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I assume it's Adobe InDesign, from working at a couple student-run publications in college (allows more precise control over how to format text) and one in high
by openknot 5y ago
I assume it's Adobe InDesign, from working at a couple student-run publications in college (allows more precise control over how to format text) and one in high school. I hope an industry expert in publishing can chime in, but in the meantime, it looks like professional users in graphic design subreddits mostly use InDesign, followed by Microsoft Publisher [0][1].
Outside of Reddit sources, Creative Bloq also suggests Affinity Publisher and QuarkXPress, but I can't immediately tell if the rankings are paid for or influenced by advertisers [2].
[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/Affinity/comments/gdqrux/thinking_of_switching_from_indesign_to_publisher/ https://old.reddit.com/r/Affinity/comments/gdqrux/thinking_o...
[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/graphic_design/comments/7p9s8q/should_i_be_using_publisher_or_word/ https://old.reddit.com/r/graphic_design/comments/7p9s8q/shou...
[2] https://www.creativebloq.com/buying-guides/best-desktop-publishing-software https://www.creativebloq.com/buying-guides/best-desktop-publ...
- bambax 5y agoQuark XPress used to be the best publishing software; then their CEO made a number of very bad decisions and they almost disappeared from the scene. The standard is now InDesign. It's very good but very expensive. Affinity Publisher is ok, lacks some advanced features, but is so cheap compared to InDesign it may as well be free. MS Publisher, I'm not sure. Never really heard about it in good or bad.
- jjeaff 5y agoQuarkXpress was not able to preview images on the page for an embarrassingly long time. You would draw a box and import an image to it and it would just keep a box with an x in it to indicate that a picture will be there. You had to render a print preview to see the images.