On 2002-08-20 01:10, owls wrote:

Emma,



FrameMaker and PageMaker are separate programs by the same company.



Dorothee

 

On 2002-08-20 23:04, beccaf wrote:

PageMaker is typically used by small businesses for producing newsletters and the like.





This may have been true until 10-12 yrs ago...

I know PM being used to produce the glossy, high-quality Gucci catalog, daily newspapers, an art weekly newspaper, various full-colour magazines, several 400-pag+ publications, manuals... and that\'s just from users I know personally, there must be plenty more out there that use its full range of functions that go well beyond the little company newsletter.



I know and use all 4 layout applications (FM, PM, QXP and ID); FM definitely stands alone in this group in the way it handles long structured documents and its niche is in fact technical documentation. QXP and ID are aimed at the wider magazines, brochure, color production market. PM kind of fills the gap between FM and QXP/ID, with some good long documents features and some good color/graphics/typography features. ID does not have as yet (and hopefully will never have) the graphics/image features of Illustrator and Photoshop. It does go beyond some of QXP\'s graphics/color/typography features and still has taken PM\'s long document stuff a step further. What it did borrow from Photoshop and Illustrator is its user interface, which is very helpful since most users are likely to use a layout program together with a vector graphics and an image editing one. If you are already familiar with either PM or QXP, it will not take you long to learn how to use it and appreciate it.



(and now it\'s definitely more than you asked or most likely wanted to know... sorry!)