RE: QuarkXPress 7 vs Adobe InDesign CS

["Pinkham, Jim" <Jim -dot- Pinkham -at- voith -dot- com>]

You're welcome, Raj. I think Quark would handle this quite well. For
more info and a useful Quark list, check out:
 
http://www.senecadesign.com/designgeek/quark.html
http://www.siclist.org/mailman/listinfo/quarkxpress

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From: Raj Machhan [mailto:raj -dot- machhan -at- gmail -dot- com] 
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2007 11:18 AM
To: Pinkham, Jim
Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Re: QuarkXPress 7 vs Adobe InDesign CS


Thanks Jim,
 
The document is around 500 pages and is pretty heavy on graphics with
special effects such as shadows, transparency, image morphing etc.
Compared to an online help file, which is designed to let you quickly
find answers to specific queries, a User Guide/User Manual is a printed
or online document that describes how to use an application (To give you
a better idea, I am sure  you must have seen a User Guides/Manuals with
technical gizmos, cameras, mobile phones etc.)  A User Guide/Manual
generally adopts a step-by-step approach while describing the
features/functionality of a product. I don't have a problem with the
learning curve as I have enough time to master any of the two. 
 
Raj
 
On 6/11/07, Pinkham, Jim <Jim -dot- Pinkham -at- voith -dot- com> wrote: 

	With the usual caveats of "depends upon your situation" and
"your
	mileage may vary," I think it's safe to say that both are strong

	applications, and either one could likely handle such a task
well,
	depending on what you mean by "user guide." Depending on how
long and
	complex the documentation, Frame could be an obvious choice,
too. 
	
	Quark is the older and more established desktop publishing
program and
	is widely used in newspaper and magazine publishing. Personally,
it
	would be my choice of the two, but that's tinged by the fact
that I've 
	used Quark and not InDesign. Either can integrate well with
Acrobat and
	Illustrator within a workflow. Quark also does a decent job of
bringing
	in Word documents, including formatted tabular material, without
a lot 
	of bumps. If you are already using other Adobe products, such as
	Acrobat, Illustrator, Photoshop, etc., you may find the learning
curve
	less steep with InDesign because of similarities within the
product
	family. 
	
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	Hi,
	
	Has anybody used QuarkXPress or Adobe InDesign to create User
Guides? I
	gather these are primarily page layout applications with
advanced design
	and typesetting features. I need to make a choice between the
two to 
	create a design-intensive User Guide. Can anybody tell me which
one of
	these is ideal for such a job?
	
	Best
	
	Raj
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