A Bit Off-Topic, But, Not Really... (Acrobat)

[Christopher Loree]

I've recently purchased Adobe Acrobat, so I can do my own layouts and things. I'm also interested in throwing together some character sheets.

Are there any good resources someone can point me to for getting through the learning curve for this program? I know there are a lot of Acrobat users in this community. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

[matt]

Adobe TV is a great resource.
http://tv.adobe.com/

Acrobat isn't a (good) program for doing layouts. What are you wanting
to accomplish?

On May 12, 3:21 pm, Christopher Loree <cosmic.zenst...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[Christopher Loree]

Most of what I'm doing layout for is work-related projects. A few primers, some things I'm trying to get published. It all breaks down to pretty much the way a good character sheet is laid-out, coincidentally.

Artwork around borders, graphics and text overlapping in some places, text fitting around non-linear-edged illustrations, etc.

What *is* a good program for it? I'm open to all kinds of suggestions at this point. I'm still right at the very beginning of the learning process. I graduated from a graphic-design vocational school (fifteen years ago). So, I'm familiar with the work, but not at all current.

[Shaun Bruner]

Adobe InDesign would have been a better fit for this kind of work. There's also an OSS (free) application called Scribus that may suite your need.

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[Kevin L. Nault]

I was also going to recommend InDesign.  I've played with Scribus, and found it a poor substitute, but that was over two years ago, and progress may have been made in the interim.

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[matt]

InDesign is they way to go. (best choice in my opinion.) Check out the
new subscription service Adobe has for CS6, maybe that will be of
benefit.
I've heard Scibus has a huge learning curve but I have not tried it
myself.
There is also another program, from the guys who make Gimp (I could
have this wrong), that is open source and decent from what I've heard.

There's also Quark if you want to go that route. I've hear that it is
greatly improved since it's v6 days. (I've been on InDesign since
then, again no experience with the new versions...)