon.

It is easy to use publisher plus and it provides many templetes for me to create business cards, newletters, posters and so on. You will like to use it to create many kinds of products. Please enjoy it.

I needed an app that was low cost, simple to use and powerful. Twenty years ago for me that was InDesign and Photoshop. These days I can’t afford anything Adobe. I downloaded Publisher Lite and was able to quickly design and layout a photo collage for a family christmas project within about an hour I was hooked and I went and bought the full version. I’ve tried many of the templates to create various other projects. So far In 1 day of using the Publisher Plus, I have been able to get several weeks of work down that I’ve struggled with. I have tried other page design and layout programs that have failed to work the way I needed. I hope to continue to discover all I am able to create with this program.

I am trying to design a flyer - the lite version of this app has about three flyer styles so I sprung for the “PLUS” version - it has more flyer templates but they are all very specific and not very customize-able. It’s all very pretty, but also totally useless for my purposes. I want an app that lets me design a flyer - supply me with the elements and let me do the rest. GRRRRRRRR. I just wasted $20.

after using microsoft publsher for years I switched to a macbook pro. publisher plus is a huge step back, very difficult and cumbersome to use for monthly newsletter. can't really crop or swap photos, spell check and autocorrect are difficult, help and tutorials are almost worthless. very dissapointing

I have been trying to export or email a project completed out of Publisher Plus and keep getting an erro. It wont allow me to do anything, even save it so it can be opened toa folder on my computer. This project was to be to the printer this morning and I have yet to be able to export it. If anyone knows of or has experienced this issue and I am missing something, please share and feel free to voice your opinion. the support asked for the error and now haven't heard back. 200 people depending on this and I am getting nowhere. Would not recommend this to anyone at this time...

The UNDO feature is very buggy, and doesn’t always work. The program also freezes up frequently, and I have to save constantly for fear of losing my work. I have a fairly new Mac computer and it can’t seem to keep up. I also cannot open a file that I spent HORUS on. I deleted and redownloaded the program but it did not help. When I delete a character, sometimes whole chunks of text get deleted. Save your 20 bucks.. the upgrade is NOT worth it. Use the free version.

I am a preschool teacher and I send out a weekly newsletter to the parents of my students. Publisher Plus allows me to create a crisp newsletter with info, graphics and photos. I spend very little time working on the newsletter because Publisher Plus is so easy to you. I also producer individual scrapbooks for each of my students at the end of the school year. The multipage feature allows me create some fantastic scrapbooks with photos of each student throughout the year. The parents love them. I love the ability to add shapes and drop in photos with nice borders. Moving the text around is a breeze. I am not tech savvy, but with Publisher Plus, I don’t need to be.

This app is basically broken and hasnt been updated in a while. Constantl;y crashes and bullet points dont work.

I guess you get what you pay for. This program seems to be very buggy. I do things more than once to get them to work such as formatting the wrapping in a text box. To rearrange pages is very frustrating. Sometimes it works and other times it does not. I cannot figure out the pattern. Overall, just OK.

This is a grat app! It’s intuitive and ACTUALLY a plug-n-play app. You can’t go wrong with it.

So, I downloaded the free version, got frustrated when I got to page layout, and paid the 19.95 for the full version! Still frustrated as to layout and printing options and out $20. Not happy!

Paid $20 for this app and all I have been able to do is put in a background then it freezes and wont even quit. I am beyond aggrevated and upset after purchasing this app in order to access more features than the “Lite” version. I have not been able to succesfully create ANYTHING past a background. Hate it.

I wrote a very negative review when the program first came out and gave it one star. I am happy that with the upgrade they have corrected most of my concerns. It still doesn’t link text boxes which is a problem but they are making progress. I appreciate their dedication to the program!

Nedded to print a few business cards, created them real quick, was easy to learn program. BUT and I mean a BIG BUT! I can not print my project! What a wast of good money and time! recognizes my printer, but WILL NOT PRINT! Closed out and went to another program to see if the problem was my printer…. NOPE …….printed fine. Shut down my computer and rebooted, went back into Publisher Plus, and it STILL WONT PRINT! DONT WASTE YOUR MONEY TILL THE BUGS ARE GONE!

I cant’ believe I was duped into spending $20 on this “upgrade.” Pages works just fine, and is much more intuitive. This “upgrade” is cumbersome, takes a while to figure out, and did not provide the types of templates and publishing help I had envisioned.

