mfi@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Mark Interrante) (10/28/88)
It has been determined that a staff assistant in our department will be in charge of producing a 5 page newsletter for our research group. She knows nothing about the mac but is artistic and computer literate. We have a macII and laserwriterIInt but no software besides WORD 3.02. The newsletter will be conventional with some mac graphics, scanned images, and 2 column text. Which DTP package would be best suited to such an application? Is the thunderscanner high quality enough to reproduce photographs for the newletter or do I need to go to better ($$$) scanner? I have been told that the software on the thunderscanner makes it comparable to the expensive models. The assistant will have to scan the images so it has to be easy to use. Thanks for the help, I will summarize to the net. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Interrante Software Engineering Research Center mfi@beach.cis.ufl.edu CIS Department, University of Florida 32611 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know." Marvin Minsky
chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) (10/28/88)
>It has been determined that a staff assistant in our department will be >in charge of producing a 5 page newsletter for our research group. She >knows nothing about the mac but is artistic and computer literate. PageMaker is standard. Ready, Set, Go! 4.0 is powerful, easier to learn, less expensive and good for multi-page documents such as newsletters (OtherRealms, at 60 pages, is done in RSG. I wouldn't try it in PageMaker prior to 3.0, and I'm not sure how well it would work there yet). >Is the thunderscanner high quality enough to reproduce photographs for the >newletter or do I need to go to better ($$$) scanner? No, It's not. Neither is a 300 DPI scanner unless you want washed out, blurry semi-representations of the original photograph. If it needs to be halftoned, the technology isn't there yet in any affordable scanner. Chuq Von Rospach chuq@sun.COM Delphi: CHUQ Editor/Publisher, OtherRealms
markley@celece.ucsd.edu (Mike Markley) (11/01/88)
In article <75082@sun.uucp> chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) writes: >>Is the thunderscanner high quality enough to reproduce photographs for the >>newletter or do I need to go to better ($$$) scanner? > >No, It's not. Neither is a 300 DPI scanner unless you want washed out, >blurry semi-representations of the original photograph. If it needs to be >halftoned, the technology isn't there yet in any affordable scanner. > >Chuq Von Rospach chuq@sun.COM Delphi: CHUQ >Editor/Publisher, OtherRealms I have owned a Thunderscanner for a long time and have been very happy with the quality of the scan. Since it saves the information as six bit per pixel grayscale it is possible to get very good results when printing. I also would recommend getting Digital Darkroom from Silicon Beach Software. This program allows the user to process the picture then save it as a TIFF file. I have been very impressed with the abilities of Digital Darkroom and would recommend it. Pictures that I have printed to a LaserWriter have been more than adequate for distribution and photocopying. Mike Markley CAE systems Administrator UCSD ECE Dept.