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And perhaps I can get my hands on the source files for this one sometime??... - GnomeThing? Submissions received
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Unspecified: When talking to an inebriated CLAWthing, the preferred method is to tattoo your conversation rather than expecting him to remember it ;) Editing funCan someone recommend a decent Windows DTP program that is... obtainable? InDesign? 2.0 - it's on the CD I burnt for CLAWs before I left for the UK (along with Photoshop, 1000 odd fonts, Illustrator and source files for older CLAWmarkses?). So get a copy of the damn thing from Simon?. - GnomeThing? "Trust me on this one. QuarkExpress? 5 kicks an unholy amount of ass. AND...i have the full version for Claws with a nifty pdf manual." - BabyAcid? I'm afraid I have to insist on InDesign? rather strongly. I've been using QuarkXPress? 6.1, InDesign? 2.0 (and now InDesign? CS), and InDesign? wins hands down. Quark's user interface hasn't changed since before version 4 (CLAWmarks25?). Whaddayaknow, Quark 6 finally got multiple Undo levels. PageMaker? was a pile of crap, but InDesign? (a much newer codebase and completely separate from PageMaker?) is sooo much better than anything else out there.
The important points for working on CLAWmarks: * InDesign? is more intuitive * If you've worked in Photoshop (6 or up), the InDesign? UI looks and works identically. * InDesign? has a better help system * PDF generation (what CLAWmarks is printed from) is faster and easier in InDesign? Check out http://www.macworld.com/2002/05/features/dtp/ Also check out http://design.weblogsinc.com/entry/7932727748437138/ and http://www.iampariah.com/blog/archives/cat_quark_indesign.html and http://www.sportsshooter.com/message_display.html?tid=9791 and just for fun: Google "Quark beats InDesign" and Google "InDesign beats Quark" It's worth noting that both programs overlap in features quite a bit. Making a compilation of files (a Book) is easy in both. Creating linked text boxes (Text Flow - text flows from one box to the other) is also easy. As a side note it's also rather important (to d@vid? and I anyway, see CLAWmarksUnbound?) that the source files for CLAWmarks be accessable for use in the future. If Scribus was a lot more mature I might recommend that purely because the files it creates will always be accessible. But for the moment InDesign? is the best tool for the job. - GnomeThing?
A delightful letter from the CLAWthing(as featured on the Cthulist? - mark your d6 from A-F and roll on the tables below - Rolemaster "CLAWmarks Lore" supplement due out soon) In an attempt to give this e-mail a more personalised air, this set of deadlines information is now accompanied by multiple threat options. Please choose the one that curdles YOUR blood, and abide by it. The deadline for CLAWmarks article submissions is Friday 9th July. As usual if you're planning an article, please let the committee know in advance so we can structure what CLAWmarks will look like. Failure to submit promised articles will result in ~~~~~~~~~~, taking a(n) ~~~~~~~~~~ and then proceeding to Mike | A: plunger ~~~~~~~~~~ your ~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~ with it until you ~~~~~~~~~~. shove | A: screaming | A: head | A: give us an article. For the record, CLAWart? is also requested, as always, from those who Cheers, Mike, (~~~~~~~~~~) Fearless Leader |