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Unread 23 Jul 2003, 10:27   #1
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What programs do professional magazine publishing houses etc use for thier DTP work?
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Personally dont know. But - I used to use PageStream in the days when all I had was an Atari (Theres a Macintosh version as well which is why Im guessing it might be used by Pro Publishers):

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I like Adobe InDesign, although that could be described as fairly light-weight, I'm not sure.
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I did some reading and it seems InDesign (version 2) is being touted as a "Quark killer" now that they've ironed out the bugs (especially seeing as they have and exclusive market on the Mac atm).

Therefore I shall fiddle with that (especially as I allready have Illustrator and PS7 which it integrates with).

Ta for the help.
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I have now played with the InDesign 2 30 day trial.
Conclusion: just what I was looking for.

First of all I'm familiar with the Adobe interface so that's one major bit of learning I don't have to do.
Then there's the way everything which is either impossible or incredibly frustrating in MS Publisher (such as any real sort of transparency or blending, and professional text effects (not that wordart crap)) is nice and straightforward. I especially like the way the transparency system works exactly like the one in photoshop - with an alpha blend level and then the various blend methods (standard, multiply, exclude, darken, etc etc) and that it can, so far as I can see, be applied to ANYTHING.
Also, it has some neat vector graphics tools which make doing simple but effective vector work no hassle at all.

Just for the hell of it I decided to try recreating a page out of some random magazine, and it really couldn't have been easier.

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Personally dont know. But - I used to use PageStream in the days when all I had was an Atari (Theres a Macintosh version as well which is why Im guessing it might be used by Pro Publishers):

http://www.grasshopperllc.com/
Nearly every big publisher uses Quark 4 running on Macs. PageStream isn't seen as a professional package - I got a copy free with a magazine. (It works fine for me though).

Some businesses are switching to InDesign, because the latest Quark doesn't import Quark 4 files (among other reasons). InDesign's still not entirely supported in the industry, but it's becoming more so.

Still, you can't go wrong with Quark 4 if you want to send something off to a printer's.

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