Christoph Sch?fer wrote: > Am Freitag, 3. M?rz 2006 04:29 schrieb Asif Lodhi:
[Indesign] >>How good is their documentation from the >>perspective of teaching a complete layman when it comes to DTP? > For lay people insufficient, unfortunately. But there are very good books on > both programs and DTP in general available. If you have a book shop > specialised in computer books in your neighbourhood, try to find out what > suits your needs. Some weeks ago I had to prepare a book (a dozen pages of text and ~70 pages with watercolor paintings and some text). There was no budget for a professional - so I had to jump into the cold water. My experience covers the usual Office-Suite, Linux and Win, Gimp, but never used a DTP-Suite. Beginning from the download of Indesign and Photoshop (the trial versions) it took me ~20 hours to have the result. Half of the time was spent on fine adjusting the pictures (color balance etc.) - I totally underestimated this problem. The second problem was finding a nice layout. Generally Indesign and PS are mostly self-explaining, but with some unusial Usability. Also I had some problems with the used terms. I had a 5 years education at the technical college for reproduction and printing (30 years ago;-) and we had technical English there, but some DTP-terms seem to be younger (US?) jargon. Afterwards I detected Scribus which IMHO can compare with Indesign - hmm ... some features missing. I'm willing to help - nice people, nice project. Helmut Wollmersdorfer
