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Originally Posted by skipdup
Thanks for the comments.
I probably should have given more information...
My father-in-law has written several (relatively) successful books - some "self" published and others though normal publishing. Although he always had a professional do the layout, he believes that with todays technology I would be able to do it myself. He's putting me in contact with people he knows still in the industry, but I thought I'd try here as well.
What I don't know (yet) is what is needed - prior to the actual printing and binding. This will be a graphic intensive project. Do I need to buy a Mac? Or, is PC OK? Which software is generally used for something like this? etc...
LULU is interesting and keeps popping up in my research.
- Skip
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Adobe Creative Suite.
Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.
I prefer Quark to InDesign but InDesign is more than capable and has a quicker learning curve.
Both are available for OS X and Windows and the files are completely 100% cross platform compatible.
Having said that I would use the Mac. Yes I am biased.
Printing from Mac based files is generally preferred by pre press houses.
In my industry there are 3 major 1st parties. 2 of them do not publish their style guides in anything other than Mac format. One of them (Sony) controls the printing and will not even accepts a file that came from a Windows box. The 3rd one does but that is because it is MSFT themselves.
