Crossword Forge 7.2

Crossword Forge is a easy to use classroom style crossword and word search puzzle maker.

Simply type in clue and answer pairs, and Crossword Forge will generate a puzzle for you.Intuitive interface.Picture (or solid color) backdrops let you add more life to your puzzles.

Choose from 4 different placement styles for your background pictures and automatically add a list of answers to your puzzle to make it more accessible for younger children.

Choose diagonal or backward placed words to make your word search more challenging. Easily creates large and small puzzles, and everything in between.Make larger grid blocks for small children or the elderly.

Make smaller ones to fit more on the page. Crosswordz will also shrink the blocks automatically to fit them on the page.Print your puzzles plus the answer key on any paper size. Puzzle titles and clues can span multiple lines, and are completely customizable.

NOTE: To buy Crossword Forge via the App Store an Apple account is required.

Here are some key features of "Crossword Forge":

Builds high quality crossword and word search puzzles:
· Interactive web puzzles*
· Print and PDF puzzles
· Picture backdrops
· Bonus clues
· Word banks (optional scrambling & supports fill-ins)
· Puzzle titles
· Customizable across and down text
· Custom grid shapes
· Supports puzzle grids of any size
· Unlimited clue and answer length - Print out can span multiple pages (if desired)

Streamlined puzzle editing:
· Data entry keystrokes optimized for rapid workflow
· Import data from tab or comma delimited text files
· Unlimited undo and redo
· Multi-lingual spell checker

Advanced puzzle engine:
· Can produce the densest possible puzzles from your words. We routinely test the engine by feeding it the words from newspaper crossword puzzles (just the words, we give it no hints on the grid) and it discovers the exact same grid layout as the original hand edited puzzles.**
· Incredibily fast puzzle engine which has been written to take full advantage of your multi-core Mac. Performance scales well even on high end Mac Pros.
· Includes a puzzle mask editor to tune the puzzle engine output
· Includes a "Word Ideas" window to help find the perfect next word to add to the puzzle.
· Support for restricted word lists in word search mode (i.e. helps eliminate accidental "naughty words" in your word search puzzles)

Made for the Mac:
· Puzzle files are viewable directly from the Finder using QuickLook.
· Drag & Drop Pictures and Text.
· Uses the document window icons so that you can easily move or copy your file without returning to the Finder.
· Includes Mac OS X's built-in spell checker.
· Supports the Mac standard controls, dialogs, and behaviors, so you don't have to spend time relearning stuff that should be easy.

Foreign Language Support:
· Full unicode support
· Support for characters with accents, umlauts and other diacritical marks
· Support for right to left scripts like Arabic and Hebrew
· Supports scripts and alphabets with combining ligatures
· Built-in presets for: English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Portuguese, Hebrew, Arabic, Afrikaans and more.
· Spell checker supports: English, French, Spanish, German, Danish, Dutch Portuguese, Swedish, Russian and Polish.
· "Word Ideas" dictionaries: English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. English dictionaries include US, British, Canadian, and Australian varieties.

Limitations:

· You can print only puzzle answer keys and some export options are disabled.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

The "Puzzle Mask Editor" is no longer a modal window. This has the following benefits:
· The "Puzzle Mask Editor" can now be used more easily in conjunction with "Word Ideas". Both windows can be up and active simultaneously.
· Individual changes to the "Puzzle Mask Editor" are now undo-able (and redo-able). This is great if you make a big change to the mask and decide you liked it better before.