Crossword Forge 7.0.7 - Create Crossword and Word Search Puzzles. (Shareware)

Crossword Forge 7.0.7 - Create Crossword and Word Search Puzzles. (Shareware):

Crossword Forge is an easy to use newspaper and classroom style crossword and word search puzzle maker. It quickly generates puzzles from your words for the web, print, and PDF. It's now up to 30x faster!

Builds high quality crossword and word search puzzles:

• Interactive web puzzles (Web export uses Flash - and is not iPhone/iPad compatible)
• Print and PDF puzzles
• Picture backdrops
• Bonus clues
• Word banks (optional scrambling & supports fill-ins)
• Puzzle titles
• Customizable across and down text
• Custom grid shapes
• Supports puzzle grids of any size
• Unlimited clue and answer length - Print out can span multiple pages (if desired)

Streamlined puzzle editing:

• Data entry keystrokes optimized for rapid workflow
• Import data from tab or comma delimited text files
• Unlimited undo and redo
• Multi-lingual spell checker

Advanced puzzle engine:

• Can produce the densest possible puzzles from your words. We routinely test the engine by feeding it the words from newspaper crossword puzzles (just the words, we give it no hints on the grid) and it discovers the exact same grid layout as the original hand edited puzzles.**
• Incredibily fast puzzle engine which has been written to take full advantage of your multi-core Mac. Performance scales well even on high end Mac Pros.
• Includes a puzzle mask editor to tune the puzzle engine output
• Includes a "Word Ideas" window to help find the perfect next word to add to the puzzle.
• Support for restricted word lists in word search mode (i.e. helps eliminate accidental "naughty words" in your word search puzzles)

Made for the Mac:

• Puzzle files are viewable directly from the Finder using QuickLook.
• Drag & Drop Pictures and Text.
• Uses the document window icons so that you can easily move or copy your file without returning to the Finder.
• Includes Mac OS X's built-in spell checker.
• Supports the Mac standard controls, dialogs, and behaviors, so you don't have to spend time relearning stuff that should be easy.

Foreign Language Support:

• Full unicode support
• Support for characters with accents, umlauts and other diacritical marks
• Support for right to left scripts like Arabic and Hebrew
• Supports scripts and alphabets with combining ligatures
• Built-in presets for: English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Portuguese, Hebrew, Arabic, Afrikaans and more.
• Spell checker supports: English, French, Spanish, German, Danish, Dutch Portuguese, Swedish, Russian and Polish.
• "Word Ideas" dictionaries: English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. English dictionaries include US, British, Canadian, and Australian varieties.

Version 7.0.7:

• Added 9 additional parameters to the XML export for web based puzzles. These parameters are not configurable from the UI.
• Various minor improvements.

Mac OS X 10.4 or later

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