leaflet design software

[mercmanuk]

i'm in the process of starting a new business and need some software to design flyers,business cards,letterheads etc.
can anyone recommend any software.

cheers all

 

[BenzComander]

Not software, but a good service with normaly plenty of freebies!

Vistaprint

 

[Ian_C]

Microsoft Publisher is okay, easier to use than Adobe products.

Should do what you require. Failing that search the freeware archives.

Ian

 

[GrahamC230K]

To do it as the pro's would you need an application that allows you full control over text and page layout. A Desktop Publishing Application (DTP) of any sort is what you are after.

The big names are Adobe PageMaker and Quark Xpress both do a great job and if you use then day in day out you will appreaciate them over the budget products.

For a few one off flyer and business cards, I doubt you'll justify the costs however.

Not used the product for about 12+ years but back then Serif Pageplus used to be a very good budget product.

You'll also get away with some vector graphics applications to an extend - ie Corel Draw etc. I dislike MS Publisher but you may already have it and it is at least meant to be designed for what you want to do.

 

[NiallerS320]

To do it as the pro's would you need an application that allows you full control over text and page layout. A Desktop Publishing Application (DTP) of any sort is what you are after.

The big names are Adobe PageMaker and Quark Xpress both do a great job and if you use then day in day out you will appreaciate them over the budget products.

For a few one off flyer and business cards, I doubt you'll justify the costs however.

Not used the product for about 12+ years but back then Serif Pageplus used to be a very good budget product.

You'll also get away with some vector graphics applications to an extend - ie Corel Draw etc. I dislike MS Publisher but you may already have it and it is at least meant to be designed for what you want to do.

Ahhh pagemaker, it hasn't been around for years, it's now adobe indesign.

The pro apps are Adobe InDesign, Quark Xpress, Photoshop and Illustrator but for leaflet design it's more than likely overkill if you're going to be putting in multi layered images and complex typography, if you're doing a simple leaflet with type and a bit of clip art (not recommended clip art it's awful) then M$ Word/works will sort you out, just create an A4 page then draw a 99mm/210mm (DL) box in it and work within that box area, save it as a PDF and send it on to a local printer or print it off yourself.

Alternately you can create an A4 landscape page, draw two rules at 99 & 198 so it divides the page into 3 DL leaflets thus saving paper when printing.

Hope that helps.

 

[GrahamC230K]

Pagemaker 7 still a current product, price not so bad either.

 

[mossgreen123]

By the time you have bought Adobe, then got your head around it and played with logos, is it worth doing it yourself (assuming your time is worth x amount per hour?). I have a friend who creates these sorts of bespoke packages and reckons they start at about £200 for a ground-up series of designs.

 

[Dieselman]

Pagemaker 7 still a current product, price not so bad either.

Because nobody uses it anymore, everyone is switching to InDesign.

 

[GrahamC230K]

I gathered that, might try and snap up a copy if prices have fallen/falling.

 

[yungguy]

i'm in the process of starting a new business and need some software to design flyers,business cards,letterheads etc.
can anyone recommend any software.

cheers all

It will be a pain and kill lot of your valuable time if you are designing the flyers, biz cards and letterheads yourself. Because you got to do lots of other stuffs. Let somebody else do it. That is what i did.

Cheers,

Jib

 

[NiallerS320]

I tested Aldus Pagemaker wayyyyyyyyyyyyyy back in the early 90s, used it for a week and threw it back at the supplier and stuck with Xpress 2.12 right up until 4.4 then all went t1ts up with 5/6 moved over to InDesign and it just gets better with age.