PageMaker 6.5 Plus
Professional page layout for business
Adobe® PageMaker® 6.5 Plus is the award-winning page layout software of choice for business professionals who need to create and print high-quality documents simply and reliably. PageMaker Plus includes hundreds of professionally designed, flexible templates; stock illustrations; and digital photos that help you get started quickly. Professional publishing tools give you precise control over document look and feel, so you can produce visual communications that are both powerfully effective and highly creative.
Ready-to-Use Content
Professionally designed templates
Choose from hundreds of templates for beginning, intermediate, and advanced users to lay out your business documents.
Stock illustrations
Thousands of illustrations from design professionals take you beyond clip art.
Stock photography
Add vibrant color to your documents with hundreds of high-quality, high-resolution digital photographs.
Content management system (Windows only)
Quickly view, search, browse, and organize all of your templates, illustrations, and photos in thumbnail format. Also, add content from other applications for use in PageMaker documents.
Tutorials and design tips
Learn how to use your templates like a pro with expert tutorials and design tips.
Integration and Compatibility with Other Software
Office-like toolbar (Windows® only)
Learn commands quickly and easily with the familiar toolbar.
Integration with Microsoft® Office
Seamlessly import and export text and graphics to and from Office applications.
Microsoft Publisher converter (Windows only)
Easily open Publisher 97 and 98 documents in PageMaker® format to make them look more polished and professional.
Import and export filters
Dozens of filters enable you to import text, graphics, and charts from all the major word processing, graphics, spreadsheet, and database programs, including Corel WordPerfect, CorelDRAW, Lotus 1-2-3, and more.
Integration with Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator
Place Illustrator® files directly in PageMaker documents and view high-quality previews on-screen. Drag and drop Photoshop® graphics into position.
Hot links
Open Photoshop and Illustrator files from within PageMaker for faster graphics editing.
Productivity and Design Flexibility
Photoshop® 5.0 LE software
Includes the Limited Edition version of the industry-standard professional photo design tool.
Multiple master pages
Specify and apply different page designs, such as margins, column guides, and backgrounds, within a single publication.
Professional typographic controls
Set typography to professional standards with point-size-dependent tracking, kerning in 0.001-em increments, and expanded and condensed type.
Publishing options
Create a wide variety of documents, from simple one-page flyers to complex reports containing up to 999 pages.
Text capabilities
Speed text processing with a built-in word processor, spelling checker, and search-and-replace feature.
Automatic layout adjustment
Automatically reposition, resize, and reflow text blocks, frames, and graphics when you change columns, orientation, or master pages.
Text and graphic frames
Quickly lay out your publication by creating frames to hold text or graphics.
Interactive tabbed palettes
Control how palettes are grouped and displayed - just as you do in Photoshop, Illustrator, and other Adobe products.
Standard menus and keyboard shortcuts
Common menus and keyboard shortcuts allow you to get up to speed quickly and work more efficiently with the entire Adobe family of products.
Document-wide layers
Set up a single file for multiple versions of a publication, add annotations, and experiment with layouts by placing objects on different layers. By placing text and graphics on separate layers, you can control which objects are visible and work faster by turning off the graphics layer.
Industry Standard Printing
Support for all leading print standards
Output files to any printing device, including digital quick printers and high-end commercial printers.
Professional-quality color
Integrated trapping and built-in printing of color separations.
Color management
Ensure consistent and predictable color throughout your design, proofing, and printing process. Support for the ICC color management profile standards means you can share device profiles between multiple color management systems.
Color production features
Easily specify spot or process colors, import spot colors from EPS files to the PageMaker palette, convert image formats from RGB to CMYK TIFF for separations, and instantly remove unused colors from a publication file.
Save for Service Provider plug-in
Follow simple, guided steps to consolidate everything your printer needs in a single file.
Complete support for Adobe Acrobat®
Export publications directly to Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files, maintaining the design and layout for accurate, high-quality printing. (PageMaker includes Acrobat Distiller 4.0 and Acrobat Reader 4.0 - everything you need to create and view PDF files.)
Innovative Online Publishing
HTML export
Easily export PageMaker pages or stories to HTML, preserving hyperlinks and an approximate version of the layout.
Hyperlinks
Easily create hyperlinks both within PageMaker and to any URL on the Web using the Hyperlinks palette. Use the PageMaker browse mode to test them.
Image conversion
Automatically convert graphics into Web-compatible JPEG or GIF formats when you export files to HTML.
Color consistency
Get consistent cross-platform color when working in a Web browser, thanks to the online publishing color library. And RGB optimizing ensures colors in PDF files look the same as in PageMaker.
Navigation aids
Automatically create bookmarks and hypertext links for a table of contents and index entries in PDF files.
