atw: Re: Product of choice
- From: "Warren Lewington" <wjlewington@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 20:44:36 +1000
This is my first week using CS2.
I will be looking for a course ASAP.
I have taught myself Word, WP, Corel, RoboHelp, HDK/XDK, Dreamweaver, HTML,
Illustrator, Photoshop and the list goes on.
CS2 is a mighty beastie.
Pagemaker is not really being updated or refreshed anymore, so it is not
representative of the future. From what I have seen so far, the bullets etc
are better.
Warren.
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From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Christine
Birtley-Kent
Sent: Thursday, 2 June 2005 11:12
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: Product of choice
Warren, or anyone else who has used PageMaker and InDesign CS2.
With my vast experience of working for one day with PageMaker 7, I can see
that there are some serious mind-set issues to overcome when moving from
word processing to publishing software, and one of the major ones is its
poor text handling.
So question 1 - has CS2 actually solved some of the uglinesses, such
cumbersome bullets and tables? The advertising seems to imply lots of
improved graphics handling, and some improvements to text handling, but
perhaps not enough?
However, I note that it now supports XML - so left field question 2 - is it
planned for CS2 to replace FrameMaker down the track?
Question 3 - I normally don't go to courses - I expect to just pick things
up, but if the learning curve is steep, would a course be worthwhile to get
my mind on the right track for desktop publishing? Has anyone done a CS2
course?
Christine
-----Original Message-----
From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
warren.lewington@xxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, 1 June 2005 10:10 AM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: Product of choice
As long as your hardware can deal with it (it eats RAM and memory), Adobe
CS2 would be the best shot.
It has GoLive for Online presentation (I have yet to use it extensively)
as well as InDesign.
There is also a form designer, a file or document tracking system and of
course, PhotoShop and Illustrator.
The learning curve is high. And reference books seem to be thin on the
ground at the moment too. However, it is a high demand skill to have in
the market...
An upgrade version should work. If you are using Pagemaker for large
documents then you are also going to be struggling.
Warren Lewington
Technical Writer
Metso Minerals
Arndell Park, Sydney.
NSW, Australia.
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