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Summary: An excellent choice for basic desktop publishing
Comment: If you need a basic desktop publisher, Pagemaker 6.5 is better than Microsoft Publisher ever will be. If you're not all that familiar with desktop publishing but you need to do it, here's some good information. When Pagemaker 6.5 was new, it wasn't the most advanced desktop publisher out there (QuarkXPress 4.0 was). When I was a student at the University of Missouri School of Journalism in the mid 1990s, MU taught Quark by first teaching us Pagemaker 6.5. Pagemaker 6.5 was easier to learn, and once we had the fundamentals of desktop publishing down with Pagemaker, then we were prepared to learn a more advanced package.
So even if you need the current version of Adobe InDesign, you could really do yourself a favor (and save a lot of money) by buying Pagemaker 6.5 first, spending a few months with it, and then purchasing the upgrade version of InDesign CS3 or whatever the current version happens to be.
And if you're contemplating buying Microsoft Publisher, don't. Buy this instead. Most of the things Publisher does to try to be easier just ends up getting in your way. Pagemaker is no harder to learn than Publisher, and while Publisher will treat you like a beginner forever, Pagemaker won't. Pagemaker is a professional tool that happens to be pretty easy to learn how to use, and once you know how to use it, Pagemaker treats you with the respect a professional deserves.
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