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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
I would only recommend QuarkXPress if you are going to use it a lot. I think printers can accept PDFs for printing. So, realistically, one could use a Word document converted to PDF and bypass publishing software altogether.
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Yes, you can get pdfs from Word, but are you going to get pdfs that look good? You do not want to lay out a book in Word. It really isn't designed for that.
Being an old school unix guy, i'm a fan of TeX and LaTeX. These are markup languages used for making pretty printer output. Tex and LaTeX can output pdf, postscript and what's more .tex files are simply text files with some markup thrown in. No gratuitous file format incompatibilities. Both TeX and LaTeX are free software.