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Something simpler than Quark or InDesign to create nice brochures? - stephen - 04-18-2009
A friend at a law firm wants to self publish targeted brochures and is asking me about Quark.
That seems like overkill to me.
Is there a simpler (but still elegant) solution?
Better than Word or Pages, but not as complex as the big programs like Quark and InDesign?
Re: Something simpler than Quark or InDesign to create nice brochures? - pokari - 04-18-2009
Swift Publisher
www.belightsoft.com
Re: Something simpler than Quark or InDesign to create nice brochures? - DaviDC. - 04-18-2009
Crayons & construction paper.
Re: Something simpler than Quark or InDesign to create nice brochures? - Seacrest - 04-18-2009
Hire someone.
Re: Something simpler than Quark or InDesign to create nice brochures? - RevKev - 04-18-2009
I second Swift Publisher
Re: Something simpler than Quark or InDesign to create nice brochures? - CJsNvrUrly - 04-18-2009
Pages?
Re: Something simpler than Quark or InDesign to create nice brochures? - jimbrady - 04-18-2009
Pages.
Re: Something simpler than Quark or InDesign to create nice brochures? - Numo - 04-18-2009
I've been pleasantly surprised at how easy it is to work in Pages. However, I can't vouch for it's prepress capabilities.
Re: Something simpler than Quark or InDesign to create nice brochures? - cbelt3 - 04-18-2009
Why am I the only person who's thinking MS Word ?
Yea, evil, I know, but hey. Everyone's got it. Besides, if they want to do targeted it's not horribly hard to set up mail merge and do a sort of database driven brochure generation 'system' on the cheap.
Re: Something simpler than Quark or InDesign to create nice brochures? - Stephanie - 04-18-2009
cbelt3 wrote:
Why am I the only person who's thinking MS Word ?
Yea, evil, I know, but hey. Everyone's got it. Besides, if they want to do targeted it's not horribly hard to set up mail merge and do a sort of database driven brochure generation 'system' on the cheap.
Because Word has NO decent page layout capabilities. It SUCKS and I say this from experience. At work, they're constantly wanting me to emulate docs designed InDesign by using Word.
Microsoft invented Publisher to compete with true page layout programs. And don't get me started on Publisher either.