Hi,
Have a look at Ragtime. It's free and should do all that you need
http://www.ragtime-online.com/go.cgi...lang=en&reg=US

Thanks, I've had a quick look. not sure it's quite what I'm after. Looks like it's more for spread sheets etc, but will investigate closer.

Dear Donna,
I'm also new on Macs, but I do know that Publisher doesn'y run on OSX. I would suggest Quark Express for the kind of work that you'd nrmally do in Publisher. I've yrid it for graphic design and it's actually very good. Hope this helps you.

Cheers,

Aitch :p

Thanks, don't think that's what I'm after either.
All I want is a simple programme, that the kids & I can use to make greeting cards, advertising flyers etc, for home use.
Nothing complicated, surely there is something out there that will do the job. Now if only some wonderful person can give me a name, I would be extremely gratefull.
Thanks to those that have tried already.
Morchouse.

Ahh, Aitch. I was just about to suggest Quark XPress too. It is actually the #1 program to use for desktop publishing.

Thanks I'll download the demo & see what it's all about, but it looks like it's more for publishing companies. I'll have a look.
Morchouse :eek:

Hello,

AVOID QUARK LIKE THE PLAGUE!!! If you have any doubts, go to www.quark.com and into the support forums, found off the Support menu. You will see the wrath of people getting PAID to use the Quark program, and they are about to cause a revolution in the DTP industry. While it may be true that Quark is #1 in the industry, Adobe is giving them a serious run for the money, and a conversion may happen. Quark remains hostile to the user community. Stay away from it!

I have migrated my Quark materials to Ragtime. The Ragtime interface is a different pariidgm, but it is cross platform, and the software works, and works WELL. For the home user who doesn't want to shell out $$ for the program, Ragtime is awesome. Many a club newsletter have been made with it.

Christian

Thanks all of you for your input.
While researching, I managed to find Easy Card Creator, so that will be helpful.
I've now managed to download & install RagTime Solo. Looks interesting, not quite what I thought it would be, was hoping to find some quick publication templates or something. Guess I'll have to work it all out myself.
Thanks again & if anyone else can come up with something else I'm open to suggestions.
morchouse :eek:

The only difficulty with Quark is its steep price. I've been using it commercially for 13 years now and learned in a heavy weekend. BUT, because of the shocking price, it is now being superceded by InDesign by Adobe - which is a flash version of PageMaker - the old DTP standard. InDesign 1 and 2 never became popular in New Zealand at all because it was easy to copy Quark. Now it's almost impossible and we aren't keen to shell out the NZ$4000 for Quark 6 (that's more than US$2400)
It sounds like you are more after a simple package combining clip art with an easy-to-use layout program. I would recommend FreeHand overall. If you can bludge an older version such as 7 or 8 with its clipart, you'll have a program that's easy to learn as well.
Good luck.