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Print Magic is a personal publishing program by Epyx. It was a direct competitor to the leading personal publishing program of the time, The Print Shop, by Brøderbund. It was released in 1988 for Apple II (Apple IIe or higher) and DOS.〔 Like The Print Shop, Print Magic lets users create a variety of customized documents, mixing graphics and text, such as:〔〔〔 * Greeting cards * Invitations * Award certificates * Meeting announcements * Publicity notices * Scratch pads * Stationery * Banners The program's three disks aren't copy-protected, so users are free to make "working copies" of them. It employs a Macintosh-like GUI, unusual for software of its time. Most commands and features are accessed via pull-down menus or icons. It can also import clip art from other publishing software, such as The Print Shop and Newsroom. It includes the ability to create custom graphics, such as with a paint program.〔 Print Magic's included clip art was much higher resolution than other packages and scales much better as well.〔 It could also import fonts from Fontrix, a popular font program of the era. The flexibility of the text and graphic layout of documents was one of its most critically acclaimed features, though reviewers noted that sometimes it was troublesome due to the computer's limited resolution.〔 However, it also has a zoom function which allows for pixel-precision placement.〔 Print Magic includes other features, such as the ability to draw various borders on a document, something absent from other contemporary offerings. ==Legacy== Print Magic was later incorporated into another Epyx product, Studio of Greetings. Studio of Greetings used Print Magic as its engine to create a variety of greeting cards for any occasion. Released in 1992, Studio of Greetings was available only for DOS.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Print Magic」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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