on 9/27/2001 17:15, Michael Bryan Bell at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Oh yes there is something wrong with it. :) If you were doing serious print
> design (maybe you are, if so I apologize) then you would know about the bugs
> pagemaker is rife with compared to quark 3.3.2.

I know about the bugs :)
I run into one on every document I work on. I've found a way to work around
most of them. There's an EPS bug with my PageMaker and my printer that
refuses to print a certain color of blue that one of my clients insists on
using. It's the most maddening thing. I can work around it though. Most of
the documents I create are about 150 pages and have anywhere from 30 to 75
graphics.

> There is a reason why print people still use that version religiously
> (admittedly quark 4 isn't bad now that its patched) and that�s because it is
> consistent and it works, especially printing to film or direct to plate.

I'm just the designer. Where I work it's up to the print house to worry
about how to get the document I create from electronic to printer format. Of
course it helps that a couple of the guys working at the place I send my
stuff to be printed also prefer PageMaker and use it themselves.

> A lot of people really like pagemaker's interface (I happen to prefer
> quark's) and that�s fine... But pagemaker is sorely lacking in a lot of
> areas... Not to mention just the amount of bugs in it.

PageMaker works the way I think. I always feel like I'm fighting to use
Quark.

> Many, many people first learn print using pagemaker because its what schools
> use for cost reasons (quark has like no educational discount compared to
> pagemaker's) but it definetly has issues.

Quark is the most expensive single piece of software I own. It cost more
than my Mac.


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