I’m working on a photography book..

In news:, Horatio Silver
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and I need a little help. What I want to do is use a program to lay out the entire book, with my images and some text. I then want to take a cd or dvd to a printer and have my book printed. What is the best program to do this?

QuarkXPress. A not so happy alternative would be Adobe Indesign.

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In news:, Horatio Silver
deftly typed:

and I need a little help. What I want to do is use a program to lay out the entire book, with my images and some text. I then want to take a cd or dvd to a printer and have my book printed. What is the best program to do this?

QuarkXPress. A not so happy alternative would be Adobe Indesign.

Yeah. You’d be devastated by the typography features, better previews, artistic effects and lower price. Probably mope for days.

"Horatio Silver" wrote in message

and I need a little help. What I want to do is use a program to lay out the entire book, with my images and some text. I then want to take a cd or dvd to a printer and have my book printed. What is the best program to do this?

Adobe inDesign, a not so happy and old fashion alternative would be QuarkXPress (known for its very expensive upgrades)

Stephan

How about MS Publisher?

Horatio Silver wrote:

and I need a little help. What I want to do is use a program to lay out the entire book, with my images and some text. I then want to take a cd or dvd to a printer and have my book printed. What is the best program to do this?

Well,
I produce a monthly, 12 page newsletter and a yearly 36 page calendar for my religious group I belong to.
Only 300 copies of the newsletter are printed. It is in B&W with photo halftones I do my self. The printer is testing out an Acrobat PDF file so he can go directly to press. The test, according to him was great. Files are large – one page with three pictures and type was about 5MB PDF file, whereas a 36 page Pagemaker 6.5 is under 100MB and fits on a zip disk

The calendar: Out side back and front and inside back and front are 4 color, with the inside black type with spot color. I take that project to the print on a jazz disk with all type and pictures attached.

I have an Epson 1200 for proofing and that goes to the printer.

I use Pagemaker 6.5 on a PC.

I know the designers think a Mac and Quark is the best. Quark is complicated and even some designers are switching.

Yours,
Tom Elliott
"Horatio Silver" wrote in message

and I need a little help. What I want to do is use a program to lay out the entire book, with my images and some text. I then want to take a cd or dvd to a printer and have my book printed. What is the best program to do this?

Tom Elliott wrote:

Well,
I produce a monthly, 12 page newsletter and a yearly 36 page calendar for my religious group I belong to.
Only 300 copies of the newsletter are printed. It is in B&W with photo halftones I do my self. The printer is testing out an Acrobat PDF file so he can go directly to press. The test, according to him was great. Files are large – one page with three pictures and type was about 5MB PDF file, whereas a 36 page Pagemaker 6.5 is under 100MB and fits on a zip disk
The calendar: Out side back and front and inside back and front are 4 color, with the inside black type with spot color. I take that project to the print on a jazz disk with all type and pictures attached.

I have an Epson 1200 for proofing and that goes to the printer.
I use Pagemaker 6.5 on a PC.

I know the designers think a Mac and Quark is the best. Quark is complicated and even some designers are switching.

I have always used PageMaker. I tried to get into Quark a few years ago and definately hated it.

Yours,
Tom Elliott
"Horatio Silver" wrote in message

and I need a little help. What I want to do is use a program to lay out the entire book, with my images and some text. I then want to take a cd or dvd to a printer and have my book printed. What is the best program to do this?

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On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 16:03:35 -0500, Ric Seyler
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I have always used PageMaker. I tried to get into Quark a few years ago and definately hated it.

So do I. Along with what they laughingly call "technical support" and "upgrades". Quark provide a new definition of the word upgrade:

Change a couple of files, take the price of the full program and then shave off as little as you think you can get away with for the upgrade. And when the suckers have bought that one, do another one. That’s apart from it being the most unfriendly, why make you use one mouse click when half a dozen will do, program I’ve come across. And supporting people who used it was a nightmare.

Pagemaker was my preferred choice until I tried out the demo of InDesign. I’m saving it up for it. If I hadn’t just had to buy a new computer, I’d have bought it by now. 🙁

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On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 11:17:11 GMT, "Diane"
wrote:

Hecate,

Could you tell me what InDesign is like? Is it pretty user friendly? What about it, do you like better than Pagemaker?

From comparing the trial version over Pagemaker which I have now, given the ready cash I’d pick InDesign against PM every time. To be honest, to get the full power out of any heavyweight program is never easy, but ID does a good job of making it’s power accessible. I definitely like it better than PM and as soon as I have the money will be switching all page design ID.

Oh, and do you happen to know the price of the full version?

That depends. I’m in the UK so you .being in the US will get it much cheaper as software generally is priced over here by converting $1 to £1 despite the exchange rate. I don’t know who are the good suppliers for purchasing from in the US, so perhaps someone else could answer that question?

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Hecate
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You bastard 🙂 He will probably believe you.:)
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Leo
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How about MS Publisher?

Horatio Silver wrote:

and I need a little help. What I want to do is use a program to lay out the entire book, with my images and some text. I then want to take a cd or dvd to a printer and have my book printed. What is the best program to do this?

Well Dee,
I had some simple quark documents with original printouts and I opened them in ID2 (no probs) touching nothing I printed them again and the difference was remarkable, the ID output was beautiful as compared with the original quark prints (bad tracking and kerning and rivers everywhere), and it comes down to typography I think the multiline composer is one of the sexiest features around. —
Leo

"Diane" wrote in message

Hecate,

Could you tell me what InDesign is like? Is it pretty user friendly?

What

about it, do you like better than Pagemaker?

Oh, and do you happen to know the price of the full version?
Thanks!
Dee

Plus the fact it works seamlessly with Photoshop.
eg. you place native psd’s into Indesign when you
want to edit it you just double click, same with Illustrator files. Cool ;D
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Leo

"Leonardo" wrote in message

Well Dee,
I had some simple quark documents with original printouts and I opened them in ID2 (no probs) touching nothing I printed them again and the difference was remarkable, the ID output was beautiful as compared with the original quark prints (bad tracking and kerning and rivers everywhere), and it comes down to typography I think the multiline composer is one of the sexiest features around. —
Leo

"Diane" wrote in message

Hecate,

Could you tell me what InDesign is like? Is it pretty user friendly?

What

about it, do you like better than Pagemaker?

Oh, and do you happen to know the price of the full version?
Thanks!
Dee

On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 10:48:51 -0500, Ric Seyler
wrote:

LOL
I have received a version MS Publisher (PSPP Member Kit) that’s supposed to allow me to spot color sep and overprint strokes and fills, etc. But haven’t installed it yet. Is it any good??

As an answer, can I take your LOL and double it??? LOL LOL !! 😉

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Hecate
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