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What is Desktop Publishing Software?
Desktop publishing software provides the tools to turn media files into publishable layouts and templates that can be uploaded, exported and printed. Compare and read user reviews of the best Desktop Publishing software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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hyper Digital Asset Management Server
hyperCMS Content Management Solutions
The hyper Content & Digital Asset Management Server helps organizations to have full control over all their digital assets, to automate processes and cut costs. Access all your rich rich content directly by conveniently integrating it into the creative workflow of internal/external teams and programs like Adobe CS, MS Office, and OpenOffice. Ensure process control with collaborative approval. Share the content directly on Social Media Networks. Create customized Brand Portals to promote and meassure the success of various rich content.Starting Price: $21.00/mo (SaaS) $0 On-Premise -
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Marq
Marq
Marq (formerly Lucidpress) is a design & brand templating platform that empowers non-designers in your company to create and distribute marketing collateral all on their own (without going off brand). Lockable templates protect your brand while allowing colleagues to make small design tweaks and customizations, easing the workload off your creative team. Say goodbye to rogue branding forever with Marq -- the brand templating platform trusted by over 7 million users worldwide. Get high-quality printed materials shipped straight to your location with our web-to-print features. Or, reach your audience even quicker with Marq's direct mail delivery. Whether its social media posts or printed brochures, our cloud-based platform helps your business manage the brand experience from start to finish.Starting Price: $10 per user per month -
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VistaCreate
VistaCreate
VistaCreate (formerly Crello) is a graphic design platform where anyone can quickly create engaging projects for any industry or occasion —design skills optional. Crello joined the Vista group of companies and changed its brand name to VistaCreate. Start with one of 50,000 professionally designed templates that are already preformatted and customizable. Easily edit, resize, remove background from images. Edit video content and add sounds and music to create multi-dimensional visuals. Upload your own photos or use VistaCreate Unlimited library of 50M+ free media files including premium images, videos, vectors, backgrounds, and clipart. Easily brand your content with Media Kit functionality. With VistaCreate, everyone can produce designs that look like they took hours, in minutes. VistaCreate is also available on web, iOS and Android devices.Starting Price: $0 -
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RebelMouse
RebelMouse
RebelMouse is the always-modern SaaS CMS that helps marketers and publishers grow organic traffic by breaking from the conventional approach of legacy web technology. Writers, editors and designers need their content to rank across channels and social platforms. Businesses need traffic and content creators need a simple experience. Products like SquareSpace offer ease of use, and WordPress offers flexibility, but RebelMouse offers both, with better performance, and more traffic. Experienced WordPress and Drupal developers are able to create high-performing sites on RebelMouse with far less effort to build and to manage. RebelMouse is the only enterprise-ready SaaS platform powerful enough for a media company, but also easy enough to use out of the box for any marketing team that just wants to start generating more traffic. We are also a majority-female diverse and inclusive organization. -
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Boxshot 5
Appsforlife
Product and packaging mockup software with 50+ customizable shapes, realistic rendering, animation, scripting, import, export and more. Boxshot is your virtual photo studio for 3d models. It helps you visualizing books, boxes, packaging, display stands, cans, bottles — anything. Boxshot comes with 50+ built-in shapes than can be decorated with artwork, resized, configured and composed to make a perfect scene that you can then render so realistically that customers may think they are seeing a photo of the actual product. Boxshot features a large selection of customizable shapes: software boxes, hardbound and paperback books, magazines, CD, DVD, and Blu-ray boxes, cards, cans, mugs, bags, and much more. Almost all the shapes are customizable so you can adjust them for your design. Boxshot can resize shapes according to your graphics. You don't need to adjust your images for our shapes — Boxshot adjusts the shapes for you! -
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Venngage
Venngage
Venngage is the simple design platform for bringing your dull data, dry documents and complex communications to life. Using our engaging visual communication templates, created by our expert in-house designers, Venngage users can easily create powerful visuals; no design experience required. Our easy-to-use drag and drop editor, alongside some helpful articles, videos and courses, will have you creating dazzling designs in minutes. Venngage has a wide range of templates perfect for business and professional communications including infographics, charts, reports, diagrams, mind maps, presentations, and more so that you can impress your boss, your clients, prospects and online audience.Starting Price: $10/month -
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Netrix iCMS
Netrix
Netrix iCMS is a single source editorial system for content creation and multichannel publishing. Manage and publish content across websites, print publications, mobile apps and other channels. Every piece of content is archived in a platform-independent, structured database and can be reused efficiently. Integrated print CMS: Adobe InDesign plugin for managing content in print layouts. Connected: plugins for publishing on WordPress sites and other platforms. Flexible: JSON API and a headless, content-first approach.Starting Price: 15 EUR/user/month -
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CatBase
CatBase Publishing Systems Ltd.
