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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cathix" data-source="post: 2534945" data-attributes="member: 32370">Acrobat doesn't just print; it creates a pdf file. That might seem like 'just printing' but when you consider the wide variety of pdf files one can create Acrobat's usefullness becomes a bit more apparent. You can adjust the settings of Acrobat's print engine in a myriad of ways, creating low-res, compact, made for screen viewing only files...all the way up to huge whomping gorgeous hi res files that contain entirely embedded fonts. Acrobat is especially useful to publishers who wish to offer their products in both pdf and print. When you send a pdf file to the printer, there's no worry that printer will lose your image files or replace your fonts with slightly different, ill-fitting versions. Your printed copy will only suck if you've goofed, which is reassuring. Unless you've goofed. *has on occasion*If you printed to pdf from a more complex layout program, like Pagemaker, you'd get to see more of Acrobat's features in action.Pagemaker is indeed a layout program. However, CorelDraw, MS Publisher, Powerpoint, and MS Word can all be used as layout programs. Pagemaker has more range of use, but it's also more complex. If you can get a good discount as a student I would recommend Adobe InDesign, because I've used Pagemaker, Quark, and finally acquired InDesign. It's wonderful, especially if you want to eventually create high-quality print books.As for your mentioning of 'pushing around' text...that's referred to as many things in many programs. (Quark refers to it as 'inset', and so does InDesign - Pagemaker might, too.) Your best bet is to find the dialog box that controls your text box settings/features/modifications...that's in a slightly different place depending on what program you use and I don't have Pagemaker on this laptop so I can't open it and check. But that's a standard feature of layout programs.I'm sure you can get a good discount as a student. And if you purchase software you can use it for any purpose you see fit.The main point is this: determine what your goals are and why you need to create pdf files. Will you only be selling e-books or do you plan on using print-on-demand or printer services further down the road? If you only want to sell pdf's - especially if the books you plan on creating are going to be on the small side, 30 pages or less, then you can make professional looking books with Microsoft Office programs. They might be very simple, but good design comes from choice of font, color, white space, leading, etc...not the program it's been created with. Large books (50 pages +) are considerably easier to create with professional layout software, however, and these programs are also capable of handling hi-res graphics, so if that's your goal than do check out other programs. Most companies will let you download a trial version - I would recommend this so you can get a feel for which application you like the best.Hope that helps a bit.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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