Free publishing software needed.

[Maz66]

I have recently taken over as the editor of a charity's newsletter. We put our first issue together in Word but it was very laborious as stuff kept jumping around all over the place.

I'm therefore looking for an alternative programme - has to be free or very very cheap as the charity won't pay. I need to be able to paste Word documents in together with pdfs and jpegs so Pages is no good.

Any ideas please?

 

[cube]

Try out OpenOffice.org 3.0

I'm not sure if vector graphics insert will actually work, be it straight PDF, after PDF->EPS, or PDF->SVG. Either directly to Writer, other passing by Draw first.

 

[Gray-Wolf]

NeoOffice is good too, and doesn't require X11

 

[cube]

OpenOfiice 3.0 is Aqua native. Forget NeoOffice.

 

[exegete77]

Try these:

PageStream, which is available for all major operating systems. ~$100, and only half that for the second or more copies ordered.

Ragtime 6, ~$125 for academic, non-profit. Very powerful high end page layout and word processor (and spreadsheet).

iCalamus, $129, $89 for student/academic

For short projects like newsletters, some have found this one excellent:
Intaglio, $89

Scribus, if you are into Open source and X11.

 

[Maz66]

Thanks all - I'll try your suggestions.