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Article: PageMaker 6.5. (Adobe Systems Inc) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
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- Macworld
- Article date:
- May 1, 1997
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The more I work with Adobe PageMaker 6.5, the more I'm reminded of the tortoise and the hare. QuarkXPress zoomed to prominence in the early 1990s and then took a break from the desktop publishing race--the last major revision was released in 1993--while PageMaker has been revised three times in the same period. Yet despite steady progress, it appears that the plodding PageMaker may set the children's parable on its ear by losing the race to the leaps-and-bounds approach of QuarkXPress.
That's surprising, because the beta version of PageMaker 6.5 added a slew of exciting features: document layers a la Photoshop, frames to hold text and graphics, and enough HTML-export ...