Ya know what, fair point, great point. I haven't had the chance to work for organizations as you have, and the last time I helped a non-profit was uhhhh [hides calendar], so I keep forgetting about other factors like...cutting corners when you don't want to. Ugh, it's terrible, though.
And for sure, glad that you understood where I was coming from. A few hours after I posted my comment, I went "oh dear, I went off too much" XD As someone who loves language, the flattening of topics gives me so much psychic damage. Having read Orwell's Politics and the English Language recently gave me back some brain cells. Nothing is ever as simple in life, even though it would be nice if it were lol.
NOT LIBREOFFICE FOR ZINE FORMATTING, WHEEZES XD I love LibreOffice but oh god, I don't know how that would work. I shiver in awe at your skills. xD
As for Publisher, I really like it! While I still have IND CS5 and did get to use IND CC, in the first thing I made in Publisher, I was able to do all the things I wish I could do in IND. Without the bugs either lol. Sometimes if you're not careful, an effect you did in CMYK would export very weirdly for a digital only copy--and well, of course, if you do the thing in RGB and export it to print, lord help you. There's still some things IND still does best, e.g. justify paragraphs and paragraph styles, but Publisher is a great program. Serif (the company that does Publisher) have been able to code so that Photo (=Photoshop) and Designer (=Illustrator) can open anything from their Adobe brethren but they still haven't been able to crack the IND code. That said, the program can still at least open IDML. So it's a workaround at least.
I will say that it's at least "buy once, it's yours forever" and they've recently upgraded to a "Version 2" of the suite, which features a universal license for all programs in the suite. The only issue I've had in V.2 that is exporting takes a looooong time, especially if you have more than....50 pages lmao. The beta version is a little better, but unironically, folks have recommended downsizing back to V.1 if the export is a big issue. (If you do a file in V.2 though, there is no backwards compatibility. I think they're still looking into that.)
I haven't tested these programs because money, but if you ever test Publisher again, some folks recommend PDFMarkz and IDMarkz if you want a bit more control.
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Date: 2024-02-25 02:41 am (UTC)And for sure, glad that you understood where I was coming from. A few hours after I posted my comment, I went "oh dear, I went off too much" XD As someone who loves language, the flattening of topics gives me so much psychic damage. Having read Orwell's Politics and the English Language recently gave me back some brain cells. Nothing is ever as simple in life, even though it would be nice if it were lol.
NOT LIBREOFFICE FOR ZINE FORMATTING, WHEEZES XD I love LibreOffice but oh god, I don't know how that would work. I shiver in awe at your skills. xD
As for Publisher, I really like it! While I still have IND CS5 and did get to use IND CC, in the first thing I made in Publisher, I was able to do all the things I wish I could do in IND. Without the bugs either lol. Sometimes if you're not careful, an effect you did in CMYK would export very weirdly for a digital only copy--and well, of course, if you do the thing in RGB and export it to print, lord help you. There's still some things IND still does best, e.g. justify paragraphs and paragraph styles, but Publisher is a great program. Serif (the company that does Publisher) have been able to code so that Photo (=Photoshop) and Designer (=Illustrator) can open anything from their Adobe brethren but they still haven't been able to crack the IND code. That said, the program can still at least open IDML. So it's a workaround at least.
I will say that it's at least "buy once, it's yours forever" and they've recently upgraded to a "Version 2" of the suite, which features a universal license for all programs in the suite. The only issue I've had in V.2 that is exporting takes a looooong time, especially if you have more than....50 pages lmao. The beta version is a little better, but unironically, folks have recommended downsizing back to V.1 if the export is a big issue. (If you do a file in V.2 though, there is no backwards compatibility. I think they're still looking into that.)
I haven't tested these programs because money, but if you ever test Publisher again, some folks recommend PDFMarkz and IDMarkz if you want a bit more control.
...lol, this turned into a sales pitch XD