Quote Originally Posted by jon404 View Post
So what's your recommendation -- if Ventura's gone, and InDesign's too costly, is there a good DTP program out there that can output decent PDFs, and can handle, say, a 100-pg document? What are people using for DTP if we rule out InDesign, Word, OpenOffice Writer... and Framemaker? Is Microsoft Publisher still around... and is it worth using?
Serif PagePlus. Other than running heads/feet (ID sucks with this too), image captions (VP was so good), and a few other niceties, it does a really good job. Like with Xara where I will do as much work as possible even if I need to eventually return an AI file, if at all possible I will use PagePlus. New version out pretty soon

Mike