Professional-looking publishing from desktop computers - Management of HR Systems

HR Magazine, June, 1993 by Charlotte LeGates

To sum up

Advanced desktop-publishing programs can save time and money for human resource departments that publish periodicals and manuals regularly. You can avoid expensive publishing steps like typesetting and, in many cases, outside printing. In addition, desktop publishing gives you control over the look of your publication and allows you to make changes at the last minute. PageMaker can bring a new level of professionalism to the look of your documents which, in turn, can increase your stature in the eyes of employees and management alike.

REVIEW

PageMaker 4.0

Aldus Corp. 411 First Avenue South Seattle, WA 98104 (206) 622-5500

First Introduced: 1984 (Macintosh version), 1987 (PC/Windows version)

List Price: $795

Product Use: Desktop publishing

Equipment requirements/system configuration: Requires Microsoft Windows 3.0 (or later) and Windows 3.0-compatible hardware.

Minimum: A 286-based DOS-compatible computer, 2MB of RAM, a 20MB hard disk, an EGA or Hercules graphics adapter card, and a mouse.

Recommended: A 386-based DOS-compatible computer, 4MB of RAM, a 40MB hard disk, a high-resolution graphics adapter card (such as XGA, Super VGA or VGA) and a mouse.

For output: PCL and Postscript-language devices compatible with Windows 3.0, including laser printers, imagesetters, and color and dot-matrix printers.

As a communications director, Charlotte LeGates has used desktop-publishing programs to meet the publication needs of three different associations.