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James Mol Author

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Pages 5 alternatives

Apple has made its decision to take features out of Pages 5. Many people need those features, at least from what the

Pages 5 features checklist

discussion seems to indicate. If I might infer, and I freely admit I may have this wrong, if Apple has decided to alienate those people who need the feature missing in Pages 5, it should not mind if alternatives are offered in this tread as they no longer see them as customers for Pages 5.

You are always invited to tell Apple what you think at the Pages feedback http://www.apple.com/feedback/pages.html

What are the alternatives for Pages 5 that have many of the features we are now missing AND how are compared to Pages 4.3?

From the above thread we have

PageStream

Swift Publisher

iStudio Publisher

iCalamus

Scribus

Pages 4.3

Please add your suggestions and reviews

Posted on Oct 30, 2013 5:28 AM

17 replies

Mar 16, 2014 12:48 PM in response to James Mol

Swift Publisher seems nice, and it's only $20 right now, but it handles hyphens poor. They're either on or off, you can't adjust the hyphenation zone at all, and you can't turn hyphenation off for individual paragraphs. Hyphenation is important for book publication.

Mar 16, 2014 4:13 PM in response to AllergyDoc

Hmm...probably SwiftPublisher would work best for newsletters, booklets, pamphlets, and documents needing images. I think Nisus Writer Pro would work better for book publishing. It's more for that than the easy layout and placing objects, etc. I think it has better hyphenation options. It also deals with bookmarks, line numbering, table of contents, etc.

They are quite different. That was one nice thing about Pages, you could do layout type or word processing type documents with just the one app. It wasn't perfect, but most of the time it met my needs.

Pages 5 alternatives