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DESKTOP PUBLISHING
Desktop-publishing bundles don't have to cost you a bundle. Two new packages from Brderbund and Canon deliver potent collections of publishing tools for well under $100 apiece. I tested beta versions of both of these desktop publishing suites.
Brderbund's Print Shop products are synonymous with home printing, but the new Print Shop Pro Publisher 2000 is aimed primarily at small businesses. The easy-to-use $80 package comes with 9000 templates, including forms for presentations, newsletters, business cards, and fax cover sheets, plus a staggering 175,000 pieces of clip art. Besides the desktop publishing application, the suite includes serviceable drawing and photo-editing programs, a media organizer for cataloging image files, TextBridge software for converting scanned documents into editable text, and some surprisingly rich...