| Category: | Software |
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| Subcategory: | Other |
| Price: | 498.00 |
| Average Rating: | (3 Votes) |
| Description: | Adobe PageMaker 7.0 helps users create an impressive variety of printed publications. Professional-quality tools and multiple options ensure that your business or personal printing looks sharp, reads well and gets attention! Built-in color management, color separations and trapping ensure perfect coloring every time Typeset your publications using professional kerning and tracking tools Advanced printing options like duplex printing, the Save for Service Provider and Build Booklet plug-ins Data Merge takes text and graphics stored in spreadsheets or databases & creates custom publications Full support for the leading business standards - output files to any printing device |
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Not really a fan. Where I work, its still in use! We JUST upgraded to InDesign CS3! We are now using both for catalogs and trying to integrate InDesign into everything. This isn't hard to use, it just doesn't mix well with Illustrator and that makes it frustrating.
Ok but not my favorite. Indesign is better I think
Adobe still sells PageMaker for the small-office user, who is less likely to have the cash or the need for a program like InDesign.
However, PM still runs on Macintosh in the Classic Environment, which is obsolescent (Mac OS X 10.5 does not have it), so this will give the user some sort of idea of how old PM is. Development ended with version 7 back around 2000. PM's true successor is InDesign.
That said, PM is a solid performer that would indeed be ideal for the small-office DTPer who does newsletters "on the side" and needs a basic program for such things, and the Mac user with OS X 10.4 and below who isn't planning to upgrade soon. I recently re-ran some student projects just for the fun of it and it accorded itself very well.
However, given the price, anyone considering kitting-up with a layout program should go straight on past this and look into getting InDesign. For a few dollars more you'll get a solid, current program. For those outfitting themselves with new tools, this is actuall a one-star review. For those for whom the choice is working with either this or MS Publisher, four stars.