- Corel or InDesign?
- Posted by titani on July 7th, 2008
Hello,
I used Corel Draw for a number of years. I have a new project and I
need to upgrade. I am thinking about InDesign. Is InDesign the way
to go?
T.I.
- Posted by whoisthatmaskedman@hotmail.com on July 7th, 2008
On Jul 6, 8:08 pm, titani <tit...@airmail.net> wrote:
I'm a faithful user of Quark since 3.1. I'm sorry to say that you
should go with inDesign. In the long run that will be the most
benificial to you.
Good luck with your future efforts.
Drew
- Posted by Fred Doyle on July 7th, 2008
titani wrote:
Corel and InDesign are not really comparable programs. If you need a
good page layout program, InDesign is the way I would go. If you need a
vector illustration program with some type layout capability Corel is
fine. If you need both, some version of Creative Suite with both
Illustrator and and InDesign would be my suggestion. HTH.
Fred
- Posted by titani on July 8th, 2008
On Jul 7, 6:06 am, Fred Doyle <fdoy...@nycap.rr.com> wrote:
Hi Fred,
I have been using Corel for page layouts, and nothing else, and I do
not think I ever missed anything. Yet I never used anything more
powerful. I wanted to import PDF files into Corel, but Corel
complained. I downloaded the trial version of InDesign, and it loaded
the PDF files well. So, maybe I need to do some reading about
InDesign, to know its capabilities.
Thanks,
T.I.
- Posted by Onideus Mad Hatter on July 8th, 2008
On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 18:55:31 -0700 (PDT), titani <titani@airmail.net>
wrote:
....how the fuck are you using Corel for page layouts? Those must be
some *REAL* sloppy fuckin layouts. *nods* That's liak trying to use
a pair of scissors as a lawnmower.
--
Onideus Mad Hatter
mhm ¹ x ¹
http://www.backwater-productions.net
http://www.backwater-productions.net/hatter-blog
Hatter Quotes
-------------
"You're only one of the best if you're striving to become one of the
best."
"I didn't make reality, Sunshine, I just verbally bitch slapped you
with it."
"I'm not a professional, I'm an artist."
"Your Usenet blinders are my best friend."
"Usenet Filters - Learn to shut yourself the fuck up!"
"Drugs killed Jesus you know...oh wait, no, that was the Jews, my
bad."
"There are clingy things in the grass...burrs 'n such...mmmm..."
"The more I learn the more I'm killing my idols."
"Is it wrong to incur and then use the hate ridden, vengeful stupidity
of complete strangers in random Usenet froups to further my art?"
"Freedom is only a concept, like race it's merely a social construct
that doesn't really exist outside of your ability to convince others
of its relevancy."
"Next time slow up a lil, then maybe you won't jump the gun and start
creamin yer panties before it's time to pop the champagne proper."
"Reality is directly proportionate to how creative you are."
"People are pretty fucking high on themselves if they think that
they're just born with a soul. *snicker*...yeah, like they're just
givin em out for free."
"Quible, quible said the Hare. Quite a lot of quibling...everywhere.
So the Hare took a long stare and decided at best, to leave the rest,
to their merry little mess."
"There's a difference between 'bad' and 'so earth shatteringly
horrible it makes the angels scream in terror as they violently rip
their heads off, their blood spraying into the faces of a thousand
sweet innocent horrified children, who will forever have the terrible
images burned into their tiny little minds'."
"How sad that you're such a poor judge of style that you can't even
properly gauge the artistic worth of your own efforts."
"Those who record history are those who control history."
"I am the living embodiment of hell itself in all its tormentive rage,
endless suffering, unfathomable pain and unending horror...but you
don't get sent to me...I come for you."
"Ideally in a fight I'd want a BGM-109A with a W80 250 kiloton
tactical thermonuclear fusion based war head."
"Tell me, would you describe yourself more as a process or a
function?"
"Apparently this group has got the market cornered on stupid.
Intelligence is down 137 points across the board and the forecast
indicates an increase in Webtv users."
