Customer Review(s)
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Summary: "Adobe Does it again"
Comment: This is funny...ive been using Quark (eww)but it was good, until i wanted something more pro. Then comes InDesign , i use this on all my School Reports...and guess what pops up???
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blah blah blah, i might die if i see another A+, LoL iam joking but if your looking for something that beats the "FREAK" out of Quark, some thing that Makes PUBLISHER LOOK LIKE A BABYS TOY, then i suggest you get a life. Iam only joking, get this prog now. But yes, theres a hefty price to pay! but oh well, sure is worth the A+'s....... mwuahahah LoL, and guess what my teacher called my dad i was like "OH SHOOT...IAM I IN TROUBLE AGAIN" LoL...but to only find out she loved my designs...i was like go....nevermind, LoL. but yeah she was JeaLouS. Little fool. Iam joking teach. (if you ever read this) but back to my review...THIS IS A MUSSSSSSSSSTTTTTTTTTT buY!!!!!!!!!!
Customer Rating: Summary: Makes designing easier.
Comment: Because PageMaker 6.5 is such a useful product in comparison to the likes of Microsoft Publisher, Indesign, at first glance, appears to be nothing too fabulous given simple layouts. But try something a little more complex and Indesign quickly shows how fabulous it is. A deceptively simple layout such as the front page of a newspaper, for example, with its columned text boxes is hard going in PageMaker, but so much easier with Indesign: Sit back and let the pasted text auto-flow in the columns so easily applied.
Text placed along a curved line as an overlay directly in the document instead of trying to import an EPS from Illustrator is equally impressive. And the colour printouts / proofs from your office desk-jet are also.
The edit > preferences > etc are much better, you only having to set the image display option once instead of every time you go to create a new document.
Short cut keys such as Z and H for the zoom and hand / pan tools are now consistent with other Adobe applications, but many of the commands in PageMaker do not apply: auto-flow for text being one such discrepancy, as is the way in which placed images are resized via their sizing handles. This is a little disconcerting, but the included help-manual is of great assistance for matters such as these. ( Pity it's not a PDF one like in Acrobat. Why does Adobe not do this across their applications? ).
Indesign has a PDF export option, but I found that the file sizes were pretty large in comparison to those created via Distiller as postscript files and then distilled for a given job-option setting. The only problem with this approach was that the colour was CMYK and not RGB as with the direct export option. Perhaps this is because the try-out version I was using didn't have the full postscript driver setup. Users who don't have Acrobat will not find this an issue.
For making up complex - for print - designs, Indesign works very well. But care should be exercised if you are creating PDFs for screen viewing, since it's all too easy to create pages that are very dense and hard to manage in the Acrobat Reader.
