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Product Description:
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:
- Remembers changes you make to the puzzle's web export name.
- Fixed an issue where the across numbers could get printed outside the printable area (broken in version 5.3.3)
- Various other improvements.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.3.9
- Mac OS X 10.3
- Mac OS X 10.2
- Mac OS X 10.1
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.1 or higher (10.2.4 recommended)
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Love the program but... 
- Version: 5.1.10, 7/5/2007 04:55PM PST
(1 of 1 users found this comment useful)
RoyPDX
Great program...easy to use, stable, lots of features, etc. My only request is...that the help/manual document be offered as a separate file (PDF, e.g.) for those times I’m not connected to the internet.
Slick program.. - Version: 5.0, 12/4/2006 07:08PM PST
(8 of 11 users found this comment useful)
rmcm4
...that can be quite useful in an educational setting. Very attentive customer support, although no upgrade path was offered after version 4.5 except repurchasing the program at full price. This seemed both arbitrary and a bit offputting to me, an early adopter, especially since the program has not gone through a leap in features that would justify paying for it twice.
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It's fabulous! - Version: 4.5.6, 2/27/2006 09:40AM PST
(4 of 4 users found this comment useful)
LAEasier
I just got Crossword Forge and found it absolutely wonderful. I'm new to Mac and not especially skilled technically, but this was really easy and the results are great.
Basically, you just click on "clues," type in the crossword clues you'd like to give, type in your answers, and click "make puzzle." Voila, you're done. But you can spiff it up by adding background. I was making a birthday present for a family member who loves crosswords, so I put a photo of the person in the background, and all the clues were silly or significant events in the person's life. Cool present!
But I could easily see this being used as a great teaching tool. A history teacher could add a backdrop of a Revolutionary battle, for example, with all clues connecting to historical figures, concepts or events. An art teacher could create puzzles on the Impressionists...or ziggurats (heaven help us). Endless possibilities!
Don't be afraid to use the advanced tab. I'm a beginner, but got brave and found it very useful. I had added a photo as background, and the puzzle was much larger than the photo. So I went into "advanced" and adjusted the size of the puzzle squares/blocks and how many could be in the puzzle...pressed the "make puzzle" button again, and it all fit. Play around with it a bit; it's pretty easy.
By the way, don't be discouraged if some of your clues don't fit into the puzzle. Every time you click "make puzzle," it creates a different puzzle arrangement using your same clues. At one point, I had five different crosswords all using the same 45 clues.
One other thing I loved about this software: the trialware version is almost complete -- it just doesn't let you print. So you can get the hang of it, see whether you like it, and create a full crossword before deciding whether to buy. When you want to print, it tells you that you can't unless you buy it... and leads you back to the website. After you do the purchase, the key to unlock the product arrives by return email, and you can print whatever you've been working on.
All in all, a great, easy-to-use product. And if I were a teacher, I'd leap at it --so much more fun than a pop quiz! By the way, I can't review the documentation because I just started using it...never even looked for documentation. I CAN tell you that I called the company to ask a question, and they were unbelievably nice and helpful. And they give you a few years' worth of free upgrades when you buy!
Basically, you just click on "clues," type in the crossword clues you'd like to give, type in your answers, and click "make puzzle." Voila, you're done. But you can spiff it up by adding background. I was making a birthday present for a family member who loves crosswords, so I put a photo of the person in the background, and all the clues were silly or significant events in the person's life. Cool present!
But I could easily see this being used as a great teaching tool. A history teacher could add a backdrop of a Revolutionary battle, for example, with all clues connecting to historical figures, concepts or events. An art teacher could create puzzles on the Impressionists...or ziggurats (heaven help us). Endless possibilities!
Don't be afraid to use the advanced tab. I'm a beginner, but got brave and found it very useful. I had added a photo as background, and the puzzle was much larger than the photo. So I went into "advanced" and adjusted the size of the puzzle squares/blocks and how many could be in the puzzle...pressed the "make puzzle" button again, and it all fit. Play around with it a bit; it's pretty easy.
By the way, don't be discouraged if some of your clues don't fit into the puzzle. Every time you click "make puzzle," it creates a different puzzle arrangement using your same clues. At one point, I had five different crosswords all using the same 45 clues.
One other thing I loved about this software: the trialware version is almost complete -- it just doesn't let you print. So you can get the hang of it, see whether you like it, and create a full crossword before deciding whether to buy. When you want to print, it tells you that you can't unless you buy it... and leads you back to the website. After you do the purchase, the key to unlock the product arrives by return email, and you can print whatever you've been working on.
All in all, a great, easy-to-use product. And if I were a teacher, I'd leap at it --so much more fun than a pop quiz! By the way, I can't review the documentation because I just started using it...never even looked for documentation. I CAN tell you that I called the company to ask a question, and they were unbelievably nice and helpful. And they give you a few years' worth of free upgrades when you buy!
