[off topic] software for brochures then into pdf

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Photoshop is important for tweaking graphics.
For page-layout we recommend Adobe PAGEMAKER.
Excellent at setting consistent look between publications (templates),
imports text & graphics, allows for professional color matching.

We highly recommend it.

BW
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Argonics Inc
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Marquette MI 49855
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Hello,



Sorry for the way off topic.



We are getting ready to redo all of our brochures. The person who use to do
our brochure is no longer here (over 5 years ago). I have been "tweaking"
the brochures that have been done in the past. But now they want to redo
all of them. We want to make them into pdf and put them on our webpage.
(which is another story because it is out of date also) Anyways, my
question is what is the best desktop publishing software out there.



Have a Nice Day,



Dina Hieber

Vamco International, Inc.

Phone (412) 963-7100

Fax; (412) 963-7160



www.vamcointernational.com





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At 11:46 AM 8/6/2004, you wrote:
>.... We want to make them into pdf and put them on our webpage. ..... my
>question is what is the best desktop publishing software out there.

If you really want the "best" you can spend a few hundred bucks on genuine
Adobe Acrobat. I think the latest versions of MS Office will spit out PDF
files.

Or for Zero Dollars, check Open Office -- www.OpenOffice.org -- the
completely free office suite will read & write your MSO files, and can also
export them as PDFs. It's got a spreadsheet, HTML editor, word processor,
presentation creator and the other usual office components. Did I mention
it's free?!

The latest version 1.1.2 is very stable, and doesn't invade your entire
system and its registry like MSO does. So you can install it for testing
along with MSO without fear of hosing up anything.

-Wayne Cox
Twenty Three -- Information Technology Consulting
828-685-2338



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I am redoing a bunch of our brochures at the moment. I recently purchased Adobe InDesign with the Pagemaker add-ins (to convert some of our old P65 files). It is very powerful. Incredibly so. Yet easy enough for even me to catch-on. Like a lot of software (Excel and Word included) I will probably not use 20% of the features and capabilites but it is nice to know they are there if I need (and learn) them. My son is a Graphic Design graduate and has used it to help me with the brochures and really likes it as well. One cool feature I like is automatic scaling or "fitting" of pictures to a defined area. Of course, being Adobe, it will output PDF. Best of all it works on Windows and I don't need a Mac (can't live without "right clicking").

The money we are saving over sending stuff out for design more than pays for my time and the software cost ($340 upgrade from Pagemaker). Plus we can tweak them each time we reprint. We have a local printer that has a new type of electronic Heidleburg press (no plate costs) that directly prints from .idd files we email to them (like a giant color copier).

-Todd C.

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Subject: [Vantage] [off topic] software for brochures then into pdf


Hello,



Sorry for the way off topic.



We are getting ready to redo all of our brochures. The person who use to do
our brochure is no longer here (over 5 years ago). I have been "tweaking"
the brochures that have been done in the past. But now they want to redo
all of them. We want to make them into pdf and put them on our webpage.
(which is another story because it is out of date also) Anyways, my
question is what is the best desktop publishing software out there.



Have a Nice Day,



Dina Hieber

Vamco International, Inc.

Phone (412) 963-7100

Fax; (412) 963-7160



www.vamcointernational.com





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Quark Express and PageMaker are constantly dueling it out for the "Best
Desktop Publishing" application and are far and away the favorites of the
pro's. That being said, if you don't want to spend all of your time fine
tuning typeface kerning or line spacing, you may want to look at a package
that is easy to learn. MS Publisher is simple for Brochures and Flyers and
is relatively inexpensive ($59 from SoftwareOutlet.com for Publisher 2002).
Also, it can output and upload HTML pages from your Publisher document with
the same ease that it creates .pdf files.

Ditto on the purchasing Acrobat recommendation. Once you have the layout,
Acrobat offers the most control over the final output.

Michael

Michael Barry
Aspacia Systems Inc
866.566.9600
312.803.0730 fax
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Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 8:46 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] [off topic] software for brochures then into pdf

Hello,



Sorry for the way off topic.



We are getting ready to redo all of our brochures. The person who use to do
our brochure is no longer here (over 5 years ago). I have been "tweaking"
the brochures that have been done in the past. But now they want to redo
all of them. We want to make them into pdf and put them on our webpage.
(which is another story because it is out of date also) Anyways, my
question is what is the best desktop publishing software out there.



Have a Nice Day,



Dina Hieber

Vamco International, Inc.

Phone (412) 963-7100

Fax; (412) 963-7160



www.vamcointernational.com





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Thanks guys that is what I was looking for.



Have a Nice Day,



Dina Hieber

Vamco International, Inc.

