The software program from Adobe Corporation that everyone associates with desktop publishing due to its immense success on the Apple Macintosh. Now available on both the Macintosh and the PC, it is still used as a benchmark product, although in many areas competitors such as QuarkXPress, and more recent products such as InDesign have supplanted it.
The publishing software program used by graphic designers.
A common desktop publishing software.
A page-layout program by Adobe. Graphic designers use Pagemaker to electronically manipulate text and graphics.
A page-layout software program manufactured by Adobe to top
A commonly used desktop publishing software
An electronic publishing software program. The main competitor of QuarkXpress. Has similar desktop publishing/document layout features as QuarkXpress, but is more limited than QuarkXpress. Being less expensive and older than QuarkXpress makes it popular with smaller publishers and its established users.
One of the standards of the desktop publishing market. Adobe PageMaker is a professional product that is designed to output colour separations and produce high quality output. PageMaker was the pioneer desktop publishing programme for the Macintosh. It has now been superseded by Adobe InDesign, but is still in popular use. It is available for both Macintosh and PC platforms. PDF — Adobe’s Portable Document Format. PDF was originally developed so that files created in any software could be transferred to others who did not possess that software. It is difficult to change a PDF file. Its use has expanded with the growing realisation that it is ideal publishing software. Per ‘M’ — A reference for ‘per thousand’. ‘M’ is the Roman numeral for 1000.
A page layout program that allows precise placement of graphics and text on a page. Each page is constructed as a separate item. PageMaker excels at doing small complex documents.
Publication layout software originally developed for the Macintosh in 1985 by the Aldus Corporation until it was bought by Adobe Systems, Inc. Adobe recently replaced Pagemaker with Indesign.
A page layout program produced by Adobe Systems for both Windows and Macintosh users. PageMaker has been around since the early days of desktop publishing and still has a broad and very loyal following. So loyal are its users that the mere mention of its competitor, QuarkXPress, in some circles is enough to get you some perfectly-kerned hate mail from PageMaker fans.
the software program from Aldus Corporation that everyone associates with desktop publishing due to its immense success on the Apple Macintosh. Now available on both the Macintosh and the PC it is still used as a benchmark product although certain aspects of its design are coming under attack from other, more recent, products.
One of the first page layout programs available. Originally developed by Altsys, but have been in the Adobe portfolio for a number of years. Very easy to learn to use but lacks some functionality, especially when dealing with documents with many pages.
graphical layout software (created by Adobe) used for projects that will be printed. It is highly recommended that you use PageMaker or Quark Xpress for layout rather than MS Word or Publisher.
an older page layout program by Adobe®. InDesign® is the newest page layout program by Adobe® and is expected to replace PageMaker
page layout application; by Adobe