Which layout programme for 96 page over sized A5 full colour magazine
amanda j (35 points) | Wed, 2007-08-08 08:43I am currently using Corel 11 (provided by employer) to produce a monthly magazine. Corel doesn't seem to like to handle large files - I learnt the hard way. created the whole thing in one doc, went home, next morning I couldn't opened it.
So now its time to upgrade to something. What would you recommend?
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Adobe InDesign. Either standalone version, or buy the whole Creative Suite.
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InDesign or Quark. If you use other Adobe software InDesign might feel more familiar to you.
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InDesign.
Linotype Font Explorer for fonts: http://www.linotype.com/fontexplorer
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Powerpoint is not a design application.
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Thanks, that's what I thought!. I had, some time ago, downloaded the trial version of Indesign - problem was it kept crashing. Don't know if that's to do with the OS - we're all on pcs (groan).
Think I might have used quark about 10 years ago on a daily newspaper (can't remember clearly) what ever it was, I didn't enjoy using it. Guess things have changed.
Well I had better get another trial version of Indesign to show the boss before he forks out.
ID kept crashing: Were you trying to link to files over a network or just on your own computer?
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Only linking to files on my pc.
What kinds of files? I usually recommend only placing flattened tifs, not psds, though it's possible to do so.
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Dirt and Rust
I design 3 publications with InDesign using native files for everything over a network - it's all good. I guess tiffs might speed things up though.
Definitely! No rip issues; no waiting; no transparency issues or weird artifacts...
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.psd and .ai files exclusively since at least CS2.
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If you have a rip error you can eliminate the psds right away if you use tif. And all effects are already flattened. Smaller files. Shall I go on? :)
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Some of us actually need transparency effects that can only be achieved using psds. Eg. Hair on top of type, closecut objects, etc.