Re: How about Aldus PageMaker?

From	Alan Baker <email@domain.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: How about Aldus PageMaker?
Date	2015-04-29 10:54 -0700
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On 2015-04-29 17:21:04 +0000, JF Mezei said:

> On 15-04-29 04:04, Oregonian Haruspex wrote:
> 
>>> PageMaker is a great advance on its successor.
>> 
>> If you manage your workflow properly Pagemaker is still *THE VERY BEST*
>> DTP software on the market.  Nothing else even comes close.
> 
> I have to say that I have gotten used to InDesign and don't reminisce so
> much about oss of Page Maker. Perhaps because for the uses I have of the
> software, InDesign does work.  But I do miss functions such as automatic
> placement (nd when you added a new page, it automatically created the
> text box in it etc)
> 
> Also, placing images is very ackward in InDesign (but perhaps because I
> place an image and then scale it, maybe I should try creating an image
> box and then pasting image in it.  And whenever you resize the bot, you
> have to go to Object->Fitting->scale image to fix box.  In PageMaker,
> you could resize an image naturally.
> 
> 
> The other software I miss is Freehand.  Illustrator is less natural to
> use and I keep having to go to google for help for stuff I don't do often.

I definitely miss Freehand. It's UI semantics for selecting and for 
creating clipping masks (among many things) were far, FAR better than 
Illustrator's were and are.

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      Re: How about Aldus PageMaker? Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2015-04-29 01:04 -0700
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              Re: How about Aldus PageMaker? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-04-29 14:15 -0400
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