I estimate that there are, Jonathan, at least a million more things
remaining for me to confuse. Just trying to limit the process to one a
day.
Bill
On Tuesday, September 13, 2005, at 05:55 PM, Jonathan Fletcher wrote:
> 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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