Microsoft Publisher: Mac Equivalent?

Microsoft Publisher is an excellent piece of software on Windows. Does a Mac equivalent of Microsoft Publisher exist in its own entity ?

Solution 1:

What exactly are you trying to create? You may be going to great expense and, yet be able to accomplish what you need with Pages. Pages is available on the Mac App Store and quite robust.

Solution 2:

If you want a full list of Publisher alternatives for Mac, this may be helpful. I've seen Apple Pages produce some nice documents though it may be more simplistic than Publisher in many respects.

If you are open to a web-based option, our product Lucidpress may serve you well since you can use it on any platform.

Solution 3:

I'm going to vote for QuarkXpress as a replacement for Publisher. Serious pros either use InDesign or QuarkXpress, and the latter has the advantage of not requiring a subscription fee, as Adobe products do. It's not as cheap as iStudio Publisher, but it's much more feature-rich. As they say, you get what you pay for.

Solution 4:

You can open Publisher files on Mac using a conversion tool and then convert the .pub file to PDF and open it that way. MS Word also has a Publishing Layout View function which is similar to Publisher. However, for the best alternative, I think Pages does a pretty god job although it's more like Word. For Pros, go with Adobe InDesign. This is a pretty good article on alternatives to Publisher on Mac too.

Solution 5:

A suitable alternative maybe seen in iStudio Publisher, an easy-to-use page layout application for desktop publishing on Mac, allowing the creation of professional quality documents with ease, including newsletters, brochures, adverts to name but a few.

Video tutorials & a rapid start guide also aid novices to the most experienced of users.

It is considered an excellent resource for those who bemoan the fact that MS Publisher is not available on the Mac platform.

From Apple's App store it is $17.99. Purchasing directly from the website above however gives a 30 day free trial period.