Adobe PageMill


The Easiest Way to Create Pages for the World Wide Web

Now Available

Adobe PageMill(TM) for Macintosh and Power Macintosh

The Best Drag and Drop Internet Authoring Tool

The Challenge

Browsing Web pages is fun and easy -- that's why the Web is so popular. But until now, creating these pages has been tedious and prone to error, requiring knowledge of the Web's internal language (the hypertext markup language -- HTML), addressing schemes (uniform resource locators -- URLs), and a suite of converters and utility programs.

Using text editors to create Web pages is difficult. Word-processor add-on tools are complicated to use, require external browsers to preview pages, and do not offer all the Web features users need.

Creating Web pages should be as fun and easy as browsing through them.

The Product

Adobe PageMill Web page authoring software was specifically designed to address the needs of non-technical people who want to create of maintain content on the Web. Adobe PageMill is easy to use, fast, and includes, in one well-integrated package, everything you need to create Web pages. You write your pages in what looks and feels like a normal word processor -- only this one knows about the Web. Your pages show up exactly as they would in a Web browser. You can apply styles, place and resize images, and drag and drop parts of your document in other locations. But you will not make mistakes. Adobe PageMill reads your existing Web pages -- even corrects errors in them -- and produces output that works with any Web server and any Web browser. Creating links is easy, and Adobe PageMill ensures that the links remain correct as you copy and paste them throughout your Web pages. The built-in Preview Browse mode even lets you test your pages without leaving the program.

The Upgrade

Adobe PageMill is an ideal entry-level program for creating or maintaining Web pages. Users can always upgrade to Adobe SiteMill(TM), software that maintains large Web sites and ensures their error-free operation by managing link integrity across pages.

BENEFITS

FEATURES

Functional Elements

Page View (screenshot)


WYSIWYG page editing: no HTML codes visible or necessary. You can apply bold, italic etc. just like in a word processor - and you can only apply styles that are available in HTML. Pages look like in a browser, except the contents are editable.

When pasting links, never worry about relative pathnames or parent directories - pasted links will always be right.

Integrated preview browser means only one program needed for authoring and testing pages.

Integrated image handling: Insert, paste images or drag them from the scrapbook or Finder. Automatically converts from PICT to GIF format. No extra utilities needed.

Integrated forms creation: WYSIWYG forms creation means text boxes, pop-up menus, checkboxes, submit, cancel and radio buttons can be placed and edited interactively, without complicated dialog boxes.

Attribute Inspector & Pasteboard (screenshot)


Attribute Inspector
In addition to interactive mouse control in the page view, the attribute inspector allows precise numeric control over image size and all other attributes of text and embedded elements like form controls and horizontal rules. You can also enter URLs manually this way.

PasteBoard
The multi-page pasteboard lets you drag and drop frequently used page elements like images, copyright notices, navigation bars with several links etc.

When you put text with links into the pasteboard, and later drop that text into another page, the links are automatically fixed up so they will always be correct. The same is true for cutting and pasting links between pages. (This is a common error when editing pages manually with a text editor or word processor add-on utility: links are not "re-relativized"and this causes them to break. Not so with Adobe PageMill.)

Image Editor (screenshot)

The image editor lets you specify whether the image is supposed to be transparent and saved as interlaced GIF. It also allows interactive creation of image maps, which can transport users to other pages when they click on different parts of an image.

Images automatically have the correct height and width attributes specified in the page, which allows browser to display the page much faster.

System Requirements

System Recommendations



How to Buy Adobe PageMill

Adobe PageMill is shipping now!

In North America and Pacific Rim countries, you can order directly from Adobe and receive Adobe PageMill online.

In the U.S. and Canada, visit your nearest Adobe Authorized Reseller.

Outside the U.S. and Canada, contact your local Adobe distributor or representative. To have a list of international Adobe distributors faxed to you, telephone our FaxYI system at 206-628-5737 and request Document 499950.

For More Information

For more information, call 1-800-411-8657.

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