Final Draft 8 - Final Draft

Final Draft 8 is the latest release of the market leading screenwriting software. Film, radio and television scripts have industry standard layouts. Elements such as character names, dialogue and action have specific margin... read more at MacUserUK

Contour - Mariner Software

Most screenplays are doomed to fail from page one. The culprit? Bad story DNA. Mariner Software’s Contour 1.1 story development software helps screenwriters develop a structurally sound movie blueprint that meets Hollywood studio development department standards... read more at Macworld

PDFpen 4 - Smile On My Mac

Even in the age of email and the Internet, forms and documents that need to be filled in, ticked and signed are still sent out. Even when these are downloaded as PDFs, you must print them out, fill them in with a pen... read more at MacUserUK

Q2ID 4 - Markzware

As more and more designers switch from QuarkXPress to InDesign, they face the problem of opening legacy files and converting templates to the new system. It used to be that InDesign could open XPress files directly, but that ceased with XPress 4.1... read more at MacUserUK

iStudio Publisher - c:four

iStudio Publisher aims to fill the gaping hole in the page layout software market that lies between Apple’s Pages and the pro-level powerhouses, QuarkXPress 3.5 mice and Adobe InDesign... read more at Macworld

ProScale 9 - Gluon

ProScale 9 is an XTension for those all-too-frequent moments when you have to repurpose artwork from one page layout to fit another. While XPress 8 no longer requires you to group objects before resizing, it's still far from perfect... read more at MacUserUK

Cropster 8 - Gluon

Powerful XTension for adding registration marks, but the bundle is better value. Such is the pace at which QuarkXPress turns others' XTensions into features of its own, you'd be forgiven for thinking that the market for good third-party add-ons had evaporated... read more at MacUserUK

Suitcase Fusion 2 - Extensis

Suitcase Fusion, a professional font-management utility designed for individual users, has seen a giant upgrade with the release of version 2. The program has been entirely rewritten using code borrowed from Extensis’ Universal Type Server product... read more at Macworld

Movie Outline 3 - Movie Outline Software

Movie Outline’s step outline approach makes the daunting task of writing a film a lot less intimidating. Once you’ve used the Outline Panel to sketch out the roughly four dozen steps that make up your feature film... read more at Macworld

Timeline 3D - Bee Docs

Timeline 3D tries to do for timelines what Pages did for flyers and booklets; give you an attractive template into which you drop your stuff. And it certainly does that, as long as you don't ask too much of it... read more at MacUserUK

Belight Disc Cover 2 - BeLight

BeLight’s Disc Cover helps you create perfect labels and booklets to identify what’s on your burned discs. If Apple’s iApps are streamlined tools, Disc Cover is like a great big toolbox: a little messy, but it gets the job done... read more at MacLife

Pear Note - Useful Fruit Software

If you frequently use your Mac laptop (or even a desktop Mac) to take notes during presentations, classes, or other live events, Pear Note is a clever alternative to a word processor or outlining program. It provides basic text-editing functionality, as well as the ability to record audio or video... read more at Macworld

Pages ’09 - Apple

The introduction of Pages ’09 marks the fourth release of iWork’s handy word processing and page layout application. Each new release of the program has featured major improvements to Pages’ word processing tools, capable page-layout features, and beautifully designed interface... read more at Macworld

WriteRoom 2.3.7 - Hog Bay Software

WriteRoom is what TV chef Alton Brown would call a “unitasker”: It’s a tool designed for only one function. But while Brown frowns on such tools in the kitchen, even the toughest critics would be hard pressed to find fault with WriteRoom... read more at Macworld

Adobe InCopy CS4 - Adobe Systems

Adobe’s latest version of InCopy, the companion program to InDesign that lets writers and editors work on a document concurrently with the designer, offers a host of significant new features and enhancements. Chief among them are expanded support for table editing... read more at Macworld

Macware LogoDesign Studio Pro - Macware

Software that tries to do the work of professional apps on the cheap is tough to get right—it has to be accessible to average users while delivering the advanced features that pros expect. Sadly, Macware fails to bring logo design to the masses with its not-at-all-professional LogoDesign Studio Pro... read more at MacLife

BBEdit 9.02 - Bare Bones Software

For the company’s 15th anniversary, Bare Bones Software has produced BBEdit 9, a major release to its venerable text editor that will thrill long-time users and will likely garner new converts. At the same time that the program makes several leaps ahead, however, it could still use some further tweaks, especially for cutting-edge Web developers... read more at Macworld

