Thanks for all your input. I gave the guy all your pointers and now will have to see what he makes of it. If all fails, I shall come back to you ,Jonathan, and let you do the conversions. And you all have me guessing now what creature this pagemaker really might be.!!. Marta On Sep 13, 2005, at 17:55, 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. > > -- > Jonathan Fletcher > jfletch at newmediaconstco.com > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be September 27 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. > | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be September 27 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
