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

iScrapbook - Chronos Net

For Chronos, better known for its home office products such as Soho Organizer and Soho Notes, iScrapbook is a step in a new direction. The application is designed to appeal to the scrapbooking enthusiasts who increasingly find that the material they want to use as scraps is digital rather than paper... read more at MacUserUK

InDesign CS3 - Adobe

Adobe InDesign CS3 is chock-full of enhancements and new features, but very few of them will create a stir among designers the way version 2.0’s transparency feature did. Nor does the new version extend the program into new areas, as InDesign CS2 did with its bevy of additional text-management functions. But don’t let that first impression fool you. InDesign CS3 will grow on you as its improved utility becomes more obvious in day-to-day work... read more at Macworld

InCopy CS3 - Adobe

InDesign is a great tool for creating and modifying layouts, but it’s overkill for many people in the production process who focus only on copyediting, headline writing, and fitting text to a final layout. That’s why Adobe created InCopy, a program that lets wordsmiths work on a layout’s text without having the full version of InDesign—and they can even work on the text while the designer is fashioning the layout... read more at Macworld

Journler 2.5 - Journler

Since the last major release, Journler has been given a makeover. As well as a shiny Web 2.0 website, it now sports a more professional-looking icon and a snazzy disk image design. Of course, the application itself has seen some changes, too... read more at MacUserUK

Stone Create 13 - Stone

Never try to be all things to all people. That's an axiom that Stone Design's Create has profitably ignored for the better part of two decades. After all, this is a vector illustration application with ambitions in page layout and a hankering for a future in web design. And, perhaps surprisingly, Create makes a decent job of all three tasks - version 13 is a better alternative than ever to mainstream design applications.... read more at MacUserUK

Swift Publisher 2 - Belight Software

Going head-to-head against one of Apple's own applications is rarely good for a rival's long-term health. But BeLight Software's budget page-layout program, Swift Publisher, defies convention. It appears to be thriving in direct competition with Apple's near-ubiquitous Pages... read more at MacUserUK

Ulysses 1.5 - Blue Tec

Ulysses 1.5 is the latest version of the text editor from the Blue Technologies Group. Ulysses is an application aimed squarely at those who work with text; if the complexity of modern word processors is too much for you, or you find the features of applications such as Microsoft Word get in the way of your creative process, then Ulysses may well be worth your attention ... read more at MacUserUK

Keith Blount's Scrivener - Keith Blount

It's not often a self-taught, part-time programmer produces something that makes a whole community of Mac users sit up and pay attention, but Keith Blount is just such a man and he has done precisely that... read more at MacUserUK

Acrobat 8 Professional - Adobe

With Acrobat 8 Professional, Adobe offers a redesigned, Universal version of its flagship application for creating and distributing PDF (Portable Document Format) content. The new release focuses on and underscores the growing importance of collaboration and digital document management... read more at Macworld

QuarkXPress QX-Tools Pro 7 - Quark

Back in the 1990s, QX-Tools was a vital set of DTP add-ons to the then-dominant QuarkXPress. The return of this suite of XPress XTensions after a lengthy absence and a change of ownership is welcome, if not triumphant... read more at MacUserUK

MarkzTools 7 - Markzware

Markzware's MarkzTools 7 should be a vital add-on to QuarkXPress 7, filling in as it does many of the gaps that Quark should have plugged ages ago. It should stave off all manner of disasters and help with a wide range of other problems, such as backwards compatibility... read more at MacUserUK

Ulysses 1.2.2 - The Blue Technologies Group

Ulysses is a text pad for creative writers or slightly scatterbrained folks who want to record their thoughts on-the-fly. Think Microsoft Word without the formatting clutter, and with more work areas displayed at any given time... read more at MacLife

Journler - Journler

Phil Dow's Journler application does a great job of keeping a journal and lots more besides. So much, in fact, that cynics might accuse it of resembling 'bloatware', the kind of software that is so over-stuffed with features that it becomes unwieldy... read more at MacUserUK

Business CardComposer 4 - Belight Software

Among the range of projects you can do with your Mac, personalized greeting cards, calendars, scrapbooks, and the like may not measure up to that brilliant DVD masterpiece you made with iLife. In fact, you might even say that such projects seem quaint. But they’re certainly popular—can you remember the last time you got a store-bought greeting card... read more at MacUserUK

Print Explosion Deluxe 3.0 - Nova Development

Among the range of projects you can do with your Mac, personalized greeting cards, calendars, scrapbooks, and the like may not measure up to that brilliant DVD masterpiece you made with iLife. In fact, you might even say that such projects seem quaint. But they’re certainly popular—can you remember the last time you got a store-bought greeting card... read more at MacAddict