Let’s waste no time: Deneba has launched a major coup with Canvas 5.0. The one-and-a-half number leap from version 3.5 sounds like a marketing ploy to bring Deneba’s flagship product in line with the version numbers of its competitors,...

Thunder 7 was a great utility — a universal spell checker, thesaurus, and glossary. Spell Catcher, its rebadged rewrite, doesn’t offer many significant new features, but the interface has been tweaked; it comes with legal, medical,...

With its third incarnation, QuarkXPress has finally left behind its once-justified reputation as a powerful-but-daunting desktop-publishing program that made you play by its own rules — or else. In completely rewriting the program. Quark has...

MORE started out as a humble outliner, and then evolution took over. Presentation software, a hybrid of structured word processing (aka, outlining) and graphics emerged from the primeval software soup. Somewhere along the way, MORE acquired some of...

miniWRITER is a shareware text processor desk accessory with a word count feature and smart quotes. Back in the days when MacWrite could handle only one open document at a time, many of us got to know David Dunham’s miniWriter...

Spelling Coach Professional 3.1 easily retains its title as the giant among spelling checkers. It takes four (count ’em!) 800K floppy disks just to hold all its files. But contained within those files is a collection of features that is...

Springboard Publisher II, an upgraded version of Springboard Publisher (see Desktop Reviews, May ’89), addresses only some of the earlier version's failings and adds a few new ones. It's aimed at desktop publishers who produce...

Publish It!, a new page-layout program that includes tools for word processing, drawing, and painting, is aimed at users who've been left behind by the giants, such as PageMaker. And it’s almost a bull's-eye: Publish It! is fast, opens...

For some users, the top-of-the-line word processors are more deadweight than heavyweight — cumbersome, expensive, and stuffed with superfluous features. What these users need is a leaner, less expensive, and easier-to-use word processor. Enter...

Acta Advantage is an outliner that works both as a DA and as an application — although it is more powerful as a DA. The only reason to use the application version is for its WYSIWYG page preview and its printing formal features. For the real...

When you think of business software You imagine — let me guess —  Maybe Word, Excel, or Quicken, ATM or QuarkXPress.   But if writing songs or poems Is the way you pass the time, Then the biggest boost to...

Color matching has long been an Achilles’ heel in desktop publishing — what you see or scan is usually not what you get when your publication comes off the press. By teaming up with Electronics for Imaging, Quark has addressed this...

Over a decade ago, Deneba Software began a mission: to develop a Single Creative Application that empowered the graphics user with the ability to create and edit vector drawings, bitmap images, and text in one program. With SpriteLayer™...

Some writers refuse to use one, others can't live without one. Spelling checkers are a very personal product. You either want a great one or you don't want one at all. And you know the answer. Now. So far, spelling checkers for the Mac...