Hi, I have a book idea and will need to format pages in odd ways similar to how "Ripley's Believe it or Not" books are formatted. I wanted to know if their is any extremely user friendly and cheap MAC software that would allow me to place images and format in this manner. I am avoiding taking the Adobe route until I have to. I don't want to pay that much and it seems more complicated than it has to be. I want something that's fast, simple and cheap.!<p>Thank you!<p>BTW - if this doesn't exist it might be an idea for some of you developers to create :)
Have you tried the free trial of Pages from Apple?<p><a href="http://www.apple.com/iwork/pages/" rel="nofollow">http://www.apple.com/iwork/pages/</a><p><a href="http://www.apple.com/iwork/download-trial/" rel="nofollow">http://www.apple.com/iwork/download-trial/</a><p>It's a combination word processor and page layout program. Not sure if it does everything you need, but it's probably worth a try.
You might try LyX ("lick"): <a href="http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/Mac?from=LyX.LyXOnMac" rel="nofollow">http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/Mac?from=LyX.LyXOnMac</a><p>It's basically a fancy front-end for LaTeX, and might do what you need. The printed output would certainly look nice.