advice on creating a company brochure

[freefall]

hi everyone,

I'm looking to create something like this:

oh no I can't post urls! if you type into google "sun microsystems brochure" a link should come up. sorry guys!


I have Macromedia Fireworks and I am rather good on it for a beginner. I am looking to create something similar to above (not the design but the actual pdf file) so I can put it on my company website and also email it to clients. Is pdf the answer? How about jpeg? Mind you, it is going to be multiple pages long.

I did have a trial of adobe publisher to create pdf documents but that has expired and I only did it for my business' terms as it was a bit rubbish for what I wanted.

Any way I can do my work in Fireworks and make a pdf?

Any help appreciated guys and girls!

 

[Stephen]

You can, but I probably wouldn't!

The best solution probably depends upon how complicated/expensive you want to get. The easiest (decent) solution would be to design you document in say Microsoft Word (if you have it, or the free OpenOffice if you don't), then use a freely available 'PDF printer' - essentially you create your document, then 'print' to a PDF. Generally works okay, unless you want to get a bit more complicated. OpenOffice has, I believe, the ability to create PDFs directly.

We use a slightly more complex route (as we need more flexibility), but CutePDF (http://www.cutepdf.com/) have a free version I think. Someone here may have experience of this or an alternative.

Hope this helps!

 

[ImageStudioz]

send me yur email and ill send you our brochure to view

 

[freefall]

ImageStudioz I have seen many brochures and know what I am looking to do thanks.

Stephen - yeah I have word so I will give that a go. I am wanting to spend nothing on it becuase I can be quite creative when I need to be. Will take your advice and see how it goes

thanks a lot

 

[ImageStudioz]

We make our brochures in photoshop, then put them together as a pdf. Not sure if that helps.

 

[freefall]

Havent got photoshop but have used it and it was difficult for me to get around. I am good with Fireworks as have designed quite a few things on fireworks

 

[james595832]

The best tool for designing print media is Adobe In Design along with illustrator and Photoshop the possibilities are endless and very professional in the rights hands.

If you are using Fireworks you should take a look at Macromedia Freehand, you can use FreeHand MX for creative design, storyboarding, multipage document production, and editing with an unparalleled set of creative design tools. Easily repurpose your designs for print, the Internet, or Macromedia Flash.

http://www.adobe.com/products/freehand/


Hope that helps.

 

[daveashton]

why do you need a brochure?

 

[freefall]

james595832 - thanks for that, might have to get the trial and see what it's like. Looks very good and if its like dreamweaver and fireworks then I should be able to easily use it.

thanks

dave: to email to my clients so they know what we are about. I say we but it is just me haha.

 

[elbot]

I would have to agree with james595832.

I am a graphic designer and Indesign or Quark are your best bet, these program's are professional layout applications, Illustrator is more for vector graphics like logos and Illustrations, Photoshop is for photo maniputlation although is can be used to create images from scratch, Word is a word processing package not a graphic design layout application, Fireworks is use a design layout application - yes but, it is not ideal for the sort of thing you want. Fireworks is used to layout websites or pages of websites - when you export your file it will be created as a web image not ideal for a low res pdf that you will need as a download from a website

 

[elbot]

if you want any more help, you can PM if you like.

 

[eshopcreator]

Hi Try PDF995 do a search in google great system and free, creates pdfs from word etc