New in BookSmart 2.5.0 (Sep 25, 2009)
- Faster, Easier Layouts:
- Snap to Grid — Auto-align your image and text containers to page grids for quicker, more precise layout design.
- Set image as background — Instantly set any image from your library as the page background.
- Lock aspect ratio — Set containers to match common photo ratios (3:4, 2:3, etc.) and keep images in proportion as you resize.
- Auto-fit to image — Resize containers to fit your exact image dimensions with a single click.
- Improved Guidance and Workflow:
- Contextual help library — Get the help you need where you need it with improved step-by-step guidance, updated tooltips, and a full contextual help library right in BookSmart.
- Content preview in Layout Editor — No more guesswork! View your images and text in the Layout Editor, and make the exact changes you want to fit your content the first time.
- Trim guidance — BookSmart now includes guidance for trim lines and safe area to ensure your critical words and images are never cut off in production.
- Improved image library management — Browse your entire image library – from any source – in a single location. Quickly find the images you need with improved sorting and filtering options and take a closer look in the new pop-out library.
- Increased Support and Stability:
- Our most stable release to date — BookSmart 2.5 should be notably more stable with fixes for many of commonly occurring crashes, as well as a ton of bug fixes.
- Full support for Windows 7.