Illustrator or InDesign for CD booklets/labels??

NeedMastering

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Nov 28, 2001, 12:00:56 AM11/28/01

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Is there any advantage to either Adobe Illustrator or InDesign in terms of
designing CD booklets and labels? Thanks for any help!

exovox

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Nov 28, 2001, 3:20:44 AM11/28/01

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If you're just doing a one-page or foldout booklet, you'll be fine with
either. But Illustrator doesn't do multiple pages, so if you do those
booklets with 16 pages of lyrics and photos, InDesign would be better.
It has good enough drawing tools.

Some will probably tell you to get both, because Illustrator is often
used to feed illustrations to layout programs like Quark and InDesign.

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Mr T

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Nov 28, 2001, 3:51:57 PM11/28/01

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In article <281120010020443511%exo...@yahoo.com>,
exovox <exo...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> If you're just doing a one-page or foldout booklet, you'll be fine with
> either. But Illustrator doesn't do multiple pages, so if you do those
> booklets with 16 pages of lyrics and photos, InDesign would be better.
> It has good enough drawing tools.
>
> Some will probably tell you to get both, because Illustrator is often
> used to feed illustrations to layout programs like Quark and InDesign.
>

Also depends on how decorative you do artwork (and whether or not you
can draw)

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Kurt

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NeedMastering

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Nov 28, 2001, 10:49:33 PM11/28/01

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>If you're just doing a one-page or foldout booklet, you'll be fine with
>either. But Illustrator doesn't do multiple pages,

Would Illustrator do a 4-page (front/back/two inside) CD booklet? Does it
come with that template?
Thank you!

Mr T

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Nov 28, 2001, 11:21:20 PM11/28/01

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In article <20011128224933...@mb-df.aol.com>,
needma...@aol.com (NeedMastering) wrote:

AI is a professional program, not specifically for this, but for all
kinds of projects. I've received templates from record companies in both
Quark and AI set up by their printing companies. Some vary according to
their own specs. Have you spoken to your printer about all this?

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Kurt

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LauraK

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Nov 28, 2001, 11:44:30 PM11/28/01

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> Would Illustrator do a 4-page (front/back/two inside) CD booklet? Does
>it
>come with that template?
> Thank you!

Actually it does have a template for that! Looked in the Libraries>Template
section of AI and it has templates for a 4-page brochure (2 templates, one for
pages 1-4, one for pages 2-3) also has a one page template, a CD sleeve
template and about four others. Looks like everything but a label.
There are all sorts of things in that template section.

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exovox

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Nov 30, 2001, 3:34:02 AM11/30/01

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You can do whatever you want with it, but larger jobs might need to be
multiple files since it only knows about one page.

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Kent

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Dec 5, 2001, 8:45:11 AM12/5/01

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This is just my opinion, if your are very creative, Illustrator has much
more flexibility to communicate your message but if your are just doing
simple illustration InDesign willl work, but that may change as InDesign
gets better.

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