Who here Uses Adobe Pagemaker?

[Felon]

I hope you mean InDesign 2.0 and not ImageReady 2.0, as the latter is an image manipulation tool, not a page layout tool with nice table options.

Lol, yeah that's what I meant.

Thanks, guys. Very helpful thread indeed.

 

[Gold Rush Games]

I've been laboring under the assumption that most PDF publishers use some sort of high-end page-layout program to put their publications together, such as Quark Xpress or Adobe Pagemaker. I'm not sure if that's true (you tell me--is it?), but if there's anyone out there using Pagemaker, I'd like to pose a question: how do you usually handle tables?

I've been using PageMaker for years and I've always simply converted any pre-built tables (such as those created in Word or Excel) to tab-separated text and then format that in PageMaker just like the rest of the text.

That's not to say that there isn't a better way to handle those tables, mind you...

 

[Gold Rush Games]

InDesign is super-scriptable if you dig that kind of thing. ...I sort-of had table styles and it only took 1 second (a keyboard shortcut) to apply the "style" to each table. Very sweet in the end.

Hey, that sounds handy!

The more I hear about InDesign the more I think I should upgrade to it.

 

[Bloodstone Press]

I use Adobe pagemaker 7.0. I had a lot of trouble with it when I first got it, as the book and help sections are virtually useless. However, after fooling around with it for a while I've learned that you can copy a table from MS Word and use the Edit->paster special->microsoft word document object tab. It will place the table in adode just as it appears in word.

 

[Felon]

I use Adobe pagemaker 7.0. I had a lot of trouble with it when I first got it, as the book and help sections are virtually useless. However, after fooling around with it for a while I've learned that you can copy a table from MS Word and use the Edit->paster special->microsoft word document object tab. It will place the table in adode just as it appears in word.

Thanks for the tip. Oddly enough, when I attempt this I get an error stating that it can't paste from the clipboard and should make sure the "server is installed properly". What server lol?

InDesign pastes my Word tables perfectly--but as a graphic object, not text. Still, that's not so bad at all.

 

[Bloodstone Press]

Thanks for the tip. Oddly enough, when I attempt this I get an error stating that it can't paste from the clipboard and should make sure the "server is installed properly". What server lol?

I have no idea what server it could mean… Pager Maker still gives me some trouble. Sometimes it cooperates, sometimes not. I’m sure you won’t find any mention of a server in the user guide or the help section either.

InDesign pastes my Word tables perfectly--but as a graphic object, not text. Still, that's not so bad at all.

I did the tables in my first book like that. You’re right, it’s not a bad way to go.