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There are quite a few different applications on the market for Desktop Publishing and Design. Here, we will explain what each application is used for.
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| Layout & Design |
| Adobe InDesign |
layout software good for brochures, single paged fliers, books, and complicated design work. Has more image manipulation and drawing capabilities than the average layout software.
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| Adobe PageMaker |
layout software good for brochures, single paged fliers, books, and complicated design work. Not as involved as Quark and a little more user friendly. (No real drawing capabilities.)
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| QuarkXPress |
layout software good for brochures, single paged fliers, books, and complicated design work. Has more image manipulation and drawing capabilities than the average layout software.
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| Microsoft Publisher |
layout software for brochures, single paged fliers. Not as involved as Quark. (No real drawing capabilities.) Supported only for CopyCenter or color print jobs. Any Publisher files presented for offset printing will be converted to PageMaker, InDesign or QuarkXPress at the customers cost.
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| Illustration & Graphic Art |
| Adobe Illustrator |
Illustration software, excellent for line art, logo design, and graphic illustration. Great tools for line drawings and dynamic blending, type on a path, and has all the Photoshop filters available as well.
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| Macromedia Freehand |
Illustration software, excellent for line art, logo design, and graphic illustration. Great tool for line drawings and dynamic blending, type on a path. Also has more vector blending/gradient capabilities than Illustrator, but is less user-friendly.
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| Adobe Photoshop |
Digital manipulation and imaging software. Allows the complicated manipulation of photos and digital images via filters, and dynamic tools. Very good for image retouching and color correcting of photos.
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| Adobe Acrobat |
Digital document creation and viewing software. Allows one to convert single paged, and multiple paged documents into a digital format for use on the web/trouble shooting problem documents.
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| Adobe Streamline |
Computer graphics tool, that allows us to convert a bitmap image to a vector graphic (composed of paths).
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| MS Word |
Word processing software created by Microsoft. Great for word processing. Limitations in software make it difficult to do proper, efficient layout.
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| MS PowerPoint |
Presentation software created by Microsoft. Great for creating slides/transparencies for a presentation. Limitations in the software prevent this from being an efficient layout program.
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| MS Excel |
Database software created by Microsoft. Great for creating databases and graphs. Limitations in the software prevent this from being an efficient layout program.
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