The most flexible data publishing solution for producing catalogs, price lists, directories - or any type of publication that's based on data from a database or spreadsheet. Manage your catalog content using completely user-definable tables and fields (attributes). Publish the data in the many different ways: as a catalogue, price list, or directory; as an XML file or Excel spreadsheet; as a csv or tab-delimited text file; PDF or Microsoft Word document; or update another database such as MySql or SqlServer. You can design any number of different publishing formats. From the same set of data, produce catalogs or price lists in different styles, or including different data, for different customers, markets, or territories. Include any number of pictures. Set up Rules to determine what to include or omit, or how to style the data, according to criteria you define. Supports all languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, etc.Starting Price: From £495 one-time purchase -
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Xara Cloud
Xara
Create content that speaks to your audience. A complete toolkit that reflects your ideas with visual results. No design skills required. Business owners, managers, and employees alike produce tons of content all day for sales and marketing, attracting new partners, and securing new investors. However, most people use basic tools, don’t have years of design experience, or are just frankly intimidated by design. Xara Cloud automates the application of critical brand elements such as logo, colors and fonts. All content produced by the team is on-brand without hundreds of hours of revision and constant input from designers. Let anyone express themselves without risk of damaging your brand.Starting Price: $12.99/ Month -
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Affinity Publisher
Serif
Optimized for the latest tech on Windows and Mac – and chosen by Apple as its Mac App of the Year – Affinity Publisher is the next generation of professional publishing software. From books, magazines and marketing materials, to social media templates, website mock-ups and more, this incredibly smooth, intuitive app gives you the power to combine your images, graphics and text to make beautiful layouts ready for publication. With essentials like master pages, facing page spreads, grids, tables, advanced typography, text flow, full professional print output and other amazing features, Affinity Publisher has everything you need to create the perfect layout – whatever your project. Free yourself from the constraints of tired, traditional text layouts. Let Affinity Publisher help you visualize your text in creative new ways and flow it seamlessly through your document. Ensure your images match the brilliance of your layout.Starting Price: $24.99 one-time payment -
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Xpublisher
Fabasoft Xpublisher
Xpublisher is the key to collaborative creation, full management and easy publishing of content in all channels, enabling the highly automated production of journals, books and technical documentation. Create, edit & review structured content quickly and easily with our online XML editor. Access all your XML documents anytime, anywhere and collaborate with other authors in real-time, regardless of their technical proficiency (Note: XML is not mandatory, you can also work with common MS Word documents.) Manage & structure your content & any additional digital assets (e.g. images, video, audio) efficiently with our digital asset management system & publishing system Xpublisher, for a highly automated, fast & accurate multichannel-publishing. Numerous leading companies are already convinced by Xpublisher. We deliver turnkey solutions to help you master these challenges, so you can create content efficiently and publish it automatically -
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Consonance
Consonance
You create the books. We take care of the rest. Consonance brings harmony to your teams, so your publishing can grow. From acquisition and peer review, to metadata, contract management, rights, royalties, permissions, production, P&L management, contact management, and with tailorable code-lists throughout the app, Consonance is the complete publishing management system for complex publishing companies who want to achieve stability, consistency and harmony as the basis for growth. Review the documentation for an in-depth look at Consonance's extensive feature list. Consonance provides sector-specific tools for collaboration across teams, departments, and countries, regardless of size and focus: our largest customer has more than half a million live products. We work in a streamlined way which encourages rapid, prioritised delivery of value to our customers, relying on tools including Basecamp, Freshdesk, GitHub, Heroku, AWS, Bugsnag and Skylight.Starting Price: $50 per month -
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XMPie
XMPie
The leading technology for engaging your audiences with personalized, relevant communications across Print and Digital media touchpoints. Boost collaboration, visualization and time-to-market for your 1:1 multichannel marketing campaigns. New! The Circle GUI now powers XMPie's Cross Media dashboard giving a clear and unified view for managing touch points and deploying and monitoring the entire multichannel campaign. Circle features an intuitive user interface that enables interactive diagramming and visualization of all phases of a multichannel marketing campaign-from conceptualization to campaign creation, through to execution and results monitoring. Service providers, agencies and clients can together sketch, view, plan, build, and automate 1:1 multichannel communications campaigns at every stage of development. -
