What is PageTatin?

PageTatin is a flatplan tool for planning magazines and publications, solo or in a small team. You use it to plan the page-by-page structure of an issue – which pages are editorial, which are advertising. You can use descriptive text or image thumbnails to provide more information on specific pages.

It runs locally on your Mac, Windows, or Linux machine. Your flatplan data lives entirely on your hard drive. License activation, periodic background revalidation, and deactivation connect briefly to the license server – none of which interrupt your work.

What’s a flatplan, briefly

A flatplan (sometimes written “flat plan” or “FP”) is the layout-stage-zero of a magazine. Before a layout file is touched, the issue structure has to be decided: how many pages, what runs where, which pages get ads, what the section sequence looks like. That decision-making lives in a flatplan – a page-by-page overview of the entire issue, usually shown as a grid of small cells (one per page) with section colors, ad placements, and editorial notes. Everyone involved with the issue works with the flatplan.

What you get

A single application. Available in English, German, French, Italian, and Spanish. There’s no monthly subscription – you pay once and it’s yours, with 12 months of feature updates and bug fixes included. Backed by a 30-day money-back guarantee – if it doesn’t work on your machine, you get your money back, no questions asked.

What’s next

Start with Download and install, then activate your license and jump to Create your first flatplan. For everything about how the license works – two devices, transferring to a new machine, what happens after 12 months – the License FAQ covers it.