On 7/25/11 10:27 AM, August Abolins -> Charles Scaglione wrote:

 CS>> But that's beginning to swing back the other way. I just recently
 CS>> decided to abandon MS Publisher and Word to do our church Sunday
 CS>> bulletins and flyers. I found a much nicer and easier program to use
 CS>> called iStudio Publisher which is a natural OS X program. Was also on
 CS>> sale at the App store for $17.99. Surprisingly, it's easy to use and as
 CS>> powerful as MS Publisher. It lacks all the fancy templates that MS
 CS>> Publisher has, but I never use those anyway.

 CS>> One of these days Tom, I'll send you some of our stuff that we do on
 AA> the
 CS>> Mac. Snail mail of course. :)

 AA> That's a nice price-cut for a full-featured app. I assume it does PDF
 AA> output?

Yes it does.  Actually PDF output is built into the Mac operating system
and even simple applications like TextEdit (Mac version of Notepad) can
output to PDF.

We just recently replaced the Dell tower computer that was used for all our
church work with a 2011 iMac. (compliments of my son)  I'm now in the
process of redoing all our Powerpoint presentations.  Windows Office 2010
is not 100% compatible with Mac Office 2011 even though Microsoft claims
they are.  For some reason things like hyperlinks and graphic inserts don't
always transpose correctly.

The biggest problem I have is getting our church secretary weaned on the
Mac.  Since she is also my wife, I have to be very patient. :)

Regards.

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