Re: Adobe Creative Suite

["Jens Reineking" <J -dot- Reineking -at- interkomelectronic -dot- de>]

Forgot one important thing: The typographic engine is superb. Text simply looks better. You can
even choose optical alignment and the paragraph composer consider a whole paragraph to determine
spacing and hyphenation.

Jens

<zitiere wer="Jens Reineking">
>
> I've been using the Creative Suite for a year now and really, really like it - except for
> technical documentation.
>
> History: As I started this job, all things have been done in Word and Corel. Neither the most
> userfriendly nor the most professional tools in my opinion.
> After looking over the kinds of documents and looking into Frame, InDesign and AuthorIT, I voted
> for the Creative Suite.
> One, with Photoshop, Illustrator and Acrobat, I have an integrated environment in which I can use
> native files and the user interfaces follow similar concepts.
> Two, I can use all legacy files with this (AutoCAD, Corel, Word).
> Three, I can use nearly every kind of graphics file - which save a lot of stress, but results in
> me being the SME for file conversions.
> Four, Adobe is constantly working to improve InDesign. The new features for InDesign CS2 sound
> good (footnotes, anchored objects, improved library).
> Five, a very active scripter community: InDesign supports scripting in JavaScript, AppleScript and
> VBA, making the software extremely customisable.
> Six, lots of plug-ins available to cure some of the issues mentioned below (better indexing,
> references, table/illustration numbering).
> Seven, a good book feature.
> Eight, InDesign is incredible save: Unlimited undos and constant saving. Even if something
> crashes, you don't loose more than one or two steps of your work.
>
> The drawbacks: InDesign misses some important long document features (as of version CS, see
> comment of CS2 above). The list features (numbered and unnumbered lists) is very inflexbible,
> making nearly useless for technical documentation. Header numbering is not supported.
> Table/illustration numbering is not supported. Footnotes are not supported. Indexing is awkward.
> I still don't know if CS2 improved on the numbering, but it could of course be scripted.
>
> Since I've been doing mostly marketing material for the last 7 months, the drawbacks have not been
> much of an issue and I've been growing very attached to the Suite.
>
> I've been using the versioning software (VersionCue) for some projects and found it helpful -
> reverting to previous instances of the document and saving on file naming is cool. But the user
> interface is very simple and offers not much. The new VersionCue seems to be improving on that,
> allowing parallel versions and featuring previews of the documents, not just the text comments.
>
> HTH,
>
> Jens
>
> <zitiere wer="Elizabeth O'Shea">
>>
>> And while I'm asking about Adobe products, is anyone buying or upgrading to
>> Adobe Creative Suite? What are its benefits for your company? And if you're
>> already using version control (for example, we use VSS), are you planning to
>> use Creative Suite version control instead for your docs?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> elizabeth


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