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Subject: Re[2]: Re:XSL FOs -> PDF using InDesign From: KAREN_LEICHEL@xxxxxxxx Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 14:21:12 -0600 |
KAREN_LEICHEL@xxxxxxxx writes: >> One thing I don't understand in all this discussion is why you >> would even want to use InDesign. >because its there? >> but why use a tank to do a jeep's job? >because we do not have a jeep to hand. Why not? I'm just suggesting that the full program with all the bells and whistles isn't necessary for this use. Please let know me if I'm wrong in this assumption, since I am new to XML. It seems to me that this is an inapproriate program for SGML design layout, with which I am very familiar. It doesn't allow enough pages for our documents. Of course, we have to break up books to run them in Arbortext Publisher too. Or Frame, or Acrobat. But I can run as many pages/frames as needed in PageStream or IADS. >> You still have to have Photoshop and Illustrator to do the >> heavy-duty graphic fixes >not sure of the relevance of this. I have never used Photoshop, and >have not used Illustrator since 1986, presumably because I don't do >much bitmap graphics, and generate my vector graphics myself. what >does that prove? Maybe if the layout engine could be sold separately and not require everything else, it would be a viable choice. I'm sure all that speed, RAM, and disk space is only needed for the interfaces with Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, etc. Still, although you only want to use the layout engine, tech writers will probably be more at home with the UI. I am the only tech writer here that codes directly in SGML. Everyone else uses a UI. These UI's, whether we like it or not, will be the XML tools of the documentation world. Unless someone gives us a better choice. >> so you're into major money and memory to do >> these things. The fact that InDesign is a "good" layout engine will >> not be enough. >to be honest, even I can earn enough in half a day to buy all the >memory that I might need to run InDesign..... I could buy the memory, but not the speed. I don't have Pentium IIs yet and don't want to buy a new motherboard or computer to get them so I can get InDesign, which does the same thing as Quark does on my current computers. If you make enough in half a day to buy a Pentium II motherboard, then you aren't a tech writer here. I also am not running 98 yet. My company took two years to go to 95 in the Pubs department, while the engineers and programmers got it immediately if they wanted it. I think that is typical. >Sebastian XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list Received: from portal.udlp.com ([192.169.4.225]) by ccmail.udlp.com with SMTP (IMA Internet Exchange 3.12) id 000CF8D0; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 18:10:58 -0600 Received: from portal.udlp.com (root@localhost) by portal.udlp.com with ESMTP id SAA07400 for <KAREN_LEICHEL@xxxxxxxx>; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 18:16:16 -0600 (CST) Received: from web4-1.ability.net (web4-1.ability.net [216.32.69.9]) by portal.udlp.com with ESMTP id SAA07396 for <KAREN_LEICHEL@xxxxxxxx>; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 18:16:15 -0600 (CST) Received: from mulberrytech.com by web4-1.ability.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA21246 Tue, 2 Nov 1999 18:27:55 -0500 (EST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by mulberrytech.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA21244 Tue, 2 Nov 1999 18:27:55 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid (via feedmail 8 Q); VM 6.71 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid From: "Sebastian Rahtz" <sebastian.rahtz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14367.30851.543719.494853@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 23:49:23 +0000 (GMT) To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: emuller@xxxxxxxxx, XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Re:XSL FOs -> PDF using InDesign In-Reply-To: <000CF5A9.C21254@xxxxxxxx> References: <000CF5A9.C21254@xxxxxxxx> Sender: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Precedence: bulk Reply-To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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