Features
Creativity
Mouse-as-Brush Artistry
Many customers with long histories in the sign business have told
us that running Sign Wizard is as close to painting with a brush
as possible with a software program. Sign Wizard design and editing
tools are straightforward and easy to use, meaning that your efforts
are focused on creativity, not figuring out the software.
Multiple Ways to Achieve a Task
Sign Wizard provides a number of different options for achieving
a particular design task in most cases, as well as multiple ways
to access a particular feature. For example, if you want to make
adjustments to your text, you can do it graphically, numerically,
or a combination of both. Features are generally accessible either
through a convenient property bar, drop down menu, or keyboard
shortcuts - whichever you prefer.
More Design Flexibility
Sign Wizard is very flexible in the design process, allowing you
to make edits and changes at will. The Unlimited Undo feature
lets you try something and then go back if you don't like it,
and then Redo lets you go forward again. The History Window keeps
track of all your actions. And since you can edit at the individual
vector and node level, you have complete control over your designs.
Customer Previews
Many Sign Wizard users design their signs directly in front of
the customer, letting the customer participate in the creative
process. Sign Wizard provides real-time, full color animated previews
of many distortions, shadows, and text effects, so the customer
can see exactly how the design is made. If this isn't feasible,
just email a JPG file of the design straight from Sign Wizard!
Productivity
Fewer Steps
Sign Wizard functions use the fewest number of steps possible
to achieve the desired result. This efficiency drives many of
the productivity benefits of the software. One step zooming at
any time, control point transformations of text, real time previews
of shadows and distortions are just a few of the examples of Sign
Wizard's streamlined operation.
Easy to Use
Sign Wizard has been known for nearly 15 years to be the easiest
to use signmaking software available on the market. Our user interface
is simple and completely customizable by the user. Operations
in the software are intuitive and straightforward. The new
property bars give you immediate access to feature options without
cluttering up the screen.
Easy to Learn
Not only is the software easy to use, but it's easy to learn as
well, which is very important when new employees need to be trained.
New users of the system can be productive immediately with Sign
Wizard, thanks to its intuitive design and ease of use. Competitive
products are much more complicated and cluttered, resulting in
too much down time when training new users.
Online Help
Every function of the software contains context sensitive online
help, meaning that at any time you can access the Help file for
the current operation or mode that are working in. Online Help
is the most immediate source of information for the user, and
it can address questions for you on the fly.
Capability
Multiple Sign Types Supported
In Sign Wizard, you can design a sign once and create multiple
types of signs using different media and materials. Depending
on the level of Sign Wizard you have installed, you can create
vinyl, screen printed, wide format color printed, neon, routed,
engraved, and other types of signs. This provides a lot of flexibility,
especially in the larger shops, to support a wide variety of customer
requirements.
Lots of File Formats Supported
Sign Wizard supports multiple vector and bitmap file formats,
including color bitmaps, so that you can easily import files into
Sign Wizard and export files out of Sign Wizard. This is a big
benefit if you are using multiple design and/or production software
packages. All of the file format support has been updated for
version 6.5.
Creating Custom Graphics
Sign Wizard has an excellent automatic vectorizing feature, including
color vectorizing in Sign Wizard Pro, to make it easy to import
custom graphics. Lower levels of the program allow you to on-screen
digitize on top of a bitmap image. Whichever method you choose,
Sign Wizard will make the job fast and easy with an additional
set of vector smoothing and editing tools.
Text Entry and Manipulation
Almost all signs contain text, and Sign Wizard's text handling
capabilities are the best in the industry. A multitude of text
manipulations can be achieved with one mouse operation, including
scaling, extending/condensing, rotating, italicizing, and heightening,
as well as individual letter kerning, word and line spacing, and
arcing text up or down. This range of options and the simplicity
of these capabilities are a big time saver when designing.
Large Format Printing / Print and
Cut
Sign Wizard 6 has been enhanced with a number of features and
capabilities to support large format color printing and print
and cut technologies. Now mixing complex vector and bitmap images
together is easier than ever.
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