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You can now search for and replace text based on a wide range of character and paragraph-level attributes. It won’t work with most formatting changes for example, you can’t undo changes made with the Style and Colors palettes. One complaint PageMaker’s Undo command is still abnormally lame. Unfortunately, you can only create regular polygons with sides of equal length. The new Polygon Tool lets you specify the number of sides the polygon has, as well as the degree of insets, so starburst-type shapes are easy to create and customize.

(On the downside, though, you can’t specify a level of magnification by typing in a value.) You can set preferences for each tool simply by clicking on it. The Zoom tool is now in the Toolbox, allowing you to easily drag-select an area to zoom into it.

The displayed document page then becomes a master page. You simply choose the Save As command from the Master Page palette’s pop-up menu and assign the new master a name. To apply a new master page, you choose the Apply command from the Master Page palette - or just double-click on a master-page icon.Ī great feature - one conspicuously absent in QuarkXPress - is the ability to create a new master page from an existing document page. The new Master Page palette lists all the master pages in your document, and a pop-up menu on the palette allows you to create and name new master pages or edit existing ones. In each document, you can create up to 256 master pages. These are basic features, but they’ve been missing from PageMaker for a long time.Īnother long-awaited enhancement: PageMaker documents no longer limit you to one master page (a page that can be used as a template to create new document pages). For example, the program now allows you to group and lock objects on a page, align and distribute groups of objects, and move items forward or backward one layer at a time. Many of PageMaker’s new features are hardly innovative, but they’re welcome news to PageMaker users who have bemoaned the program’s lack of pagedesign muscle. Not surprisingly, many of PageMaker’s new features make the program look, feel, and act more like its rival, QuarkXPress.

Now, under the banner of Adobe Systems, the program has been discreetly but thoroughly overhauled, with results that most users should find very welcome.Īdobe has beefed up the program with more than 50 new features, at last delivering some of the high-powered page-layout, typographic, and color capabilities that users have come to expect in professional page-layout software. Users of PageMaker, the page-layout program that helped launch the desktop publishing industry back in 1985, have been yearning for an upgrade for over two years.