Crossword Forge is an easy to use classroom style crossword and word search puzzle maker. You supply the clues and answers pairs and Crossword Forge will generate a puzzle for you.
Features:
Intuitive single-window interface
Type puzzled data directly, or import it from many different text formats
Generate high quality web, print and pdf puzzles, puzzle images, and puzzle text
Built-in multi-lingual spell checker
Unlimited undo
Support for restricted word lists in word search mode (i.e. helps eliminate accidental "naughty words" in your word search puzzles)
Bonus Clues for Crossword and Word Search
Multiple puzzle titles
Font, Style, Size and Justification controls
Unlimited clue and answer length
Color and Picture backdrops
Customizable Across and Down text
Supports puzzle grids of any size
Puzzle clues can span multiple pages
Customizable grid block size
Allows for manual puzzle repositioning within backdrop
Crossword Options
Toggle Clue and Word Bank Visibility
Word Bank Scramble
Word Search Options
Show Clues or Word Bank
Word Bank Scramble
Toggle Backwards and Diagonal Words
Built-in Support for making foreign language crossword puzzles.
Built-in Language Sets Include: English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese etc.
Support for characters with accents, umlauts and other diacritical marks (great for Spanish, French and German puzzles).
Support for Right to Left scripts like Arabic and Hebrew
supports scripts and alphabets with combining ligatures like Punjabi
Full Unicode support.
What's new in this version:
Fixed a caching issue, that could prevent the current "puzzle.xml" file from loading in Crossword Forge Live. Since the format of the "puzzle.xml" files may change from release to release, this could prevent some end users from seeing the correct puzzle data unless they emptied their cache. With version 4.5.3 emptying the cache is not necessary.
Fixed various issues to improve navigation in interactive puzzles a. When selecting a previously unselected grid square at the inters... see all new features
