Ah, there are two competing software packages to do some specialty design stuff- and I can’t decide which is the best choice ack ack ack!
EDIT: cribbed from an email, in case yer THAT bored you want to read about software dilemmas:
Its variable Data printing applications, think mail merge plus. Its like programming a personalized document, individualized for every end reader.
Xerox’s XMPie -vs- Océ’s Document Design Advanced
XMPie is the bigger badder mofo, but it doesn’t have any booklet support, and is more expensive than the other package we’re looking at: Océ made their own VDP, very crude but formidable, and at a fraction of the cost, and is actually more functional in places. BUT Océ Doc Design Advance SUCKS for actual page design: it has its own design program, but inporting from InDesign f*s it all up, whereas XMPie is all right in the design program. To be fair, they had a good go at it, its not fair to compare that to Adobe, but it does lack is a fairly substantial fundament of modern design principal. Its a tough call, because the Océ does offer high functionality in some ways that XMPie was actually lacking, and is useful outside of VDP applications, but with XMPie i can do anything with photoshop.
anything.
with.
photoshop.
well, anyway.
November 24th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
Which ones are you looking at?
I came here from my Critical Hits dashboard, and your banner is the dice one. Spooky.