What app should I use to arrange letters on a page?

QueenieDeanie · Dec 24, 2016

I have an older iMac OSX El Capitan 10.11.5

I am illustrating a children's book and need something simple to use to pull single letters from a font out and then arrange them individually on the page. I want to be able to rotate the letters to be at an angle or place them in an unusual fashion and not just in a straight line across the page. Any suggestions? I am not that computer savvy.

pjhutch · Dec 24, 2016

If you have Adobe Creative Suite, you can use Indesign for more advanced document design.

chscag · Dec 24, 2016

Welcome to our forums.

What software do you have that you can use? Word? Pages? Or, as mentioned above, the Adobe Suite? Since we don't know what you're using to do the children's book it's rather difficult to answer your question.

cradom · Dec 24, 2016

And it's free!
https://www.scribus.net/

chscag · Dec 24, 2016

Nice find Craig. Free is always great.

Pomeroy · Dec 25, 2016

QueenieDeanie said:
I have an older iMac OSX El Capitan 10.11.5

I am illustrating a children's book and need something simple to use to pull single letters from a font out and then arrange them individually on the page. I want to be able to rotate the letters to be at an angle or place them in an unusual fashion and not just in a straight line across the page. Any suggestions? I am not that computer savvy.

You may want to think about using Alphabets set instead of Fonts, you can place them and arrange just like an image. You can do a google search for Alphabets and find a lot. Here is a place to start for some nice ones http://snogirl.snoville.com/Alphabets/AlphabetIndex.html

disturbed13 · Dec 26, 2016

take a look at Affinity Designer and/or Affinity Photo
great Adobe like apps that are cheaper and just rock!!!

What app should I use to arrange letters on a page?

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