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by **Soultru** » Sun, 14 Jun 1998 04:00:00

I need help deciding on a good Desktop Publishing App, maybe some of you
can make suggestions. My needs are simple, I just want a program that I can
add text over images, photos and graphics, and when printed everything will
look good, especially the text.

I love Photoshop for manipulating and enhancing images but whenever I try
to insert text and print it out, the text looks like crap, so I'm pretty
sure Photoshop isn't the right thing for that. I need to import the stuff
into other apps for that purpose. I just need something that is good for
making flyers, signs, CD covers, etc. . .

Thanks for any help,

Soultruck

by **Leyth** » Sun, 14 Jun 1998 04:00:00

[This followup was posted to comp.graphics.apps.pagemaker and a copy
was sent to the cited author.]

In article <soultruck-

Quote:> I need help deciding on a good Desktop Publishing App, maybe some of you
> can make suggestions. My needs are simple, I just want a program that I can
> add text over images, photos and graphics, and when printed everything will
> look good, especially the text.

> I love Photoshop for manipulating and enhancing images but whenever I try
> to insert text and print it out, the text looks like crap, so I'm pretty
> sure Photoshop isn't the right thing for that. I need to import the stuff

Nope, I'd bet that the images you are printing are low resolution and
the text looks like *because of that.... If the image is being
printed on a typical home printer (ink jet or cheap laser) then you
should use about 300 dpi for the image and the text should look fine.

Quote:> into other apps for that purpose. I just need something that is good for
> making flyers, signs, CD covers, etc. . .

You could always use MS Word... You can import the images you create
in PS (after you save them to an importable format) and add text and
other graphics on top / behind as desired.... Word may already be on
your machine..... If not, try MS Publisher... It's cheap and easy to
use for that type of stuff - I think it even has CD Cover templates.

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by **Webmaste** » Mon, 15 Jun 1998 04:00:00

Maybe Pagemaker might be worth a try.

Larry Haydn

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by **Igor Ermolae** » Mon, 15 Jun 1998 04:00:00

> I need help deciding on a good Desktop Publishing App, maybe some of
> you
> can make suggestions. My needs are simple, I just want a program that
> I can
> add text over images, photos and graphics, and when printed everything
> will
> look good, especially the text.
> +MAA-

There is a special class of software for page layout composition.
QuarkXPress 4.02 - for making very complex, but not very big
publications generally "by hand". Useful for newspapers, magazines,
advertising sheets etc.
Adobe PageMaker 6.5 - for making less complex, but big and very big
publication layouts such as books. Strong scripting addition makes
possible using PM as "automatic layout system".
Adobe Frame Maker 5.5 - for making documents of very complex information
structure (complex cross-reference srtuctured, for example) such as
technical or science reports.
All these systems created to use raster and vector images as
illustrative material and have great tools for text and layout
processing.

by **Pinnacl** » Mon, 15 Jun 1998 04:00:00

Try Microsoft Publisher. You can download a 30 day free trial version
(full function) from microsoft.com. It's a good program when your needs
don't call for more advanced DTP features in PM or Quark. It also costs
a fraction of the other two.

Ron Cohen

by **qwert** » Mon, 15 Jun 1998 04:00:00

I do not download MS products, if I wish to evalute them I go to their site
and place a request for a free cd, which they promptly send me (to date
Publisher98, Project98, Frontpage98 with Image Composer etc etc. It is also
a source of latest dll's...just say you are a company.

by **G S Batchelo** » Mon, 15 Jun 1998 04:00:00

For what you describe, I would opt for Microsoft Publisher. It is simple,
cheap and will alow you to do simple color seps. Street price is about $75
at last check.

Quote:> I need help deciding on a good Desktop Publishing App, maybe some of you
> can make suggestions. My needs are simple, I just want a program that I
can
> add text over images, photos and graphics, and when printed everything
will
> look good, especially the text.

> I love Photoshop for manipulating and enhancing images but whenever I try
> to insert text and print it out, the text looks like crap, so I'm pretty
> sure Photoshop isn't the right thing for that. I need to import the stuff
> into other apps for that purpose. I just need something that is good for
> making flyers, signs, CD covers, etc. . .

> Thanks for any help,

> Soultruck

by **aardvark** » Thu, 18 Jun 1998 04:00:00

Microsoft Publisher ate my C: drive when I tried to uninstall it. It was
NTFS, if that makes any difference, and ScanDisk was unhelpful; NT Setup
said it was a corrupted partition and I had to reformat...

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Try Microsoft Publisher. You can download a 30 day free trial version
(full function) from microsoft.com.

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