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Product Description:

Crossword Forge is an easy to use classroom style crossword and word search puzzle maker. You supply the clues and answers pairs and Crossword Forge will generate a puzzle for you.

Features:

• Intuitive single-window interface
• Type puzzled data directly, or import it from many different text formats
• Generate high quality 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:

• The alphabet palette characters only need a single click to insert
• The alphabet palette is now navigable using the keyboard. Arrow Keys, Page Up, Page Down, Home and End to move the selection, and space bar, return, or enter to insert a character.
• Other minor changes.

Product Requirements:

• Mac OS X 10.1 or higher Mac OS X 10.2.4 recommended

Screenshots:

Main Window (on the clues tab)

Download Links:

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