Is there a PrintShop that is compatible with Mac-Catalina OS? I work for a school and do the marketing, therefore in need of an Upgraded PrintShop - if not, any idea of when there might be one coming out?

I am running The Print Shop 4 because I didn't update to Catalina but just to be on the safe side I downloaded Swift Publisher 5 which in my opinion after playing about with it is nearly as good as The Print Shop. It's not as easy to use but most of what you could do is in the Swift Publisher. It also works well alongside Art text 3. It is possible to load psf across, but jPeg lose some quality.

Using Swift Publisher 5 with Art text 3 and the more I get used to it I can see it could replace The Print Shop 4

I'm assuming you mean the quarter-fold cards that are made on a full sheet of paper. Yes, Swift Publisher 5 has a template for that. It's not as easy as Print Shop because the entire page is on the screen at once. For the quarter-fold some parts of the card have to be designed upside down. You can, however, lay it out right side up and there is a command to flip or rotate text and graphics. I like the way Print Shop handled each quarter panel better, but this is at least an alternative. There are also templates for half-fold, tri-folds, z-folds, gate-folds and 5-6 others. Their quarter-fold is called a "French Fold" and the card opens on the right. They don't have a separate template for a quarter-fold that opens from the bottom (although you could easily design your own template). A few other things it does is flyers, catalogs, newsletters, calendars, certificates, business cards, mailing labels and more. There is a free 30-day trial.

I played with Swift Publisher and have decided to purchase it. I'm still hopeful Mackiev will release their Catalina upgrade for the Print Shop 4, but, in the mean time, I'm moving on. I upgraded to Catalina this weekend.

Print Shop aside (and it clearly warned me it wouldn't work after the upgrade, so no one should be claiming that it caught them off guard), it seems like Catalina is still very buggy. The Music app constantly loses all of my album artwork and my Photos app still claims to be syncing with iCloud rendering certain functions, like the "People" view, inoperable. iMovie can't access my Photos library; just a spinning wheel.

Not very impressed with this release...based on articles I've read, this (and iOS 13) have been very problematic for Apple.

Yes, you can create the "quarter fold" greeting cards on Swift Publisher. You can also create the tri-folds, etc. Swift's procedure for making the quarter fold card is a bit convoluted compared to Print Shop but it does work.

I have used as an alternative to PrintShop, which I've used since early release years, a product from Avery called Design and Print which is free, mates up to Avery products and does a number of the same projects as PS.

https://www.avery.com/software/design-and-print/

Happy New Year!

Why not use Print Shop 5 with Bootcamp/Fusion/Parallels? It's not ideal, but if you need the software, it's better than nothing. I don't know about Bootcamp or Parallels, but Fusion permits a user to exchange files between the Mac and Windows sides.

Since reading the comments on the forum I have downloaded Swift Publisher 5 along side my existing The Print Shop 4 running on my iMac with Mojave. After playing around with Swift, I found that most of the things I could do on Print Shop I can do on Swift although its not as user friendly. I can recommend Swift Publisher 5.

Give Pages a try. It has brochure templates you can modify.

I would recommend you to try Swift Publisher 5

FWIW, Broderbund makes a version compatible with mac ("Print Shop for Mac"). I tried it last year and it is a completely different program. I liked it, but didn't feel like learning a completely new program when the original PS worked well for me. I don't understand the relationship between the two programs.

JuLopes wrote:

I'm in the same "boat" as you are... What can we do, now?

Try some of the workarounds suggested by myself and others until PrintShop is upgraded to 64 bit. Or give a look at Affinity Publisher. It might do what you want.

They are still working on it, but they do have a new version of Print Shop, Print Shop 4. Just cannot migrate files from the other versions yet. I asked today if they are going to make a patch or file so that files can be moved. They are working on it. All you hear is that they are working on it.............

Fortunately I did a backup of my iMac before loading Catalina and when I realised The Print Shop didn't work, restored back to Mojave. There is a The Print Shop 5 out but only comparable to Windoze. I honestly don't think there will be an upgrade and just wish they would say so and put us out of our misery

I just ended my online conversation with the PS people. I have PS 3, so my files will be gone forever. Here are some of the responses I got about restoring my files:

Users that purchased The Print Shop product from us will receive newsletter when an update is ready so they will be able to download it right when it released, but that only applies to users of The Print Shop 4 product. 

When I asked if there will be a new version available for purchase:

According to the license limitations, a user from Northern America can't purchase TPS4 product for personal usage. So basically, you would not order it. 

But perhaps it will be changed in the future, let's see.

So.......it looks like those of us who have had PS3 are screwed. Now to find something else that may meet my needs........