John Rumm wrote:
On 05/03/2012 17:16, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Adrian C wrote:

Meanwhile, my niece has been exposed to Microsoft Publisher at school
:-(

Before the Software For Students deals, Publisher was a stupefyingly
expensive package to buy for home practice use, and hence was pirated
about widely.

One could argue it was hardly worth paying for...

And isn't a patch on Quark anwyay.

InDesign seems to be sweeping that away now... they rested too long
relying on their position as "industry standard"!


InDesign is actually crap, but its geared to people who don't actually
know any better.

And of course its 'good enough'

Quark is instantly accessible to someone coming from hot metl
typesetting who understands things like proper kerning and spacing, and
so on. But you don't get far in Quark without spending time setting up
your templates. Once you have done that, though, the whole book has a
nice common style.

InDesign is more like Word plus..



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To people who know nothing, anything is possible.
To people who know too much, it is a sad fact
that they know how little is really possible -
and how hard it is to achieve it.