Microsoft Office Publisher is a desktop publishing application for creating, personalising and sharing a range of publications and marketing materials. Create and distributeg via print, the web and e-mail. It includes e-mail merge capabilities, enhanced mail merge and catalogue merge. It is available for purchase as a standalone product or as part of the Microsoft Office 2010 Suite.

Features include:

• Photographic Tools: crop, pan and zoom photographs and preview changes. Adjust colours and brightness and add captions
• Font Features: support for OpenType fonts for using style sets, style alternates, true small caps, ligatures and number styles
• Print Preview: adjust print settings whilst viewing a large preview of the final publication
• Alignment Tools: object alignment technology and guides enable alignment of objects, images and text boxes to existing objects
• Mailing Capabilities: create, manage and store a customer list for personalising publications or combine customer lists from other sources
• PDF and XPS Support: export publications to PDF, XPS or to a image formats
• Backstage View: available from the Office Ribbon user interface providing access to functions related to the maintenance and administration of Microsoft Publisher files.

System Requirement

• Microsoft Windows XP with SP3 (32-bit), with SP1, Server 2003 R2, Server 2008 (32-bit or 64-bit) or 7 or later operating systems
• 500 MHz processor or higher
• 256 MB of RAM or higher
• 1.5 GB available hard disk space
• 1024 × 768 or higher resolution monitor.