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Re: Something simpler than Quark or InDesign to create nice brochures? - Seacrest - 04-18-2009
cbelt3 wrote:
Why am I the only person who's thinking MS Word ?
All I know how to use is hammers.
Everything I see is a nail.
Re: Something simpler than Quark or InDesign to create nice brochures? - jdc - 04-18-2009
pages -- its far far better than word for brochures -- id say its perfect for them
Re: Something simpler than Quark or InDesign to create nice brochures? - Article Accelerator - 04-18-2009
Pages
Re: Something simpler than Quark or InDesign to create nice brochures? - Mike Sellers - 04-18-2009
Stephanie wrote: And don't get me started on Publisher either.
I've gotten my first-ever project to created a newsletter template in Publisher for a client. Wow, it's been like swimming through quicksand, getting it to do simple things I take for granted in InDesign and Quark. Do you know if the 2007 version has any significant improvements over the 2003 version, which I've been using?
Re: Something simpler than Quark or InDesign to create nice brochures? - Stephanie - 04-18-2009
Mike, luckily I've not had the displeasure of using Publisher 2007. I'm afraid I don't have any knowledge of what it can or cannot do compared to 2003; however, I've had to have publisher files printed, so if you have any specific questions, feel free to PM me.
Re: Something simpler than Quark or InDesign to create nice brochures? - Doc - 04-18-2009
Ammo wrote:
I've been pleasantly surprised at how easy it is to work in Pages. However, I can't vouch for it's prepress capabilities.
That's because it has none.
It's designed for kicking out quick and dirty home and small-business projects with no regard for precision or color-accuracy.
Re: Something simpler than Quark or InDesign to create nice brochures? - tuqqer - 04-18-2009
Another Pages fan. Especially its latest rev.
Re: Something simpler than Quark or InDesign to create nice brochures? - A-Polly - 04-18-2009
:agree
ages is probably his best bet (unless he can be convinced to hire a professional--ideally, one of us! 
mile
. I imagine he's going to want small quantities (less than thousands at a time) of full color stuff, so Pages plus a local digital printer should suit him just fine.
Re: Something simpler than Quark or InDesign to create nice brochures? - Doc - 04-18-2009
A-Polly wrote:
:agree
I imagine he's going to want small quantities (less than thousands at a time) of full color stuff, so Pages plus a local digital printer should suit him just fine.
Assuming that it's a 4-color job, I doubt that any printer worth his ink would take a Pages doc for such a small job. Too much BS involved to make it suitable for a run and too little reward.
Some rip-off place would probably run it off a color copier and charge him a 400% markup. Maybe he'd be happy with that.
But if the guy plans on printing the stuff himself... maybe duplicating small runs on a color copier... then Pages'll probably do fine.
Or maybe he could make a mockup in Pages and then hand it off to a printer with a minimum-wage slave who'll knock it off in a real DTP app for him.
Re: Something simpler than Quark or InDesign to create nice brochures? - IronMac - 04-18-2009
With regard to what the OP said...Swift Publisher.