Instead, it's a false promise of a major revision to the company's former flagship publishing standard. By Gregg Keizer Businesses that publish plenty and want a quick way to turn paper docs into PDF files or assemble catalogs from databases should turn to PageMaker. As an upgrade, PageMaker 7.0 makes a lot of sense. It protects your current investment in training and software without forcing you to upgrade all your hardware.
Adobe rates the program as Mac OS X Classic Mode compatible.
It also gives you a way to view and manipulate your images away from a computer. The latter certainly applies to Macromedia's FreeHand, a true gem that should and probably will dominate vector illustration just as Adobe's Photoshop reigns over the image editing market. The new release offers unique productivity features such as master pages, tight integration with Macromedia Flash5 and the ability to publish to both print and the Web. In the latest version of FreeHand, Macromedia gives users a Master Pages feature to speed up workflow, a Contour Gradients tool that easily adds depth to illustrations, and tighter integration with Flash. At the beginning of the 80's there was a fantasy piece in a magazine on computing life at the turn of the century.