Surprise! Mac Desktop Publishing Is Not Dead. It’s $45.

Pamela Tucker said:

What I assume about someone driving a Lexus vs. a Kia is that one of them has one hell of a carnote! There’s a word for people who pay more for something than it’s worth—it’s called a “sucker”.

Stanley White said:

Doesn’t look like Swift imports Pagemaker. Whew! It’s hard to believe that people still use that. Our shop has Adobe InDesign which ‘kinda sorta’ imports Pagemaker. It always required a lot of cleanup. Sometimes it’s easier to start over.

A_D_Bee said:

does swift import from page maker?

Carol Miller said:

Sorry, Andy, ‘dissing’ is a word. Language is dynamic and usage rules. To ‘diss’ means to ‘disrespect.’

Check the Urban Dictionary for more details.

Andrew Titus said:

“Dissing” is not a word.

iggy pence said:

Pages is actually quite decent for very basic page layout, but doesn’t have the text control, column flows, or precision of Swift. Word is a beast; difficult to learn for page layout, doesn’t handle graphics well, not nearly as good as Pages or Swift.

Isn’t Swift still a free download and trial?

danvdr said:

Newbie question. How is this better than Pages/Word2008. I thought both of them were fairly good at basic page layout.

Dan Blackstone said:

I’m glad they do not charge $199 for Swift. It’s a steal at $45. It does what it does very well. Better than very well. I bought a couple of their products based on customer reviews. The cool things you can do with ArtText can’t be done in Quark or InDesign, either.