Dan As a Mac user and a graphic designer, I despise Publisher, not only for being a M$ product and for being a very lame excuse for a DTP program.
It's like Word with a few extensions and extra tool bars. Simon On 2 Dec 2008, at 20:49, Dan wrote: > > At 5:27 PM -0800 11/30/2008, Bill Spencer wrote: >> I am just dipping my toe into the waters and am wondering if there's >> a viable equivalent to MS Publisher out there? > > There are quite a few page layout apps available. Which you use > depends on your needs, of course. > >> As far as I can tell MS does not make a Mac version, > > *COUGH* > >> and in an admittedly quick look at Versiontracker I did not see >> anything comparable. Any thoughts or >> suggestions welcome. As usual my thanks in advance! > > Again, it depends on your actual needs. > > My housemates use MS Publisher on a PC to do a pretty bi-monthly > newsletter and an annual yearbook for their RV group. Nothing they > do cannot be done in AppleWorks. Pages would work too. They use > Publisher because he's a PC person and this is her way of getting him > to Do Stuff instead of play Spider all day. (that's gotta be the > greatest justification I've ever heard for using MS products! ow. > my brain hurts now). > > Ok, I take that back. There are things they can do in Publisher that > don't happen on a Mac. Publisher looses data, photo resolution, > formatting, and crashes arbitrarily -- totally corrupting the .pub > file. Never had that happen in AppleWorks. So I guess that's a joy > we've just missed ... > > - Dan. > -- > - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth > > > > --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk and http://www.nmug.org.uk --- sent from my PowerBook G4 867Mhz, 768MB RAM, Mac OSX 10.5 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
