Austin Improv

Hey everybody with any computer savvy-ness,

The AIC Scheduling committee is in need of a personal copy of some softward so the schedule can be worked out at home, on a personal computer, rather than on a borrowed/pirated computer on company time.

The preferred software program is Adobe PageMaker. However, PageMaker has been discontinued as of about a year ago, and the new replacement program is Adobe InDesign. Though I have heard that the first version of InDesign with the Adobe Creative Suite is not so great, and the more compatible version to those who know and like PageMaker is the edition in Adobe Creative Suite 2.

So if you've got Adobe CS2 or your own personal copy of PageMaker that our dedicated scheduling person could install on his home PC, please let us know. Thanks!

(Dave B, correct me if anything in this posting is wrong. You've got a PC, not a Mac, right? And it is PageMaker you seek?)

I think I have pagemaker 6 installation cd with code somewhere... i'll dig it up later today

I have Adobe CS1.

Email me at brian dot boyko at gmail dot com.

I've got a mac pirated copy of Indesign.

FYI, pagemaker sucks. Indesign and Quark are the industry standards.

That was an annoying nerd thing to say.

Jastroch wrote:I've got a mac pirated copy of Indesign.

FYI, pagemaker sucks. Indesign and Quark are the industry standards.

That was an annoying nerd thing to say.

I'll go you one better, or at least nerdier. Each updated version of Indesign sucks worse than the previous. At least from a developer's point of view.

I have Indesign 2.0.2 on my apple.

I used Scribus for the programs I made earlier this year.

Upsides: Easy to use, pretty output, no monetary cost, and I didn't have to steal anything.

Downside: Only available on linux. Maybe Mac. Maybe.

It's easy & cheap to add a second drive to an existing PC and dual-boot into linux without mangling Windows, but there's a learning curve (ph34r t3h p3n6u1n! PH34R!!!) that most people won't want to deal with. Just sayin'...

arclight wrote: ph34r t3h p3n6u1n! PH34R!!!

You win.

arclight wrote: Downside: Only available on linux. Maybe Mac. Maybe.

Scribus is available for Windows and OSX, from the website you linked.

actually i was looking for microsoft publisher. for micrsoft office xp

But if Adobe pagemaker is better, i'd take that too.

arclight wrote:I used Scribus for the programs I made earlier this year.

Upsides: Easy to use, pretty output, no monetary cost, and I didn't have to steal anything.

Downside: Only available on linux. Maybe Mac. Maybe.

It's easy & cheap to add a second drive to an existing PC and dual-boot into linux without mangling Windows, but there's a learning curve (ph34r t3h p3n6u1n! PH34R!!!) that most people won't want to deal with. Just sayin'...

Scribus is available for PC.

Roy Janik wrote:Scribus is available for Windows and OSX, from the website you linked.

Holy crap! I figured they be able to migrate it eventually but I didn't expect it'd happen so soon.

This doesn't solve Dave's problem of getting a copy of Publisher to work on his existing Publisher files, which I think was the original problem. Still, it's nice to know there's a functional cross-platform solution that doesn't involve thievery.

I keep forgetting everyone here works in software development. I shant encourage piracy any more, my good friends. But I will say that Quark and Indesign (to a lesser extent), while pricey and a little less geared towards the casual user, make for nicer, more professional layouts.

If one of the people who has InDesign could bring it to the General Meeting today, I would greatly appreciate it. I will be the one with the Mac laptop and the face of longing.