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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scarogoth" data-source="post: 508364" data-attributes="member: 3507">Adobe InDesignHi, all. I thought I'd contribute my own little tuppence to the mix here.I taught myself on and used Quark for years, but managed to get a copy of InDesign 1.0 when it was at a very, very, very special introduction price to tempt users away from Quark's positive stranglehold on the DTP market. Since then, I'm afraid there's been no going back. It's typesetting controls are beyond comparison. The paragraph text setting is flawless, the adoption of OpenType (1024 characters in a font, not just the ASCII set -- so ALL accents, proper small caps, ligatures, exotic, fleurons... the works -- all indispensible to me. The Bookmarks and Acrobat integration -- I don't even have a copy of Acrobat -- don't need it.The use and ability to work with raw Photoshop and Illustrator files, the Mac OS X compatibility... the stunning use and simplicity of tables... the cost... the crap, money-grabbing and running syndrome, let's leave it buggy for five years, and then charge you a $1000 to upgrade your copy of Quark... all very good reasons to make the move, and to do it now!All my Asgards, Four Color to Fantasy, Moon Elves, Death: Guardian of the Gate, Elements of Magic, Tournaments, Fairs and Taverns... all created with just Photoshop and InDesign... same controls, same shortcuts, familiar operating space... all the software you could possibly need.OK. Not cheap... but actually not THAT much more expensive than Office -- and I don't care what anybody says... no version of Word has ever come even CLOSE to being a true typesetting programme. Anyway, very happy talk at greater length if anybody's interested...</blockquote>

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