Jeff Macharyas is the Director of Marketing at Corning Community College in New York. He is a writer, graphic designer and communications director who has worked in publishing, higher education and project management for many years. He has been the art director for Quick Printing, The American Spectator, the USO's OnPatrol, Today's Campus, and other publications as well as a telephone pole design engineer contractor. Jeff is certified in Google Analytics and Adobe Visual Design and holds Amateur Radio license: K2JPM. He is also a certified fencing instructor.
Jeff earned his AS from Indian River Community College (Ft. Pierce, Florida), his BS in Communications from Florida State University, a miniMBA in Social Media Marketing from Rutgers University and a Masters in Cybersecurity and Computer Forensics from Utica College.
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You make a good point, thank you.—jm
Your point about using open source apps not being serious is a great point. I have to admit, that when I first saw that ad was produced in Scribus, I felt that it had to be inferior. As I replied to another commenter, there are many alternatives when producing graphic design work. Maybe Scribus just won't work for you, but you don't know unless you give it a try, test it, compare and then decide if it does. You have to keep an open mind and not listen to everyone who tells you why it can or can't work. It's kinda like presidential politics. We are told there are only two choices, maybe both are bad, and many people won't vote because they don't want either. However, there are other choices. It's the same with graphic design. I would never have considered using anything but QuarkXPress on a Mac. Until, that is, I tried InDesign. Until, that is, I used it on a PC. Until, that is, I tried Scribus. Test, explore, compare, experiment. You may save money and it's a lot of fun, too.