Desktop Publishing Software For Mac

Any Mac user must know about FlipHTML5, it’s so far the best free publisher program for Mac. It has unique features and offers the best services. FlipHTML5’s publishing technology is strong and can be used under a diverse situation like adding multimedia to the digital publication, offering free online services and others. Creative desktop publishing without color is like cooking without spicery. Scribus is being shipped with almost 200 color palettes. Because you want predictable results at the printer Reliable PDF creation is the key to a successful print run at a commercial printing house, and it has. Desktop publishing software is used to combine typography with images in an aesthetically pleasing way. Professionals in thousands of fields use it every day to create newspapers, newsletters, pamphlets, flyers, brochures, books, magazines and more.

The following is a list of major desktop publishing software. A wide range of related software tools exist in this field including many plug-ins and tools related to the applications listed below.

Several software directories provide more comprehensive listings of desktop publishing software, including VersionTracker and Tucows.

Free software[edit]

This section lists free software which does desktop publishing. All of these are required to be open-source. While not required, the software listed in this section is available free of charge. (In principle, in rare cases, free software is sold without being distributed over the Internet.)

Desktop Publishing Software for Windows, macOS, Linux and other operating systems[edit]

Collabora Office Draw^[1] and Collabora Office Writer^[1] for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS and Chrome OS
LibreOffice Draw^[1] and LibreOffice Writer^[1] for Windows, macOS, Linux, BSDs and others
LyX for Windows, MacOS, Linux, UNIX, OS/2 and Haiku, based on the LaTeX typesetting system, initial release in 1995
Scribus for Windows, macOS, Linux, BSD, Unix, Haiku, OS/2, based on the free Qt toolkit, initial release in 2003

Online Desktop Publishing Software[edit]

Collabora Online Draw^[1] and Collabora Online Writer^[1]
LibreOffice Online Draw^[1] and LibreOffice Online Writer^[1]

Proprietary[edit]

Desktop Publishing Software for Windows[edit]

XEditpro Automated Publishing Tool - DiacriTech, 1997
Adobe PageMaker, discontinued in 2004
Corel Ventura, previously Ventura Publisher, originally developed by Xerox, now owned by Corel
FrameMaker, now owned by Adobe
InPage - DTP which works with English + Urdu, Arabic, Persian, Pashto etc.
PageStream, formerly known as Publishing Partner
Prince XML, by YesLogic
Scenari, open source single-source publishing tool with support for chain publication
Scribus, open source tool