The templates, in turn, rely on 56 Type I fonts - yet another manual installation. Adobe also includes a slew of professionally designed publication templates, which you must also drag manually to the hard drive. The installer doesn’t check for these components, but alerts you that you may need them fortunately, ATM Lite 4.6 and Distiller 5 are on the PageMaker disc, though you’ll need to install them manually. PageMaker requires that you have some version of Adobe Type Manager installed on your Mac, as well as Acrobat Distiller 5 for creating PDF documents. The first step - installing PageMaker - is unfortunately the most annoying. So what of our trusty PageMaker? At version 7, it's still a solid layout program and a viable solution for people who need to create an impressive, professional-looking design without hiring a professional designer. Quark quickly established itself as the professional package, and Adobe finally upped the ante in 1999 by releasing InDesign. Throughout the 1990s there were only two choices for desktop publishing: Adobe PageMaker and QuarkXPress.
