[X4U] os9 to osX migration for magazine

[Lynne Culp]

Last year was my 2nd year of high school yearbook production.  Because 
of a grant, we switched all our eMacs to OSX Jaguar and InDesign.  We 
basically did production on 8 machines, and the difference was night 
and day.  We had almost no shutdowns the entire year, reserving most of 
our problems for digital photo processing which was a high learning 
curve for all of us.  But, I must say...25 kids put computers and OSX 
through their paces.  End result was quite beautiful.  I learned a lot 
about InDesign and building on PageMaker experience ... met my 
deadlines (with the help of Visual QuickStart Guide).  IMHO there is no 
comparison between production on 9 versus 10.  I kissed the computers 
every Friday on my way out the door.




On Aug 3, 2004, at 2:07 PM, Kansas Territory wrote:

> Just wondering if there's anyone on this list, who has made or helped 
> make the migration from OS9 to OSX as far as dealing with something 
> like an art department for a monthly magazine.
>
> I'm just talking about 4 or 5 people here, using PageMaker for the 
> most part.   In the end, they create PDF files of their pages to send 
> to their printer.
>
> I've tried to get them to migrate to OSX, but they claim costs as a 
> problem, like buying multiple copies of Adobe InDesign.. which I've 
> considered buying for them and  training them on.. if I could just get 
> them off OS9 and all it's damn problems.
>
> I was just wondering if there were any such success stories out there. 
> Anyone who had to switch from PageMaker to Indesign ?  or some other 
> page layout program to run in OSX ?
>
> Kansas
>
>
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