I have been using InDesign since it first appeared as "K2" in 1999, and was overjoyed to finally be able to dump Quark XPress. (I never could get on with Page Maker.)
Now that Adobe has become greedy and insists on "renting" their software, I am looking for alternatives again. Quark, which I understand has improved massively since I booted it out, is far too expensive for a home user. InDesign began as a reasonably priced alternative, but got more and more expensive as the years went on, and now I cannot justify a monthly rental fee, especially as it means that if I stop paying I will no longer have access to any of my files. I'm still using InDesign version 5.5 (2011), even after recently upgrading to Yosemite. It does seem to work, but I wonder if it will survive many more System upgrades. My favourite alternative now is iStudio Publisher, but I agree that it is getting long in the tooth. Well overdue an update which I understood the developers were working on some time ago. I wonder how many people work on that particular program. David On 30 January 2015 at 10:12, Catherine Hunt <[email protected]> wrote: > Not forgetting Libreoffice > <http://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-fresh/?type=mac-x86&version=4.3&lang=en-US>, > which is free. > > Best wishes, > Catherine > > www.catherinehunt.co.uk > > On 30 Jan 2015, at 09:29, Tony Crooks <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 29 Jan 2015, at 21:44, Catherine Hunt <[email protected]> wrote: > > I really love Pages, but I too find that I am unable to do the more > creative publishing stuff I want to do. > > I use The Printshop 3 for Mac > <http://www.mackiev.com/printshop3/features/whatsnew.html>, which offers > lots of different templates and which I find easy to use. > > There’s also Printworks > <http://www.belightsoft.com/products/printworks/overview.php>, which has > masses of creative options and has the advantage of a free trial. > > > I’ve used Pages a lot for page layout of magazines and it seems fine. I’ve > always output PDF files to send to the printers as it seems acceptable to > most these days. The current version has one big omission, text flow > between text boxes removed when Apple introduced iCloud.com > <http://icloud.com/> versions of the iWorks suite. > > Depending on what is required there are two possibles; Swift Publisher 3 > which is rather like PageMaker in style, and iStudio Publisher which still > works under Yosemite but is getting long in the tooth. They are both in the > App Store. > > > Regards, > > Tony > -- > Tony Crooks > ---------------------------------- > Mob: 07428706227 > <mailto: [email protected]> > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
