publisher verses pagemaker?

[W E B G U R L]

I will be creating a 50 page magazine. I own both applications - PageMaker
and publisher. Which is best -> user friendly for commercial printing
companies?

 

[W E B G U R L]

Rude idiot! why bother even posting? What on earth is a NG for?

I own both and have extensively used Pagemaker FYI! I now own Publisher and
all I wanted to know from those who have used both if one was better than
the other.

nobodyhome - or should it be 'nothingupstairs'!


Wow, if you have to ask that question, you must be awfully inexperienced in
the publishing print industry. I would have to ask how much you know about
either program.
I sincerely wish you the best of luck in the venture and hope you can handle
the learning experience on the way up. The trouble is, the way up is not a
gentle learning curve in this case like many other things. Jumping into
something like this, there is no learning curve, it is like a rocket
travelling vertical at the speed of sound.
Do you have any idea what you have let yourself in for?
Do you honestly know the knowledge and expertise needed to produce a 50 page
magazine?
I live just down the road from you, so if I see you walking around bald
shortly I will fully understand.
I would use Pagemaker if you have it over Publisher. I hope you know a hell
of a lot about Pagemaker and all its foibles.
If I had a choice I would never use PageMaker again and fortunately I do
have that choice.
I use Publisher 2003 for small publications and Serif PagePlus for some
small publications and all my larger documents, brochures and books.

 

[W E B G U R L]

Thanks for the reply. at least someone here has a bit of class.

I am not sure what I will be doing but before I get started I wanted to know
others experiences. I am in the process of getting some quotes from
commercial printers and did not want to go about this the long way,
especially if Publisher was a better application. I am more than happy with
Adobe products and the results received in the past.

My brief is very brief to begin with but as I find out more of the
requirements I will know where I am heading.

thanks for your time!

 

[Randall Arnold]

Except that he made a point of insulting her abilities and knowledge, which
I think most people would consider rude.

The guy has no class. Like WebGurl, I have to wonder why he even bothers.

Randall Arnold

 

[°°°MS°Publisher°°°]

Randall if the women had any ability or knowledge, she would not have come
here asking that type of question. Anybody with a bird brain who knew
anything about DTP software would already know the answer, especially if
they had any experience whatsoever with PageMaker.
Randall, please little boy, toddle of back to the trailer park.

 

[Terje Martinsen]

One piece of experience from Norway:

I (we) have been producing a 48-60 page hobby magazine for the last 4 years.
It is produced by a group of 8 people using all kind of sources for
material.
We have tried PageMaker 6.5, InDesign 1.5 and 2.0 and Publisher 2000, 2002
and now lately 2003.

PageMaker drives me crazy for its lack of "standard" windows behaviour (like
page up/down etc.). Also the changing pagesizes looking thru the document
can make you mad.

InDesign (at least 2.0) is the far best I have tried, but we can not afford
to buy 8 licences. Also it is not the very best at handling large documents.

Publisher 2000 was OK, but the filesizes got HUGE.

Publisher 2002 (XP) fixed that but introduced some features we didn't like
(like the zaggy textboxes).

The two latter was distilled using Acrobat 4.0 and the CMYK-separated by the
printshop. No problems.

Finally 2003 i here (beta). Thanks God!
Just finished of a 60 page all-color magazine to day. Lots of 300 DPI
pictures, some of them covering the whole page.
File size now 112 MB.
It will be distilled using the new 2003 feature "Composite CMYK".
That should make my printer happy, as he would not have to separate my
document.
All that should be necessary would be to feed the CD into the platenaker and
press GO.

Publisher is far the most userfriendly application of the ones mentioned,
which for us means a lot.
Its ability to handle "all" kind of sources from Word to EPS makes it a tool
well worth its price.

Still wonder what my preference is? Publisher 2003, wait for the final
release or by the Beta pack and go!

Regards Terje

 

[Randall Arnold]

More irony (and hypocrisy to boot). You accuse others of possessing a
narrow scope, and yet just look at the ignorant drivel you spout.

Seek help.

Randall Arnold

 

[°°°MS°Publisher°°°]

Randall toddle off back to the trailer park where you belong. You are well
out of your depth here, and you will feel warm and fuzzy and in your comfort
zone back in the trailer park.