[comp.text] PC-clone Desktop Publishing. Suggestions Please.

andrew@stl.UUCP (03/16/87)

I shall shortly be taking over the editing of a small quarterly
journal.  It has previously been put together with pagemaker on a mac,
but that private machine is no longer available.

For hardware the PC-clones are readily available to many potential
contributers, so what I would like is a suggestion for an appropriate
package for putting together a 40-page journal, starting from plain
acsii un-marked-up text files.

Ideally I want to work in a two-column format, and need to be able to
set space to paste in photographs, and drawings (hand, rather than machine
generated).

This is NOT a request for PD or Shareware software, (although that
would be nice), and at the other limit, I don't think the club is
prepared to exceed #1,000 for software, I will happily accept
flyers from any commercial distributor of appropriate software.  To
this end, if you want to use the Royal Mails, please respond to the
address below.

Andrew Macpherson
7 Davies St.
Hertford, Herts.
England SG13 7BU.
-- 
Regards,
	Andrew Macpherson.  <andrew@tcom.stc.co.uk>  {backbone}!ukc!stc!andrew
Note new phone No:(+44 279) 626626 ext.2769

patwood@unirot.UUCP (Patrick Wood) (03/18/87)

You may want to look at Pagemaker on the PC, as well as Ventura Publisher
(Xerox sells this one in the US), The Harvard Professional Publisher, and
Ready, Set, Go.

The March Issue of Personal Publishing has an article on these programs.

Pat Wood
bellcore!phw5!phw

jaxom@hpclla.UUCP (03/19/87)

I just finished installing, configuring, and debugging our Desktop Publishing
workstations here at HP.  Even after some minor problems getting the LaserJet+
to talk parallel I can most confidently recommend the following configuration:

HP Vectra PC (or PC clone with EGA graphics)
MicroSoft Windows  (required by PageMaker)
PageMaker
Mouse, etc.
HP LaserJet+ or Apple LaserWriter+

That will do the job with the best results.  There are a number of options
that PageMaker supports, but I can't comment on the various configurations
of hardware.

(Personally, I've been using a MacPlus, PageMaker, and a LaserWriter.  Still,
if you can't have that then the PC solution above is the next best thing.)

Good luck,

Lance Saleme
Hewlett-Packard
Commercial Systems Division Marketing