Switching To InDesign, Service Providers Who Resist

2004

May

25

Over on the Design Weblog I answered some mail asking for advice for dealing with printers and service bureaus who don’t want you to switch to InDesign…

BY Pariah S. Burke

Editor, Quark VS InDesign.com

Over on the Design Weblog I answered some mail asking for advice for dealing with printers and service bureaus who don’t want you to switch to InDesign. Here’s a short excerpt:

Switching To InDesign From Quark and Service Providers Who Won’t Take InDesign Files

“

Service providers will adapt to InDesign. They don’t have a choice. No matter how much they bitch and bluster, just like they did twenty years ago about PostScript and DTP, just like they did twelve years ago about Quark, they will begrudgingly adopt InDesign. How soon they do is up to designers, not the service providers.

”

1. I agree with you wholeheartedly! As soon as I switched to OSX, out the window with Quark. InDesign will reign soon.

   #1

   26 May 2004
   09:59 PT

   Cyndi

2. We would be happy to provide any company looking to find a cost effective and efficient way of converting documents from in-deisgn to Quark with conversion services.

   Please get in touch at abigail@fingerprint.eu.com

   #2

   02 Jun 2004
   05:14 PT

   Abigail Athaide

Quark VS InDesign.com reserves the right to edit or delete comments for any reason.

Sections

• 
• News
• How-To
• Reviews
• Tips & Tricks

Subjects

• Creative Suite
• InCopy
• InDesign
• Plugins/Xtensions
• QuarkXPress

Tools

• Become a Member
• Member Login
• Feeds (RSS and ATOM)
• Archives
• Contests & Giveaways

Tip of the Day

Add Your Paragraph and Character Styles to All New InDesign Documents Automatically

Got paragraph and character styles you use frequently? Maybe you took our advice and created basic, global character styles for bold, italic, bold-italic, and regular. Save yourself some serious time loading your commonly used styles into new documents—make them part of the default for all new documents.

Open InDesign (or InCopy) but don’t open a document. From the flyout menu on the Paragraph Styles or Character Styles panel choose the Load All Text Styles command. You’ll be prompted to find a document containing the desired styles. Find and select that, and then pick the styles you want. When they import to the Paragraph Styles and/or Character Styles panels, with no documents opened, those style become available by default for all new documents you create.

BY Pariah S. Burke