"Is my .sig delimiter broken? Really? You're sure? Awww,
gee...that's too bad...for YOU!" `, )
- Posted by MindBrain on July 8th, 2008
"Onideus Mad Hatter" <usenet@backwater-productions.net> wrote in message
news:tgs574p542dmcp9ot8ovpjrculibu88bgh@4ax.com...
You dont know shit about layout so shut up wannabe
- Posted by Fred Doyle on July 8th, 2008
titani wrote:
I really haven't used Corel for much recently, since I've switched to AI
as my vector illustration program of choice. I have Corel 12 on my
machine right now, so I may not be up on its latest capabilities.
However, the longer the document, the less likely I was to want to use
Corel for layout. Brochures, a 4-page newsletter, no problem, but a 64
page document was a pain the last time I even thought about Corel.
Last I knew, Corel didn't really support things like predefined
paragraph and box styles, being able to set up sequential styles (e.g.
after a headline, the next paragraph will automatically have a drop cap
of the following style), multiple page masters, automatic page
numbering, running headers and footers, etc. It may be capable of these
kinds of things now, I don't know.
InDesign is a true page layout program. It is meant to assemble for
publication a wide variety of assets from a variety of other sources. I
have even used it to import a pre-tagged XML file and parse the file
into a layout automatically.
It really depends on what kind of layout you are doing, and Corel may
have improved its layout capability for longer documents, for all I
know. I would suggest you download the free trial version of InDesign
and see what it can do, though.
Fred
- Posted by Onideus Mad Hatter on July 8th, 2008
On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 01:46:58 -0500, "MindBrain" <someone@microsoft.com>
wrote:
Get the fuck off my leg you amateur, Hatter Addict.
--
Onideus Mad Hatter
mhm ¹ x ¹
http://www.backwater-productions.net
http://www.backwater-productions.net/hatter-blog
Hatter Quotes
-------------
"You're only one of the best if you're striving to become one of the
best."
"I didn't make reality, Sunshine, I just verbally bitch slapped you
with it."
"I'm not a professional, I'm an artist."
"Your Usenet blinders are my best friend."
"Usenet Filters - Learn to shut yourself the fuck up!"
"Drugs killed Jesus you know...oh wait, no, that was the Jews, my
bad."
"There are clingy things in the grass...burrs 'n such...mmmm..."
"The more I learn the more I'm killing my idols."
"Is it wrong to incur and then use the hate ridden, vengeful stupidity
of complete strangers in random Usenet froups to further my art?"
"Freedom is only a concept, like race it's merely a social construct
that doesn't really exist outside of your ability to convince others
of its relevancy."
"Next time slow up a lil, then maybe you won't jump the gun and start
creamin yer panties before it's time to pop the champagne proper."
"Reality is directly proportionate to how creative you are."
"People are pretty fucking high on themselves if they think that
they're just born with a soul. *snicker*...yeah, like they're just
givin em out for free."
"Quible, quible said the Hare. Quite a lot of quibling...everywhere.
So the Hare took a long stare and decided at best, to leave the rest,
to their merry little mess."
"There's a difference between 'bad' and 'so earth shatteringly
horrible it makes the angels scream in terror as they violently rip
their heads off, their blood spraying into the faces of a thousand
sweet innocent horrified children, who will forever have the terrible
images burned into their tiny little minds'."
"How sad that you're such a poor judge of style that you can't even
properly gauge the artistic worth of your own efforts."
"Those who record history are those who control history."
"I am the living embodiment of hell itself in all its tormentive rage,
endless suffering, unfathomable pain and unending horror...but you
don't get sent to me...I come for you."
"Ideally in a fight I'd want a BGM-109A with a W80 250 kiloton
tactical thermonuclear fusion based war head."
"Tell me, would you describe yourself more as a process or a
function?"
"Apparently this group has got the market cornered on stupid.
Intelligence is down 137 points across the board and the forecast
indicates an increase in Webtv users."
"Is my .sig delimiter broken? Really? You're sure? Awww,
gee...that's too bad...for YOU!" `, )
- Posted by Fred Doyle on July 8th, 2008
MindBrain wrote:
expert on something?
Why bother? People who do know, recognize him for what he is. I believe
Drew nailed it with "fraud" above. This is Usenet. He's hardly the only
one. Anyone can post.
Fred
