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iStudio Publisher received a couple of very complimentary reviews recently and we'd like to share them with you.

The first review is from the guys at MACHOW2. It's an article reviewing several apps and solutions that provide similar functionality to Microsoft Publisher, but on the Mac. iStudio Publisher fares very well, and here's a quote from the review:

“iStudio Publisher is an extremely user friendly and powerful alternative to Publisher on Mac. It produces very professional results and yet is very easy to get started with thanks to the well thought out video tutorials and Quick Start Guide.”

Check out the full article here: Microsoft Publisher for Mac: Best Alternatives Publisher. It's worth checking out their website for other excellent reviews too. Thanks guys!

The second review is a YouTube video made by one of our users, Richie Vitale. Richie is a very prominent jazz trumpeter based in the US, and also a computer enthusiast. We're really pleased that he's taken the time to show off some of iStudio Publisher's features in his video. You can watch it here: iStudio Publisher Review by Richie Vitale. Thanks Richie, great job.

The iStudio Team

Apple have recently brought back ‘Apps for Designers’ in the ‘Featured’ section of the Mac App Store, and it's fantastic to see iStudio Publisher included under ‘Diagrams & Layouts’.

After many requests, we're very excited to announce our launch on Facebook and Twitter.

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We recently launched a series of iStudio Publisher tips and tricks via Facebook and Twitter, aimed at providing you with small nuggets of information to really speed up your productivity and workflow.

Over the coming weeks we'll be tweeting and posting these on a regular basis, so if you're interested in receiving them head over to our Facebook and Twitter pages and Like/Follow us. Look out for #iStudioTips.

Here's one we posted earlier...

Here's a tip to really speed up your workflow with iStudio Publisher. At the bottom left of each document window you'll find the zoom controls. To quickly zoom in to one or more selected shapes for detailed examination or editing, click the "Zoom to Selected Shapes" icon.

If you find these tips useful, please let us know and we'll keep them coming.
We'd love to hear what you think!

To run iStudio Publisher on OS X 10.11 El Capitan, you must install the latest iStudio Publisher 1.2.1, which is available as a free update. Everyone should update, irrespective of the version of OS X you are running.

iStudio Publisher is available as an App Store Edition (available from the Mac App Store) and a Website Download Edition (includes all licensing options we sell from our website store). You will need to update whichever edition you're using.

You can update the App Store Edition via the App Store, or update the Website Download Edition by checking for updates via the Help menu. Users occasionally report having installation problems, which is discussed here.

Fresh installs are available from here:

App Store Edition: www.istudiopublisher.com/AppStoreEdition
Website Edition: www.istudiopublisher.com/WebsiteEdition

We’re pleased to announce the release of the Website Download Edition of iStudio Publisher 1.2.1, which is available as a free update to all existing users. To update simply launch your existing copy of iStudio Publisher and accept the update option, which should appear automatically, or else check for updates via the Help menu.

iStudio Publisher 1.2.1 is a maintenance release, which includes critical fixes for running on Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan, along with some other minor fixes and improvements.

For users of the App Store Edition, we have submitted this to Apple. Once Apple have completed their review process you will be able to get it for free via the App Store update mechanism. Note that your App Store purchase won't enable you to license the Website Download Edition, so please wait for the App Store Edition to become available.

Yesterday, we released the Website Download Edition of iStudio Publisher 1.1.10, intended for users with older computers running Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger or 10.5 Leopard, who can't update to the latest iStudio Publisher 1.2.1 (which requires OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard or later). Existing users of iStudio Publisher on OS X 10.4 or 10.5 can get the iStudio Publisher 1.1.10 update by launching iStudio Publisher and accepting the update option, which should appear automatically.

iStudio Publisher 1.1.10 is a maintenance release comprised of housekeeping items and stability improvements. It includes many of the same bug fixes added to iStudio Publisher 1.2 and 1.2.1.

We are very happy to continue supporting iStudio Publisher users on older Macs. Although these users can no longer install the latest versions of iStudio Publisher, we will continue to support legacy versions of iStudio Publisher, and provide email support.

We have recently discovered that some maintenance apps (such as MacKeeper) may damage iStudio Publisher’s application bundle when used to ‘clean’ a Mac. This occurs if the cleaning process removes the 32-bit binary from the bundle, with the result that iStudio Publisher will no longer launch.

To fix the problem configure your maintenance app to exclude iStudio Publisher from its cleaning process (or stop using the maintenance app), and install a new copy of the iStudio Publisher application software.

More information here.

Note that from iStudio Publisher 1.3 onwards we'll be removing support for 32-bit binaries, so this will no longer be an issue.

We’re excited to announce the release of the Website Download Edition of iStudio Publisher 1.2. Existing users can get this by simply launching iStudio Publisher and accepting the update option, which should appear automatically.

For users of the App Store Edition, please wait until Apple have completed their review process and you will receive the new version through the App Store update mechanism. Note that your App Store purchase won't enable you to license the Website Download Edition, so you will need to wait.

iStudio Publisher 1.2 is a bumper update with lots of great new features, including: setting the default text for the app, bleed and crop marks, booklet creation, dictation, Quick Look document preview, full screen view, and a flatter UI design to integrate with Yosemite and take full advantage of retina displays. Here are some more details of what's new in this release.

We've already started work on the next release and have lots of other new features and improvements planned for future updates.

We hope you enjoy iStudio Publisher 1.2!