Crossword Forge is an easy to use classroom style crossword and word search puzzle maker. It quickly generates puzzles from your words for the web, print, and PDF.
Features:
Generate high quality Flash web, print and PDF puzzles, puzzle images, and puzzle text
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:
Now reliably honors the "scramble word bank" option of online word search puzzles.
Visually improved "Crossword Forge Live" loading.
In the rare case that Crossword Forge encounters an error during program startup, it is now more likely to recover.
Now builds interactive word search puzzles.
'Greek' is now a built-in supported language.
Intel Macs now use Mac OS X's built-in multilingual spell checker. PowerPC Macs were already using tha... see all new features
