Less on Word, More on Other Software
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rolanniOK, you knowledgeable bunch, you.
I drive a Mac at the day-job and, despite having used it for a year to make about a bazillion (really classy, if I do say so myself) posters (yes, in Word. Yes, I am made of Awesome. Also, patience. Or was that Sheer Bloody-mindedness? Whatever.) and do all the other report-making, database wrangling and whatever it is that somebody decides that I need to have been doing Forever for them this week with it, I don't know anything about, say, installing software on it. This is not an Insurmountable Problem, maybe; there is ITS. I can probably get the backing of my bosses (all of whom are In Awe of the design work I've been doing) to install a program that actually works, as long as it doesn't, like, come out of the departmental budget.
The heartbreaker, of course, is that all my artist and designer friends swear that Mac is an Artist's Machine; you can do beautiful work on it! Which makes me wonder just what I could do if I wasn't tied to the abomination that is Word. This all kinda came to a head today because I'm trying to do something that I have done many times in, ferghodssake, Publisher, and I can't cajole Word to play nice.
Suggestions, commentary, donations of large sums of money?
I drive a Mac at the day-job and, despite having used it for a year to make about a bazillion (really classy, if I do say so myself) posters (yes, in Word. Yes, I am made of Awesome. Also, patience. Or was that Sheer Bloody-mindedness? Whatever.) and do all the other report-making, database wrangling and whatever it is that somebody decides that I need to have been doing Forever for them this week with it, I don't know anything about, say, installing software on it. This is not an Insurmountable Problem, maybe; there is ITS. I can probably get the backing of my bosses (all of whom are In Awe of the design work I've been doing) to install a program that actually works, as long as it doesn't, like, come out of the departmental budget.
The heartbreaker, of course, is that all my artist and designer friends swear that Mac is an Artist's Machine; you can do beautiful work on it! Which makes me wonder just what I could do if I wasn't tied to the abomination that is Word. This all kinda came to a head today because I'm trying to do something that I have done many times in, ferghodssake, Publisher, and I can't cajole Word to play nice.
Suggestions, commentary, donations of large sums of money?
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Date: 2008-06-02 03:17 pm (UTC)Being in the not for profit world, I just recently received all this with my new hugely beautiful iMac with 24" screen. The Library moved to all share-ware, and Unbuntu won't run our big design and layout programs easily. Hence we moved to Mac...no more PCs/Microsoft here at Howard County Library. Colleagues come by just to visit my computer.
I'm still learning my way around InDesign, but it's miles ahead of Quark and I really like Quark. Quark is handy and practical... but quickly being replaced by InDesign with commercial printers. I don't know how much you print in-house vs. commercially.
I don't know if this helps you, or just frustrates you more. If it's the latter, my apologies. Honesly, look into Open Office Draw. I have to use it for templates for Information Librarian to promote their programs, and other such stuff. I was mildly impressed.
Kristen
Agreement, but a quibble on version numbers
Date: 2008-06-02 03:52 pm (UTC)Re: Agreement, but a quibble on version numbers
Date: 2008-06-02 05:29 pm (UTC)