I am an old school trained graphic designer. I went to 4 years of art
school to get a degree in "commercial art"---or so they called it in the
'70s.

I had my own graphic design business here in Washington, DC in the '90s and
used
a layout program, a drawing program and a word processing program:
Adobe PageMaker, CorelDraw and MicroSoft Word. 

I also used Corel Ventura for long books with detailed footnotes.

I designed and formatted many newsletters for organizations here in
Washington.

I preferred Adobe PageMaker at that time as my layout program.

I have since been working for
a printing company. We are on both platforms, the Mac and the PC. 
Our pre press people can work with InDesign or Quark. 

We had a project that had been designed and formatted in Publisher.

It was a nightmare but we pulled it off.

I feel that Publisher is not a program for professional designers. It 
was created by MicroSoft for word processors to design and format.

Hope this helps.

Margo Arnold
Washington, DC


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> [Original Message]
> From: Janet Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 3/22/2008 12:31:55 PM
> Subject: In House Produced Newsletters
>
> I volunteer at a small, start up museum and we want to do a newsletter to
our 
> members (about 350).   Going to an outside printer will be expensive, so
I am 
> trying to convince our President to do it in house.
>
> What is a good, easy software desktop publishing system to use?
>
> How long does it typically take to put together a 2 page newsletter?
>
> Any hints/helpful information about producing newsletters would be
greatly 
> appreciated.
>
> Janet Anderson
> American Museum of Veterinary Medicine
> Birdsboro, PA
>
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