[MacDV] Re: OT: InDesign

[Rick Gordon]

Just for the record: InDesign is a completely new architecture and code 
base from PageMaker.
PageMaker was good, but did have a few limitations that you might 
encounter while doing complex
magazine spreads and other more design-oriented publications - and a 
lot of good ideas from PageMaker made it into InDesign - but make no 
mistake about it - its a completely different program.

Now back to digital video. My local school got a bunch of eMac's today, 
replacing aging Blue & White G3 towers - any good resources for 
elementary school video projects?

On Monday, May 19, 2003, at 07:17  PM, Mark M. Florida wrote:

> On 5/19/03 5:56 PM, "Matthew Guemple" <mo.og at verizon.net> wrote:
> Just a little side note here...
>
> The funny thing about InDesign is that most of the functionality it 
> has was
> in PageMaker... And the "Pros" thought PageMaker was a "toy" -- but I 
> always
> swore by it's significantly greater ease-of-use and more reliable color
> reproduction (from RGB or CMYK TIFF or EPS files)...  I know InDesign 
> has
> lots of cool new features like the ability to place native Photoshop 
> (with
> transparency even) and Illustrator files, but the basic interface is 
> soooo
> much like PageMaker...  Adobe probably decided to add some features and
> change the name of PageMaker to InDesign to thwart off the "anti-pro" 
> stigma
> that went along with PageMaker -- and I never understood why that 
> stigma
> existed...  (Quark snobs gave it a bad wrap 'cause it was too easy, 
> er, um,
> I mean made sense)...
>
> But uh... Enough of the editorial commentary...  InDesign is a *great*
> application!  I don't know if Quark will ever catch up on an 
> ease-of-use and
> feature-set basis...
>