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From: chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: DTP package for a neophite
Message-ID: <75082@sun.uucp>
Date: 28 Oct 88 03:51:59 GMT
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>It has been determined that a staff assistant in our department will be
>in charge of producing a 5 page newsletter for our research group.  She 
>knows nothing about the mac but is artistic and computer literate.

PageMaker is standard. Ready, Set, Go! 4.0 is powerful, easier to learn,
less expensive and good for multi-page documents such as newsletters
(OtherRealms, at 60 pages, is done in RSG. I wouldn't try it in PageMaker
prior to 3.0, and I'm not sure how well it would work there yet).

>Is the thunderscanner high quality enough to reproduce photographs for the 
>newletter or do I need to go to better ($$$) scanner?

No, It's not. Neither is a 300 DPI scanner unless you want washed out,
blurry semi-representations of the original photograph. If it needs to be
halftoned, the technology isn't there yet in any affordable scanner.

Chuq Von Rospach			chuq@sun.COM		Delphi: CHUQ
Editor/Publisher, OtherRealms