[iBook] OT: Print Shop VS Print Explosion Deluxe

[David Binnion]

On 10/23/04 4:54 PM, "David Crump" <davecrump at mac.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> It's time for me to get a true OS X Consumer Publishing program to run under
> 10.3.5 on my iBook.  I've got a horrible old version of Print Shop, and it's
> time to replace it.  I've read great reviews of the new OS X native version of
> Print Shop (published my mackiev, not Broderbund).  It sounds like it works
> great with the iApps.  I've also read good reviews of Print Explosion Deluxe.
> Any thoughts or experience on which way I should lean?  Print Explosion is a
> fair amount more expensive, so that could be a factor in my purchase.  Then
> again, you probably get what you pay for.  Print shop was a great program back
> in my Apple //c days, but I was sure not very impressed by the old mac version
> of Print Shop (must have been a crappy windows port).  I hope the new version
> is really a true mac product.

I got Print Explosion for my wife shortly after it came out and she's never
really been happy with it. The graphics are of middling quality and the
designs are rather mediocre. But her greatest complaint is font handling
which has improved but it apparently still has problems with font management
software (like SuitCase) and even without font management software sometimes
a font face will inexplicably show up as something other than what was
chosen. Beth bought PrintShop right after it came out and she is much more
happy with it. It seems to be a much better product all around.

david