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Started by marjweir
Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:43
Shall I buy Indesign?
Author: marjweir
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:43
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:43
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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.
Re: Shall I buy Indesign?
Author: Joe D
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:28
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:28
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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. -- Joe Dee from En Wye Cee
Re: Shall I buy Indesign?
Author: Waterspider
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:00
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:00
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"Joe D" <joedee@invalid.com> wrote in message news:0001HW.C6BB4B78006D6927B01AD9AF@news.eternal-september.org... > 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.
Re: Shall I buy Indesign?
Author: Floor
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 19:35
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 19:35
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marjweir: >I want to publish a book with lots of pictures and significant text. Just look for Scribus. It is free and rocks! http://www.scribus.net/ Floor
Re: Shall I buy Indesign?
Author: Waterspider
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:58
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:58
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"Floor" <fld@peuleschilletje.org> wrote in message news:_tvtm.205656$6W1.177196@newsfe05.ams2... > marjweir: > >>I want to publish a book with lots of pictures and significant text. > > Just look for Scribus. It is free and rocks! > http://www.scribus.net/ > Floor It rocks because it's free. Scribus is scant on dpt features and has limited ability customize a document. More like a free version of MS Word than InDesign.
Re: Shall I buy Indesign?
Author: TestUsername
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:43
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:43
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On Sep 22, 6:58 pm, "Waterspider" <nos...@all.com> wrote: > "Floor" <f...@peuleschilletje.org> wrote in message > > news:_tvtm.205656$6W1.177196@newsfe05.ams2... > > > marjweir: > > >>I want to publish a book with lots of pictures and significant text. > > > Just look for Scribus. It is free and rocks! > >http://www.scribus.net/ > > Floor > > It rocks because it's free. Scribus is scant on dpt features and has > limited ability customize a document. More like a free version of MS Word > than InDesign. >
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