A Guide to Prepress Happiness

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Give you the page layout in WordPerfect? ARRRRRRGH!
Give you the page layout in Microsoft Word? Sonuvabitch!
Give you the page layout in Microsoft Publisher? Crap!
Give you the page layout in Adobe Illustrator? What? Why?
Give you the page layout only as a PDF? Oh well…
Give you the page layout in QuarkXPress? I can live with that.
Give you the page layout in Adobe InDesign? Done!
Give you the page layout on a sheet of paper, and tell you to make something that looks like this? SCORE!