Graphic Organizers

[T_Amos@adobeforums.com]

As a language arts teacher and sometime creative writer, I like to make graphic organizers to help brainstorm and sort information. Which program is best for designing dynamic graphic organizers: InDesign 2.0, Pagemaker 7.0, Framemaker 7.1 or InDesign CS Pagemaker Plug-In Edition? Are there any problems with InDesign CS Pagemaker Plug-In Edition and does it include many of the templates found in Pagemaker?

Thank you

[T_Amos@adobeforums.com]

As a language arts teacher and sometime creative writer, I like to make graphic organizers to help brainstorm and sort information. Which program is best for designing dynamic graphic organizers: InDesign 2.0, Pagemaker 7.0, Framemaker 7.1 or InDesign CS Pagemaker Plug-In Edition? Are there any problems with InDesign CS Pagemaker Plug-In Edition and does it include many of the templates found in Pagemaker?

Thank you

[mikewitherell_at_jetsetcom_dot_net]

Can you translate your jargon? What is a dynamic graphic organizer?

[T_Amos@adobeforums.com]

A graphic organizer is a picture made up of connected boxes or circles (chart, map, web, etc) that helps you organize your thoughts on a topic. I hope that helps. And by dynamic I mean something that simply looks fantastic, something worth publishing. Here's a link to some examples:

<http://images.google.ca/images?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&q=Graphic+organizer>

[old_cop@adobeforums.com]

If all you're doing is basically making a line and block chart with
pictures, I'd use Illustrator. You can also use ID but if you also have
Illustrator I'd say it's better for what you want to do.

--
Rick in Tacoma

[Steve_Werner@adobeforums.com]

I'd second Rick. What you're really doing is creating an illustration so you need illustration software like Illustrator (my favorite) or CorelDraw.

[M_Blackburn@adobeforums.com]

Devil's advocate here.

Sounds to me like T Amos should be looking at something like Powerpoint. Applications such as ID, Illustrator, and Corel are probably overkill — and are probably more difficult to do this kind of thing in. Use graphic programs only if you need high-end output capability or if you need the extra artistic and typographic control.

[JohnO@adobeforums.com]

Looks like a couple of the examples in the link are, in fact, PowerPoint,
some might be Visio. The one with a crayon is cool, too. :-) I'll agree with
Mike, a lot of this is far easier in Ppt, a couple clicks does all of this
except for the most complex charts.

-John O