I really wish i could get my money back, and all the time i wasted reading reviews. i used an older print shop type program for years and always had a massive amount of options. I could make anything. With this app all you get is pretty pictures put together by other people. There are very few options to do different types of labels, bookmarks or cards. All printables are basically the same shape. not what I wanted at all. waste of money. Don’t buy this product!

I upgraded from the Publisher Lite version because I needed to make a lengthy newsletter. This version supports that. However, some days it freezes every few minutes (SAVE OFTEN!) for no apparent reason. It says you can drag and drop to rearrange pages. This doesn’t seem to work for me for whatever reason. It worked once, but now it won’t let me rearrange the pages which is incredibly frustrating. I like the added backgrounds and templates. UPDATE: Some days it just decides to NOT RESPOND. I’m on a deadline and need to make adjustments to my newsletter, but every time I do one tiny little thing it freezes and is not responding. If you have patience and never have deadlines…great app ;)

It is great for simple designs with provided layouts, but it is missing a lot of more advanced options needed for premium graphic design. I was wanting to create print ads and I need a lot more than what this offers.

I am always interested in any app that empowers me to create stunning flyers, brochures, reports, and more. Of course, the drawback is not all of them are easy to use. The main differences are that Publisher Plus is a touch faster to use, because it doesn’t hide options behind menus. The benefit is a bunch of good templates to use where you just enter your personalized text. The limitation is Export options, because Publisher Plus flattens everything into images, even when you print to PDF.

Not as described, not user friendly, no clipart only pictures, many typos on templates…wish I wouldn’t have purchased.

I'm sure this works great for so many other projects but personally, I wanted to create a 12 page booklet by foldling 6 normal papers in half and have it put my booklet in order. It does not do that. That is the only reason I bought this and now I just wasted my money.

I have not used it extensively and most what i do is on a clean slate…a learning curve as is with any app of this sort…a little bit buggy…not sure is the app or might be the computer, though i am running 12 GB ram, but also not OSX "E Captain”…Quite a bit of due deligence on your part if you are looking for clip art and such…google image provides quite a bit…keep a folder for such and easy to load those images to the program…a few things different i wish were in the program, and would be nice to set my own defaults for some things…over-all pretty pleased...the more you use it you can figure in some shortcuts and faster work time…i feel the price is quite fair (back in the day you’d pay much, much more)…...

I really like working with Publisher Plus on my Mac. There are a couple problems that I have with the program. The first is that it doesn’t have a Spanish language component so that it spellchecks and inserts necessary grammar when producing products for Spanish-speaking publics. The other is that it does not interface with other programs, such as Microsoft Word, so that one can easily cut and paste between programs.

This app was wondering for a few months…and as of this past week it will continue to just keep freezing! Please fix this!

Very good App. I would really appreciate some time spent creating some new fonts, as well as some font templates, designs, layout options etc.. Intuitive and decent editing tools.

keep give me error You can not save any file or print

This worked right for about 10 minutes, and then, when I wanted to create a table (which I couldn’t figure out how to do… there doesn’t seem to be an “insert table option anywhere” I tried to copy and paste one from another program. Publisher Plus stopped responding as soon as I tried to do this, and so I had to “force quit”. Now, it wont even open. Huge waste of money, I hope I can get a refund!

everytime I click on it, it brings up my desktop and nothing I click does anything

This is the most user friendly app I have worked with. It is a lot like MS Publisher, but with a lot more features and flexibilities. Well worth the money!!

I am having difficulty with business card printing. The tutorial is useless - it gives all you want to know about a brocure but nothing about labels or cards. I have my card ready to print but have not been able to get to the full page of 10 cards. How is this done? I am not new to publishing business cards - I had a PC and now have a MACBook Air - the MS Publisher program I used on the PC automatically filled in the full page of 10 cards for printing and made it super easy. What am I missing? If I have to manually insert each card, I find that unacceptable. Please, someone help me. I will give a higher rating if this problem can be solved quickly. Otherwise I want a full refund.

It seems I have wasted a good bit of money over the years trying to find a desktop publishing software that came close to Pagemaker. Publisher Plus is the best I have found to date. In my opinion though improvements could be made in the way it handles text formating. Adjusting margins and tabs is impossible, or at least I have not discovered it yet. That’s the reason it gets a 4 instead of a 5.

