On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 18:29:03, Bill Holt <billholt at iglou.com> wrote:

> Hopefully Marta, he'll send you an html file, since that's what
> Pagemaker is designed to create.  Of course, you can open an html with
> your browser.

As a user of every version of PageMaker since 1.0 (1986!) I was  
surprised to hear about its designed purpose of creating HTML files.  
Perhaps you are thinking of PageSPINNER or FRONT Page, both of which  
actually DO create web pages. PageMaker requires some serious, and  
failure-prone, hoop jumping to create HTML.

Marta, Mike is right: PDF is the way to go. Your guy should be able  
to make a PDF out of PageMaker if he's got a shop that has any tools  
that were made in this century. He won't have to send you any special  
fonts either.

Rob, Mike only meant that you will utter worse epithets about your  
operation than "inbred" if you have to go back to PageMaker after  
working with InDesign for very long. Mucho Bettero.

I worked for many years for printers in their prepress departments  
and had to know them all, and I'd say ditch QuarkXPress and PageMaker  
and make the plunge to InDesign. You won't regret it.

OTOH, I must admit that if your needs (and your budget) are modest,  
PageMaker can be ideal for the task. If you can get past the fact  
that it won't run in OS X (without Classic). The less said about  
Quark at this point, the better. (Sort of a "jilted lover," so-to- 
speak.) I'm just glad that Microsoft doesn't make a Mac version of  
Publisher. (Ack!)

Marta, if you DO end up with that PageMaker file, just send it over  
to me. I'll fix you right up.

j.

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Jonathan Fletcher
jfletch at newmediaconstco.com


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