Newsletter Design Software for the Mac

Create Newsletters For Home, School, or Office on Your Mac

Newsletter design is just one small aspect of this 3-in-1 page layout, illustration, and Web design package from Stone Design that features everything you need for professional newsletter designs including multiple master layers, text flow across blocks and pages, text wraps, automatic page numbers, text styles, and spell-check. It also supports PDF import and export, is a full-featured illustration program for great newsletter graphics, and you can publish your newsletter (or other project) to the Web. Version 14 began shipping in October 2007.

Normally I would recommend doing desktop publishing in a word processor if you can avoid it. But Pages '08, the word processing component of Apple iWork, combines both word processing documents and page layout in one program -- with different templates and windows depending on the type of document. MacWorld has a few caveatas but does say "Pages ’08 is a great word processing and page layout program. For most individuals, it should be a perfect fit for day-to-day needs." iWork also includes Numbers for spreadsheets and Keynote for presentations.

This professional-quality desktop publishing software defies the old saying that "you get what you pay for" because it's feature-rich and free. It does just about anything the much more expensive pro tools do, including serving as quality newsletter design software. A good choice if you need professional printing, it doesn't have all the fun extras like graphics, fonts, and tons of templates.
Windows, Mac OS, Linux

The newest version of The Print Shop for the Mac has better layout tools, more graphics and photos (19,500+), more special effects and includes thousands more projects (9500+) such as multi-page booklets. Like version 1 it integrates with your Mac apps such as iPhoto, iDVD, and iCal. For longer, more complex newsletters you may find one of the other programs more suitable, but for simple newsletters as well as greeting cards, calendars, posters, and labels it's a good all-around creative printing program.

Here's low-cost ($20) newsletter design software. It may not have all the fun extras but it does handle the text layout requirements of newsletters, has basic graphics tools, and lots of text effects for creating a newsletter nameplate and decorative headlines for newsletters, fliers, and other desktop publishing projects. And it may be a little easier to learn to use than some more powerful programs.
Windows or Mac OS