Avery releases free Design Pro for Mac

Avery Office Products, the purveyor of labels, blank business cards, binder dividers, greeting cards, and iron-on t-shirt transfers, has released a free application called 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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brooks robinson

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

July 08 2008 at 10:52 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

charles

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.

June 08 2008 at 9:09 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

chris

... someone's experiences trying to uninstall the programme

http://www.viewfromthedock.com/2008/06/06/avery-offers-full-featured-free-designpro/

June 07 2008 at 4:27 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jeff

It doesn't open files created in the PC version.
Also, the "bold" and the "Italic" buttons don't work.

June 07 2008 at 8:12 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

teqst

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.

June 07 2008 at 7:57 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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teqst

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.

June 07 2008 at 8:03 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

josh

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?

June 06 2008 at 11:35 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Marko

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...

June 07 2008 at 5:31 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Clark Goble

Does this read files created with Avery's PC label software?

Right now that's 90% of what I'm using Parallels for.

June 06 2008 at 10:08 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Carlos

about time - such a pain to get stuff to line up properly in OS with Avery CD labels

June 06 2008 at 8:07 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Sandy

can u tell me where to download a manual for Designpro?
Thanks

August 20 2008 at 12:44 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Craig Knighton