[Limbo]

which is (of course) Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. This should cover all my needs for web development and the basic sorts of print projects I can foresee myself doing.

That'll cover the lot mate!

It's a nice thing to have - we use CS here with Quark 6 but have been contemplating the move to indesign so we needn't keep forking out for new versions. One upgrade for all three is the wtg (bit of a monopoly though)

I wonder if anyone will ever be able to challenge the might of Adobe....

[pgo]

Originally Posted by Limbo

I wonder if anyone will ever be able to challenge the might of Adobe....

Probably not for a long, long time.

[Guevara]

I think you should be able to match pantone ( and other colour options) within the swatch option panels in InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator...

I wonder if anyone will ever be able to challenge the might of Adobe....

Not Macromedia that's for sure...

[d*d]

Originally Posted by Guevara

I think you should be able to match pantone ( and other colour options) within the swatch option panels in InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator...

It'll help to have a real idea of what the colours will actually print out like, the way monitors render colours can lead to a few surprises- especially with oranges. I reccomend a swatch book, get a second hand one

[pgo]

Originally Posted by d*d

get a second hand one

Any ideas where? I mean, besides Ebay.

[d*d]

Amazon do them second hand