Windows or mac made a difference in this scenario?

I work for a small educational institution intend to produce his own material in print. The finished products have the following characteristics:

  1. Small booklets A5 (staple of the spine) or thicker books (perfect/glue tied to the bottom of the spine)
  2. Printed in the office (for small batches) or sent to a professional printer (+ attachment for large batches)
  3. Range of language from English to Spanish to Chinese of the content.
  4. Content format is mainly bw text (like a novel), with side tables and graphics (made by designers outside) p.c.

I'm familiar with computers, but have no experience with DTP professionals. Here are a few questions in my mind:

  1. Do we really need to invest in InDesign? Our requirement seems to be achievable using Microsoft Word (as it is now) - except that I do not know how well Word interacts with printers for printing large batches.
  2. How the different InDesign would be on Windows and Mac? Obviously, the interface may be different, given the characteristics of the operating system, but there will be a substantial advantage of one OS to the other in the professional world of print?

Thanks in advance if you have advice/opinion/thoughts!

Tim

Your reasoning is really solid, MT

However, it would be tragic that we said the OP ' Nope, platform, no matter at all, go with what you like "and then six months from now the bosses of the OP said, now"we do a lot of Arabic." Arabic does not at all in Word Mac. By going one platform on Macs, the capacity of the Organization in question to include professional translators working in Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, etc. would be severely limited. If translators do their work in Word, then everything would be fine if a) the OP came out and got IDCS5ME for Mac, and b licenses) all single translator taking part has Word-savvy and used to provide RTFs requiring no treatment whatsoever.

This is just one example, with a relatively well known language. I'm sure I could gin three similar examples, if I were not busy (no, seriously!) clean a RTF file of waste for a trifold brochure Arabic. The translator passed language test with gusto, but ability to the translator of this individual to manage the RTL text in Word is seriously insufficient. If I was at home on my Mac, without window in any virtual computer anywhere, I wouldn't have time to eat or sleep tonight, much less post about it.

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