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Summary: Pagemaker 6.5 for Dummies (internet edition)
Review: 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
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Summary: Great Web Page Development Source but NO DESKTOP PUB!!
Review: 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!!!
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Summary: Where's the desk-top publishing?????
Review: This book would have been very good if I had wanted to publish a web page. Unfortunenately, I'm using PageMaker for it's intended purpose, desktop publishing. PageMaker 6.5 for Dummies never addressed how to use the program for print publishing. I was very disappointed.
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Summary: BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Review: This is THE LAST Dummies book that I will EVER purchase. Whaddya mean, Internet Edition??? What about desktop publishing, PageMaker's forte??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.
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Summary: Where are the Desktop Publishing Instructions?
Review: 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.
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Summary: Another Dummy Hooked by Misleading Title
Review: 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.
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Summary: Another Dummy Hooked by Misleading Title
Review: 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.
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