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Ask HN: User friendly book writing software
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.!
Thank you!
BTW - if this doesn't exist it might be an idea for some of you developers to create :)
- mbrubeck 17y agoHave you tried the free trial of Pages from Apple? http://www.apple.com/iwork/pages/ http://www.apple.com/iwork/pages/ http://www.apple.com/iwork/download-trial/ http://www.apple.com/iwork/download-trial/ 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.
- Mr_question 17y agoThanks .. this seems "good enough" for what I was looking for
- makecheck 17y agoYou might try LyX ("lick"): http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/Mac?from=LyX.LyXOnMac http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/Mac?from=LyX.LyXOnMac It's basically a fancy front-end for LaTeX, and might do what you need. The printed output would certainly look nice.