[BKARTS] Publishers and composition/layout programs

[Katy German <katygerman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ben,

Different publishers publish different books, and textbook publishers don't always publish book in each and every discipline. What you discuss below applies to "hardside" textbook publishers (both el-hi and college); there are about five publishers in the US who do that kind of work (I work for one, Wadsworth - Brooks/Cole Thomson Learning [that name should in itself tell you something about the state of educational publishing]). If you are doing hardside publishing, your composition house (publishers also no longer have compositors in-house) does not use either Quark or InDesign - though as a Production Editor for the "softside" Counseling discipline, the names of those programs that *are* used do not immediately come to mind. I can provide those names tomorrow, if we all want to continue this interesting discussion (I hope Peter doesn't mind that we're not talking bookarts here!)

Katy

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Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 21:01:51 -0700
From: Ben Wiens
Subject: Re: Indesign Vs Pagemaker

I tested out InDesign 1.5. It had no way of using OLE program applets such
as an equation editor, spreadsheet, etc. Also from what I understood there
was no equation editor and such like extras available from Adobe or 3rd
parties at that time. I couldn't figure out how any book or magazine
publisher could use the thing. I mean, don't most publishers do some
textbooks from time to time. I was completely shocked at the lack of
features when I tested version 1.5. At least Pagemaker could do these
things. So has InDesign added some of these capabilities in version 2?

Ben Wiens...applied energy scientist
Ben Wiens Energy Science Inc.
8-1200 Brunette Ave. Coquitlam BC V3K1G3 Canada
Energy Website: http://www.benwiens.com

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