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Crossword Forge

Crossword Forge is an easy to use crossword and word search making utility. It is designed to make high quality crossword and word search puzzles. It allows creating, modifying, printing, saving, restoring and exporting puzzles (interactive web, pdf, text, and images @ 72 dpi) and their answer keys. You will find basic instructions in the Help Menu.

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Phone: (512) 853-9645
Fax: (815) 550-1744

For those who wish to give us credit in publications made with the aid of Crossword Forge, you can use something like the following:
This puzzle was created using Crossword Forge
Credit is not required, but it is appreciated.

What's New:
Version 6.3.5 (August5, 2011)
- Various minor improvements.

Version 6.3.4 (July 11, 2011)
- In cases where the backdrop picture is not found, Crossword Forge will now prompt the user with the previous backdrop picture's name. This should make finding the file easier.
- Right clicking on the backdrop preview pane allows you to show the backdrop picture file in the file system. This is great if you want topackage the file for sending it with the puzzle.

Version 6.3.3 (June 17, 2011)
- The size selector list works again. 
- We made various improvements to the English and German language application text. These changes were made with an attempt to improve the application's ease of use.

Version 6.3.2 (June 3, 2011)
- Various under the hood changes.

Version 6.3.1 (May 12, 2011)
- You can selectfractional font sizes. Fractional font sizes have an effect on PDF export.
- Improved the puzzle making status window to display more user friendly and accurate time estimates.
- Fixed web export, file save, and mask saving issues introduced in version 6.3.

Version 6.3 (April 26, 2011)
- Dragging an image to the backdrop image preview area will now change the backdrop type to image(previously it only changed the preview area, but required an additional click to get it to change the backdrop type).
- Various minor cosmetic improvements.

Version 6.2.2 (April 1, 2011)
- Improved the stability of the puzzle engine when running on Microsoft Windows.
- Fixed a problem where the alphabet palette would fail to update after a change to the alphabet of the current language. It used tobe necessary to switch to another language and back, before an update would occur. This language toggle is no longer necessary.
- Fixed a problem where the capitalization policy when changed was not being applied to the current word search's random letters.
- Fixed a problem where the "Preserve Case" capitalization policy would require a new call to "Make Puzzle" to take effect. Seelimitations of this change in the known issue below.

- Known Issue: If the capitalization policy for a language is changed to "Preserve Case", existing puzzles may need to be rebuilt in order to fix cases where a lower-case letter crosses the same grid space as a capital letter (or vice versa). No warning is given to this effect when the policy is changed or when a puzzle is opened that may have beenbuilt with a different capitalization policy. To ensure that capitalization is fully preserved for every letter in the grid we recommend that puzzles be remade in cases where the capitalization policy changes to "Preserve Case".

Version 6.2.1 (March 7, 2011)
- Windows version no longer confuses bonus clues with regular clues.
- Added 389 combining code marks from the most recent Unicodestandard. This adds symbols from Cyrillic, Hebrew, Arabic, Nko, Samaritan, Mandaic, Devanagari, Gurmukhi, Oriya, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Myanmar, Ethiopic, Thai, Balinese, Sudanese, Batak, Lepcha, Vedic, Coptic, Various International Symbols etc.
- Added an "Insert Character Joiner" button in the Alphabet palette. This allows you to combine two characters into the same puzzle block. If for...