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The Arensus Crossword Editor is a shareware program to create and edit crossword puzzles. Tools to automatically crosswords using clue-databases is included. It can also generate Swedish style crossword puzzles where, the clues are in squares. These crossword puzzles are very popular in European countries. It can be used as crossword dictionary to query built-in databases. Wild cards ? and * can be used when letters and/or length are not known. The program is written in Java and thus runs nearly on all operating systems such as Windows, Linux and Macintosh. Crosswords can be saved as html files and these files can be put on a personal homepage.
With Arensus Crossword Editor 1.1 you cannot only create crossword puzzles. The included dictionary and your own databases can be searched comfortably. For example indefinite word parts can be searched with wild cards. Here is a small example, with the following character string P*L?K the dictionary feature of Arensus Crossword Puzzle Editor supplies as result PASCHALIK, PORTULAK and PUBLIK. The character * stands thereby of arbitrary letters of arbitrary length. The character ? stands for an individual unknown letter.As many different databases as desired can be created and administered, ideally to organize clues of different topic. Data records can be moved or copied with few clicks between the databases. New data records can be entered or be extracted from a usual text. Also text files with terms can be imported. Complete crossword puzzles can be created fully automatic, without expertise by yourself. The databases which are to be used can be selected. The creation process can be stopped in the middle to delete unwanted terms or to continue creating manually. The appearance of the crossword puzzle can be changed after own taste. Border thickness, lattice thickness, font-type, font size and colors can be selected. The clues can be corrected and formatted manually. The line and word breaking can be specified exactly, depending upon language. The final result can be saved as EPS, JPEG, PNG, HTML or PDF. The crossword puzzle can be published with the Arensus Crossword Puzzle Java Applet as an Online Game too. EPS - Encapsulated Postscript
JPEG - Joint Photographic Experts Group Format
PNG - Portable Network Graphics
HTML - Hypertext Markup Language
PDF - Portable Document Format
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