Subject: Re:XSL FOs -> PDF using InDesign From: KAREN_LEICHEL@xxxxxxxx Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 14:57:08 -0600 |
One thing I don't understand in all this discussion is why you would even want to use InDesign. If you ask technical writers to use InDesign, you're asking for trouble. InDesign more closely has the capabilities of Quark XPress than of Frame. Quark and InDesign are for display advertising layout which can be used for web layout, but why use a tank to do a jeep's job? You still have to have Photoshop and Illustrator to do the heavy-duty graphic fixes, so you're into major money and memory to do these things. The fact that InDesign is a "good" layout engine will not be enough. My background before coming to tech writing was in graphics, and more specifically display advertising layout. I keep up with what's going on in that area. When I looked at the kind of computer that was needed to run InDesign, I immediately thought that Quark probably shouldn't be worrying as much as they are. I don't know many design houses that are running Windows 98 (necessary for InDesign), Pentium II 300+ mghz (also necessary for InDesign) machines. My experience is that tech writers and graphic artists in companies tend to be the last ones to be upgraded. I have the newest computer in my tech writing group and it will not meet the stated requirements of InDesign. Plus, it's going to be a long time before we go to Windows98. Most graphic designers I know are running Macs that won't meet the stated requirements for InDesign. Quark's requirements are far more reasonable. I certainly am not upgrading my computers just to use InDesign. The only thing it really has going for it is that Adobe is pushing it. And where Adobe goes, graphic artist's eventually go. For the record, at home I use a far superior product called PageStream. It is as powerful as InDesign and Frame put together (long and short document work) and has bundled a bitmap editor (like Photshop), a vector graphics program (like Illustator), and a text editor together with the most powerful layout program I've ever seen. I rarely have to go outside of PageStream to do anything. I'm running it on a 13 year old Amiga with 10.5 mg of RAM and a 200 mg hard drive, and paid less than $200 for the program plus a number of extensions. I'm also running it on an iMac and that program cost me $25 dollars. Karey Leichel United Defense ____________________Reply Separator____________________ Subject: XSL FOs -> PDF using InDesign Author: Eric Muller <emuller@xxxxxxxxx> Date: 10/21/99 10:32 AM Has anybody given thoughts on using Adobe InDesign as the layout engine to go from FOs to PDF? It looks like InDesign is both a good layout engine, and "easy" to extend. Thanks, Eric. PS: Yes, I work for Adobe. No, this is a personal question. XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list Received: from portal.udlp.com ([192.169.4.225]) by ccmail.udlp.com with SMTP (IMA Internet Exchange 3.12) id 000AC499; Thu, 21 Oct 1999 13:16:07 -0500 Received: from portal.udlp.com (root@localhost) by portal.udlp.com with ESMTP id NAA01668 for <KAREN_LEICHEL@xxxxxxxx>; Thu, 21 Oct 1999 13:21:03 -0500 (CDT) Received: from web4-1.ability.net (web4-1.ability.net [216.32.69.9]) by portal.udlp.com with ESMTP id NAA01664 for <KAREN_LEICHEL@xxxxxxxx>; Thu, 21 Oct 1999 13:21:02 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mulberrytech.com by web4-1.ability.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA03805 Thu, 21 Oct 1999 13:14:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by mulberrytech.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA03803 Thu, 21 Oct 1999 13:14:45 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <380F4E30.D9D6E279@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 10:32:33 -0700 From: Eric Muller <emuller@xxxxxxxxx> Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: XSL FOs -> PDF using InDesign Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Precedence: bulk Reply-To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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