{"id":5,"date":"2005-03-09T19:23:06","date_gmt":"2005-03-09T13:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bauzon.ph\/wordpress\/?p=5"},"modified":"2005-09-30T17:01:30","modified_gmt":"2005-09-30T11:31:30","slug":"pardon-my-geek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bauzon.ph\/cynthia\/pardon-my-geek\/","title":{"rendered":"Pardon my geek."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the rah-rah from good pals <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/gpherman\" target=\"_top\">Carlo<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.terryuy.com\" target=\"_top\">Terry<\/a>, I&#8217;m now an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/indesign\/main.html\" target=\"_top\">InDesign<\/a> convert &#8212; a mere 12 hours after they convinced me to give it a try. This is actually a big deal because I&#8217;ve been a loyal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/software\/freehand\/\" target=\"_top\">Freehand<\/a> user since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freehandsource.com\/_frames\/_misc\/_history\/fh_version_history.html\" target=\"_top\">the Aldus days<\/a>. I only started enjoying <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/software\/freehand\/\" target=\"_top\">MX<\/a> a few months ago so I didn&#8217;t care about InDesign until our print producers requested that I use it for the magazine&#8217;s next issue. I&#8217;m taking some time to learn it and I can&#8217;t believe how much I&#8217;ve been missing, gee. InDesign makes it so much easier to control how characters kern, how paragraphs flow, and how text runs across columns. I know <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quark.com\" target=\"_top\">Quark Express<\/a> can do that, too, but the thing I didn&#8217;t like about Quark* and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freehandsource.com\/_frames\/_misc\/_history\/fh_version_history.html\" target=\"_top\" title=\"I only stayed with it til version 5\">the old Pagemaker<\/a> was that I couldn&#8217;t draw vector shapes with them. Freehand, meanwhile, was a blend of Illustrator and Quark, but it had limitations. For one, I often have to manually space type to control how it looks. It&#8217;s really for graphic work than for publishing, and even then, colors do not translate exactly as I&#8217;d like them to in different applications. InDesign might be the key to solving those limitations. I could be gushing too early but I have a feeling that this program will take a beating from me in the next few months.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"bodysmall\">*not <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/intrigero\" target=\"_top\" title=\"kuya twin ko yan eh\">this<\/a> Quark &#8212; this one I like, hehe! (:<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the rah-rah from good pals Carlo and Terry, I&#8217;m now an InDesign convert &#8212; a mere 12 hours after they convinced me to give it a try. This is actually a big deal because I&#8217;ve been a loyal Freehand user since the Aldus days. I only started enjoying MX a few months ago [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3","category-geekology-101"],"views":2827,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bauzon.ph\/cynthia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bauzon.ph\/cynthia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bauzon.ph\/cynthia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bauzon.ph\/cynthia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bauzon.ph\/cynthia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bauzon.ph\/cynthia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bauzon.ph\/cynthia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bauzon.ph\/cynthia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bauzon.ph\/cynthia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}