Phone (412) 963-7100

Fax; (412) 963-7160



www.vamcointernational.com

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From: Michael Barry [mailto:mbarry@...]
Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 11:49 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] [off topic] software for brochures then into pdf



Quark Express and PageMaker are constantly dueling it out for the "Best
Desktop Publishing" application and are far and away the favorites of the
pro's. That being said, if you don't want to spend all of your time fine
tuning typeface kerning or line spacing, you may want to look at a package
that is easy to learn. MS Publisher is simple for Brochures and Flyers and
is relatively inexpensive ($59 from SoftwareOutlet.com for Publisher 2002).
Also, it can output and upload HTML pages from your Publisher document with
the same ease that it creates .pdf files.

Ditto on the purchasing Acrobat recommendation. Once you have the layout,
Acrobat offers the most control over the final output.

Michael

Michael Barry
Aspacia Systems Inc
866.566.9600
312.803.0730 fax
http://www.aspacia.com/

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From: dhieber [mailto:dhieber@...]
Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 8:46 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] [off topic] software for brochures then into pdf

Hello,



Sorry for the way off topic.



We are getting ready to redo all of our brochures. The person who use to do
our brochure is no longer here (over 5 years ago). I have been "tweaking"
the brochures that have been done in the past. But now they want to redo
all of them. We want to make them into pdf and put them on our webpage.
(which is another story because it is out of date also) Anyways, my
question is what is the best desktop publishing software out there.



Have a Nice Day,



Dina Hieber

Vamco International, Inc.

Phone (412) 963-7100

Fax; (412) 963-7160



www.vamcointernational.com





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Todd,



Are you doing any photo editing? I am assuming Photoshop is still the way
to go with that?

Have a Nice Day,



Dina Hieber

Vamco International, Inc.

Phone (412) 963-7100

Fax; (412) 963-7160



www.vamcointernational.com

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From: Todd Caughey [mailto:caugheyt@...]
Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 11:34 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] [off topic] software for brochures then into pdf



I am redoing a bunch of our brochures at the moment. I recently purchased
Adobe InDesign with the Pagemaker add-ins (to convert some of our old P65
files). It is very powerful. Incredibly so. Yet easy enough for even me
to catch-on. Like a lot of software (Excel and Word included) I will
probably not use 20% of the features and capabilites but it is nice to know
they are there if I need (and learn) them. My son is a Graphic Design
graduate and has used it to help me with the brochures and really likes it
as well. One cool feature I like is automatic scaling or "fitting" of
pictures to a defined area. Of course, being Adobe, it will output PDF.
Best of all it works on Windows and I don't need a Mac (can't live without
"right clicking").

The money we are saving over sending stuff out for design more than pays for
my time and the software cost ($340 upgrade from Pagemaker). Plus we can
tweak them each time we reprint. We have a local printer that has a new
type of electronic Heidleburg press (no plate costs) that directly prints
from .idd files we email to them (like a giant color copier).

-Todd C.

-----Original Message-----
From: dhieber [mailto:dhieber@...]
Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 10:46 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] [off topic] software for brochures then into pdf


Hello,



Sorry for the way off topic.



We are getting ready to redo all of our brochures. The person who use to do
our brochure is no longer here (over 5 years ago). I have been "tweaking"
the brochures that have been done in the past. But now they want to redo
all of them. We want to make them into pdf and put them on our webpage.
(which is another story because it is out of date also) Anyways, my
question is what is the best desktop publishing software out there.



Have a Nice Day,



Dina Hieber

Vamco International, Inc.

Phone (412) 963-7100

Fax; (412) 963-7160



www.vamcointernational.com





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Dina,
We added a new product line a few months ago and we generated a new
catalog layout using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. Worked pretty
good and was a pretty quick learning curve. Also, again being adobe
products they popped the files out into PDF with no problems. Our
material vendor like them so much that we created theirs also.

David Ellis
Morgan Bronze

--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, "dhieber" <dhieber@v...> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
>
> Sorry for the way off topic.
>
>
>
> We are getting ready to redo all of our brochures. The person who
use to do
> our brochure is no longer here (over 5 years ago). I have
been "tweaking"
> the brochures that have been done in the past. But now they want
to redo
> all of them. We want to make them into pdf and put them on our
webpage.
> (which is another story because it is out of date also) Anyways,
my
> question is what is the best desktop publishing software out
there.
>
>
>
> Have a Nice Day,
>
>
>
> Dina Hieber
>
> Vamco International, Inc.
>
> Phone (412) 963-7100
>
> Fax; (412) 963-7160
>
>
>
> www.vamcointernational.com
>
>
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]