Corel Draw for Newsletters / Small Publication?

Question

Hi - I was using pagemaker for my small publication but I'm having major issues with it (when it converts to PDF the titles are all messed up - sometimes in the middle of the article - graphics randomly appear in wierd places, etc)........... so I'm thinking about using corel draw, it seems easy but I wanted to check to see what others think ---- if you have used it for newsletters, please share any thoughts! Do you have any probs with it? Is pagemaker/indesign really better? THANKS for your help!!!!!!!!!

Answer 1

CorelDraw is NOT a dying programme. If the user above works for a commerical printer, he should better know that most Draw files convert seamlessly to PDF files, which have become quite a standard while sending files to print. No wonder he is not seeing native Draw files. CorelDraw is one hell of a professional good tool for illustrating and basic layouting, just as good as Illustrator and with more capabilities than this one in several areas. But you have to be careful about what do you use it for.

CorelDraw lets you create multi-paged documents, but the styles you can apply to text are a lot less efficient as those in publication-oriented software as InDesign or PageMaker. I use CorelDraw mainly for illustration, but for publications that heavily depend on text styles, or with lots of interconnected text boxes or where I want to take advantage of OpenType capabilities, I use InDesign. PageMaker is no longer being produced and InDesign is its sucessor. On the other hand, these programmes suck when creating images with them. I think the best option, if your publications are quite long and demand a lot on type, stick to your apps. But learn to use Draw to create the images that will be inserted in your documents.

Answer 2

Id go with Quark or InDesign.
Corel is a dying program.
The company I work for is a commercial printer.
We take almost any program out there from the good (Quark and InDesign), to the bad (Publisher, Excel, Powerpoint, Word).
We used to take Corel files, but in the past 5 years I can count on 1 hand how many Corel files I have seen come in.

Get a program you can use, that works, and that printers will accept with no hassle. Quark or InDesign.