Anyone know of a program that is similar to Microsoft Publisher for OS X Ive fooled with Illustrator -- FAR too complex for what I need.

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Microsoft Publisher Mac Because There

MS has declined to create Publisher for Mac because there are so many far superior publishing tools already available.

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Needing an upgrade real bad, I elected to switch gears and go back to Apple and the newest iMac.

I find that Pages works okay, but it just does not have the editing features that come with word publisher.

Unfortunately, no Mac version of Office has Publisher as part of the program.

Working with Parallels and Office 2000 for Window xp works great.

I hope I havent defeated the purpose of upgrading to a iMac instead of upgrading to another Dell.

Word Publisher work quite well with each other in the Windows OS environment.

Since they left it out of all of the versions that are currently offered, does anyone know if the newer version will include Publisher.

I never recall Office for Mac including a version of Publisher.

Desktop publishing and graphic design has been the domain of the Mac platform since its inception.

With so many Desktop Publishing programs available for the Mac Im sure MS didnt find developing Publisher for the Mac a prosperous proposition.

Office for Mac was designed from the ground up as Mac PPC software.

Although Office for Mac and Office for Windows share many of the same feature sets, they are two entirely different programs.

The promised upgrade of Office for Mac for later this year is probably an improvement and more importantly will be a Universal binary, but I seriously doubt it will include Publisher.

If you need full-blown layout software there are two worthy competitors - Quark and InDesign.

If you simply want to do basic newsletters you dont really need anything more than Word.

Basic, Home and Student, and Standard versions (the same versions available for the Mac) do not include Publisher.

They are not interested in offering a product on the Mac that would detract from using Windows and Windows versions of MS software.

Were Microsoft to add another application to Office for the Mac it would more likely be Access than Publisher.

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It has more of the feel of a desktop publishing program than a word processing program.

I think it is only 79 to buy it after the 30 day trial period.

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