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Text Formatting	Creator Pro	Creator Desktop
Character and Paragraph model tags into workflow	•
Copy Fit	•
Drop Caps	•	•
Edit White Text as percentage of gray	•	•
First Baseline Factor	•
Fit Text Block	•
Paragraph Styles	•	•
Style Models	•
Superior and Inferior Text Styles	•	•
Improved Text Attributes Interface	•	•
Title Case and Small Caps Text Styles	•	•
Two Types of Underline Options	•	•
Type Styles	•	•
Vertical Text Alignment	•
Word Space	•	•
Sort	•

Hyphenation
Suggest Hyphenation for individual words	•	•
Save Hyphenation exceptions	•	•
Control the Hyphenation of capitalized words	•	•
Control the minimum number of characters before and after a hyphen	•	•
Specify the minimum word size to hyphenate	•	•
Specify the maximum number of consecutive hyphens	•	•
Hyphenate 11 different languages	•	•
Multiple User Dictionaries	•

Element Features
Apply a fill, frame, shadow or gradient to any element	•	•
Arrow Heads	•	•
AutoMasking	•
Automatic Drop Shadows	•	•
Containment Tool	•	•
Cubic Beziers	•	•
Element Styles	•
Indenpendent Rectangle Corners	•	•
Mask Graphic with Shape	•	•
Magic Wand (Mask) Tool	•
Multiple Color Gradients	•	•
Multiple Operations for Combining Paths	•	•
Apply Textures for Lines and Frames	•	•
Apply Gradients to Lines and Frames	•	•
Colorize Grayscale Graphics	•	•

Text and Element Features
Text On a Path	•	•
Text on a Path to Path Element	•
Multi-line Text to Path Element	•
Arrange Elements in Stacking Order	•	•
Embed Elements in Text	•	•
Independent Text and Element Shadows	•	•
Make Matrix	•	•
Multi-Line Text to Path Element	•	•
Scale Text and Graphics Proportionally	•	•
Skew Elements and Text	•	•
Text Wrapping	•	•
Align Objects by centers or by same edge	•	•
Muti-Column Text	•
0° Text Editing	•

Color Management
Trapping	•
Pantone	•
CMYK	•	•
RGB	•	•
Focoltone	•
NAA Color	•
Color Sync	•	•
Web Safe Color	•
Auto Convert EPS Spot Colors to Process	•

Font Management
Add Any Font Size	•	•
Instant Font Activation	•	•
Save Reference to Missing Fonts	•	•

Miscellaneous
Quick Open Menu	•	•
Brandable		•
Creator Border Editor	•	•
Over Three Hundred Borders Included	•	•

Support Features
Multiples Levels of Undo Redo	•	•
Cross Platform	•	•
Open Creator Files across Platform	•	•
OS X Support	•	•
Place Native Documents	•	•
Full Drag and Drop Support (Document to Document)	•	•
Import Style Models from Creator Documents	•
Adobe Photoshop Clipping Path Support	•	•
Recover Broken Links	•	•
Backwards Compatibility to 3.6	•	•
Check for text overflow on Opening	•	•
Check for text overflow on Printing	•	•
Check for text overflow on Saving Ad	•	•
Check for text overflow on exporting	•	•
Check for Missing Fonts when Printing	•	•
Check for Missing Fonts when Exporting	•	•
Check for Missing Fonts when Importing	•

User Interface
Arrange Palette	•	•
Border Tool	•	•
Combined Text and Element Palette	•	•
Custom Menus via Startup Scripts	•	•
Contextual Menus via Applescript	•	•
Attached Applescripts	•	•
Files Palette Sort	•
Flip Tool on Tools Palette	•
Hand Tool on Tools Palette	•	•
Keyboard Operated Tools Palette	•	•
Improved Regular Polygon Tools	•	•
File Utilities	•
Scale text with Keyboard	•	•
Set Guides Numerically	•	•
Starburst Tool	•	•
Startup Script Folder	•	•
Reshape Tool on Tools Palette	•	•
Color Separations	•
New Color Item in Color Popup Menus	•	•
Swatch View in Colors Palette	•	•
Place Files with Scaled Picture Box	•	•
Skew Tool	•	•
Trapping Palette	•
Improved Document Dialog	•	•
Zoom Tools on Tools Palette	•	•
Baseline Grid	•
Customizable Work Space	•

Document Features
User defined auto save	•	•
Bleed Items On/Off	•	•
Document Size Handle	•	•
Dual Save	•
Export EPS	•	•
Export GIF	•	•
Export JPEG	•	•
Export PDF	•	•
Export Text	•	•
Export TIFF	•	•
Export XML	•	•
Place PDF Files	•
Multiple Master Spreads	•	•
Multiple Pages	•	•
Multiple Windows of Same Document	•	•
Over 80 predefined page sizes	•	•
Save a Copy As	•
Embed Fonts in EPS	•
Embed Fonts in PDF	•	•
International Smart Quotes	•	•
Custom Status Labels	•
Document Info	•	•
Set New Text Default Font	•	•
Set New Text Default Alignment	•	•
Set New Text Default Hyphenate	•	•
Set New Text Default Size	•	•
Gather for Output	•
SAU Sizes for 48, 50 & 52 Inch Web Press	•

Automation
ACES (Ad Control Event Suite)	•
Applescriptable, Attachable, and Recordable	•	•
PC COM Support	•	•
Customizable menus via Applescript	•	•

Viewing and Navigating
Display Invisible Characters	•	•
Display or Hide Page Guides	•	•
Set Graphic Preview Resolution	•	•
Set True Preview for EPS	•	•
Show on Screen Ornaments	•
800 Percent Zoom	•	•
View Invisibles	•	•
Color Guides	•	•
Place Guides Numerically or by point and click	•	•
Distribute Guides across a given space	•	•
Set a snap to distance for guides	•	•
Spell Check as you type	•

Printing
Print 300 DPI to Non Postscript Printer	•	•
Print to Non Postscript Printer	•	•
Print Text Block Only	•	•
Print Registration Marks	•
Print Crop Marks	•	•
Print Color Bar	•
Print Selected Items Only	•	•
Print Document Description	•
Print Plate Information	•
Send OPI Comments for TIFF Files	•
Substitute OPI Comments for EPS Files	•
Omit Postscript for TIFF Files	•
Print EPS Spot Colors as Process	•
Print User Order or Press Order (Booklet Printing)	•