Want to ask wat program is suitable for designing brochures
Im using adobe illustrator CS2 at work for designing brochures
Wonder if they r any plugins or 3rd party program compatible with illustrator that provides various of design something like adobe page layout.

i don't think it's a matter of what software you use.. but what software the printer is using later on..

the reason most designers use Illustrators is cause printers don't have any other software. however, other layout programs I know are Adobe InDesign (something like PageMaker) and Quark XPress.

Cheers.

adobe pagemaker, m$ publisher

i think these are the most common use & easier

Is that so? All my printers can run Illustrators! no problem. I have a pool of about 5 printers and they all say. AI for film output- easier. Last time i was using PageMaker but now most printers are switching to AI. Even people in directories, newspapers uses AI. I've advertise in The Star, Guang Ming, China Press, Sin Chew - all say AI is good.

Just remember to save your ai in AI9 or AI 10 as most printers are still using that.

Try Adobe Indesign..

My Hp designjet 130nr is not compatible with Illustrator software. I have to bring the file over to QuarkXpress to print the artwork out

AI9 is not recommended as this Ai version is not stable. Highly recommended AI8 and AI10 although AI10 runs a bit slow bcause of its huge amount of plugins and other components

It is recommended to use QuarkXpress or Pagemaker for layout or brochure artworks.
Too much text or images in Illustrator will make the program slow-down. Its saved file is huge,
Updated images will move, measurements are not 100% accurate and mostly of all color separators hate designers who do their work in Illustrator because it takes hell a lot of time to output the films

This post has been edited by providence: Dec 31 2005, 11:10 PM

Depend on what kind of software that the printer use. Mostly software that accept in printer site is AI, In-Design, PageMaker, Publisher, Corel Draw. Mostly accept in AI and Corel Draw. So, whatever software u using, u must associate with ur printer site what kind of file type should send to them.

If simple one, Microsoft Publisher will do..