Mac alternatives to Publisher?

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Mac alternatives to Publisher?

I was wondering what are some Mac alternatives to MS Publisher?
Free would be great, but I don't mind paying for a good app.

MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Nov 10, 2006 10:48 AM

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Answer 1

Nov 10, 2006 10:54 AM in response to Mac-oholic

http://www.apple.com/iwork/pages/

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Nov 10, 2006 11:07 AM in response to Templeton Peck

Thanks, but I have Pages. I love what it can do for my documents and I use it often. But, I was hoping for something that has more word art affects. Less word processor more poster composer

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Nick_T.

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Nov 10, 2006 11:40 AM in response to Mac-oholic

It appears that running Publisher under BootCamp and/or Parallels is the best solution.

I've been addicted to Publisher for several years, and finding a replacement to run under OS X has been a priority. Nothing that I've tried has proven to be a suitable replacement.

About six weeks ago I bought a Mac mini as an evaluation box to see if I wanted to replace my Windows box with a Mac pro. I've been using Publisher under both BootCamp and Parallels. Under BootCamp it runs exactly as on the Windows box and under Parallels it's almost the same, but at times can be a little clunky.

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Mac-oholic Author

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Nov 11, 2006 7:42 AM in response to Mac-oholic

For anyone interested. . .
I did some digging and found a MS Office style set of apps called NeoOffice
http://www.NeoOffice.org
It has an app called Draw which seems to be a lot like publisher. I don't know if it can open .pub files. If it can't there is a PC version called OpenOffice (then you can simply cut and past).
http://www.OpenOffice.org
The best part is that they are all free!
I remember hearing something about OpenOffice a year or so ago but I thought that it only did a Word style app. I'm happy to see that they have virtually every app that MS Office has.

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Answer 5

Nov 13, 2006 5:47 PM in response to Mac-oholic

I can't believe someone didn't mention Print Shop. http://www.mackiev.com/print_shop.html It doesn't do as well as publisher on brochures, but I find it's interface much cleaner and it's integration with iLife is great!

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