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Open Office - an assessment
worker201:
InDesign.
Aloone_Jonez:
Pay $699?
Just to insert a bloody table!
Fuck that, I'd rather use OpenOffice or even MS Office.
worker201:
I happen to have legally gotten InDesign (and Photoshop and Acrobat Pro) almost for free when I purchased a CS3 package to get Illustrator. Special packaging and education discounts stack nicely together, I think. But you're not seeing the bigger picture. InDesign is just what I would use. I am sure there are full-featured layout programs out there that are free (TeX comes to mind), or reasonably priced. So why would someone want to use a set of barely implemented half-assed layout features that are included with their word processor? Again, it's part of Microsoft's evil genius in marketing to business. They know that business owners would rather buy 1 piece of software than 2, or a suite instead of 5 programs. So they took the bottom 10% of like 15 applications and crammed them into Word. And for many businesses, this works well enough 80% of the time, so it's a decent investment. My point is simply that this is bad for everyone in the long run. People who add tables to Word documents don't learn desktop publishing - they learn to add tables to Word documents. Doing it in InDesign is fucklots harder, but ultimately more rewarding - you have greater control of your layout, and you learn principles that apply to a wide variety of cases.
To put it another way - to a person who only has a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. Versatility of tools makes for better carpenters.
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