yychow@pasm07.enet.dec.com (yychow) (05/01/91)
Hi Everyone, I came to a point to choose a desktop publishing to do some of my documents. Currently I have two choices, either use Ventura or Pagemaker. Can someone give me some suggestion which one I should use ??? Thanks in advances..., YY ******************************************************************************* * ##### La vida es sueno ##### * * * * Y. Y. Chow yychow@pasm07.enet.dec.com * * ---or--- ...!decwrl!pasm07.enet!yychow * * ---or--- yychow%pasm07.enet@decwrl.dec.com * * * *******************************************************************************
chip@osh3.OSHA.GOV (Chip Yamasaki) (05/01/91)
In <22396@shlump.nac.dec.com> yychow@pasm07.enet.dec.com (yychow) writes: > Hi Everyone, > I came to a point to choose a desktop publishing to do some > of my documents. Currently I have two choices, either use Ventura > or Pagemaker. Can someone give me some suggestion which one I > should use ??? Well, PC Magazine (we won't talk about reliability) had a "shootout" and VP won. The concensus seems to be that if you are doing structured or long documents (more than a couple pages) that VP is better. If you are doing a lot of paste-up, short ads, or flyers, PM is better. Personally, I love VP and would probably like PM if I could ever get the hang of it :-). -- -- Charles "Chip" Yamasaki chip@oshcomm.osha.gov
rick@trlamct.trl.oz.au (Rick Coxhill) (05/03/91)
I use Ventura and Corel Draw. I have no experience with Pagemaker. I nearly always use Corel Draw for single page compositions and multipage compositions where the text does not need to flow from page to page. I recently did an 8 page catalogue in Corel Draw. For single page compositions, Corel Draw is ideal. I have a few hangups about Ventura: There is no "undo" command I don't find it intuitive It cannot do A3 size paper Text cannot flow backwards (try doing a 4 page A5 brochure set up on A4 paper in landscape mode where pages 1 & 4 (of the A5 brochure) are on one Ventura page and pages 3 & 4 (of the A5 brochure) are on another Ventura page AND you need to flow text between all 4 pages of the A4 brochure) You cannot "group" objects You cannot position objects accurately on a page To be fair to Ventura, it is not really designed to do single page compositions. I suspect Pagemaker is better for this. Email: r.coxhill@trlamct.trl.oz.au Fax: 61 3 541 8863 Tel: 61 3 541 6249 Rick Coxhill. Telecom Australia Research Labs. Clayton. Vic. Australia