Chapter 2. Top Ten “Gotchas” for PageMaker Users

If you’re an Adobe PageMaker user, you’ve likely been using it for many years, and the idea of switching to another program—even a different Adobe program—is anathema to you. Nevertheless, you see the writing on the wall, you know that PageMaker is a dead end street, and you’re trying to stay upbeat as you tackle this new whippersnapper, InDesign CS. Fortunately, not only do PageMaker and InDesign share many core features, as Adobe products they also share a common user interface.

But the two applications are not identical. InDesign has capabilities that PageMaker users have only dreamed of, and we’ve found that InDesign allows you to work smarter and faster. This chapter addresses some of the most ...

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