Since the dawn of desktop publishing, Macintosh users have been creating unique personal correspondence and notices. Some attempts are more, ahem, successful than others. With the release of Brøderbund’s Print Shop Deluxe, even the most ham-fingered can produce professional-looking greeting cards, signs, banners, letterhead stationery, and calendars.
Those already familiar with Print Shop will find the enhancements in Print Shop Deluxe to be welcome boons. After opening a project — a fold-over card or a monthly calendar, for instance — you choose from among hundreds of colorful backdrops, borders, and graphics. The harried and the timid might want to pick one of the suggested layouts and simply drop elements onto it. The more daring will appreciate that all text and graphics can be moved, resized, or rotated without fear of jaggies.
The program comes with 30 TrueType fonts. Some, like Palatia, Paramount, and Tribune, are standard typefaces appropriate for body text; others, such as the clownlike Bazooka, scary Stylus, and nostalgic Fillmore, are evocative headline and banner typefaces. You can even create drop caps that rest within decorative boxes, and you can apply special effects such as outlines, shadows, and blends.
Do keep in mind that Print Shop Deluxe is not a substitute for high-end graphics applications. You can scale or flip the supplied graphics, for instance, but you can’t change a smile to a frown or a red to a blue. On the other hand, you can use the included Graphics Exporter utility to export the graphic as an EPS or PICT file, open it in a graphics program, alter it, and import it to Print Shop Deluxe as a PICT file.
Type capabilities are also somewhat limited. You can choose a font, size, and color for a text block, and you can even mix attributes within a text box on a character-by-character basis. But you have no control over leading or kerning. The worst problem I encountered became apparent when I printed some of my test projects. Text that appeared on the screen was cut off in the printed version. To print the entire text block, I had to reduce the size of the screen type before printing again. The good news is that the images reproduce beautifully on both color and black-and-white printers.
Print Shop Deluxe is, alas, not for everyone. You must have a Macintosh II or later, System 7, 4MB of RAM, and at least 6MB of free space on a hard drive. The application comes on three 1.44MB disks and includes an excellent manual and tutorial. For those faced with producing professional-looking projects on tight schedules and budgets. Print Shop Deluxe is hard to beat.
Stefanac, Suzanne. (April 1994). Print Shop Deluxe. Macworld. (pg. 85).
Brøderbund Software, Inc.
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Print-Shop-Deluxe.sit
Emulating this? It could probably run under: 
Basilisk II