I'VE BEEN TRYING TO USE THIS APP FOR TWO YEARS. EVERYTHING HAS GONE GREAT EXCEPT FOR THE LAST UPDATE THIS YEAR. THE APP KEEPS FREEZING AND I HAVE TO SAVE THEN SHUT DOWN! NOT GOOD FOR BUSINESS... NOT TO MENTION THAT THIS APP REALLY COULD USE MORE DIVERSITY OF PEOPLE PHOTOS CURRENTLY IN THE PHOTO STOCK.

If you’re familiar with an old fashioned program like Print Shop or Print Master on a PC, then this is the program for you. I got tired of working with pages templates when the type got transferred onto another page. This program is real simple. Easy to add pages, delete pages, import images from iPhoto, or their clip art. If you need any additonal clip art, just browse online, it’s easy to add.

It may be cheep, but I can’t even open the program. Useless! It is like I did not get the full download and not sure what to do about it.

Watched a YouTube which was very helpful. Only frustration is that the font kept changing depending on I do not know what (shape boxes, text boxes, etc…)

I have used this application over and over again! It was perfect for making my . It is easy to use publisher plus and it provides many templetes for me to . I am always interested in any app that empowers me to create stunning flyers, brochures, reports, and more. The benefit is a bunch of good templates to use where you just enter your personalized text. thank application developers.

this app is extremely disappointing and was a waste of money and time trying to use.

There are some basic things that need enhancing on this app to make it worthwhile - such as the ability to easily move the pages around. There is no easy way to change the page order. Come on!

A big clue should have been their website, which is neither up-to-date nor detail-oriented (lots of errors, dead links, expired promotions. Indicating that quality and a thorough approach is not a priority...) This app is not nearly as detailed as the original Pages and is not for the poweruser of current Pages.. There are careless typos in the menus. Adjustments in spacing etc. use sliders, with no option of setting a precise number. Templates open in European A4 format and clicking “Letter” or Legal” does not automatically reconfigure the columns, artwork etc. It is less intuitive and more reliant on experimentation than Pages. (Example: open the menu of all pages, click the page you want to delete and click the “minus” sign - a warning message is displayed: “this choice is irrevocable”. WRONG CHOICE - the page that is deleted is the current page in the work area. Really!?) When the program crashes, the recovery is not current and requires lots of re-do. Moral: Save as you go (Apple has thoroughly spoiled me by making this nearly obsolete…) I regret not simply purchasing a $$ newsletter template pack for Pages. I have plenty of my own images/artwork so the royalty-free clipart isn’t a draw for me, either.

After a long search, I am thankful to have finally found an inexpensive and powerful desktop publishing and graphics layout program for my Mac. Certainly, you could spend a few hundred bucks for a more powerful program, but this one certainly meets my needs for flyers, brochures, business cards, signs, posters, etc. Powerful and easy to use. Whew!

While I have only done one project so far, this is a great basic design package, though not without flaws. What should you expect for the price, right? The only major quibble is that the only size for business cards is not the “standard” 2 inch by 3.5 inch that is most commonly used but what I suspect is an ISO or European standard 2.12 inch by 3.35 inch. This is a pain when working with sites like VistaPrint (which only use the 2x3.5 size in their web tools) but can be worked around if needed (you lay it out as though you had a top and bottom margin of 0.13 inches but go right to the edge on the left and right margins then drop the exported PDF right on the VistaPrint design page. Oh, and don’t run you graphics off the ends of the card or you get a white space). It was a disapointement that the “custom page sizing” that was supposed to come with the Plus version wasn’t for design layout page sizes within the application but for printer page sizes which apparently isn’t the same thing. This is odd to me. The feature I would most like to see are (multiple)vertical and horizontal guides that you could drag from the rulers and use to align objects. They were among my favorite tools in the early versions of PageMaker. A page grid matching the rulers would be nice too.

The app is pretty decent for the price, but if you are used to higher end page layout programs such as Pagemaker, Quark XPress or even MS Publisher, there are things here that will make you nuts. However, i like it better than trying to do newsletters in MS Word. I have problems occassionally with the app crashing, so I save my work often. Not everything is intuitive, so there's a bit of a learning curve. I've been using it for a coule years now, and still find features I wish I'd discovered earlier.

I was having trouble with the software functioning so I clicked on the support link which took me to the website. The website has a few generic questions and answers. None, of which addressed my concern. There’s no contact number listed to speak with anyone! I couldn’t find an email address to leave a message either. This is so frustrating! Poor tech help! It’s good when things are functioning fine, but horrible if and when thing disfunction. Again, Poor tech help!!!!! Until they figure out how to better assist people, don’t waste your money!