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- Quick specs
- Price: Purchase $48.95 to buy
- Operating system: Windows 98/2000/XP/NT
- Date added: May 24, 2007
- Total Downloads: 18,979
- Downloads last week: 39
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Publisher's description
From SOL Robots :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 170,000 word English spell checker
- Unlimited undo and redo
- 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:
- Improved PDF export
a. Now honors the margins given in "Page Setup" more faithfully.
b. Now draws round rectangles for the word search answer key as appropriate.
c. The crossword puzzle grid now lines up better.
- Now draws a border around word search puzzles which have "solid backdrop" turned off. Since the new border's color changes with the backdrop color, you can "remove" the border by changing this color to white.
- Can now make puzzles with ... see all new features
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