[DM-MUG] Last Night's Meeting: One more thing

[Theresa Weeks]

John:
Do you know if there are any Pages classes being conducted in the Des  
Moines area?
Theresa Weeks

On Oct 25, 2006, at 1:04 PM, John Kisner wrote:

> Someone asked me this morning about choosing between Nisus and  
> Pages.  I think I'll answer as an addendum to my little talk last  
> night.
>
> I could tell the group was losing interest towards the end, so I  
> didn't really drive home the main point: Pages can probably do  
> everything most people need in terms of both word processing AND  
> page layout.  Ten years ago, you needed Quark or Pagemaker for the  
> layout once you completed the "processing" of words.  I suspect  
> you'd have trouble using Pages when working with print shops (I"m  
> not sure if it does color separations and what-not), but it's  
> really an amazing combination of power and ease of use that  
> produces great PDF and printouts on your home printer.
>
> When preparing for the talk, I found that most of the word  
> processing programs did the same things, but I was often needing to  
> search "help" (never seemed to yield an answer) and pdf manuals to  
> find out how you actually did certain things (widow/orphan control,  
> etc.).  Pages and Nisus were by far the easiest to use, with  
> Mariner Write probably taking the bronze overall.
>
> Pages clearly takes the gold medal.  It is an exponential advance  
> in the long trend of combining traditional word processing with  
> more and more layout capabilities. Pages has been my primary word  
> processor since it came out, but I've always thought my preference  
> for it was arbitrary.  It wasn't until I did a thorough review of  
> the choices out there that I realized how insanely great Pages  
> really is.
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