Microsoft publisher only available for Windows, not Mac. But you can open .pub (Publisher file format) file in Mac.
If you want to install Publisher in Mac use, Parallel Desktop software or Bootcamp Windows.Otherwise, use Microsoft Publisher alternatives for Mac.
Microsoft publisher available for Windows within MS Office or download Publisher separately for Windows PC.
Lucidpress (Free for Single user, Also available in Pro version)
LucidPress is one of the best software for Mac to create posters, brochures, magazines, and newsletters.
Free version only exports .pdf file format files in screen quality (not print quality) with the watermark. It also offers 15-day trial version, 50% discount for non-profit organizations, free account for students and teachers.
Swift Publisher ($19.99)
User-friendly desktop publishing software for Mac. Rearrange graphic elements like tables, images and text is really easy. It have integration with iPhoto. Its allow you to export your files to JPEG, EPS, PDF, TIFF file formats.
Pages ($19.99)
Its a part of iWork suite and its equivalent of Microsoft Word. It has a lot of professional templates and layouts. creating tables and moving elements is really easy.
iStudio Publisher ($17.99)
a professional alternative to Microsoft Publisher. It’s easy to create brochures and documents using iStudio publisher.
Drag and drop images and text boxes on the page and export your work to PDF.
Disadvantages:-
- Its only allow you to import and export PDF file format 9RGB or CMYK). So you can’t DOC, RTF, PUb and TXT files.
Visit the Mac App Store and click on the 'Productivity' category to learn about and purchase Pages, a program that many would point to as the most obvious equivalent to Publisher. Microsoft Publisher can export Publisher files in Microsoft Word format, but there is no converter for this purpose on the Mac. There may be web sites that can perform the conversion for you. Visit the Mac App Store and click on the 'Productivity' category to learn about and purchase Pages, a program that many would point to as the most obvious equivalent to Publisher.
Scribus (Free DTP software)
Open source desktop publishing app for mac. Its have a lot of templates for Newsletters, Brochures, and Posters.
Disadvantages:-
Hi, I am trying to transfer my publisher 2003 file to my pages. I spent several hours finding a PDF converter to convert my file to pdf. However, my catalog is like a little booklet and has items on both sides of the pages. PUB to PDF - Convert file now View other document file formats Technical Details Each PDF file encapsulates a complete description of a 2D document (and, with the advent of Acrobat 3D, embedded 3D documents) that includes the text, fonts, images and 2D vector graphics that compose the document. Microsoft publisher converter free download - Microsoft Open XML Converter, Microsoft Word 97/98 Import Filter for PageMaker, Fontographer, and many more programs. What I've recommended for people at our office who have made the switch to Mac is to either export to a different format (Word, PDF, etc) from Publisher on their PC beforehand. Alternately you can use online services to convert the Publisher file into a PDF, Word doc, etc.
- So long it’s not updated.
- You need to install Ghostscript on your Mac in order for Scribus to work.
LibreOffice (free)
Free alternative to Microsoft office for mac based on OpenOffice. Its allow you to open and edit publisher files. But you can’t export publish format.
QuarkXPress (Trial, Full version – $1134, Non-profit version – $299) – Best professional alternative to Microsoft Publisher. Its mostly used in the Newspaper industry.
Adobe InDesign (Trial, $29.99 per month, $239 per year)
Another great alternative. InDesign offer vector based tools to create books and magazines.
How to open Microsoft Publisher files in Mac
- You can’t directly open .pub files in mac. Import that files into LibreOffice.
- Ask the file sender to export .pub file in different file format (File -> Export -> Change file format)
- You can convert .pub file using the online converter like Zamzar.
I wish I had good news for you. Nothing other than Publisher on either the Mac or PC can open Publisher files. The thing you can do with Pages is create documents that will look a lot better than anything Publisher can do. I would like to be able to open Publisher files others send me in Pages. It's something I've left feedback to the Pages team about.
I don't know what PDF printing program you're using in Windows, but the person who sends me Publisher files (the monthly church newsletter) uses Nova PDF printer (www.novapdf.com) which does get all of the pages.
I have Office 2007 in Windows XP in Parallels just for these files. I can't copy anything from Publisher in Parallels into anything in OS X. Not text, objects, etc. to Pages, AppleWorks, TextEdit, etc. Of course, even pasting from Publisher into another program in Windows doesn't work very well either. Copying & pasting one small object or bit of text into AppleWorks 6.2.2 (for Windows) pastes as a big, black blob. Pasting into Word 2007 has to be done page by page as paste special as HTML.
Publisher For Mac Download
Sep 20, 2008 7:53 PM