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Serif is an independent developer
and publisher
of desktop publishing
and graphic design
software for the PC
. Established in 1987, Serif is a privately owned British company with operations in Europe and North America. It provides PC software and associated products direct to customers through its website and contact centre in the UK and has over 200 employees at its head office in West Bridgford
, near Nottingham
, United Kingdom
.
(DTP) package for everyday PC users and in 1990 Serif released PagePlus 1.0. Today PagePlus is Serif’s flagship software suite and has won several awards over the years.
Serif offers free, feature-restricted versions of its latest tiles (the Starter Edition range) and maintains a separate website allowing customers to download free copies of older versions of their applications.
Serif also sells selected software and hardware items from other manufacturers via their website.
Software developer
A software developer is a person concerned with facets of the software development process. Their work includes researching, designing, developing, and testing software. A software developer may take part in design, computer programming, or software project management...
and publisher
Software publisher
A software publisher is a publishing company in the software industry between the developer and the distributor. In some companies, two or all three of these roles may be combined ....
of desktop publishing
Desktop publishing
Desktop publishing is the creation of documents using page layout software on a personal computer.The term has been used for publishing at all levels, from small-circulation documents such as local newsletters to books, magazines and newspapers...
and graphic design
Graphic design
Graphic design is a creative process – most often involving a client and a designer and usually completed in conjunction with producers of form – undertaken in order to convey a specific message to a targeted audience...
software for the PC
Personal computer
A personal computer is any general-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and original sales price make it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end-user with no intervening computer operator...
. Established in 1987, Serif is a privately owned British company with operations in Europe and North America. It provides PC software and associated products direct to customers through its website and contact centre in the UK and has over 200 employees at its head office in West Bridgford
West Bridgford
West Bridgford is a town in the Rushcliffe borough of Nottinghamshire, England. It lies immediately south of the city of Nottingham, delimited by the River Trent; this proximity means that it forms a continuous urban area with Nottingham, effectively makes West Bridgford a suburb of the city, and...
, near Nottingham
Nottingham
Nottingham is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands of England. It is located in the ceremonial county of Nottinghamshire and represents one of eight members of the English Core Cities Group...
, United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
.
History
Serif was founded by a small team of software engineers who wanted to create a low-cost Desktop PublishingDesktop publishing
Desktop publishing is the creation of documents using page layout software on a personal computer.The term has been used for publishing at all levels, from small-circulation documents such as local newsletters to books, magazines and newspapers...
(DTP) package for everyday PC users and in 1990 Serif released PagePlus 1.0. Today PagePlus is Serif’s flagship software suite and has won several awards over the years.
Serif offers free, feature-restricted versions of its latest tiles (the Starter Edition range) and maintains a separate website allowing customers to download free copies of older versions of their applications.
Serif also sells selected software and hardware items from other manufacturers via their website.
Products
The following are all software packages, for the following applications:- PagePlusPagePlusPagePlus is a desktop publishing program developed by Serif. The first version was released in 1991 as the first commercial sub-£100 DTP package for Microsoft Windows...
– desktop publishingDesktop publishingDesktop publishing is the creation of documents using page layout software on a personal computer.The term has been used for publishing at all levels, from small-circulation documents such as local newsletters to books, magazines and newspapers... - DrawPlus – graphics studio
- WebPlusWebPlusWebPlus is a website design program for Microsoft Windows, developed by UK-based software company Serif. It allows users to design, create and upload their website onto the internet without any knowledge of HTML or other web technologies....
– website designWeb designWeb design is the process of planning and creating a website. Text, images, digital media and interactive elements are used by web designers to produce the page seen on the web browser... - PhotoPlusSerif PhotoPlusSerif PhotoPlus is an image editing program for Microsoft Windows. The latest version is Serif PhotoPlus X4. Serif PhotoPlus X4 is compatible with Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7...
– digital image editingImage editingImage editing encompasses the processes of altering images, whether they be digital photographs, traditional analog photographs, or illustrations. Traditional analog image editing is known as photo retouching, using tools such as an airbrush to modify photographs, or editing illustrations with any... - MoviePlusMoviePlusSerif MoviePlus is video editing software created by Serif that allows both professional and home users to edit digital video and digital images.The latest release, MoviePlus X5, runs on Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7....
– digital video editing - Digital Scrapbook ArtistDigital Scrapbook ArtistSerif Digital Scrapbook Artist is a digital scrapbooking program for Microsoft Windows.It has many standard vector graphics features, due to a shared code base with DrawPlus and also includes features designed specifically for digital scrapbooking such as photo frames, auto-flowing of photos into...
– digital scrapbooking - CraftArtist - digital scrapbooking
- PanoramaPlus – image stitching
- AlbumPlus – image organisation
- Scan, Stitch, and Share – large document stitching
- Poster Designer Pro – graphic design software for large format printers
- Font Manager – typeface organisation