microsoft publisher on a mac?

Question

i am trying to find how to install and use microsoft publisher on a mac. I am a digital designer and use the adobe CS5 suit but the thing is the people who I design for use Publisher and I need to check my work in publisher as well to make sure it can be edited in a publisher program and do work on publisher on my mac.

I thought of using wine or cork to install it on my mac.. but idk

Answer 1

Get a PC. ALL your incompatibility issues will disappear. Apple makes the most proprietary garbage on the market. Why do you suppose that out of every 100 computers sold today and for the last 18 years, 95 are PCs?

EDIT: Ya know vomit! Your name is very fitting if that is your real picture. You also aren't very bright when it comes to math. They could sell that mac to another boob like yourself, buy a PC with twice the hardware, 100 times the compatibility, and put money in her pocket. Think a little before you shoot off that big mouth. By the way, I'll let you get by with that big mouth one the last time but be forewarned, I DID finally find the right people at yahoo to turn your snide comments in and have them eliminated. You've been a good little boy for a while. Don't rock the boat.

EDIT: The all mighty VOMIT has spoken! Do you honestly believe you are the only one in here entitled to an opinion? Sorry little man but it ain't that way. Get off the crack pipe and booze. You're looking pretty 70ish for a 31 year old. LOL!

Answer 2

You'll definitely need something like that to run it. Your best bet may be to bite the bullet and invest in virtualization. VirtualBox and a copy of Windows will do the trick, or Parallels/VMWare if you want something more polished. WINE, Crossover, etc might work, but they're always a crap shoot in terms of compatibility.



Peteams, there's little overhead on the CPU in modern virtualization software. RAM is really the only concern. It's a helluva lot more convenient than dual booting and the tradeoff in a very minor performance hit is more than worth it.



Yeah Dave, that makes perfect sense: Buy a completely new computer instead of just tossing Windows on the Mac that he already has. Can you even think past your grotesquely irrational hatred of all things Apple or are you really this pathetically blind?



Right, as if you haven't spouted off snide comments yourself in your little holy war against all things Apple. They show up whenever Apple is mentioned. Did it occur to you that there's also a significant software investment here? Or that the Mac may not be brand new and not have a great resale value? Or that the person may simply prefer OS X and already has an established workflow in it? I know, crazy thought, isn't it? There are actually people out there who like things that you don't like. Astonishing! And I really do not believe your claim seeing as how it's virtually impossible to get ahold of anything but a scripted response from Yahoo, much less anyone who gives a crap about posts on Answers.



And you missed the point. Not surprising. I generally don't give a crap what platform a person uses. You seem to be grievously offended when someone uses one you don't like. You also seem to be of the mind that your opinion on the subject is the only one that matters because you're an arrogant twit. If someone uses something you don't like then of course they should just get rid of it, right?





As for the question dilemma, I'd recommend looking into what formats Publisher supports. There may well be a good degree of interoperability and compatibility between Publisher and the Adobe suite. If nothing else, you may find software to act as a middleman between the two if you can't use a format that is supported by both. Hunt around. You may not need Windows or Publisher at all for this.

Answer 3

Microsoft only makes Mac versions of the core of Office, so Publisher is not available natively.



If you don't have an Intel Mac, i.e. one that's more than five years old, you're due for an upgrade. Buy a new Mac or a PC.



If you have an Intel Mac, then you can buy Microsoft Windows 7 and Microsoft Publisher and use Apple Bootcamp to install them. Mac's are good high-end PCs.



I would not bother using virtualisation. You're going to want as much performance as possible, and spending processor time swapping between MacOS and Windows will feel wrong.