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Best for making event flyers: InDesign or Illustrator?

Hi everyone, I am new here. I am a novice with Adobe products, but I do have the Creative Suite. I have used Illustrator tons and am very comfortable with it. I used InDesign once to make a pamphlet.I...

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Re: Best for making event flyers: InDesign or Illustrator?

Heather,Welcome to these Forums!If these are single page flyers, either one. For multipage work, InDesign.Take a look at Print magazine or Communication Arts magazine for getting creative juices going....

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Re: Best for making event flyers: InDesign or Illustrator?

What's wrong with using both? <g><br /><br />Bob

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Re: Best for making event flyers: InDesign or Illustrator?

Of course, Illustrator elements can be included in an InDesign document.Neil

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Re: Best for making event flyers: InDesign or Illustrator?

Chances are, anyone looking at your piece, isn't going to be able to tell what software application you used to produce it. Using Illustrator doesn't mean your piece will look less impressive than had...

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Re: Best for making event flyers: InDesign or Illustrator?

John,My point was that for multipage documents, you're generally better off with the structure and workflow afforded by InDesign. For single page documents, of course, either way can work; and...

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Re: Best for making event flyers: InDesign or Illustrator?

The amount of text in the flier would be the determining factor for me. If there are any paragraphs of text, I would automatically use InDesign for its superior text handling.

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Re: Best for making event flyers: InDesign or Illustrator?

Thanks everyone for your great answers! And thanks for not laughing at my question, I can see all of you on here are professionals. Appreciate it.

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Re: Best for making event flyers: InDesign or Illustrator?

Hi Neil, unfortunately I haven't seen either of those publications in Tokyo. However the Communication Arts website provides plenty of links to professionals with their work. Thanks!

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Re: Best for making event flyers: InDesign or Illustrator?

> And thanks for not laughing at my questionWe try to never do that. We were all beginners once as well.

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Re: Best for making event flyers: InDesign or Illustrator?

Heather,As Don says. Most of us who volunteer some time here do so because we enjoy helping by sharing our knowledge and experience.Neil

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Re: Best for making event flyers: InDesign or Illustrator?

Hihere's a philosophical answer:The software you are most skilled at - is the best one to use ;-)

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Re: Best for making event flyers: InDesign or Illustrator?

baad,Bad idea -- if it's the wrong software for the job.Neil

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Re: Best for making event flyers: InDesign or Illustrator?

True. Foe example, some know their way around Powerpoint and use it as a graphics app as well as a presntation tool! Not good!Ian

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Re: Best for making event flyers: InDesign or Illustrator?

And I remember the day when computers were new to my old University, and the application that drove installation was Lotus 1-2-3. Many people I taught were amazed when I showed them WordStar: they had...

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Re: Best for making event flyers: InDesign or Illustrator?

> they had been doing their word processing in Lotus.I still think AmiPro was the best word processor.Bob

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Re: Best for making event flyers: InDesign or Illustrator?

Hello? Real world calling... If Ian knows his way around Illustrator what's wrong with using a software he knows? Moving from Ill. to InDesign is not as quickly done as Adobe claims. -and of course...

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Re: Best for making event flyers: InDesign or Illustrator?

I think what Neil was suggesting baad, is not to use just ANY app for the job if you know it. In other words, Photoshop is not the best tool for the job, so the advice, use whatever you know, is not...

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Re: Best for making event flyers: InDesign or Illustrator?

baad,Stan has it right.>If Ian knows his way around Illustrator what's wrong with using a software he knows?But that is not what you said in post #11. Even so, as I said in post #1, Illustrator is...

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Re: Best for making event flyers: InDesign or Illustrator?

This exact question came up at work today. The person in question was ordering ID, but it was on the only program available for content creation for flyers, posters, and all artwork. I suggested that...

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