Jeff Macharyas is the Director of Marketing at Corning Community College in New York. He is a writer, graphic designer and communications director who has worked in publishing, higher education and project management for many years. He has been the art director for Quick Printing, The American Spectator, the USO's OnPatrol, Today's Campus, and other publications as well as a telephone pole design engineer contractor. Jeff is certified in Google Analytics and Adobe Visual Design and holds Amateur Radio license: K2JPM. He is also a certified fencing instructor.
Jeff earned his AS from Indian River Community College (Ft. Pierce, Florida), his BS in Communications from Florida State University, a miniMBA in Social Media Marketing from Rutgers University and a Masters in Cybersecurity and Computer Forensics from Utica College.
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I like how you say it: "So it really depend on you, and if you are willing to learn new tools, new ways to work, and be independent." Thanks.
Thanks for your reply. I would just like to comment further on the poor interoperability aspect. I totally agree with what you are saying but this is true whether it's open source or not. One of my biggest problems when I started using InDesign is that I still had to deal with Quark files, whether my own or from others. Fortunately, I used Markzware's QX2ID plug-in, which converted Quark to InDesign quite well. I also had trouble with different versions of InDesign and have had to send .IDML files for people who have older versions, so they can open. So, no, it is not a perfect solution, and I'm not saying that open source apps are a magic can opener, but it is somewhat possible, as I described. Sometimes, just getting "something" out of a file is good enough, even if it means doing a lot of re-work. Thank you.—jm