RTC As the developer of Pagehand, I have to say that Brindsley misses the point about what Pagehand is, especially when he claims that "there's nothing here that can't be achieved by using print > save as PDF from any other mac application.." Pagehand is not intended to be just another ho-hum word processor that lets people create boring documents to send to other people who make boring edits. If that is your workflow, then Pagehand is not for you. Pagehand is for people who toil over the visual presentation of their work, choosing just the right glyph and just the right spacing, and who want other people to view their documents exactly as intended. If you don't care about accented characters, or ornament glyphs, or kerning, or small caps, or embedded font features, or typographically correct fractions, then you certainly might prefer to use one of the look-alike word processors out there. I should add that Pagehand offers some features that you find nowhere else. Some things are far easier to do in Pagehand than in any other word processor--for example, writing a document in which some quotes should be curled and others should not. Expressions such as "parlour trick" and "red herring" are particularly disingenuous when one considers that the alternative to using PDF is to use a custom format that can be read only by owners of the application. Surely it is better to use a format that can be read by just about everybody than a format that can be read by only one application. Finally, Pagehand is currently priced lower than either Mellel or Nisus, the products to which it is most frequently compared.
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