Please note that Pagehand is no longer offered for sale.
Features
Pagehand can do most of the things you expect a word processor to do:
- Columns and Margins
- Tables
- Sections
- Page numbers, in various formats
- Updating date field
- Spell checking
- Templates (we call them Document Styles)
- Headers and footers
- Document properties (author, subject, etc., plus custom properties)
- Word count
- Automatic updating with new versions
- Autosave
- Automatic text replacement
- Styles
- Find and Replace
- Smart Quotes
- Smart Insert and Delete
- Speech support
- Page and column breaks
- Adjustable hyphenation
- Layout guides
- Show Invisibles
- Magnification (or scaling, zoom in and out)
- View one or two pages at a time
- Scale to full page
- Scale to page width
- Split view, horizontal or vertical
- Adjust color of text, background, underline, and strikethrough
- Small caps
- Ligatures
- Superscript and subscript, full size or small
- Text shadow
- US or metric measurements
- Adjustable baseline and kerning
- Adjust paragraph space before, space after, leading, line height
- Widow and orphan support (we call it Prevent Stragglers)
- Keep Together and Keep With Next
- Tab leaders
- Bullets and numbering
In addition, Pagehand has some features that most word processors lack:
- A document format (PDF) that everyone can read
- Automatic grouping of your fonts into categories
- Support for Apple font collections
- Print guides
- In-app feedback (and we do read our feedback)
- Choice of tabbed or untabbed windows
- Ruler shading to indicate how indents affect paragraph shape
- An editor for your Apple spelling dictionary
- An editor for the document-level spelling dictionary
- Smart Quotes can be turned on or off at the character level or in a style
- Direct menu support for over 60 special characters
- A viewer for ornament characters found on your Mac
- An editor for creating typographically correct fractions
- An efficient user interface that avoids reliance on icons
- A superbly easy-to-use Styles editor
- A handy button to set the default font for a document
- Adjustment of character weight, width, and obliqueness
- Help pages that include tips on using your Leopard fonts
