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Crossword Forge - 5.5.10

Create/share crossword and word search puzzles.

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This Version:	Not rated (0.0)
Current Version:	5.5.10
Release Date:	2009-06-05
License:	Shareware
Downloads (this version):	454
Downloads (all versions):	78,326
Price:	$49.95

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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 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, Greek 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:

The Page Margins Dialog now works properly for systems where the decimal separator is "," and not "." (This makes a big difference for most European countries).
Other minor 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

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Best looking crosswords - Version: 5.5, 9/16/2008 01:38PM PST

(2 of 2 users found this comment useful)

Elmar Bertschinger

I am using this programm many years and it is the best looking crossword programm.
But I have one wish: Make it working with Moodle (like the Hotpotatoe-plugin).

Love the program but... - Version: 5.1.10, 7/5/2007 04:55PM PST

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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.