Crossword Forge 5.5.10

Crossword Forge 5.5.1 is an useful and attractive classroom style crossword and word search puzzle maker. It quickly generates puzzles from your words for the web, print, and PDF.

It is:

• Restricted Words: Crossword Forge will make sure that your list of bad words doesn't get included in your word search puzzle.
• Spell Checker: Crossword Forge has a built-in spell-checker to help ensure your puzzles are free from awkward spelling mistakes. Mac OS X users rejoice! You now have access to all of Mac OS X's built-in dictionaries including: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, and Swedish.
• Great for Foreign Language Teachers: Crossword Forge is a great foreign language crossword maker and word search maker. Crossword Forge simplifies foreign language puzzle construction with more than a dozen built-in language sets, and an easy way to create your own. You can build puzzles that use letters with accents, umlauts and other diacritical marks, essential for building puzzles in Spanish, French and German. Crossword Forge also supports right to left scripts like Arabic and Hebrew, and supports scripts and alphabets with combining ligatures like Punjabi. In fact, it even supports the thousands of ideographic characters found in Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
• Foreign Alphabets: Crossword Forge fully supports Unicode. It can make puzzles in many character sets including:
  Arabic, Hebrew, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Japanese (Hiragana), Japanese (Katakana), Korean, Gurumukhi (for Punjabi), and of course Roman or Latin.
  

Major Features:

1. Generate high quality Flash web, print and PDF puzzles, puzzle images, and puzzle text
2. Type puzzled data directly, or import it from many different text formats
3. Generate high quality web, print and PDF puzzles, puzzle images, and puzzle text
4. Built-in multi-lingual spell checker
5. Unlimited undo and redo
6. Support for restricted word lists in word search mode (i.e. helps eliminate accidental "naughty words" in your word search puzzles)
7. Bonus Clues for Crossword and Word Search
8. Multiple puzzle titles
9. Font, Style, Size and Justification controls
10. Unlimited clue and answer length
11. Color and Picture backdrops
12. Customizable Across and Down text
13. Supports puzzle grids of any size
14. Puzzle clues can span multiple pages
15. Customizable grid block size
16. Allows for manual puzzle repositioning within backdrop
17. Crossword Options
    
    • Toggle Clue and Word Bank Visibility
    • Word Bank Scramble
18. Word Search Options
    • Show Clues or Word Bank
    • Word Bank Scramble
    • Toggle Backwards and Diagonal Words
19. Built-in Support for making foreign language crossword puzzles.
20. Built-in Language Sets Include: English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Greek etc.
21. Support for characters with accents, umlauts and other diacritical marks (great for Spanish, French and German puzzles).
22. Support for Right to Left scripts like Arabic and Hebrew
23. supports scripts and alphabets with combining ligatures like Punjabi
24. Full Unicode support.

Requirements:

• Macintosh: Mac OS X 10.1 and higher (v10.2+ for multi-lingual spell checking)
• Tiger & Leopard Compatible
• Universal Binary
• Windows: Windows 98 and higher
• Windows XP & Vista Compatible
• Mac Classic: Mac OS 8.1 and higher plus 30MB memory available