Short Story: Photo or Publisher?

[adorablebookworm]

Good morning,

I am wanting to create a decorative document for a short story I wrote. Pleasing sepia tones, swirls, all that fun stuff (kind of what you guys have in the tutorial with Alice in Wonderland for Publisher). Since it's such a short story though, I don't know if Publisher or Photo is a better program to use for this project. I was hoping to use it as kind of a self-tutorial to learn the basics of Publisher, but since the story is fewer than 5,000 words and I want it to be one long image document (no pages), I'm not sure that's the case. 

Do you think Photo or Publisher is a better tool for this project? I'm not familiar enough with Publisher to know.
Thanks,

Lisa

[carl123]

6 minutes ago, adorablebookworm said:

I was hoping to use it as kind of a self-tutorial to learn the basics of Publisher,

Haven't you already answered your own question?

Start it in Publisher - you can always use Studio Link to switch to APhoto to do the things Publisher cant

[adorablebookworm]

I suppose so. I guess it seems like I'd be overcomplicating it by putting it through Publisher instead of just pasting the text into Photo, but you're right--I did already pretty much answer myself. Thanks for your reply.

[Old Bruce]

Publisher is designed to handle text, Photo can handle text but I wouldn't do more than a few words in Photo.

That sentence above I would do in Photo, perhaps even this whole post. But a short story, no. Publisher allows me/you to change fonts and leading and justification and line length with ease. Plus we can put in a Photo document for the illustration.

[walt.farrell]

5 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

But a short story, no. Publisher allows me/you to change fonts and leading and justification and line length with ease.

Technically, so does Photo

All those are available from the Context Toolbar for the Frame Text Tool, and/or via the Paragraph or Character studio panels in Photo, just as they are in Publisher.

What Photo lacks is automatic-hyphenation, and Find/Replace if you have enough text to need it. Plus, of course, multiple pages which might be needed unless the short story is short enough to fit on one page.

[adorablebookworm]

Thank you so much for the information. I appreciate it! I think I will use Publisher for this project. I've been excited to look through it, but haven't had a chance yet.  

[R C-R]

1 hour ago, walt.farrell said:

What Photo lacks is automatic-hyphenation, and Find/Replace if you have enough text to need it.

What about the picture frame tools, pin to text, text wrap, etc., (most of which I barely know how to use)?

[walt.farrell]

2 hours ago, R C-R said:

What about the picture frame tools, pin to text, text wrap, etc., (most of which I barely know how to use)?

Good point. Yes, those are missing from Photo, too.