Something simpler than Quark or InDesign to create nice brochures?

[Seacrest]

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.

[jdc]

pages -- its far far better than word for brochures -- id say its perfect for them

[Article Accelerator]

Pages

[Mike Sellers]

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?

[Stephanie]

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.

[Doc]

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.

[tuqqer]

Another Pages fan. Especially its latest rev.

[A-Polly]

:agreeages 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.

[Doc]

A-Polly wrote:
:agreeages 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.

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.

[IronMac]

With regard to what the OP said...Swift Publisher.