I see that this forum is really slowing down.

[Nohjekim]

I remember when there was a lot of activity on this forum.

I assume that this is an indication that everyone is changing over to Indesign.

I guess it is about time that I do that as well.

This only reason that I haven't done so before is that I have many people that I work with that still use PageMaker but I guess that handwriting is on the screen so to speak.

I did try Indesign (I have version 1) when it first came out but I found that at that time it wasn't supported around here, by printers or service providers so I switched back and never went to it again.

Anyone know if Indesign has a way of printing fold marks?

Mike

 

[carlow]

Hi Nohjekim,

In InDesign you can define a slug area. This area is often used for fold marks. When creating a pdf you can include this area and you can put a slug area at the top, bottom, left and right of your page.

And yes I was also a bit reluctant to upgrade to InDesign (I still have 1.5 version of Aldus Pagemaker) but it is realy worth it, although I wouldn't use the 1.0 version. That version really sucks. The lowest version I would use is 2.2, but a CS version is even better. Much more stable, and very good typesetting features.

Good luck with the switch
carlow

 

[BionicJohn]

PageMaker has been left to die a slow death by Adobe; there's no serious development since about 1997. PM7 was really PM6.6, and the other updates were to make sure PM could survive on WinXP and to integrate PM with more recent versions of Distiller. PM will become extinct with the next major stepforward in OSs - both from Mac and MS.

The only people who think about buying/using PM are those who want something more sophisticated and refined than MS Publisher (or Word!), but have little understanding page layout practices, graphics formats, Postscript and CMYK. And even then the advice to them is get InDesign if they have any aspirations in that direction and want a product with a future.

Now is the time take full advantage of the PM Lience number for a discounted move to InDesignCS - before Adobe withdraw it -
"Now available:
"Adobe InDesign CS2 PageMaker Upgrade (Windows) English £289.00 + VAT = £339.57

"To successfully install Adobe InDesign CS2 PageMaker Upgrade, you will need to provide a valid Adobe PageMaker serial number during the installation process."

While PM will produce excellent output, InDesign is where it's at. Why drive an MGB when a Peugeot 307CC outperforms it in every way?

PM's going the same way as PageMill - forum228

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[Nohjekim]

Hi Big John

I guess the time has come.

I have a registered copy of InDesign 1.5 on my computer so I can just upgrade to CS2.
I just looked it up and I can get the upgrade from Adobe for $169 US.

The reason that I’m not using the copy that I have is that when I first got It, I did a new menu for one of my clients and then discovered that no one in my area supported it, not even Kinko’s. I switched back to PageMaker, and had to redo the entire job. I just never got around to switching back to it again. I’ll still have to use PageMaker for all the menus that I update since I found that opening them in InDesign really fouls up the formatting.

I am going to upgrade to a new computer before the end of the year so I may wait until then to avoid having to get it reauthenticated on the new computer.

See you on the InDesign forum…

Mike

 

[Nohjekim]

PS.

Thanks for the info Carlow I'll check it out as soon as I get InDesign CS2.

Mike