Last week was a long work week for me. Not only did I have training from 9-5, but then I had to get web work done after that. MediaSpan training went well though, and now our Advertising department is out of OS 9, which is such a blessing.
It is going to be great to not have to support OS 9 any more, I cannot express how much I have been looking forward to this day.
Of course I will now get a lot of OS X questions, because it is very new to those working in our Advertising department, but it is much easier to support something that you use every day. Especially considering I have not used OS 9 for at least six years now.
I was not present when they did the training in 1997 for AdManager Pro 2 (I had to chose between learning Editorial or Advertising, and I chose Editorial) so now I have a much better understanding of how AMP works.
Two big jumps at once, AMP 2 to 4 and OS 9 to X, similar to when Editorial jumped from Quark and OS 9 to InDesign and OS X.
We are also getting Liners Online, which will allow people to purchase classified ads right on our site. This will be installed soon.
Comments (2)
Hello,
I am resposible for doing almost the exact same upgrades as you have done here. Just curious, why did you move away from Quark?
TK
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January 14, 2008 10:56 PM
Posted on January 14, 2008 22:56
Why did we switch from Quark? Because InDesign is so much easier to use. I will tell you this, from a support standpoint, InDesign is a lot easier that Quark to support end users on.
And, as I remember it (bear with me, its been a few years since we did the Quark switch) it was because Quark wanted WAY to much for an "upgrade," We had a site license for Quark 4, and to get a OS X version we needed to upgrade to Quark 5. They did not sell upgrades to Quark 5, and were going to give us no discount because we are an educational institution -- despite the fact that they had given us discounts on the site licenses for Quark 3 and Quark 4.
InDesign was a lot cheaper, many people were moving to it. I didn't and don't lose one bit of sleep for making the switch to InDesign.
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February 1, 2008 3:21 PM
Posted on February 1, 2008 15:21