[atlantaprog] Re: CD Booklet / Layout

I echo that about Mac & Quark. Virtually every printer and service 
bureau is Mac based. In fact, about the only places you find people 
using PC's for high-end graphic work are big corporations who do 
everything in house and whose IT departments are scared of Macs! And 
Quark Xpress is the  ONLY page layout program that should be used. 
The only other pro-level page-layout programs, Pagemaker and In 
Design, either aren't understood or supported properly by most 
printers/service bureaus, or simply aren't up to the tasks required 
of them by high-end users.

Ask a question on this list and you'll learn a lot!

>CD Booklet / Layout
>
>I've always done my own work here, so I can't really recomend a graphic
>designer, but I would recomend that you use Imagers (www.imagers.com) for
>professional quality scanning of 35mm negatives.  I have a pretty nice
>scanner, but it's really worth paying $20 or so to have the negatives
>professionally scanned for the best possible picture quality.
>
>Also, decide who you are going to use for manufacturing before you have
>someone setup the booklet.  Each company has different specs for the CD
>booklets and will need them in a specific program.  They have always
>provided me with templates to work with.  So far, they have always been in
>Macintosh format.  Usually they need the file in QuarkExpress for Mac.  I
>suspect other arrangements can be made if you don't have the specific
>program that they need, but I'm not sure because I have always used
>QuarkExpress myself.  If you're calling graphic designers, find out what
>programs they use and if they work on a PC, a Mac or both.
>
>-Wade
>
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