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Newsletter Design Software for Windows
Create Newsletters For Home, School, or Office on Your PC

By Jacci Howard Bear, About.com

Find newsletter design software for all skill levels and price ranges. These programs are in addition to professional desktop publishing software programs such as Adobe InDesign, QuarkXPress, and Serif PagePlus which are also quite capable of producing newsletters. These programs are for the Windows platform.

1. Art Explosion Publisher Pro 2.0

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As newsletter design software it offers the flexibility of desktop printing and professional printing plus all the cool tools of a lot of print creativity software titles. In addition to doing newsletters and other multi-page documents, you 'll find professional features such as CMYK, RGB or HSL color models, PANTONE palettes, creation of press-ready PDFs, and PDF import and edit capabilities. For handling newsletter designs there is the ability to flow text across multiple columns, apply style sheets, a spell-checker and thesaurus, as well as rulers, guides, and other tools for precision placement of text and graphics. Then there are the fun features like thousands of templates, graphics, and graphics effects.
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2. Print Artist Platinum 22

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If you'll be printing your newsletter to a color desktop printer, Print Artist has all kinds of templates for home, school, and business projects. It can also create PDF files and CD Slide Shows to play in a DVD player. Among the newsletter design friendly features are the ability to link text boxes together (good for flowing text from one page to another), spell-check, and dozens of photo cropping shapes. The fun features for dressing up your newsletter designs include the photo editor, 250,000+ graphics, and the text effects.
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3. The Print Shop Pro Publisher Deluxe 23

The Print Shop 23 Pro Publisher DeluxeThe Print Shop 23 Pro Publisher Deluxe Image Courtesy of Broderbund
Newsletters are just one kind of template among the thousands of projects for home, school, and office in this edition of The Print Shop. Some of the newsletter design software features include the advanced photo editing tools built in to the software, a Logo Creator you can use to create a great newsletter nameplate, and a fair sprinkling of text and layout options such as master pages, rulers, guides, kerning, widow & orphan control, and text alignment controls. In addition to desktop printing, it exports projects to PDF.
Windows

4. Scribus Open Source Desktop Publishing

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This professional-quality desktop publishing software defies the old saying that "you get what you pay for" because it's feature-rich and free. It does just about anything the much more expensive pro tools do, including serving as quality newsletter design software. A good choice if you need professional printing, it doesn't have all the fun extras like graphics, fonts, and tons of templates.
Windows, Mac OS, Linux

5. DesktopPublisherPro

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Here's low-cost ($20) newsletter design software. It may not have all the fun extras but it does handle the text layout requirements of newsletters, has basic graphics tools, and lots of text effects for creating a newsletter nameplate and decorative headlines for newsletters, fliers, and other desktop publishing projects. And it may be a little easier to learn to use than some more powerful programs.
Windows or Mac OS

6. The Print Shop Brochures, Newsletter, & More

The Print Shop Brochures, Newsletters, & More - BroderbundThe Print Shop Brochures, Newsletters, & More Image Courtesy of Broderbund
For home users and small organizations that need simple, uncomplicated newsletters this inexpensive package has 1000 templates plus clip art and fonts. You can also import your own photos. Get it on CD or download from the Web.
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