Adobe is a smart corporation. They market to the executives and the large corporations that will buy the full versions of expensive products and will not want to have to learn anything too complicated.
This is why PageMaker is design for dummies - but is still used by the Professionals.
It doesn’t have nearly the power or expansability that QuarkXPress does, and it manages to actually wreck a lot of the great features that Quark introduced. But it does interface well with the more standard Adobe products, like Photoshop and Illustrator, and with that trio you can make a heck of a newsletter.
Adobe all but admitted that Pagemaker was best for newsletters with the release of Adobe InDesign, which is supposed to be the True rival to Quark. But let’s face it - the Adobe programs have become too bloated for their own good. While Macromedia knocks at Photoshop’s door, Quark has broken down PageMaker’s, because the new products are just so much smaller and faster and easier to use than the giant behemoth Adobe standards.
If you just want to make some nice newsletters, and you don’t want to have to think, PageMaker is not a bad bet. But if you’re going to make the huge investment of purchasing any of these bloatedly expensive packages, make sure that it best suits your needs. If you have ever even uttered the phrase ’’page layout’ or ’’design schematic’’ in your life, you probably want to think strongly about Quark before committing to this inferior, not-really-for-design-after-all program.