Adobe(R) PageMaker(R) 6.5 Classroom in a Book

Regardless of your expertise this book is sure to quickly teach you how to be more productive in a shorter time than most any other method.

I urge all PM users to buy this book.


Bad Binding   December 17, 2002
 1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Get this book but reinforce the binding. It will tend to fall to pieces after a few weeks of use. In other words the "perfect binding" is less than perfect.


A professor's take on this book   November 8, 2002
 7 out of 7 found this review helpful

This is the kind of book you use if you have time to go through all of the tutorials in order- I use it in a specific Pagemaker class and we go through the Lessons 1 at a time. I wouldn't recommend this as a reference book though- as something to look up specific things and how to do them one at a time.
I do have to say, this book is pretty borning, dryly written and doesn't touch on a lot of the more creative ways Pagemaker can be used. A book called Adobe Pagemaker Basics is a good companion to this, with info on color and drawing in Pagemaker. It's hard to sit and read this book straight through and not want to eat your head. You'd need a lot of discipline and motivation to get through this outside of a class. Rather than being a classroom in a book I'd call this a "book for a classroom".


Perfect Overview   March 19, 2002
 1 out of 1 found this review helpful

This book is perfect for jumping in and learing just what pagemaker can do...a great way for the novice to get started. For more detailed information, an additional reference book will probably be needed for in-depth learning. It served my needs perfectly.


Best learn at home book series   November 4, 2001
 0 out of 1 found this review helpful

I have used quite a few of the adobe classroom in a book series and have found all to be wonderfully easy to use and the best teach yourself book series for adobe