More Power for Paper and the Web

Jon Pepper

PageMaker 6.5, the latest incarnation of this venerable page-layout program, serves up improved power, flexibility, and electronic publishing. We looked at a late-beta version of the program for Windows 95 and NT (the Mac version is almost identical).

Layering, perhaps the most impressive and useful feature new to PageMaker, adds flexibility by letting you place objects on discrete layers. You can show or hide specific layers in your final output; changes you make on one layer need not affect the rest of the document.

PageMaker 6.5 lets you redo layouts automatically, saving you time. Now, when you adjust margins, columns, or page sizes, the text and graphics can reflow or readjust automatically to the new specifications. V ersion 6.5 also adds frames for positioning text and graphics. The frame approach, which many other layout programs support, makes it simple to create document templates and then add text and graphics to the prepositioned frames.

Those who publish to the Web will appreciate the ease of exporting to HTML and the integration with Adobe's PageMill Web authoring tool. There's much more to recommend, including improved toolbars and palettes, better color handling, and improved plug-in support, but the bottom line is that PageMaker 6.5 is a mature and stable program that continues to improve.

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Where to Find

PageMaker 6.5.................$895 Windows or Mac (approximate)


..............................$ 99 upgrade

Adobe Systems, Inc.
San Jose, CA
Phone:    (800) 833-6687 or (415) 536-6000
Fax:      (408) 644-2004
Internet: 
http://www.adobe.com

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The Power and the Web

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