Publisher vs MS Word

[Reli]

We are designing our marketing brochures for retail shopping centers using MS Word 2000 for the text/lay-out, MGI Photo Suite for pictures, Map Point for the maps & AUTOCAD for the Site plans (I was told that there's no way Publisher can draw or make changes on site plans)
My question is:
How can publisher do any different? Site plans (from AUTOCAD) & maps (from Map Point) are a must in all our brochures

 

[°°°MS°Publisher°°°]

Publisher is a publishing layout package.
You do your maps in AutoCad or Map Point, export them in WMF or other
suitable raster format, then import them into Publisher for adding the text
and other graphics from MGI PhotoSuite, and do all your layout work.

Publisher with its free form layout is substantially better than Word.
If you use Publisher 2003 it will even do the CMYK conversion for you.

Publisher cannot make changes to your AutoCad or Map Point files, but that
is why you export them for inclusion in a layout program, which is what Desk
Top Publishing is all about - assembling text and graphics from various
sources to be laid out ready for printing.

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We are designing our marketing brochures for retail shopping centers using

MS Word 2000 for the text/lay-out, MGI Photo Suite for pictures, Map Point
for the maps & AUTOCAD for the Site plans (I was told that there's no way
Publisher can draw or make changes on site plans).

My question is:
How can publisher do any different? Site plans (from AUTOCAD) & maps (from

Map Point) are a must in all our brochures.

 

[°°°MS°Publisher°°°]

Publisher is a publishing layout package.
You do your maps in AutoCad or Map Point, export them in WMF or other
suitable raster format, then import them into Publisher for adding the text
and other graphics from MGI PhotoSuite, and do all your layout work.

Publisher with its free form layout is substantially better than Word.
If you use Publisher 2003 it will even do the CMYK conversion for you.

Publisher cannot make changes to your AutoCad or Map Point files, but that
is why you export them for inclusion in a layout program, which is what Desk
Top Publishing is all about - assembling text and graphics from various
sources to be laid out ready for printing.

--

We are designing our marketing brochures for retail shopping centers using

MS Word 2000 for the text/lay-out, MGI Photo Suite for pictures, Map Point
for the maps & AUTOCAD for the Site plans (I was told that there's no way
Publisher can draw or make changes on site plans).

My question is:
How can publisher do any different? Site plans (from AUTOCAD) & maps (from

Map Point) are a must in all our brochures.