Adobe PageMaker 7.0.2 Complete package

For professional DTP results

Advantages: export to various printshop formats
Disadvantages: steep learning curve

I originally learnt to use Adobe Pagemaker 6.5 when I was producing a 32 page tour brochure that required professional printing, to advertise our Cricket tour of Barbados, and it was one of the formats that the printers we were using would accept. The results I got were stunning, and by doing it myself and burning the finished product on to a CD Rom I was able to keep the costs down at the printing house. I also used it to produce programmes for a play we were putting on, which were to be intricately folded, and therefore needed to done with utmost precision, and this was only possible with the accuracy of Pagemaker 6.5, as pictures and text can be precisely positioned to within 1/1000th of an inch. One of the most important features is that it supports full colour printing and for this any graphics that are required should be ...

Morgenhund 08.01.2001 · Read full review
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Review of Adobe PageMaker 6.5 6.5 Complete package

Layout for Dummies

Advantages: Interfaces well with other Adobe programs
Disadvantages: Takes some time to learn

broken down PageMaker's, because the new products are just so much smaller and faster and easier to use than the giant behemoth Adobe standards. If you just want to make some nice newsletters, and you don't want to have to think, PageMaker is not a bad bet. But if you're going to make the huge investment of purchasing any of these bloatedly expensive packages, make sure that it best suits your needs. If you have ever even uttered the phrase "page layout' or "design schematic" in your life, you probably want to think strongly about Quark before committing to this inferior, not-really-for-design-after-all program. ...

flashpointz 17.07.2000 · Read full review
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Review of Adobe PageMaker 6.5 6.5 Complete package

Adobe or A Doh

Advantages: Builds indexes and booklets
Disadvantages: Let me put an arrow head on a line!!!!

Adobe seem to be ploughing ahead with no real regard as to its customer base or its market aim. With the ongoing battle between Adobe and Quark for the DTP market shareit seems innevitable that Quark will emerge victorious. Quark seem to have brought together its user friendly platform making page layout a sinch. Adobe on the other hand have come up with a dissappointing second rate programme that although cheaper than its foe it is frankly not worth a bean. Perhaps they are spending too much time, money and effort on developing Framemaker which I assume will occupy the same dusty shelf as its sister software. ...

DeanCox 01.02.2001 · Read full review
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Review of Adobe PageMaker 6.5 6.5 Complete package