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Subject:Word vs. Pagemaker From:Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- AXIONET -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 13 Jan 1998 20:58:41 -0500
Michael Johnson <michaelj -at- OECMED -dot- COM> wrote:
>I started using Pagemaker about 4 months ago after using Word >6, Word 95, and Word 97 for most of the previous three years. >I have these observations:
>
>1. My blood pressure is down a full 20 points.
>2. My artwork is all present and accounted for.
>3. My productivity has increased about 40%.
>4. None of my documents has crashed or choked, and some of >them are really big.
I'm curious to know: how do you find PageMaker for revisability?
I've only used it for small documents, but Adobe's official line - that
PageMaker is for small one-shots and FrameMaker for larger, revisable
documents - has always seemed summarize the strengths and weaknesses of
both programs.
