On 3/8/16 8:08 PM, Ken Blake wrote:
On Tue, 8 Mar 2016 19:29:29 -0700, Ken Springer
wrote:

On 3/8/16 2:06 PM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Ken Springer
writes:
On 3/6/16 10:13 AM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
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I had no idea it still existed as a current product; what exactly does
it _do_? (But then I've not grasped the point of OneNote either, or at
least understood why it's worth the bother.)

Publisher is a page layout program in the vein of Quark Express,
Pagemaker, and others.


Thanks. I thought it was something like that (though I don't know the
last two either). I presume it's more powerful at that than Word etc.'s
own layout abilities.

Quark Express and Pagemaker (now part of CS 7? from Adobe. There are
others just as good as these two, and a variety all the way down to
Publisher. Even a free one called Scribus. Others I know of are
Calamus, Pagestream, Serif Page Plus, Apple's Pages (layout option
probably similar to Word's). Not familiar at all with what's available
in the Apple world other than top of the line and Pages.

I've not played with Word's layout abilities, but can't imagine it's too
impressive. Make me wonder if MS is planning to put the plug on Publisher.



It's been a number of years now, but I used to publish three
newsletters (one of them usually ran around 40 pages) for
organizations I belonged to. I used WordPerfect to produce them, and
it worked very well for me. Would Pagemaker or one of the other top
publishing programs have done a better job? Probably, but it would
have been a much greater effort for me to learn it.

I'm constantly amazed by people. If I were to talk about photo editing,
people immediately think they have to have Photoshop, followed
immediately "It's so expensive." Why don't people say "I wonder if
there's something else that will do what I need and is cheaper?"

The same effect seems to affect every other category of software. CAD?
AutoCad. Office Suite? MS Office. Vector drawing? Corel Draw (for
those that know anything about vector drawing.) And so on.

I haven't used much commercial software in years. There's always a
free/shareware/inexpensive program out there that meets my needs.

Would Microsoft Publisher have done a better job than WordPerfect?
Possibly, but I doubt it.

Agreed. A crayon could do better than Publisher. Now you know what I
think of it. LOL



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