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Textures is available at several different pricings, see this page for details.
DESCRIPTION
Textures is a programmable desktop publishing system for Macintosh. An interactive, integrated implementation of the TeX typesetting language, Textures is most commonly used for producing scientific articles and textbooks. Textures is also an extraordinary tool for fine typography, database and catalogue publishing and automated document production.
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WHAT'S NEW
Version 2.2b12:

Snow Leopard breaks Textures?

  • We have not yet received confirmation of our analysis from Apple, but our current belief is this: in expanding the address space to 64 bits, a bug was introduced in Apple Typography Services that causes ATS to reject PostScript Type 1 fonts whose screen fonts suitcase exceeds 256KB. With Textures 2.2.0b12, we have repackaged the CM/PS screen fonts into three suitcases, each less than 256KB; this cures the problem.

What else is new?

  • Internal improvements to font encodings
  • and a new preference.

REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

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Developer:Blue Sky Research
Downloads:2,235
  - Version d/l:338
Business:Word Processing
License:Demo
Date:03 Sep 2009
Platform:PPC/Intel
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Aug 17 2009

PJM  Wow: who would have thought? 2.2 Beta in August of 2007 (tragically late to the party), and 2.2b11 in August 2009. Let's see: OS X was released in 2001: I've got it... textures is software made by Rip van Winkle.

Seriously though, I have some sympathy for the poor folk who coughed up for this thing in the hope that a decent product would emerge in a finite amount of time. Not looking good... What comes first: the heat death of the universe or Textures for OS X?   
(Version 2.2b11)

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Aug 17 2009

MARK EVERITT  Or... you could just install TeXLive for nothing which comes with everything you need, including a choice of editors.  
(Version 2.2b11)

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Aug 17 2009

MARK EVERITT  Read MacTeX where I put TeXLive. I've put it up as a suggestion.  
(Version 2.2b11)

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Jun 23 2008

GEORGESLEGRAND  Already in the Mac Classic times, I found that Textures was outrageously expensive for something build upon the free TeX engine. The interface was OK, but certainly not worth the $600-$700 it cost at the time, so I settled for the not-so-user-friendly but free UNIX alternatives.

Now they want to charge $100 for a beta OS X version that you cannot even try before buying, when there are truly excellent free alternatives (e.g. the award-winning TeXShop). They must be totally out of their mind.  
(Version 2.2b8)

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Jan 12 2008

ZIMMERLEUT  1) This is not even a demo, if you don't consider only showing a window asking for your serial to be a demo. And no, there is no serial included in the downloaded package.

2) Why would I want to shell out 100 bucks if there's MacTeX out there for free, with a great editor such as TeXShop (or others)? Especially if I can't test it?  
(Version 2.2b6)

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Jan 13 2008

ZIMMERLEUT  OK, consider my first point deleted; it's been tagged commercial.

Still, I'd like to know the benefits over free alternatives.  
(Version 2.2b6)

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