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[Naked Snake]

A friend of mine appointed me the task of designing him a promotional brochure for a catering company he recently started. I've never done anything like this before, but I have prepared other documents for him (business proposals and the like), those were on plain white A4 paper however, and this brochure is a different animal, it's going to be printed on small (7 x 4 inches?) glossy colored paper with lots of embedded graphics, and a thick cover page, etc...

I'm thinking that it should be doable with Microsoft Word, but I'm sure there are applications much better suited for this kind of job than MS Word... Any ideas? It should support multi-languages as half of the brochure needs to be in Arabic, I hope this doesn't prove problematic.

Also, what's a good OCR (optical character recognition) software?

 

[Burger]

Adobe InDesign springs to mind, although there will be a big price to pay for it, and a learning curve. But it is the best.

 

[AirBrian]

If you can't afford Adobe InDesign, MS Publisher is pretty good and much better than creating one in Word.

 

[Phoenix]

And if you really want to be cheap and have a Mac. Use Pages and a Pages template for 1,2,3, x fold brochures and you'll be done in 15 minutes provided you have your artwork already.

 

[dkeane]

Indesign is the best, Quark is also good but can be frustrating. (It feels like microsoft software)

 

[El Papa]

Another vote for InDesign. I use it for CD design as well.

 

[WasabiKing]

InDesign, we use it here at work. Integrates well with other Adobe products (duh...) and is way easier to learn IMO. Wait for Creative Suite 2, I'm lovin' some of the improvements on the pre-press side.

 

[El Papa]

Spit me some of those improvements if you don't mind

 

[God's Hand]

InDesign, we use it here at work. Integrates well with other Adobe products (duh...) and is way easier to learn IMO. Wait for Creative Suite 2, I'm lovin' some of the improvements on the pre-press side.

What about the post-press side?

 

[Naked Snake]

Thanks guys, you are the best.

 

[jadehorizon1]

If your looking to do something very professional, clean, sharp and graphic intensive, stick to Adobe Photoshop and create a grid from the beginning, if you want I can help you with the measurments. If your going for a text heavy design give Quark a try. I personally dont like it, but as far as laying down organized text, theres no other.



I'm a senior Graphic Design major, I'm a slave to this kind of stuff for the rest of my life


If your going to use Photoshop and a 3 fold design, start out with 2 10x8 pages, one for the front and one for the back, 300 dpi (for good clarity) and CMYK not RGB. I did this brochure a couple years ago, you can see the fold breaks in the background color difference, lay it out and divide like this.

If you got any questions or anything ask away, I've been around the block with this stuff.

If your going to use word ... well ... nevermind! But I have no clue how ud be able to do something ... or anything graphic in word.