PageMaker

PageMaker is for document layout - like designing a brochure, formating a book and so forth. PageMaker is a high octane word processor, the output gets sent to printing presses not printers*. Because it's made by Adobe, it works well with Illustrator files, but only in regard to embedding them into the larger document. If you want a program that handles 2D vector graphics well, check out Adobe Illustrator, Macromedia Freehand or Corel Draw.

* yes you can print from PageMaker; However, most times layouts designed with PageMaker are intended to be printed on printing presses.

[edited by - lessbread on August 3, 2002 9:49:34 PM]

Yeah Illustrator is what I ment. But I think I''ll stick with using PhotoShop and its ''PATHS''. Because that the closes thang to vectos graphics I''v seen yet.

Illustrator takes a lot of pc juice too - but that''s not so much of a problem these days. I haven''t seen the latest version of Photoshop, so I can''t speak to the current state of it''s "PATHS", but in older versions they were crude in comparison with what Illustrator can do.