[austechwriter] Re: All About Indesign -- ASTC Sydney meeting Wednesday
- From: "Sean O'Donoghue-Hayes" <seanodh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 20:21:46 +1000
Curiouser and curiouser....
just today as I was slaving away (cut to shots of slaves dragging large
blocks of stone to top of pyramids) at the magazine where I am doing said
slaving (cut to shot of Metropolis the movie, the guy operating the machine
like the hands of a clock)....and the publisher was
mentioning.....Indesign.....
now I only have this overheard conversation to go on, but if you have any
relationship or work in the publishing industry, or the opportunity to go
along it could be quite beneficial. the publisher's take on Indesign went
something like this:
It has a reputation as a good solid product capable of being used to produce
small to medium size magazines.
It costs (apparently) about $200 odd dollars for a copy.
Quark he stated costs a few thousand dollars (I think he said $4,000).....
He was of the belief that a lot of people who do magazine type work would
soon be changing, if they hadn't already.
So it sounds like a product of the future. Hope this information is of
assistance to someone out there!!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daryl Colquhoun" <atw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 2:50 PM
Subject: [austechwriter] All About Indesign -- ASTC Sydney meeting Wednesday
> InDesign is a page layout and design platform from Adobe, first shipped in
> 1999. At the time at the launch roadshow Adobe people said that they hoped
> it might make a dent in QuarkXPress's user base.
>
> Since then, InDesign has won MacAddict Best Software Product of the Year
and
> many more awards. And by now, according to Nick Hodge of Adobe Systems,
> 'InDesign has stolen the lead from Xpress'. Is it a cross between
> Illustrator and FrameMaker? Is it an alternative to QuarkXPress but at
half
> the price?
>
> And what is its relevance to us technical writers?
>
> Nick Hodge will tell us at the ASTC's next meeting.
>
> Date? Wednesday 27 August 2003.
>
> Time? 6pm.
>
> Where? ... Sydney Mechanics School of Arts, level 1, 280 Pitt Street,
Sydney
> (on the museum side of Pitt Street between Park and Bathurst).
>
> Cost? ...
> $15 for members who book by Monday 21st July.
> $20 for others.
>
> To book, email info at astcnsw dot org dot au, or phone 82507056.
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