Adobe PageMaker Plus 6.5

If you’re involved in desktop publishing, the name PageMaker is as common as IBM and Microsoft. If you’re a graphics designer, you’ll likely remember that Adobe failed to keep pace with the market and Quark Xpress long ago surpassed PageMaker in its quest for the professional market. While Quark was a dream to use, PageMaker seemed unwieldy, cumbersome and, rarely intuitive. As a result, PageMaker continued to lose market share to its rival for years. Even the high cost of Quark (the current U.S. street price is $790 or 36,800 INR) has failed to check its domination. About the only advantages offered by PageMaker was its lower price and ...  Read the complete review

Not too sure about this. I use Microsoft Word and also Corel Draw. Ideally, i was looking for a program which merged the text possibilities of Word, with the graphical capabilities of Corel. Indesign didnt satisfy my needs for this. I still find Word the best program for word processing, and Corel for simple graphical/ text layouts. If i ever need to compose a graphical/ text document of more than a few pages, I find a blend of Corel and Word. Also, distributing adobe files maybe difficult, due to the lack of users out there, but the conversion to pdf is a great advantage. Difficult to justify the £650 in my opinion. ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

Except for a new box, a new tool bar and a few templates, Adobe has not really brought anything new to their dying DTP package. Pagemaker was first created by Aldus in the early eighties when DTP was born on Macs. It then got bought by Adobe which surely developped it further but it finally lost its battle against Quark Xpress. Don't get me wrong, Pagemaker 6.52 is great, but the Plus version is a con-trick for sure...Adobe just tried to extend its life for a few extra months before the release of InDesign 1.0 I think that you can now upgrade for quite a good price from PM 6.5 + to InDesign...hopefully! If you're new at DTP ...  Read the complete review