[MACEP] InDesign

[Nick Viani]

I upgraded to InDesign (Mac OSX) when PageMaker was no longer supported 
on the Mac platform. Many of the keyboard commands from PageMaker were 
ported over, which made it easy. The ability to edit on-the-fly (as 
opposed to PageMaker's Edit layer) is a plus.

I dislike is the way it handles text wrapping. Once the graphic or text 
frame has been selected for wrapping, it's difficult to resize the 
object in conventional (shift-click and drag on a corner handle) 
fashion. One solution has been to resize graphics in photo manipulation 
software before importing; another is the resize by percentage feature. 
I feel this is a downgrade from the "wrapping" capabilities available 
in PageMaker.

While I don't have personal experience with InDesign's ability to 
generate an index with page references, Ricky Korach (Lake Oswego HS 
yearbook) raved about this feature.

-Nick
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Nick Viani ~ Technology Specialist ~ Southern Oregon ESD
Executive Board Member ~ Oregon Council of Teachers of English
Medford OR Tel: 541.776.6770, 800.636.7453, Fax: 541.858.6749
www2.soesd.k12.or.us/it (Instructional Technology)
www.octe.org (Web Administrator)
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