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<blockquote data-quote="DrSpunj" data-source="post: 1818351" data-attributes="member: 994"><p>I'm glad I keep dropping by this thread from time to time. Good stuff! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>I've been using Mac Canvas 8 to create customized Character Sheets & Initiative Cards for my games. That's my only foray into the world of DTP-type software since my limited experience with PageMaker back in college about a decade ago. Due to circumstances beyond my control I'm losing access to this program and don't really want to spend ~$400 to buy my own copy to use at home.</p><p></p><p>I recently spent some time looking around the web and found <strong>Create</strong>, <strong>High Design</strong> & <strong>Intaglio</strong>. I have no experience with any of them but plan on downloading the demos as soon as my G5 arrives to see what will work for me.</p><p></p><p>[rant]I ordered my 2.5 Dual G5 on 8/15/2004; ClubMac just notified me <em>yesterday</em> that they've shipped it by UPS Ground. If this was for business purposes I'd have been forced to go with a PC from Dell which I would've received within 2 weeks. I can't believe Apple isn't losing out on sales and/or reputation over delays this long.[/rant]</p><p></p><p>Can anyone point me towards the right program if all I'm really looking for is a solid program to very freely but precisely place boxes with varied borders, shaded boxes, text of various sizes that all align the way I want them to, etc. Basically everything you'd think you would need to create a very professional looking character sheet.</p><p></p><p>Yes this is only for personal purposes, but I'm a <em>very</em> detail-oriented person and it drives me batty that I can't get things to line up the way I want them to in Word. I'm just in the process of converting my sheet over into an Excel format after seeing some really nice sheets by others, but even there I can't get the text to align in the cells similarly when they're of different font sizes.</p><p></p><p>Any help would be appreciated. I'll check out Nisus Writer next.</p><p></p><p>Thanks.</p><p></p><p>DrSpunj</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DrSpunj, post: 1818351, member: 994"] I'm glad I keep dropping by this thread from time to time. Good stuff! :) I've been using Mac Canvas 8 to create customized Character Sheets & Initiative Cards for my games. That's my only foray into the world of DTP-type software since my limited experience with PageMaker back in college about a decade ago. Due to circumstances beyond my control I'm losing access to this program and don't really want to spend ~$400 to buy my own copy to use at home. I recently spent some time looking around the web and found [b]Create[/b], [b]High Design[/b] & [b]Intaglio[/b]. I have no experience with any of them but plan on downloading the demos as soon as my G5 arrives to see what will work for me. [rant]I ordered my 2.5 Dual G5 on 8/15/2004; ClubMac just notified me [i]yesterday[/i] that they've shipped it by UPS Ground. If this was for business purposes I'd have been forced to go with a PC from Dell which I would've received within 2 weeks. I can't believe Apple isn't losing out on sales and/or reputation over delays this long.[/rant] Can anyone point me towards the right program if all I'm really looking for is a solid program to very freely but precisely place boxes with varied borders, shaded boxes, text of various sizes that all align the way I want them to, etc. Basically everything you'd think you would need to create a very professional looking character sheet. Yes this is only for personal purposes, but I'm a [i]very[/i] detail-oriented person and it drives me batty that I can't get things to line up the way I want them to in Word. I'm just in the process of converting my sheet over into an Excel format after seeing some really nice sheets by others, but even there I can't get the text to align in the cells similarly when they're of different font sizes. Any help would be appreciated. I'll check out Nisus Writer next. Thanks. DrSpunj [/QUOTE]
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