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Originally Posted by alblurt06
I am developing an E-book version of my school's alumni magazine, and needed some help.
I was looking over other Magazines, such as The Atlantic and The New Yorker. Since both magazines are DRM-protected, reverse engineering them would take a lot of effort and work, not to mention potential legal pit falls. What I was most interested out of all their work was:
1. How they put together their magazine. What programs did they use?
2. How they added the footer to their magazine. I want to have links at the bottom of my own magazine so that readers can jump from article to article instead of going one page forward and backward every time.
For now, I am using Microsoft Word 2007 to create the drafts. I was wondering if anything better existed, that I could use. Is Microsoft Publisher any good? Adobe InDesign? Any help would be appreciated, as I have been working on this awhile, and would like to finish it once and for all. Thanks for your help in advance.
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I can't speak for the big publishers, but I and several other people here use Mobipocket Creator.
You say that you use Word 2007. If possible, I'd go back from the single file draft to the individual articles, each in their own file. I'd save the files in html. I like to edit the raw html+css becuase it give me the best control over the output.
The reason I recommended separate files is that I want you to also make a master copy of the title page, copyright page and the other front matter of the magazine. These pages don't change that much from month to month, and having the master will save work. While you are at it, you might want to make a master contents page. Mobipocket Creator can generate one for you automatically, but it won't look as nice as one made by hand.