Low cost alternative to Adobe Pagemaker

[spaceballl]

Hey all,

I'm looking for an Adobe Pagemaker like software for Mac OS X to buy for our IFC computer here to make newsletters. Any ideas?

-Kevin

[fatzmack]

i do publishing with quark for my college's newspaper, and on ocassion, fiddle with pagemaker for fun.

but low end publishing titles? I dunno. If you wanted to get really primitive, you could resort to word processing applications and make use of tables and such...

[rinseout]

If you're willing to learn instead of spending money, there is TeX/LaTeX which can do a very good job of typesetting if you know what you're doing (and for some applications, even if you don't, really). That's what I use when I want something to look nice.

[spaceballl]

Thanks for the suggestions, guys. Tex/Latex sounds interesting. I'll look it up. But anyone know of just like a 3rd party, lower end version of pagemaker? Maybe i'll just try to buy an older version?
-Keivn

[Counterfit]

Well, for cheap and low end, and I mean really low end, you can use the Paint part of AppleWorks to do it. It's very very basic, but it works. Heck I even got an A on one project with it! Then, I was lucky enough to be able to use that same project the next year! :cool:

[logicat2001]

It's got pros and cons but overall I find it can be very useful. At first go I was a bit disappointed but after using the 30-day trial and actually reading through some of the documentation I found it to be quite full featured.

It's called "Create" by Stone Software (http://www.stone.com/Create/Create.html). Free upgrades for life.

[wordmunger]

Have you tried Ragtime? Someone on MacRumors suggested it to me for small documents, and I've found it to be adequate. It's no Quark/Pagemaker, but it's not bad.

Here's the link (http://www.ragtime-online.com/).