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suomi

suomi

suomi

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I have been asked by work to look into doing some reports next year in house. I have been told to look at the software, templates that could be brought and equipment (Apple vs. Laptop).

The reports would be mainly text, with roughly one graph per page. These would be simple graph through to complex Marginal Abatement Cost Curve (MACCs) graphs. Similar style of report is the http://http://lib.smmt.co.uk/articl...ions/SMMT Annual CO2 report 2009 - final1.pdfbeing closest to my thinking. We would want to alter from one to two or more columns and to be able to number exhibits.

On the software from it would seem to be a two horse race between ‘In Design’ and ‘Quark’ has anyone used these and what do I need to look out for?

I have tried to Google report templates, but just end up with some much that I am confused. Is there any that people can recommend?

From what I can see there does not appear to me to be any advantage going for a Apple machine over a half decent laptop. Plus in the office no one uses Macs, or am I missing something here?

Any help or directions somebody can give would be most appreciated.
 
I've not used either, but why not download trail versions and see if they do what you need and take the one you get on best with?

If it is just text with a graph though surely you could get away with using word/excel? could even just use open office which is free
 
InDesign vs. Quark....they both do roughly the same thing but Quark has always had a bad reputation since InDesign came along. So I'd recommend InDesign. You can download a trial here: http://www.adobe.com/downloads/

As for Mac vs. PC; there's absolutely no advantage whatsoever for having a Mac; Adobe CS4 works very well on either platform these days so you may as well save cash and get some Windows machines.
 
there's absolutely no reason to buy a Mac for graphics work anymore. Back in the day, Adobe apps ran faster on PPC architecture, but nowadays both system run on x86/64, so the only difference is the price ;)
 
I'm agreeing with Grumbledook. Neither InDesign or Quark are suitable for making graphs. It's Office, Open or Microsoft, that you need.
 
inDesign is the better of the two, but its totally down to what you are trained on. I always compliment it with Illustrator and Photoshop too.
 
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