Pagemaker 6.5 for Dummies, Internet Edition

Millions of professional-looking pages have been designed and printed using Adobe's PageMaker desktop publishing software. Now with the program's latest release and PageMaker 6.5 For Dummies, Internet Edition, you can take advantage of all the powerful layout features built into PageMaker to create excellent pages for a whole new medium, the World Wide Web. Author and PageMaker pro Galen Gruman gets you started quickly, whether you're new to PageMaker or just new to Version 6.5, introducing you to all of the PageMaker program's capabilities as well as to graphic design basics you may not know. Then you discover how to work within the constraints of HTML and slow graphic download times to produce eye-catching, effective Web pages. You'll also find out how to take existing documents intended for print and convert them to documents that look like they were intended for the Web. Before you start busting your chops hand-coding documents in raw HTML -- about the most un-WYSIWYG approach there is -- use PageMaker 6.5 For Dummies, Internet Edition, to bring the benefits of professional desktop publishing to the Web.

Lousy title, lousy book, lousy marketing scheme. IDG Books - you should be ashamed of yourselves. If there was a rating less than 1 star, this book would be most deserving of it.


Another Dummy Hooked by Misleading Title   November 25, 2000
 24 out of 24 found this review helpful

Yes, I did the same thing as other reviewers, buying it automatically because I wanted a book that gave a better quick start than the Pagemaker documents and because I expected the "Dummies" series to do that. Then I found that ignoring the fine print on the cover was a dumb thing to do. What do they mean, Internet Edition? There is no other edition!

I wonder how many people buy Pagemaker to create publications for the web, since it is not even a very good tool for that? I will exercise more caution with "Dummies" books in the future and will buy, if I have the option, the fairly new competing books.


Pagemaker 6.5 for Dummies (internet edition)   May 8, 2000
 36 out of 36 found this review helpful

Disappointed. When I arrived home and read the small print in the title I learned it's an internet edition. I am in a Pagemaker class and need clearer and less convoluted directions than those in the text we use. I've wanted to buy the DUMMIES book for Pagemaker 6.5 since I use other of their books and know they are all very user friendly. This should be titled INTERNET BOOK using Pagemaker. I'm sure it's fine for a web builder but I could find nothing here that would serve my purpose. It will return to the bookstore. C. Lewis


Where are the Desktop Publishing Instructions?   February 2, 2000
 40 out of 40 found this review helpful

This must be the book I bought and returned because, although its title suggested otherwise, it dealt exclusively with the internet. I like "Dummies" books and wanted one on PageMaker desktop publishing, not on webpages. I understand from reading another customer's comments that there is not one on straight desktop publishing. I wish the authors had been more straightforward about what their book contained...it would have saved me a lot of time and trips to the bookstore. Guess I will have to look elsewhere for my Pagemaker instructions.


Great Web Page Development Source but NO DESKTOP PUB!!   August 5, 1998
 37 out of 37 found this review helpful

Excellent and easy to understand and read (like all the Dummies books (LOL)). So, hey IDG, "WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO WRITE THE PAGEMAKER 6.5 FOR WINDOWS FOR DUMMIES (NON-INTERNET VERSION)? Although I am glad I bought the internet version, I bought it crossing my fingers that it would contain Desktop Publishing (the main purpose of PageMaker 6.5). My supplier said there is not a "regular" version available for 6.5 yet!!!