If you are either just learning PageMaker 6.5 Plus, or in fact are quite attached to and quasi-dependent upon this application, you should know what may lay ahead for PM: PM 6.5 Plus is looking very much like the end of the line for PageMaker. The 'word' is that Adobe is not going to continue with PM, but rather is shifting emphasis to InDesign as the 'replacement'. The bad news is that InDesign leaves many key, foundational features of PM out—for example, the Publish Booklet feature is absent. I don't know about you, but this particular feature is what drives PageMaker for me, so I can't see 'replacing' it with software that is not capable of publishing the booklets.
It's kind of like Adobe's 'LiveMotion'---which as you may recall was going to leave Macromedia's Flash 4.0 in the proverbial dust? Well, LiveMotion did have many great improvements over the sometimes tedious process of developing flash content---but there was a small problem: file size. LiveMotion works more like PaintShop Pro's Animation Shop, and what you end up with are these GIGANTIC files which are just unmanageable and too large to consider publishing online. The difference between LiveMotion and Flash is LiveMotion's inability to convert bitmap images to symbols, and you know what? That's all the difference in the world, and leaves LiveMotion as stillborn software without a way to reasonably utilize or apply it.
Same thing with InDesign.
So if you didn't realize this before, you should prepare yourself: PageMaker is the next Passenger Pigeon.
( Read all about it at the Adobe Members Discussion group for PageMaker 6.5 )
It's kind of like Adobe's 'LiveMotion'---which as you may recall was going to leave Macromedia's Flash 4.0 in the proverbial dust? Well, LiveMotion did have many great improvements over the sometimes tedious process of developing flash content---but there was a small problem: file size. LiveMotion works more like PaintShop Pro's Animation Shop, and what you end up with are these GIGANTIC files which are just unmanageable and too large to consider publishing online. The difference between LiveMotion and Flash is LiveMotion's inability to convert bitmap images to symbols, and you know what? That's all the difference in the world, and leaves LiveMotion as stillborn software without a way to reasonably utilize or apply it.
Same thing with InDesign.
So if you didn't realize this before, you should prepare yourself: PageMaker is the next Passenger Pigeon.
( Read all about it at the Adobe Members Discussion group for PageMaker 6.5 )