Terry Morse Myrmidon vs. Adobe PageMaker 6.5

Adobe PageMaker 6.5 is a powerful tool for creating paper documents, but its native ability to generate Web pages falls short when compared with Terry Morse Myrmidon. The PageMaker 6.5 User Guide states that it does not preserve the following document features, while all of these features are preserved by Terry Morse Myrmidon:

  • Shapes drawn with PageMaker drawing tools
  • Font, type size, and leading
  • Indent and tab positions
  • The length of text columns
  • Objects rotated, skewed, or flipped
  • Overlapping objects
  • Non-rectangular text wrap shapes
  • Frame borders
  • Masked objects

Below are screen shots of a three-page document provided by Adobe on the PageMaker 6.5 installation disk. Clicking on the links at the bottom of this page will display Web pages made with both PageMaker's HTML generator and Terry Morse Myrmidon.

Screen Shots of the Original PageMaker Document:

Click below to see Adobe's own conversion followed by Terry Morse Myrmidon's:

First Show Me PageMaker's Native Conversion

NOTE: What follows is output from PageMaker's native conversion software, not Myrmidon.