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Originally Posted by rhadin
I've used (and own) Framemaker, QuarkXPress, Pagemaker (no longer own), Ventura, and InDesign. By far the best of the lot for long documents like books was Ventura. I only stopped using it a year ago when InDesign CS4 was released. Even though Ventura is now approximately 10 years away from its last upgrade, it still can outperform -- in most instances -- any of the other programs. Alas, it is out of date and unsupported, so it now sits on my computer unused.
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I have an old friend who makes his living these days producing POD versions of public domain stuff from Project Gutenberg, and still uses Ventura to do his typesetting. He's familiar with its quirks and can make things come out as he pleases.
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But of those still living and breathing, InDesign is, I think, the best of the bunch. Quark's biggest failures were its cost and its support. To properly do a nonfiction book in Quark required the purchase not only of the base program for $800, but thousands of dollars of add-ins. I nearly had heart failure when I realized that I had nearly $10,000 invested into Quark-related software. At least with InDesign CS4 you can get by without any plugins and Ventura (which cost $250) was a complete package requirng no add-ins at all.
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For serious work, I concur. It certainly appears to be what all of the major publishers are moving to, if they don't use it already.
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Now if only Adobe would teach InDesign how to do ePub . . .
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Given that Adobe is the major proponent pushing ePub as the ebook standard, I have to assume they are working on that. I'm just a bit surprised it isn't better developed in InDesign than it is.
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Dennis