Filed under: Software, Odds and ends, Freeware
Avery releases free Design Pro for Mac
This software was demoed at Macworld Expo in January and is now available for download (registration required) from the Avery website. Design Pro contains over 2,000 clip art and photo images, as well as over 1,300 pre-designed templates for various projects. It is integrated with iPhoto as well, so you can use all of your own photos to create CD/DVD labels, birthday cards, and other fun projects. If you're burning your own music CDs, Design Pro can grab playlist or tune information from iTunes, and it's also able to use your Address Book for doing mail merges.
Avery Design Pro for Mac requires Mac OS X 10.4 or 10.5. Be aware - the download is 262MB in size!
[via Macworld]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Craig Knighton said 7:19PM on 6-06-2008
Direct link
http://www.avery.com/us/downloads/software/DesignPro_Mac.dmg
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Justin said 7:25PM on 6-06-2008
Thanks a lot. I hate sites that make you register to download stuff.
Andrew said 8:07PM on 6-06-2008
about time - such a pain to get stuff to line up properly in OS with Avery CD labels
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Sandy said 12:45PM on 8-20-2008
can u tell me where to download a manual for Designpro?
Thanks
Josh said 11:36PM on 6-06-2008
This seems cool; I just recently paid $36 to get some halfway decent label design and label printing software for the Mac. What would make this *really* worthwhile, and would make me wish I hadn't just dropped $36 on a competitor, is if you could print your creations on non-Avery label paper. I'm guessing their software doesn't allow that. Can anyone confirm?
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Marko said 5:33AM on 6-07-2008
You guessed right, Josh. And forget about using it if you need to print A4 size (which everyone outside the U.S. uses), the templates are letter size only. Here's hoping they make a version for the rest of us...
dextro said 7:57AM on 6-07-2008
I needed this a few days ago. The Avery website told me to use Address Book.app. Huuuuuge pain in the ass!
Hope this works better.
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Tequila2 said 8:03AM on 6-07-2008
Well, i just installed it. The best selling label in Europe isn't in the database.
Great job ... maybe less clipart and better functionality are the way to go.
Jeff said 8:12AM on 6-07-2008
It doesn't open files created in the PC version.
Also, the "bold" and the "Italic" buttons don't work.
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charles said 9:10AM on 6-08-2008
looks ok, I suppose. However, I thought you weren't supposed to use slickers on CDs going in to slot-loading drives (like, say, on most Macs). I keep a rainbow of Shsrpies for the purpose.
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Clark Goble said 6:38PM on 6-09-2008
Does this read files created with Avery's PC label software?
Right now that's 90% of what I'm using Parallels for.
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brooks robinson said 10:52AM on 7-08-2008
does anyone have experience in calibrating printers to use avery software... seems like the design part is nice, but i've used way too much paper, and there's no apparent consistency in how the printing appears when put to paper... other, simpler, software doesn't handle design elements so well, but print much more consistently...
thanks.
brooks
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chris said 10:57PM on 7-09-2008
... someone's experiences trying to uninstall the programme
http://www.viewfromthedock.com/2008/06/06/avery-offers-full-featured-free-designpro/
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