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Business Cards and Certificates (Free to Try, $15 to Buy, Windows) - Create stunning business cards and certificates in minutes. Includes over 70 professionally designed business card and certificate templates.

Castoway (Free to Try, $40 to Buy, Mac / Windows) - book specifications can be imported into page layout applications such as QuarkXPress and automatically generate character and parragraph styles, formatted pages with trim size and margins and left- and right-hand master pages.

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Design and Print Studio (Free to Try, $15 to Buy, Mac / Windows) - The template driven application is the fastest and easiest way to go from a blank page to an eye-catching design.

Desktop Labels Deluxe (Free to Try, $15 to Buy, Mac / Windows) - Premier general purpose labeling program that provides you with a complete label, barcode and mailing list capability. Creates virtually any kind of label. Allows you to easily maintain a mailing list database and use it to generate personalized form letters.

eBook Pack Express (Free to Try, $30 - $80, Windows) - Turn you valuable information into eBooks, ezines, booklets, catalogs and/or multimedia presentations. To sell online for huge profits or to give away to generate incredible traffic to your website!

Ezypage (Free to Try, $25 to Buy, Windows) - the easiest way to design and develop a complex web page

InaMig (Free to Try, $150 to Buy, Windows) - Produce multimedia rich publications, catalogs, presentations, books, screensavers.

MultiAd Creator ($99 - $750 depending on Version, Windows /Mac) - If you develop advertising or promotional materials, MultiAd Creator is made for the way you work. This sophisticated layout software is ideal for design and production, with powerful tools to boost your efficiency and creativity.

NeoBook (Free to Try, $200 to Buy, Windows) - allows you to produce royalty-free, professional quality, electronic publications. It easily integrates text, images, sound, music, animation, interactive controls, color and other graphical elements to create stunning multimedia productions.

PageFocus (Free to Try, $29 to Buy, Windows) - An easy desktop publishing and form development.

Picture Buzz (One Month Free, $12.95 for one year subscription) -- Design Printable Greeting Cards, Calendars, Scrapbooks, Photo Printing and More

Print Designer GOLD (Free to Try, $40 to Buy, Windows) - lets you design and print great looking business cards, labels, envelopes, post cards, CD/DVD inserts, signs and more...

PublisherPro (Free to Try, $15 to Buy, Mac / Windows) - This is a low cost, high quality, full featured desktop publishing tool for the professional and novice alike.

QuarkXpress Not Shareware ($900 to Buy, Mac / Windows) - The software that sparked a revolution when released in 1987 is today relied upon by millions of users worldwide. From globally distributed newspapers and magazines, to corporate publications, books, catalogs, and advertisements — chances are most of the printed information you come across is designed and laid out in QuarkXPress™.

SignGo (Free to Try, $349 to Buy, Windows) - is the first fully featured signmaking software to be distributed as shareware. SignGo has everything you need to make professional signs with speed and ease, and now you get the chance to try before you buy - no strings!

SignGo Lite (Free to Try, $89 to Buy, Windows) - Design and produce signs easily and quickly using this lightweight software.

Typographicus ($60, Windows) - is a powerful semiprofessional DTP-Application - creating professional labels and business cards, beautiful letter papers and practical serial letters is as easy as making multi-page brochures, foto calendars of high quality and extensive magazines.

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