When Adobe discontinued the product, I was initially very upset until I tried InDesign and found it to be almost identical in every way to the later version of PageMaker.
I have always liked the simplicity and power of the program. I have been using PageMaker on and off since version four. When the change was made, Adobe didn’t really bring much from the old versions of InDesign, they simply renamed PageMaker. Finally, however, Adobe tried to integrate as much of PageMaker as possible into its own program called InDesign. Quite a few years back, Adobe bought PageMaker from Aldus and continued development for a while. For those of you that might not be familiar with InDesign, that is basically Adobe’s new branding of PageMaker. The first program I want to discuss is Adobe’s InDesign.
As a result of that fact, and the fact that I just don’t feel like paying Adobe’s prices anymore, I have started looking into alternatives to Adobe’s suite of development and design programs. I am slowly moving more and more toward using Linux instead of Windows.
