Re: on setting up a layout in Pagemaker 7.0

In article <3MnGh.560$wc6.1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Bob Levine
<robjlevin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> spaceyjane wrote:
> 
> > thanks for the heads up Helpful Harry and Bob.  Unfortunately I lack
the 
> > pretty green stuff to update to the InDesign.... or Vista for that
matter, 
> > ha!  But, it's good to know so that when if we update, I'll have to
track 
> > down InDesign and start over.  Hmpf.
> > 
> > Do either of you have InDesign, and do you like it or prefer it? 
Besides
> > it being less problematic, is it a better application?
> 
> I dumped PM years ago. It's far better in almost every way than PM.

Hmmmm ... "almost every way"?!? I'm not sure about that. It tends to be
a case of what you're used to and how you prefer to work.

PageMaker has some very nice features that make it easier to use (eg.
only one arrow tool and no need for a frame on everything) and more
free-flowing, although creating PDFs can be a bit of a nightmare since
it was really a patch bunged on top.

InDesign has newer abilities like easy Drop Shadow / transparency and
being able to give text a separate line colour / width and fill colour,
but it also has a few bugs and some peculiarly unnecessary quirks (or
is that "Quarks" since Quark Xpress has many of them too) ... at least
unnecessary in the sense that PageMaker never had to have them and I
see no reason why InDesign does, and much of the reason I stayed away
from Quark Xpres in the first place.   :o(

I'm still using PageMaker and InDesign when necessary. Most people find
PageMaker fairly easy to use. InDesign is similar in some ways, but
different in others, which means that some of what you learn in
PageMaker can be carried across, while other things need to be learnt
again.



Helpful Harry                   
Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hard****ps  ;o)