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Worst Gold Box Item of the Month - ka jowct - 10-05-2006
Yes, worse than cheap jewelry and thousand-dollar defibrillators discounted by $1.69:
Perfect Pages: Book Design, Typography, and Microsoft Word, or How to Use MS Word for Typesetting and Page Layout in Formatting Your Books for Desktop Publishing, Self Publishing, and Print on Demand (Paperback)
Feh.
Re: Worst Gold Box Item of the Month - mikebw - 10-05-2006
Question: "How to Use MS Word for Typesetting"
Answer: Use MS Word to write a letter to Adobe saying you are interested in purchasing their latest Creative Suite.
Sounds good to me.
Re: Worst Gold Box Item of the Month - sscutchen - 10-05-2006
I've only done one page layout design... a pamphlet for a summer program for a volleyball club. I bought a few good books, did the conceptual design, then downloaded the InDesign demo. I was able to do the work within the demo time limit, and since this was a one-off, that was good for me.
I went to the printer's shop with the InDesign design packaged on CD. The printer guy (a Mac house, BTW) was ASOLUTELY TICKLED that I had a complete InDesign layout for him.
He said most of the stuff he gets is MSWord crap. He has to have one of his folks convert from Word to a proper layout, and customers were not happy with the fact that this had to be done nor the cost.
His worst case was a customer that showed up with a magazine-size print job with 4 color pictures on every page... all done in Word.
Re: Worst Gold Box Item of the Month - ka jowct - 10-06-2006
The user reviews are pretty sad: people patting themselves and the author on the back because they were able to "typeset" their self-published books in Word.
One person said he/she didn't want to spend "a month learning Pagemaker", so the book really helped…
On the one hand, it's great that people have more options for self-publishing. On the other hand, isn't there enough ugly, badly done printed material out there?