Open Source Mac Text Editors

Scribus is an Open Source program that brings professional page layout to Linux, BSD UNIX, Solaris, OpenIndiana, GNU/Hurd, Mac OS X, OS/2 Warp 4, eComStation, and Windows desktops with a combination of press-ready output and new approaches to page design. Underneath a modern and user-friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as color separations, CMYK and spot colors, ICC color management, and versatile PDF creation.

A Swiss Army Knife GUI application for PDF documents: combine, split, rotate, reorder (n-up, booklet), watermark, edit bookmarks/fileinfo/pagetransition, compress, encrypt, decrypt, sign, repair, edit attachments and more.

Lout is a batch document formatter. It reads a high-level description of a document similar in style to LaTeX and produces a PostScript file which can be printed on most laser printers. Plain text and PDF output are also available.

Canorus is a free cross-platform music score editor. It supports an unlimited number and length of staffs, polyphony, a MIDI playback of notes, chord markings, lyrics, import/export filters to formats like MIDI, MusicXML, ABC Music, MusiXTeX and LilyPond

LaTeX-Mk is a collection of makefile fragments for managing small to large LaTeX based documentation projects. The idea is that especially large documents, there may be many many steps required to typeset the document (export modified figures to postscr

TeXML is an XML vocabulary for TeX. The processor transforms the TeXML markup into the TeX markup, escaping special and out-of-encoding characters. The intended audience is developers who automatically generate [La]TeX or ConTeXt files.

CHORD5 is a ChordPro editor and renderer, useful for formatting and printing song sheets ("lead sheets"). Written in Java, it will run on any OS that has Java version 8 or higher installed. This version of the CHORD program (based on CHORD4) has been modified to add functionality that enables it to cooperate with the ChordSmith program (available at https://sourceforge.net/projects/chordsmith/). CHORD5's MacOS interface has been standardized to use the Command key instead of Ctrl, as well as moving the About and Quit menu selections to the standard MacOS locations on the screen menu bar. The help docs have been updated and some bugs eliminated. This modified version has been renamed to CHORD5. The original CHORD4 distribution is available from https://sourceforge.net/projects/chord4/. Although it was originally revised to work with ChordSmith, CHORD5 also works well as a standalone program. As of 8/4/2026, ChordSmith no longer needs the separate CHORD5 program.

PageEditor is a free, fast and easy-to-use word processor app with can read, edit and save text files. It also can edit PDF files and have a integrated web browser.

pyfiglet is a full port of the FIGlet specification (http://www.figlet.org/) into pure python. It takes ASCII text and renders it in ASCII art fonts. It can be used on the commandline or as an Object Oriented driver library in your own programs.

JCurricula is a web-application designed to build a professional and good-looking Curriculum Vitae. jCurricula will create a cv in PDF format, ready to be printed or viewed. JCurricula is a java servlet.

ClassMailMerge is a .NET Class for sending strings to a microsoft office word template easily! It's useful for office letters that need database fields.

Java based screenplay (movie script) editor and colaboration tool with a graphical interface (WYSIWYG) to create and/or edit scripts. Export in XML, PDF, XHTML and other formats. En español.

JCopist is a template-based document generation server based on OpenOffice.org. Its templates are regular OpenDocuments enhanced with the FreeMarker scripting language. A wide range of formats are available, eg. : ODT, PDF, RTF, HTML, MS Word, MS Excel

PDF Library in .NET (deprecated) The developer is not continuing the project. Find the dev at http://raasiel.typepad.com

Why is it quicker to express simple equations in plaintext that it is to write the equivalent LaTeX? Easylatex is a preprocessor to make writing LaTeX much quicker. Project activity mode (http://bayleshanks.com/pamv1 ): sporadic

This project aims to develop means for advanced Arabic typesetting, including OpenType fonts and a text layout engine.

aaid (short for Assignment Aid) is a template tool designed with school (esp. high school & college) assignments in mind. It\'s design is closely wrapped in HTML, allowing you freedom in your templates, while also not requiring you to type numerous tags.

CPP2RTF: generates listings of C++ code in RTF format, using different fonts and typefaces to highlight syntax for printing on a B&W printer. Pre-compiled binaries for both Windows and Cygwin are provided.

"Typsättning av text och matematiska formler med hälp av LaTeX, en handledning för handfallna" is a Swedish introduction to the typesetting system LaTeX. Suitable for Ph.D. and undergraduate students. It is released under the GNU FDL.

FOray is an open-source XSL-FO publishing system that is suitable for converting XML content into PDF and other document formats. Although not yet fully conformant with the XSL-FO standard, it is very useful for many applications.

Hyperlatex allows the development of documents that are to be distributed either as printed matter or as HTML. It is not a general-purpose translator of LaTeX files into HTML, but allows writers to write for both media simultaneously.

Java classes that enable definition of new Charsets based on other existing Charsets, without additional programming. Includes a character set with Kamenik encoding.

MathML to Braille translator. It's writen in Java + XSL and it uses the Saxon XSLT processor for XML transformations.

Free and Easy to use tool for scientists to manage the references of their work. Automated Fulltext retrieval from the Open Repositories. Flexible Metadata Model and tranformation of metadata to different standard models. nice print formats of the metada

PDF::API2 is 'The Next Generation' of Text::PDF::API, a Perl module-chain that facilitates the creation and modification of PDF files. It features support for the 14 base PDF Core Fonts, TrueType fonts, and Adobe-Type1, with unicode mappings, embedding o