Re: [FRIAM] text and picture layout programs for mac?

2014-10-05 Thread Victoria Hughes
I've used Pages for years, and find it very responsive, comprehensive and robust- do all my graphics, flyers, desktop publishing, etc etc with it. In the iWork suite. There are lots of smaller apps as well for selected idiosyncratic goals although I don't use them. Comic Life, or TypeTwister,

Re: [FRIAM] text and picture layout programs for mac?

2014-10-05 Thread Russell Standish
On Sat, Oct 04, 2014 at 09:54:26PM -0700, Brent Auble wrote: You can try Gimp (http://www.gimp.org).  It's primarily an image editor, but can do text overlays. It handles text a bit oddly, so it'll take some work to get used to it, but for small amounts of text, it should be fine.  A heck of

[FRIAM] text and picture layout programs for mac?

2014-10-04 Thread Gillian Densmore
Greetings all! I'm looking for a program that lets you plop text, and move pictures around for MacOS Windows can kinda-sorta do that with paint. FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's

Re: [FRIAM] text and picture layout programs for mac?

2014-10-04 Thread Brent Auble
You can try Gimp (http://www.gimp.org).  It's primarily an image editor, but can do text overlays. It handles text a bit oddly, so it'll take some work to get used to it, but for small amounts of text, it should be fine.  A heck of a lot better than Paint. Free and available with ports for Mac