And while publishing and design apps for mobile devices remain rare, a decent selection of design apps is available for the iPad, and a few for Android tablets.

Create a Good Page Layout with Advanced Editing Features• Apply any object style to other objects in just one click. • Set up common used text styles for easy and repeated use in later. • Reposition & resize, rotate any object at ease. Is microsoft publisher available for mac?. • Personalize opacity, mirror effect & flip of the objects. • Select 230 plus preset backgrounds or customize background with your own images. • Add color fill/pattern image fill, stroke, shadow or reflection to any object. • Select multiple objects to align, center and make same size of the objects as a whole.

• Lock/Unlock, Group/Ungroup objects for easy operation. • Auto snap between one object and another, and between an object and the page margin as well. • Crop photo or manipulate the frame easily. • Apply frames, mask, filters, etc. To photos and it is easy to adjust image colors. • Manage layers of different objects. • Support undo/redo, copy/paste and other common editing features.

• Support zooming in/out on the page, and Fit Width/Fit Page to view the page. • Support displaying rulers in the editing panel for better alignment of objects.

I use the Draw module of LibreOffice (aka OpenOffice) for page layout with great results. It's a very good tool for one or two-sided projects like business cards, flyers and brochures -- not your novel. Sribis is surely the better tool for professionally printed jobs, but LibreOffice Draw is better for simple jobs printed at home. The trick to DTP in Draw is using the layers. You set-up your guidelines on the bottom layer, lock the layer, and make it non-printing. Then do your lay up on the top layer. The learning curve is so much easier than Scribis.

BTW -- I'm a professional graphic artist and prefer a blank page rather than templates or wizards in programs like MS Publisher. If you want that, Draw isn't for you. • or to post comments.