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ubiJournal
ubiJournal
ubiJournal is easy to use online Journal publishing and management system. It is designed for rapid publishing of international, open access journal systems dedicated to various allied sciences. Get specialized high impact, top online journal websites. ubiJournal’s revolutionary e-journal setup & management services dramatically speed the broadcasting of your peer reviewed journals. Editors can focus on bringing out quality scholarly issues to the academic & scientific community. From online submission of articles to publishing the issues on the website, ubiJournal simplifies the entire process. Our mobile friendly websites for open access scientific and academic journals are optimised for Search Engines. Within the online journal the articles can be easily searched through title, author name, keywords etc. Check why Top International Journal Publishers choose us.Starting Price: $195 per year -
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vjoon K4
vjoon GmbH
vjoon K4 publishing system enables small teams and large business units with thousands of users to deliver more quality content faster and across multiple digital channels or in print. Collaborate efficiently, stream-line your processes and automate your workflows! vjoon K4 is used by over 26.000 people worldwide, who are working for content marketing agencies, magazine publishers or corporates. vjoon K4 is highly integrated with Adobe InDesign and InCopy. It can be installed on-premises or in the cloud . Find out more on our website and get in touch! We offer a customized live-demo of vjoon K4, where you will get to know the product with the help of an expert.Starting Price: $99.00/month/user -
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Canvasflow
Canvasflow
Canvasflow is the mobile publishing hub that connects your content to your audience. Choose where your content comes from and to where it is published. Stay in control. Packed with smart tools to make responsive content authoring simple and rapid. Manage production, streamline workflows and engage your audience everywhere. Canvasflow is a mobile publishing hub that enables you to create, manage and distribute beautiful, responsive content straight to your audience. Delivering strong reader experiences is essential to increasing digital revenues. Canvasflow makes your content more readable, accessible and discoverable helping you to grow users and build deeper engagement with your audience. Create beautiful responsive stories rapidly from scratch or use existing content from multiple sources. Use our simple drag and drop editor that requires no design or developer skills. Create editions or continuous article based content to suit your publishing needs.Starting Price: $2000 -
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Quintype Ahead
Quintype
Get a powerful presentation for your powerful content. Focus on your content strategy and not be constrained by technology. Ahead is a complete package for growing content-first publishers. Engage your audience with our growing list of story formats. Perfect for long, short or visual stories. Experiment and discover your brand with our row based design system that gives you the flexibility to choose, alter and order your home page. Connects with industry standard analytics, data measurement and marketing tools for accurate data collection and audience engagement. Monetize quickly through popular ad networks, subscriptions or donations with our built-in support for Accesstype. Updates, security, backups are all taken care of on your behalf. Our team regularly updates layouts, features and integrations that will keep your website way ahead of the pack. Your data is safe and smoothly transferred to Bold with our advanced migration engine. -
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Calaméo
Calaméo
Calaméo is the first multilingual digital publishing platform and has a community of five million users worldwide. Calaméo provides private and professional users with a dynamic and innovative medium to instantly publish and share interactive and multi-media magazines, brochures, reports, newsletters, presentations and catalogues on any device. Create an immersive digital experience for your readers with our elegant viewer. Our features make it easy to manage sharing for your online documents. Get the statistics you need to understand your audience. Schedule the date and time you want your publications to become available. Use your favorite platforms like YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion or SoundCloud to enhance your creations. Use our attractive library widget to display your publications on your own website. Use our sharing options to embed all of your publications and make them easy to access on your own website. Increase your audience with the power of social media.Starting Price: $14 per month -
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ePageView
