I think what would be "perfectly" suitable for you would be Print Shop 2. It does the things that you mentioned and isn't that expensive. It's easily obtainable in Australia, too.

Try Pages, from Apple. It's part of iWork. Pages have lots of templates for Brochures, Flyers, Advertisements. And with Pages you get Keynote and Numbers. You can even get a 30 Day trial of iWork 08 at www.apple.com/iwork, which is pretty cool.

ok. I think i'm a bit like morchouse. I need to help my 10 year old with a school document and she started it on publisher but now we are on a mac!! yikes.. any clues - ANY AT ALL!!

Just open it up with TextEdit, so you can salvage the original text of it. Or, you can use google to find a converter that will convert it from Publisher to <insert program name here>.

You can find some softwares that work with a list of keywords and the text come automaticaly.

I am in this same situation. Have been using MS Publisher 95 for 14 years now, and have 100's of files created with it that I need. What I am going to do is install Parallels Desktop 4.0 to my iMac. It lets you run MS Windows on your iMac without rebooting. Then you can install MS Publisher in Windows on your Mac, the best of both worlds!

Hope this Helps!

Many mac machines come with Pages, which is developed by Apple.
it works very similar to publisher, in fact i actually think that it's a combination of both word and publisher from MS.

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I have just switched from PC w/Windows to iMac, and have Pages on my new iMac, and I still prefer to use MS Publisher. I have been using MS Publisher 95 for over 14 years, and need access to the 100s of files I've created. Originally I had purchased Parallels Desktop 4.0 so I could install MS Windows on the iMac, then MS Publisher in to Windows so I do a "Copy & Paste" recreation of the file into Pages. But after running into some difficulties trying to format the page layout in Pages, I am just going to stick with MS Publisher that I know inside and out.

Hope this helps someone else!

I'm sure you're confused. Quark is an industry standard. It handles files well and interfaces with high-end rip software great. Sorry about your confusion but THIS IS THE SOFTWARE for imaging.

The confusion is yours my friend. This thread was started by people that were looking for a way to convert, or use Microsoft Publisher files on their Mac. I was just stating how I had found to accomplish this without spending hundreds of dollars on a new program!