Nonprofit Prices

From Kathy in Palo Duro:
"I am currently exploring obtaining more robust, industry standard desktop publishing software. Adobe has a very good licensing pricing policy for nonprofits -- about $199.00 for InDesign. The main issue is that the software must be purchased from a reseller that is authorized to sell a particular title to nonprofits for the discounted price. Many of the listed resellers only offer the discounted prices to educational clients. I will let you know when I find a vendor. Similar pricing arrangements are available for Quark Express and from some of the same resellers."

Shane's reply:
"We finally received nonprofit status with CDW for Microsoft products.
I heard it was difficult for church-related groups to receive Adobe nonprofit pricing.
I'll post that as a topic on our blog... something like "nonprofit prices.""

See also: Shar in Indian Nations comment on EDITORS USING WORD for an alternative. http://pcnsynod.blogspot.com/2007/06/editors-using-word.html

EDITORS USING WORD

At least two editors, Shar in Indian Nations (pronounced like it is short for "Sharon") and Theresa in Tres Rios are using Microsoft Word to publish their pages.

This topic is started from them to share tips but also for others to see in case using Word might work for others.

EDITORS USING PUBLISHER (problems)

To Presbytery Page Editors using Microsoft Publisher:

Our memory says four of you use Publisher, let us know if this wrong or incomplete.

Donna at South Louisiana
Julie at Eastern Oklahoma
April Coldsmith (welcome!) at Mission
Cindy at Pines (now InDesign)

From Shane: PROBLEM! – I was under the mistaken impression that UMR could use PDF files created from Publisher IF all the new technical requirements were met using the newer versions of Acrobat. That’s wrong. Learning that was like running into a brick wall, but at least knocking a small hole in it. Acrobat cannot fix Publisher’s limitations as far as UMR’s new high tech system is concerned.

TODAY’s SOLUTION: Send your completed Publisher page and all original photo/image files to Beth Hernandez and she will save them. Shane will look them over and send them on to UMR and the SUN will pay this time to have them reset. Because of this it would be extremely helpful to have your work in before the absolute deadline of 9a next Tuesday.

So, if you use Publisher, send all files (.pub and .jpg and/or .tif files) to Beth and NOT to UMR.

LONG TERM SOLUTION: Many of you will not want or want to afford buying a high-end publishing program like InDesign, so a possible solution is to hire a third party to reset the pages (if we find one cheaper than UMR) and evenly split the cost of that third party between the presbyteries involved.

NOTE: UMR charges about $60/hr for this work. If they don’t have to fix your photos/images that will decrease time required. It will be good to invest in a cheaper program called Photoshop Elements ($100) that you can use to prepare all graphics/photos you use in any printed or electronic publication.

So that we can see feedback about these questions and concerns in one place, I’ve placed this topic on our PCN blog.