Aglaia Software
ePageView™ is a complete solution for all your digital publishing needs. We have acquired a front role in the digital publication world & we are committed to providing our customers with the best product on the market. ePageview gives life to your publication and create impressive digital publications that are fully customized. It also converts your print ready files to a dynamic, user friendly, page flipping digital publication for presenting on and off-line. Provides ample features that keep your audience engaged and provides statistics tools to keep you informed on audience behavior. And our search engine optimization will help your digital publication reach your target viewers. Be inspired by our engaging digital publications. Immerse yourself in the experience of rich media content, supported by the most innovating features available. ePageview Provides custom developments to meet the needs of our clients. -
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BiblioSuite
Virtusales Publishing Solutions
BiblioSuite leverages the latest advancements in Microsoft .NET technology and Angular framework. Our modern system caters to publishers of all sizes, ranging from large-scale multinationals to small independents. Comprehensive Functionality: Our menu-based approach offers deep domain functionality, covering every aspect of the publishing process. From product inception to delivery, royalty management, and beyond, BiblioSuite streamlines your workflow with precision. Seamless Integration: Whether you operate on a standalone basis or within a complex ecosystem, BiblioSuite seamlessly integrates with warehouses, retailers, financial systems, and more. Our flexible architecture ensures a smooth fit into any setup. Collaborative Development: Crafted by a team of publishing and technical experts, BiblioSuite embodies a 'Best of Breed' ethos. With regular releases every ten weeks, we constantly refine and adapt our system to meet the evolving needs of the industry. -
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YUDU Publisher
YUDU
YUDU Publisher empowers you with tools to transform your print or PDF into a cutting-edge online publication. Go digital to increase reach, capture and engage attention in new ways, and convert interest into subscriptions or sales. Distribute your digital publications to the broadest audience with fully featured apps for mobile platforms and easy access via any modern HTML browser, from anywhere in the world. Publish online magazines, catalogs, documents and more in minutes with our simple-to-use digital publishing tools. Automate your publication process via mass uploads and API integration. Your content is hosted on leading content delivery networks to ensure it's available quickly, anywhere in the world. Full white label publishing is also available with our digital publishing software - including hosting on your own domain name. -
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Qweri
Lexum
Drag and drop your documents and manuals in any popular format, and let Qweri do the rest. Regardless of your documentation’s size and complexity, Qweri will make it fast to load and easy to browse, search and annotate across desktop and mobile devices. Keep drafting with your preferred authoring tool! Qweri adapts automatically to a wide variety of input file formats (MS-Word, HTML, XML, DITA, and even PDF!) without requiring any additional tagging. Farewell, lifeless, heavy manuals! See them come alive as your users load your documents on their screens in a split second, and enhance and personalize them by adding bookmarks, notes and comments. Client-generated content can be kept private or shared among teams. Qweri includes a powerful, proven search engine providing snippets, stemming and highlighting. It allows your users to easily locate the answers they need inside large documents or across your entire knowledge base. -
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Folio
Kwela Solutions
Managing contracts, risks, compliance, incidents and audits can be complex and time-consuming. If you are looking for a solution that is truly easy to use and quick to implement, then take a look at Folio. Folio provides configurable templates, workflows, notifications and reports that ensure that absolutely nothing is missed. Too many risk management systems are simply tick-the-box solutions. Folio moves Risk Management from an occasional exercise to an embedded business process. By managing Risk, Compliance, Incidents & Audit, Folio delivers real business value for Boards, Management and Operational Teams. Folio is the go-to source for contract information and manages the contract lifecycle from request and performance management through to contract renewal. Folio takes Contract Management well beyond simply storing contract documents and tracking contract expiry dates. -
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advastamedia®/O
Kittelberger media solutions
