Indesign questions
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- imavery
I was wondering if someone could give me a run down of the advantages of using InDesign to Quark. I have used Pagemaker way back when, is indesign basically the new pagemaker? Thanks in advance. Sorry, I know there have been previous threads.
- NegativeSpace0
Advantage no.1
Full OpenType support in Indesign.
- tank0
advantage 2
use illustrator and photshop files.in the new indesign you can even select wich layers you want.
advantage 3
it looks like illu and potoshop. same shortcuts, etc...
- Beech0
Advantage 3
Good transperancy flattening and plate seperation preview inside inDesign
... this is starting to sound like an adobe advertisment
- honest0
you can zoom more than Quark's crappy 800% in Indesign, the image preview is more crisp and helps with positioning. You can undo everything you do in Indesign, quark won't undo anything to do with page repositioning and will most certainly crash more frequently than indesign. oh it's also cheaper i think
- forcetwelve0
has to be cut and paste vector art into indesign files.
- MrT0
But make sure you check with your printer they can take InDesign files. Not much good desigining for print that you can't get printed...
- Beech0
I don't usually print the indd just use PDFX
- agentfour0
they dont need to take indesign. Just export to eps and distill to pdf. much easier that quark
- johndiggity0
^
native pdf export.
- Typographica0
There is no reason to use Quark.
- radar0
unlimited undo's.
- imavery0
thanks for all of the info, I guess I won't waist my disk space with quark.
- Rand0
much better type/spacing controls; infinitely more eptions for dealing with imported artwork and how it interacts with InDesign elements. Dragging artwork from desktop onto page, easily cropping/scaling from there... I've started using it for a lot of what I used to consider to be Illustrator type jobs
- imavery0
Oh yeah, most importantly, which is more in demand for jobs in everyone's observations?
- Stir0
Hi di Hi!!
I started a new job in an agency which uses indesign. I had never used the package before and its a sinch. I did worry about the type thing as i feel it wasnt really built for it like quark but that doubt is fading!! In design is growing on me!
People souldn't b affraid of learning a new package its good to learn. Sides gotta keep up with dem wipper snappers at your heals!!