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What Are Pagemaker and InDesign For?
ageMaker and InDesign, like their competitor QuarkXPress, are page-layout programs. Both of these programs are published by Adobe which is the company that produces the standard for image manipulation, PhotoShop.

PageMaker has been around since the mid-eighties, was created by a company by the name of Aldus, and was the clear standard for page-layout programs at the time. It was the first of its kind to allow a designer to resize text and to create white type inside a black box. It sounds like child's play today but it was quite an impressive feature when the program was first introduced.

PageMaker, though preferred by some professional designers, became most popular with home and small-business users. Competitor QuarkXPress became the standard for professional designers and the industry market leader. So strong was QuarkXPress' market leadership that Quark did not publish a significant upgrade for over five years. That's unheard of in the software market.

In perhaps an attempt to usurp Quark's market position, Adobe introduced InDesign. Touted as a "Quark-killer," this application was built from the ground up and takes advantage of many of the features that have made Adobe's PhotoShop and Illustrator programs so popular and effective. Though the industry is slow to switch programs, InDesign is a solid alternative to Quark and one that many prefer.

Available for both Macintosh and Windows platforms, you can use InDesign to:

• Convert documents created with QuarkXPress and PageMaker.
  
  
• Take advantage multiple "undoes" and "redoes."
  
  
• Size, color and manipulate text and individual characters.
  
  
• Set images and text in either Pantone spot colors, CMYK or other color models.
  
  
• Rotate images and text in small or large increments.
  
  
• Create single or multiple columns of text based on master pages.
  
  
• Import and overlay images and text.
  
  
• Create style sheets to speed up repetitive styling of text.
  
  
• Find and replace words or passages of text

Both PageMaker and InDesign are available for purchase but aren't cheap. The programs retail for approximately $500 and $700 respectfully.

The programs are published by Adobe. Their website, which offers upgrades and user tips, can be found at www.adobe.com.

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