text and picture layout programs for mac?

[Gillian Densmore]

Greetings all!

I'm looking for a program that lets you plop text, and move pictures around for MacOS 

Windows can kinda-sorta do that with paint.

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[Victoria Hughes]

I've used Pages for years, and find it very responsive, comprehensive and robust- do all my graphics, flyers, desktop publishing, etc etc with it. In the iWork suite. There are lots of smaller apps as well for selected idiosyncratic goals although I don't use them. Comic Life, or TypeTwister, etc.
Versatile, self-directed tools of this sort are a common desire amongst Mac users.

Tory

> On Oct 4, 2014, at 8:03 PM, Gillian Densmore <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> Greetings all!
> I'm looking for a program that lets you plop text, and move pictures around for MacOS
>
> Windows can kinda-sorta do that with paint.
>
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[Russell Standish-2]

On Sat, Oct 04, 2014 at 09:54:26PM -0700, Brent Auble wrote:
> You can try Gimp (http://www.gimp.org).  It's primarily an image editor, but can do text overlays. It handles text a bit oddly, so it'll take some work to get used to it, but for small amounts of text, it should be fine.  A heck of a lot better than Paint. Free and available with ports for Mac and Windows.
>
> Brent
>

Gimp is very good for handling pixmaps. For vector graphics, I gather
Inkscape is pretty good. For LaTeX integration, I've had good
experiences using xfig for generating vector graphics.

Cheers

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