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"Joe D" <joedee@invalid.com> wrote in message 
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> On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:43:45 -0400, marjweir wrote
> (in article
> <54f0c9dd-0112-4e94-af66-9e5e8618ca9c@h21g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>):
>
>> I want to publish a book with lots of pictures and significant text.
>> It will be about 130 pages including an index.  Is InDesign the best
>> tool to use?  Are there any drawbacks?  I have all the text in MS Word
>> 2007.  Thank you for any advice you can offer.
>
> IMHO, despite the cost, you can't do better than InDesign for a project 
> like
> that.
>

I agree, but only if:

1. He is either familiar with the program or aware that it will take a bit 
to learn it effectively;
2. Has decent graphic design skills;
3. Understands how to prepare a document for commercial printing;
4. The software will be used for more than this one project.

Otherwise, he's better off shipping the MS Word files to the printer and let 
them set it up in InDesign or Quark.