Are we going to hell in a handbasket?

Subject: Are we going to hell in a handbasket?
From: "Tracy Boyington" <tracy_boyington -at- okcareertech -dot- org>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 16:20:28 -0600

Background: We produce relatively long (over 100 pages) documents, black and white, not particularly graphic-intensive. We have an in-house print shop and art department. They use Macs. We write. We use Windows. We (docs, art, printing) have all used Quark XPress for several years, and have had lots of problems with cross-platform compatability (especially fonts). Now that we send PDF files to the print shop instead of XPress files, we were recently able to add PageMaker (both platforms) to the mix.

Today's news: We are meeting next week to discuss replacing PageMaker and possibly XPress with the new InDesign package. Again, one of our major issues is font compatability.

And now for Tracy's questions:

(1) Anybody have experience with InDesign? Care to share kudos or pitfalls?
(2) Any expert opinions on the Mac vs Windows font issue? Are there secrets we just don't know?

Please don't tell me we should use Frame. That is Not An Option.

Thanks for any input
Tracy

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Tracy Boyington tracy_boyington -at- okcareertech -dot- org
Oklahoma Department of Career & Technology Education
Stillwater, OK http://www.okcareertech.org/cimc
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