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Welcome to the guided tour of PrintingPress Extreme 4.0, our most advanced personal invitation software. The following pages will introduce you to the software and demonstrate how easy it is to design, print and mail sophisticated invitations and announcements with your PC and printer. To view some examples of stationery printed using PrintingPress, please visit our printed samples page.

PrintingPress Extreme is organized into three main areas:

The tour will describe each of these sections in depth. Features that are new to the 4.0 upgrade are listed in bold. The tour will guide you through the following steps to using PrintingPress Extreme to manage an invitation or announcement project:

1. Create stationery and configure layout and margins. Extreme layout options include multiple place cards per page, labels, address labels, business cards and postcards.
2. Design your stationery with text, photos, graphics, monograms and new shapes. The stationery editor includes zoom, accented characters, superscripts and fractions.
3. Adjust individual lines left, right, up & down, adjust character kerning and line spacing. New: horizontal and vertical stretching.
4. Powerful envelopes allow you to specify one of 10 label name formats, specify an alternate font for the address, auto-spelling of state names and street numbers, even create an envelope with just a return address.
5. Customize images with powerful image effects. New convert to outlines feature allows you to convert a full-color image with a black outline to a black and white outline of the image.
6. Add multi-style floating text boxes to your stationery. Extreme typestyles include patterned, outlined, embossed and engraved text as well as our point-size justification. New advanced text styles include Drop Shadow, Inner Glow, Outer Glow, Small Caps, Lowercase and Uppercase.
7. Type text on a curve, wave, circle, semi-circle, quarter-circle, spiral, vertical line and random jitter.
8. Add monograms to your stationery. Extreme monogram options include diamond and circle monograms. Even use an alternate font for side letters.
9. Add new shapes to your stationery. Fill the shape with any color or pattern, add a frame, and outline and inner pen.
10. Add graphical or custom borders to your stationery, photos, text boxes or monograms. New line styles include Dotted (adjacent to fill), Dotted (overlapping fill), Bumps, Scalloped (adjacent to fill) and Scalloped (overlapping fill). New border fill type allows you to repeat a shape or image around the border.
11. Use patterns in text, borders and backgrounds.
12. Create your own custom patterns.
13. Align and distribute floating objects.
14. Add a background image, color or pattern to your stationery.
15. Use the built-in spell checker to avoid spelling errors.
16. Import addresses into the Address Book.
17. Compile a Mailing List from addresses in the Address Book and keep track of RSVPs and gifts received.
18. Print stationery and envelopes. Even print two-sided envelopes in a single pass.
19. Print stationery to a graphic file for offset printing.
20. Manage multiple invitation and announcement projects at once.

If you would like to purchase PrintingPress Extreme, please visit our online store.