ok guys/gals- working on my architecture thesis, need a new program and am tied between: Corel Ventura 10 and Indesign CS2
what do you all think?

For graphics editing, I use Photo-Paint 12 -Corels match to Photoshop
it is more userfriendly, and interfaces well with cad programs which photoshop ignores.

thanks, Justin

 

Corel?

Wow. Didnt know they were still in business. I havent heard of anyone loading Corel onto their machines since CorelDraw 3 or 4

 

im really impressed with it- ive used both adobe and corel now for the past 4 years, and corel does everything photoshop can and more (plus i can open .psd files, and save as .psd) for a fraction of the cost... also, here at school all of our rapid prototyping and laser cutters use corel as it is vector based compared to adobes bitmap/raster base.... so ive got a edge when it comes to using the machines as i dont have to convert/change/(screw up, as adobe cant save to a corel file...) my files

-corel doesnt market the US user much, it has more of a european market... no one at school has ever heard of corel until this year when we got our rapid prototyper- the tech guru dude here at school has been screwing with corel in the last couple months and is really liking it, may convert to it from photoshop for next year- the interface is almost exactly the same on both programs, same checkerboard background, similar hotkeys, shortcuts, commands- its really a great program.

 

Use Corel Photopaint and Wordperfect all the time. Prefer it it over Adobe Photoshop and by far over Microsoft Office.

 

I thought you were doing pre press publishing/layout.

Photoshop is a photo editing software as implied by the name, Adobe Illustrator is for vector based line art and is designed to be compatable with CAD's. You have to use the right tool for the job.

I played with Corel Draw in School, but now non of my suppliers use it so it is not compatable with anyone if I need to send them a working file.

 

yea, i was talking about press publishing, and it transitioned to off topic photo-paint/photoshop- im still trying to figure out what would work best for thesis layout etc... yea, ive got the other bases covered, need the new software though and trying to see if anyone has experience with either product.
thanks pss-mag

JJ

 

For pre press layout, Quark is by far the best hands down. Quark 6.0 and newer for PC is also now completely compatable with macs. There were some issues prior to 6.0 if you were on a PC and tried to open it on a Mac.

Adobe Pagemaker is my second choice.

 

great, thanks for the info, ive heard of quark, but have never seen it, or used it- by chance, would you know if educational licensing is available, so i dont have to front full cost?- gonna go do some research- thanks man!

 

I thought there was educational versions. But the only one I see on thier site is for academia and must be an acadimic academy to aquire it.

http://www.quark.com/products/xpress...n/pricing.html

Maybe you could get your teacher to try and purchase it or something.

The interface is similar to all other programs, as in tool pallet on the left, icons etc. Key board Short cuts are a little different but you can change most of them. It is very user friendly easy to navagate. It does spectacualr .PDF's and print options are far superior to anything else. When you first hit print the print box has 7 tabs full of options. That is the only place ot really get lost in.