on 9/27/01 4:59 AM, Doug Wilson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I know about the bugs :) > I run into one on every document I work on. I've found a way to work around > most of them. There's an EPS bug with my PageMaker and my printer that > refuses to print a certain color of blue that one of my clients insists on > using. It's the most maddening thing. I can work around it though. Most of > the documents I create are about 150 pages and have anywhere from 30 to 75 > graphics.
*nods* those color issues are generally the reason quark is so popular. Version 3.3.2 is old, but just a workhouse... And color works as expected, and linkages. :) Don't take anything I said personally, we may just be from different worlds and frames of reference. > I'm just the designer. Where I work it's up to the print house to worry > about how to get the document I create from electronic to printer format. Of > course it helps that a couple of the guys working at the place I send my > stuff to be printed also prefer PageMaker and use it themselves. That's always a good thing. :) I can almost guarantee though that the first thing they do when your PC doc comes in is to convert it to mac, and deal with it from there. A lot of printers still even charge extra if you bring them a pagemaker file vs Quark... It just solves so many issues... If you've found one that specializes in pagemaker like that, very cool. > PageMaker works the way I think. I always feel like I'm fighting to use > Quark. Very understandable... I've had a lot of designers say that, especially ones who started learning in like high school newspapers and then college staffs... It is just a paradigm shift, that you have to be open to accepting and working with. Once it clicks, you're gold and things are much more structured. >> Many, many people first learn print using pagemaker because its what schools >> use for cost reasons (quark has like no educational discount compared to >> pagemaker's) but it definetly has issues. > > Quark is the most expensive single piece of software I own. It cost more > than my Mac. I believe it is $700 or so, and it is expensive but you're supposed to be making money off of it... So $700 over 4yrs (quark takes forever between versions) isn't that bad. The worst park is just quarks greed, to the point where designers almost WANT quark to fail even though they use xpress because its the best product. Their educational pricing is almost non-existant, and their mult-license packs... Ugh, don�t get me started. Designers aren't "married to quark" because they love the company or even love the product... It just works the best for what we need... Its why every time something like a new pagemaker version or indesign comes out it is touted as possibly being a "quark killer". But, then adobe botches it every time. *shrugs* -- Michael Bryan Bell http://homepage.mac.com/michael_bell/ -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