InDesign CS4 - Adobe

The newest version of InDesign CS4 would be welcome on any layout designer’s desktop. But it may not be worth the price of an upgrade in and of itself; the degree of change is not nearly as strong as users saw in the move to InDesign CS3... read more at Macworld

Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro - Adobe

Today we can almost live the dream of a paperless office, but we’re definitely not pining for a world without PDFs. Neither is Adobe. Acrobat Pro 9’s new features help you build documents that are more flexible than ever, moving PDFs beyond print and emphasizing new workflow tools... read more at MacLife

StoryMill 3.1 - Mariner Software

Some tasks seem impossible in their scale. Climbing Everest. Running a marathon. Writing a novel. Thanks to Mariner Software’s StoryMill 3.1, aspiring authors need not be intimidated any longer. In breaking up this daunting task by focusing on scenes... read more at Macworld

PDF Studio 5 - Qoppa

With Apple's Preview offering everyday editing and annotating tools, and the high end dominated by Adobe's Acrobat Professional, Qoppa PDF Studio 5, a cross-platform PDF workflow program, has its work cut out to be noticed... read more at MacUserUK

Storyist 1.4 - Storyist Software

If your writing desk overflows with setting notes, character sketches, and plot points, Storyist can help you whip your stories into shape. Writers who plan carefully before putting words to page will likely enjoy its neatly organized slots for each element of a novel or screenplay. But more freewheeling authors may find that this elaborate scaffolding distracts them from actual writing... read more at Macworld

QuarkXpress 8 - Quark

Users of previous versions of QuarkXPress will notice that the app’s interface has undergone a massive makeover for version 8. While the new look can be distracting at first, once you get used to it, there’s plenty to like about the increased productivity the new UI affords. Even better, the new Quark offers an impressive set of features... read more at MacLife

Bean 1.3.3 - James Hoover

If you need more text-editing goodness than OS X’s own TextEdit provides, but don’t want to splurge for Apple’s iWork or Microsoft’s Office 2008, consider Bean 1.3.3, an easy-to-use, fast, rich-text editor that adds a number of features absent from TextEdit. Bean natively supports .rtf, .rtfd, .txt, .html, and .webarchive formats... read more at Macworld

Microsoft Word 2008 - Microsoft

It has been 24 years since Microsoft first released Word, and four years since the program’s last major upgrade. How much more can Microsoft do to tweak its venerable word processor? Surprisingly, Word gets several major enhancements in Office 2008... read more at Macworld

Movie Magic Screenwriter 6 - Softline

Like its closest rival, Final Draft, Movie Magic Screenwriter 6 is script-formatting software. It should be no surprise that specific software exists for this purpose, as to professionally format a script, whether it is a screenplay, TV, radio, game or theatre script, is incredibly laborious with a standard word processor... read more at MacUserUK

Pages '08 - Apple

Apple’s new Pages ’08 is a very good word processing and page layout program with dozens of new features and enhancements that make the program easier to use and which are likely to make Pages the only word processing and page layout program most people will ever need. But, it is still missing key features—such as a good mail-merge tool... read more at Macworld

Nisus Writer Pro - Nisus Software Inc.

Nisus Writer is back. Not that it really went anywhere, but when Apple switched to Mac OS X, the full-blown word processor faltered. In its place we had Nisus Writer Express, a compact word processor with all the compatibility, but none of the overhead, of Microsoft Word... read more at MacUserUK

FlightCheck Professional 6 - Markzware

A truism is often painfully learned: just because your electronic documents look fine on screen doesn't mean they'll output correctly when they're sent to the printers. Markzware's FlightCheck Professional 6 helps to avoid disaster by flagging potential problems faced by your electronic documents and allowing you to correct them before they go to press... read more at MacUserUK

Enfocus Neo 1.1.4 - EnFocus Software

The popularity of PDF as a prepress file format continues to grow. But the human factor - the need for changes as documents go to press - remains frustratingly consistent. Enfocus Neo is a standalone PDF 1.6 viewer and editor that could make the weakness of PDF in such situations - its comparative lack of editability - a thing of the past... read more at MacUserUK

Skim - Skim

Free open source software that offers real benefits for people who spend a lot of time with PDFs. With Preview, Mac OS X is already blessed with a very capable and useful tool for reading PDF and image files... read more at MacUserUK

THE PRINT SHOP VERSION 2 - Software MacKiev

This one launches as a single window of projects arranged in a color-coded grid. “Celebrations” projects include cards, gift tags, banners, and certificates. “Stationery” has the normal letterhead, envelopes, and labels, and also business cards and Post-It notes. “News” has signs, postcards, newsletters, booklets, and pamphlets... read more at MacLife