Illustrator Vs Pagemaker

[Daveyboy2]

I'm tinkering with Illustrator to help my company design some page layouts for sales. I've always done graphics since Jasc made Paint Shop Pro 1 in the mid 90's but never got into either Illustrator or Pagemaker. I couldn't find any decent article here, or on Goole.

Any basics? Am I using the best tool (illustrator) for thie job - or is pagemaker better and more powerful for desktop publications? What's better with graphics?

 

[BionicJohn]

For page layout, InDesign is the tool of choice.

PageMaker is dying if not dead. Development stopped some time ago.
Illustrator is primarily a drawing package, not really designed for multi-page publications.

Illustrator and InDesign integrate together well.

More info:
InDesign:

http://www.adobe.com/products/indesign/main.html

Illustrator:

http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/main.html

I've always done graphics since Jasc made Paint Shop Pro 1

Photoshop integrates even better with InDesign.

And all can be bought together in the Creative Suite bundle.

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[Eggles]

Daveyboy

Illustrator is fine for single page publications without much text e.g. posters, advertisements. But you cannot easily make more than one page per file and it's a pain if there is a lot of text, as the character controls are fairly limited.

If you intend doing multipage layouts with text, then go for InDesign, as Pagemaker stopped development as of several years ago.

 

[Daveyboy2]

Thanks for the info! I willdefinitely look into InDesign.