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44 of 44 found the following review helpful:
 I'm Sorry I Bought ThisJan 21, 2007
By Anne Sitterud
This should be called "Print Disappointment". It's buggy, some of the really cool features, like color gradations on a shape, don't work. You can't open networked files. The clipart is amateurish. There is a very limited colorset. I asked tech support about that and they said it can't be expected to provide the same features as professional software. Well, I've been using Printmaster on a PC for 8 years, it cost $20, and the earliest version I used worked better than this product.
44 of 45 found the following review helpful:
 Great Progam with some quirksAug 09, 2006
By N. Medina
I bought this program because it was the best MAC OS X progam out there for digital scrapping that I could find. The scrapbooking graphics and digital papers are surprisingly good. There are lots of different papers, from crumpled, inked, striped, circles and bordered. There are lots of embellishments like tags, fibers, shapes and velum. Outside of the scrapbooking graphics, the graphics can be a bit cheesy. There are lots of templates or a person can create a layout from scratch.
There are lots of fonts, with many of them resident on the DVD bonus fonts folder. Currently there is a bug that does not allow all the fonts from the bonus folder to load. The tech people say they are working on an update to fix this.
When creating more than one page scrapbooking Layouts, be aware that once a page is created, the layout order cannot be adjusted. This was a bummer, because I wanted to create a theme album in a digital format. The tech people said they expect people to print out their pages and then switch them around if necessary. I think that is absurd!
There are graphic tools to create your own shapes, but there is no drawing tool, so doodling on your layout is not possible. Bummer!
The program integrates with iLife 06, such as iPhoto which is nice. I can drag and drop a photo into the program easily. And since it integrates with iPhoto and the iLife suite, it does not come with a photo editor or scrapbook DVD option. I guess they figure you should be able to do this with your Mac already.
So, for simple digital layouts of 1 or 2 pages it is great. It gives you the option of saving your layout as a jpeg image file. The scrapbook gallery art is impressive and gives great results. I would recommend it, with recommendations for some changes in future versions of this program.
20 of 20 found the following review helpful:
Laborious to useOct 27, 2007
By Belesprit
I was looking for a greeting card program to use on my G4 iMac, as I missed my programs from my PC. Print Explosion Deluxe takes a long time to open and operate. The organization is also poor. ALL greeting cards are lumped together alphabetically by the name of the card. It operates at random whether or not you can access subdivisions such as Halloween, Get Well, etc. when looking for greeting cards. I'll keep using it because I spent so much money on it, but it irks me every time I attempt to use it. I suggest you keep looking for another program.
19 of 19 found the following review helpful:
This program delivers a lot of bang for the buckFeb 18, 2009
By Gretchen M. Geyer
As a professional art director who has used both Macs and PCs, I'm very familiar with the two major professional publishing programs, QuarkXPress and Adobe InDesign (and also with Framemaker and Pagemaker) and own each of them on my Mac. However, I was looking for something quick, fun, and EASY to make greeting cards. This was the only product I could find to do this on my Mac. After reading the reviews on here, I was prepared to be disappointed - but thankfully I was not. It gives me the greeting cards I was looking for, and even more. Is it perfect? No. For example, I can't for the life of me get it to print envelopes in the orientation that my printer feeds them, which is frustrating. I also had some initial problems with some features not working and contacted their Tech Support. Although they never did come up with the answer, they did continue to try to help me with repeated emails. (I figured out the problem on my own; the product absolutely needs to be installed on the same drive as your operating system, or else some features won't work; in my case, Publish in HTML wasn't working - I have two internal hard drives and had installed the program on the drive with the most room, which in most cases works fine, and with programs where it won't work, the program tells you that and won't allow you to install on a secondary drive; Print Explosion will allow you to, which is not a good thing). I had a program years ago on my Mac that did greeting cards and contained a database of expressions and greetings and pithy sayings you could use to create the actual word content of a card; I miss that with this program. What I wasn't expecting but was really happy to use was the ability to create emails (without using something like Dreamweaver, which is how I do it at work) and instantly send them from within Print Explosion. Also, what other reviewers have noted about creating calendars is true - it's a pain; you can only create one month at a time and the calendar pictured on the box is misleading; you can't make them look like that unless you do it manually. But for the price and the amazing amount of nice clipart included, I am quite happy with this purchase. Of course, I really only wanted to do greeting cards, but I have done email greetings that have thrilled and amazed my friends. :-)
8 of 8 found the following review helpful:
Print DisappointmentAug 11, 2010
By York
I've tried to use Print Explosion Delux on a new iMac running 10.6. You can not use one of the main features - the 'Inspector' window without the application crashing. It crashes when you select any italics font ( in the inspector window). I sent all the crash and log information Nova Development would need to fix this application.
6 email exchanges and 2 calls to escalated support later....I was told they are aware of the crash and have no information about the product being fixed.
How can Nova Development continue selling a product that they know is so broken? I'm hoping someone in this thread can suggest a better alternative.
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