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THE NEWEST PageMaker, from Adobe Systems Inc., continues to push into the professional domain of Quark Inc.'s QuarkXPress. PageMaker 6.5, beta, also stakes out the Internet as a key delivery platform.
PageMaker 6.5 is due to ship for Windows 95, Windows NT, and the Macintosh in the fourth quarter. A year ago, I thought PageMaker 6.0 was a necessary but not awe-inspiring upgrade. (See Product Reviews, Oct.9,1995, page 91.) This year, Adobe is on its way to giving QuarkXPress serious competition in its own backyard. Although PageMaker 6.0 had rudimentary HTML export capabilities, PageMaker 6.5 really aims at the World Wide Web. For example, the HTML export tool now handles most HTML 3.2 features, including frames. And PageMaker now automatically converts graphics to JPEG and GIF formats when exporting for the Web. You can also create hyperlinks in your document, including those to URLs.
Plus, if you're using a browser, such as Netscape Communications Corp.'s Navigator or Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer, you can jump to a Web page directly from within PageMaker, so you can easily test...