what mac program is synonymous to Microsoft Publisher?

The only program available that can open MS Publisher files is Libre Office, Word and Pages won't.

You have only one choice. Libre Office, and it is free.

Microsoft Publisher

Ditto to what Kappy wrote to you regarding Pages

If you are used to Office and have Office for Mac, you can do a lot with MS Word but it is finicky. Although graphics is not its strong suit. It depends upon complexity of your Newsletters.

There is no equivalent to Publisher, in my opinion, but there other options, most much easier, some more expensive, some quite reasonable.

Note, I have Publisher but use the program rarely - I run it under Parallels at the point of a gun.

High end is Quark, or inDesign. Two schools of thought as to which is better. I have Quark. But support suffers compared to inDesign.

There are some pure Mac applications and much less expensive than the two above.

Example:

http://www.belightsoft.com/products/swiftpublisher/overview.php

http://www.istudiopublisher.com

What to look for is how you output your product for your professional printing services or your own printer. Another feature is how you can flow text, linking multiple pages.

e.g.from Swift Publisher

"Export to TIFF, JPEG, EPS, and PDF Export your projects to the most popular image formats and send them to a printshop."

from iStudio:

"Commercial Printing Produce PDF files ready for printing at a commercial print shop, satisfying all of the typical requirements, including high resolution images, CMYK colors and embedded fonts."

There is at least one OpenSource package desktop publishing package called Scribus

http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Scribus

Couldn't tell you. I've done book layouts in Word, so I think your evaluation is incorrect. There are many layout products out there. The very best is Adobe's inDesign if your are willing to spend the money for it. Then there are freeware applications like Scribus which is similar to InDesign.

I've provided you with two locations to find such programs, so I suggest you search them. There is no Mac equivalent of Publisher, but there are many applications for the Mac that would be pretty close in some respects. Some simple ones include RapidWeaver and SandVox.

The Macintosh made its mark on the world with page layout programs such as ReadySetGo and a laser printer many years ago.

Again, focus on two or three things:

1) how you can import text, graphics, and how to export the finished product for processing (paper or electronic).

2) how you output your product for your professional printing services or your own printer.

3) how you can flow text, linking multiple pages.

By the way, I would be remiss if I did not suggest to you

OmniGraffle. A power house graphics program.

https://www.omnigroup.com/omnigraffle/

EDIT due to Csound1 post.

I think LibreOffice might be a good bet as it opens all of your other work you have done in Publisher. It's not fluid like Mac OS but it seems to read the Windows Publisher file.

I am a self-employed photographer, and I created all my photographic Note Cards in Publisher. It was VERY easy to use, and I've used Publisher since I worked for a M$ vendor back in the late 90s, where I supported Publisher 97. I have recently switched to a Mac, and am now finding out that M$ doesn't make a Mac ver of Publisher. But then I saw the posts about LibreOffice, so I installed it. My Note Cards are 2-up, 4.25x5.5. When I opened the landscape oriented versions of my Note Cards in LibreOffice, it keeps my text boxes correctly oriented, but it's flipping all my images. I've tried selecting the image, and rotating it, but nothing happens. <heavy sigh>

Apple's Pages, Microsoft Word in Office 2011, the word processor in Libre Office (freeware) just to name a few. You can find many others at MacUpdate.com and the Mac's App Store.

Hey, I learned something new today.

I used LibreOffice to open a Windows .pub file and it works like a charm.

Thanks!

Sparkleberry wrote:

Hey, I learned something new today.

I used LibreOffice to open a Windows .pub file and it works like a charm.

Thanks!

You're welcome.