| From: | Gurth gurth@******.nl |
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| Subject: | SR Books Online |
| Date: | Tue, 16 Feb 1999 11:40:15 +0100 |
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> Au contraire. I have such experience.
I didn't say NOBODY had that kind of experience, just that most people
doing net.stuff don't seem to.
> I do the layout for DEMONGROUND: The Electronic Magazine of Dark
> Conspiracy. I'm in the process of laying out issue 3 now. This is the
> first I have used Adobe Pagemaker for doing the layout (I used Word97
> for DG 1 & 2) and I am much happier with how DG3 is turning out.
Agreed, PageMaker is a lot better once you get the hang of it (before that
time, though... :) Although I do wish it had as many features as Word
does.
> When we set out to create the fanzine, I wanted to create
> something that is professional quality. I've since had a few people tell
> me that I should be doing this for a living.
Same here.
> So saying that no one on this list knows how to lay out a page is a bit
> rich. I may not do it for a living, but I can do a pretty good job of it
> IMHO.
I said (and I quote myself): "I don't think many people on this list have
experience in this area" -- there's an M in there, if you look closely :)
> DG may not be perfect, I'll admit that. But it is MUCH better
> than your average net book. It's even better than TSS (sorry Adam - TSS
> is great, but I used TSS as a yardstick so that I had something to do
> better than).
You could use normal gaming magazines as somethign to compare your e-zine
to. I take printed books as starting points, for example.
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