Talbott on sun 15 sep 96
I am looking to design a brochure to send to current and potential
customers that will includes photos of our work, etc. Can anyone recommend
a good software program for a Mac that would enable me to do this--I know
there are many programs on the market but I just want some input from
someone who has found a program that they really like...thanks--Marshall
Marshall Talbott
Pottery By Celia
Route 114
P.O. Box 4116
Naples, Maine 04055-4116
(207)693-6100 voice and fax
clupus@ime.net
Joanna deFelice on sun 15 sep 96
hi marshall, as a clay artist who makes her 'real' living as a graphic
designer, here are some thoughts:
i would recommend you use pagemaker-it's designed for page layout. you
could use something like microsoft word, but it is a bit clunky for
designing something attractive as well as functional. it sort of depends on
the learning curve you are willing to deal with. microsoft is notoriously
really bad at documenting its capabilities, adobe (makers of pagemaker)
really quite good, but then i've been using pm since it was first
introduced to the market, when it was quite frustrating! quark express
would do the same job, but i haven't used it much so can't speak to how
easy or difficult it is to learn. they are priced approximately the same,
so neither is better in that department.
by the time you are done purchasing the software and figuring out what
you're doing tho, you might as well have hired a professional to do the job
in the first place!
don't know if that helped or not, but it's my 2 cents worth!
joanna, where autumn is arriving in its usual achingly beautiful way
prepress@cyberhighway.net
Patrick & Lynn Hilferty on mon 16 sep 96
Your software choices may depend on how you intend to output your brochure.
If you're happy with your printer and intend to simply xerox what it can
put out, then whatever you're comfortable using (ClarisWorks, for example)
may work out fine. If, on the other hand, you intend to use a service
bureau, then the standard applications in use tend to be PageMaker and
QuarkExpress.
Patrick Hilferty
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Eric Lindgren on mon 16 sep 96
>I am looking to design a brochure to send to current and potential
>customers that will includes photos of our work, etc. Can anyone recommend
>a good software program for a Mac that would enable me to do thi
Hi Marshall,
I've been pretty happy with Canvas for several years for general purpose
use. It's a bit unusual at times, but it's getting better with each
revision. I haven't tried the latest - I've got 3.5.3. They jumped to 5.0
next. The text handling is pretty good, it does beziers, gradient fills,
separations, converts text to beziers, but it has a proprietary file
format, and isn't always faithful to standard formats. It handles
postscript well - a little slowly.
I've used Pagemaker, but a guy I trust in the service bureau business says
that it's not as good in a number of ways as Quark...
Lately I've switched to Freehand (the 'sidegrade' or competitive upgrade),
which is extremely high-powered, and demanding of the hardware. I wouldn't
use it with an '030 or earlier. It will take Photoshop plugins. Very very
versatile.
For brochures, you probably don't need anything more than Canvas - but if
you want to go all the way, use Photoshop, Freehand/Illustrator with output
through Quark Xpress. And do it on a new model Powermac!!!
Long live Apple,
Eric Lindgren
lindgren@muskoka.com
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Robert Underwood on mon 16 sep 96
This is my first posting to Clayart so I'm not known here yet. I would
like to respond to what Mac program to use for brochures. I am a graphic
designer and a part time potter. I have used the main three DTP programs
from each of their beginnings. QuarkXpress has become the industry
standard, it can do a lot but you have invest a lot to use it. The same
goes for PageMaker. Both programs sell for $550 to $660 from mail order
catalogs. The third program, which I recommend, is ReadySetGo! It has
been around since PageMaker, if not before. It is quite simple to use
and is very powerful, it is just the lesser known of the DTP programs.
It sells for $150 mail order from MacWarehouse. It has some features
that Quark provides only with a third party extention. I highly
recommend this program for the money.
If you have any more questions about these programs I would be happy to
help. I have been using a Mac for 12 years for DTP even before DTP was
born.
Peggy Underwood in Salem, VA
e-mail: robu@earthlink.net
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