"Helpful Harry" <helpful_harry@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> In article <3MnGh.560$wc6.1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Bob Levine
> <robjlevin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> > 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)
Thanks for your insight Harry. From what I've seen, Pagemaker does seem
userfriendly, but I discovered the "Undo" or "Revert" isn't excatly what
I'm
used to... and that is the one thing that scares me, especially since I'm
learning a new program.... ; )
I do happen to have Quark Xpress 5.0... but I loaded that and I'm worried
that it's too complex for me, where as InDesign from what I've seen shares
some similarities with the Adobe Photoshop CS.
I have for years been using PrintShop by Broderbund to make newsletters,
but
I always encounter problems when I wish to make it into a PDF to take and
print on any computer... it always goes wonky, and things end up spilling
outside the margins or things seem to dissappear. I'm hoping that
InDesign
won't, as it's an Adobe program...
but who knows, I may not get skilled enough soon enough by the time I need
to complete this newsletter, so I may have to fudge it with PrintShop
again
instead. I really would love to just start with a clean template, but
from
what I've seen, most online are quite pricey, and thus I should figure out
how to make a "inspired by" template (look like the one I wish), and go
from
there.
You've all been fun to bounce stuff off of. Appriciate all your help!
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