What Do I Use For Designing Magazines and Books

[windrider]

I had to make a magazine for my friend last week and I had no idea what software to use. Eventually I ended up using OpenOffice Writer and it was difficult to position text and images freely on the page.

Please recommend some good layout and text publishing tools to create books and magazines. A feature to save as PDF would be a plus point.

[weblord]

ms word 2000 is great for magazines to handle multi column page or if you're really into it, i think adobe pagemaker will do the trick it's the same page layout software used in printing presses.

[euler]

I tried Adobe Pagemaker a long time ago, it seemed really good. OpenOffice writer works fine for me though. It even has that Export to PDF.

Another friend in college uses Microsoft Publisher. You can write to Postscript from there and then convert that to PDF I'm sure. Perhaps you should give that a shot too.

[codeslayer]

Try QuarkXpress or Freehand

[SugarBlush]

I use Adobe Pagemaker to make my school projects like scrap books and i can say its a good program. Try it

[s-Lec]

all the professionals use photoshop for sure if you are going for design + text

[undyboy91]

i had to make a magazine for a history project on samuel adams and i used photshop to create an image of a page (8.5 x 11 in.) and then put that on word and printed it out...u can also print directly from photoshop i think...here is an example of a page:

[s-Lec]

humm its alright..i reckon you might whan to render that dude's hair more actualy.

good job though

[windrider]

It looks pretty cool actually. But I didn't want to design a picture. I wanted tools for the inner layout.

[Metalkid]

the pic looks realy cool n professional