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If you want to try an alternative to pagemaker try scribus http://www.scribus.net/ Its free, will run on mac windows and linux. Don't know if its "mature" enough for serious use. I haven't used it enough to judge how it compares with pagemaker - haven't used pagemaker for 15+ years either. Gord On March 22, 2007 5:26:26 am Erie Patsellis wrote: > I agree, Pagemaker isn't the same since Adobe bought Aldus (hopefully > that statement isn't showing my age). I can remember using framemaker on > a NEXTCube, now that's vintage, though it was stable as hell, and > display postscript that worked properly. > > > erie > > Judy Seigel wrote: > > Eric wrote: > >> When will I read it again? Perhaps after I get done playing with > >> Lightroom > >> and beating Adobe up for not allowing NON maximized PSD files to be > >> imported > >> or that there is no way to export a text file of those files that > >> don't get > >> imported for any number of reasons. I also have a boat load of > >> images just > >> waiting to be processed. > > > > Oh boy Eric, if you want to beat up on Adobe, I'm with you. I can't > > begin to describe the ways they lied and stole and screwed up.... tho > > that was Pagemaker, and some of it probably wasn't lies, just > > stupidity. But every assurance they gave me about the (expensive) > > upgrade making PDFs easier, then about how and what programs would > > make those PDFs, then about which versions of, eg acrobat, would work > > with which version of PM -- my head spins. Finally one of their wonder > > boys assured me that if I installed Pagemaker in system 10 it would > > work out of classic in 9.2, which screwed up the entire computer so > > much I can't use the program even with a reinstall... and did you ever > > see the pages in a PDF turn to blur? I have. (And that's not the half > > of it.) > > > > Little did I realize that "Analog Woman in Digital Hell" (Post-Factory > > #1) was the honeymoon. I can't say of course that I forgive you > > entirely and forget the 500 thou... but I can definitely relate. (And > > there is the theory that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend.") > > > > cheers, > > > > > > Judy -- Gordon J. Holtslander Dept. of Biology gordon.holtslander@usask.ca University of Saskatchewan Tel 306 966-4433 112 Science Place Fax 306 966-4462 Saskatoon SK., CANADA homepage.usask.ca~gjh289 S7N 5E2
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