Based on our advastamedia®/O product media database, we have developed a powerful system in the sectors of Product Information Management (PIM), Media Asset Management (MAM) and Cross Media Publishing. All data and media relating to product, marketing, PR and sales are managed and processed and accordingly, advastamedia®/O supports numerous print and online publishing processes. PIM and MAM systems are often used separately from each other. Each topic is extremely complex in itself. There are many challenges to mapping object dependencies, handling mass data and the diversity of outputs on the PIM side, and for handling media assets, variants, maintenance workflows and naming conventions on the MAM side (to name but a few). However, there should be no output boundaries between PIM and MAM – and increasing requirements in data quality and flexibility demand short paths and data consistency. The use of our integrated advastamedia® solution saves money, time and resources. -
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Purple DS
SPRYLAB
We know how to turn magazines and newspapers into successful digital products. That is why we support hundreds of customers in every phase of their publishing journey. +350 customers from 9 countries trust Purple DS for digital publishing. With Purple DS, you can easily publish your magazine or newspaper in your app or website. Publish content to your app, website or other digital channels with just one click. This gives you the chance to test new channels like Apple News+ or Amazon Alexa with little effort. Import content from print into Purple DS or create new digital content with our intuitive editor. Plus, take advantage of our AI tool for automated linking. -
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PageSuite
PageSuite
Our optimized ePaper software and sophisticated app solutions will enable you to publish your newspapers across multiple platforms. Engage with your audience across the globe by making your magazine available across desktop, mobile and tablet devices. Enhance the reader experience by utilizing the vast range of interactive features available within our app solutions. Our flexible app software can be tailored to enrich your corporate content. Learn more about our Custom Development options. By utilizing PageSuite's toolset you can offer readers an engaging, personalized experience and monetize your content through subscriptions and advertising. Cater for your audience across all devices by publishing your content across desktop, mobile and tablet. Add your logos, fonts and colours to ensure that your app or ePaper reflects your company branding. We offer a wide variety of ways to increase digital revenues via your app or ePaper. -
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Objective Keystone
Objective Corporation
Automate and manage the entire document production lifecycle. Draft, review, approve, and publish complex documents with complete visibility and accountability. Say goodbye to juggling multiple software applications forever. No matter who is adding content to your document, you won’t waste valuable time reformatting, because publishing templates are built to your exact requirements. Updates to common clauses or images can be applied in the common content library and cascaded through all relevant documents instantly. Remove the headache of multiple document versions by having everyone work on a single source of the truth. Speed up your project by enabling multiple authors, reviewers, and approvers to work on different document content at the same time. Assign team members, subject matter experts, managers, and executives specific sections of a document for review and approval. Editor and reviewer notes can be added as contextual information. -
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bulletlink
bulletlink
A perfect newspaper publishing software for dailies, weeklies, online newspapers or startups. Easy to use, robust magazine software that allows you to create your magazine within minutes. Complete CMS solutions for schools and colleges to help you get online within minutes. Apps are becoming critical to your newspaper's brand identity. Don't be afraid, zero effort from your end. Since 1999, we've helped hundreds of publishers put their newspaper websites online using our professionally designed newspaper templates. We offer most advanced CMS (content management system) to publish your newspaper or magazine online. Regardless if you are a startup, small, medium or large newspaper or just need online newspaper solution, we have the right online newspaper templates for you to choose from. Our unique templates use the latest in web newspaper technology that stands apart from the rest. Our clienteles include dailies, weeklies, magazines and shoppers from groups and independents. -
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knkMedia
knk Software
knkPublishing specializes in helping publishers of all kinds. Our software, knkMedia, specifically benefits these types of media and publishing companies. knkPublishing provides a one-stop-solution, fully integrated system for publishing companies looking to digitalize their business. From fundamental ERP features like Financials to Publishing-specific needs like Rights Management and even marketing automation with our CRM, we give your teams a single tool using the same, reliable data across your entire company. knkPublishing is the only Microsoft Certified software for publishers worldwide. We’ve been the digitalization catalyst for hundreds of publishers and have over 30 years’ experience in publishing software. You’ll find us at industry events, serving on committees for publishing associations, and working side by side with our customers as true innovation partners.
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