PageMaker requires that you have some version of Adobe Type Manager installed on your Mac, as well as Acrobat Distiller 5 for creating PDF documents. The first step - installing PageMaker - is unfortunately the most annoying. So what of our trusty PageMaker? At version 7, it's still a solid layout program and a viable solution for people who need to create an impressive, professional-looking design without hiring a professional designer. Quark quickly established itself as the professional package, and Adobe finally upped the ante in 1999 by releasing InDesign. Throughout the 1990s there were only two choices for desktop publishing: Adobe PageMaker and QuarkXPress.
